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A weekly series of insightful, engaging, informal talks on materials from the Beinecke Library’s collections and exhibitions, followed by tea on the mezzanine. NOTE: no talks during Yale spring recess on March 9 or March 16. Spring semester 2020 talks in conjunction with exhibition “Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800” (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
The schedule of talks for this semester includes:
A weekly series of insightful, engaging, informal talks on materials from the Beinecke Library’s collections and exhibitions, followed by tea on the mezzanine. NOTE: no talks during Yale spring recess on March 9 or March 16.
Spring semester 2020 talks in conjunction with exhibition “Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800” (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
January 27: “What is our Life?: The Music of Melancholy in Early Modern England”
Stay tuned for details for a virtual program and online reading.
To read the full text of the Declaration of Independence, please see the website of the National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
To read the full text of Douglass’ 1852 oration, please see the website of the University of Rochester Frederick Douglass Project: https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2945
A conversation between the authors of two recent books exploring the interplay between techniques of assemblage in media and in architecture: Craig Buckley, Assistant Professor of Art History at Yale, author of Graphic Assembly: Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s, and Martino Stierli, Philip Johnson Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, author of Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space.
Kathryn James, Curator of Early Modern Books & the Osborn Collection; Lucy Mulroney, Associate Director for Collections, Research, and Education, Beinecke Library; and Michael Warner, Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and Professor of American Studies, Yale University
Part of a series of panel discussions with Yale faculty and visiting speakers related to the exhibition Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500–1800 (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
Anastasia Eccles, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University; Eve Houghton, graduate student, Department of English, Yale University; and Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Theater and Professor Emeritus of English, Yale University
Part of a series of panel discussions with Yale faculty and visiting speakers related to the exhibition Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500–1800 (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
“Yale College New Music presents Vocal Canons and Rounds I on February 12th at 5:15 p.m. on the Beinecke’s Mezzanine
This concert features new works for LUCERIS, a Yale chamber vocal ensemble directed by Harry Castle, written by Yale College composers. Lyrics for these new vocal canons and rounds are from texts featured in the Beinecke Library’s exhibit Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800. (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
Marta Figlerowicz, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Yale University; David Scott Kastan, George M. Bodman Professor of English, Yale University; and Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
One in a series of panel discussions with Yale faculty and visiting speakers related to the exhibition Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500–1800 (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
In honor of the publication of English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500–1800, by Kathryn James, Curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts & the Osborn Collection
All are cordially invited to the opening reception for Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800, on Friday, January 24; the exhibition is on view from Saturday, January 18, 2020 to Sunday, April 19, 2020.
Was the pen ever mightier than the sword? This exhibition looks closely at the hand-written text in early modern Britain, and asks what it has to tell us about power, wit, and the questions we might ask of the manuscript past.
Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800 consists of three individual exhibits:
