A weekly series of insightful, engaging, informal talks on materials from the Beinecke Library’s collections and exhibitions, followed by tea on the library mezzanine. Mondays at Beinecke talks take place during the academic year; note: no talks during recesses.\nSpeakers this semester include:\nSeptember 9: Kevin Repp, curator of modern European books & manuscripts, on fall exhibition, “Beyond Words”\nSeptember 16: Kerri Sancomb, exhibits production manager, and Megan Czekaj, library exhibits technician, on fall exhibition, “Beyond Words”\nSeptember 23: Michael Morand, Beinecke Library communications director, on the visibility, and invisibiity, of women at the origins of New Haven and of Yale and its library collections\nSeptember 30: Ken Minkema, executive editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards and of the Jonathan Edwards Center & Online Archive, on Edwards\nOctober 7: Morgane Cadieu, assistant professor of French, on fall exhibition, “Drafting Monique Wittig”\nOctober 14: TBA\nOctober 21: Theresa Kauder, graduate student in Germanic Languages and Literatures, on artist Carl-Friedrich Claus (and maybe in relation to another artist\nOctober 28: Ève Bourbeau-Allard, processing archivist, on Gil Wolman\nNovember 4: Jill Campbell, professor of English, on Daniel Defoe\nNovember 11: Kevin Repp, curator of Modern European Books & Manuscripts, on concrete Poetry sound piece \nNovember 18: Nancy Kuhl, curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature, on John James Audubon’s “Birds of America”\n \nNovember 25: No tea (Thanksgiving break)\nDecember 2: Lucy Mulroney, associate director for collections, research, and education, on fall exhibitions