In concerts across Europe in the 1780s, the young Viennese virtuosa Maria Theresia Paradis made blindness visible, even audible. Her performances invited listeners and viewers primed by horror ballads and literary romance to experience her story of trauma and misfortune within the frame of fictional narratives of doomed innocence and victimized Gothic heroines.
FRANKE LECTURES IN THE HUMANITIES
Linda Gregerson, University of Michigan
Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 136
Please join us for a panel of distinguished private collectors and print curators for lively conversation with about their interests, expertise, and adventures in building their collections of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British caricature and satiric prints.
Want to own your research? What did you give up when you signed that publishing agreement? Is there any way around it? What happens with an open access journal? Copyright can be complicated: the Whitney Publishing Project is here to help.
The Yale Native American Cultural Center presents the third annual Indigenous Arts Night.
Celebrate music, visual art, dance, poetry, and more forms of creative imagination with Emcee Jairus Rhoades.
Richard Deming, Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Creative Writing, will discuss his new book “This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity” with Karin Roffman, Associate Director of Public Humanities.
Beverly Gage, John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History, will present on her new book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.
Opening remarks by the curator, followed by an informal reception, to celebrate the opening of a new exhibit in Hanke Exhibition Gallery, located in the nave of Sterling Memorial Library.
This exhibit celebrates a portion of the Elizabethan Club’s rare book collections, largely assembled in the early 1910s by Alexander Smith Cochran, BA 1896, a young alumnus inspired by the Shakespeare lectures he attended while a student at Yale.
Join us for coffee and treats from 10:00-10:30 AM, followed by short readings by prize recipients from their contributions to an upcoming issue of The Yale Review. Hosted by Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review.
The annual Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival closing event returns, featuring short readings by the 2023 recipients.
