Mondays at Beinecke
Mondays at 4:00 pm during the semester, you are cordially invited to tea and a gallery talk with Beinecke Library curators, visiting research fellows, and other scholars.
Please join us for fascinating encounters with the Beinecke's collections!
Spring 2018
January 22: Melissa Barton, Nancy Kuhl, and Elizabeth Frengel on + The Art of Collaboration
January 29: Mike Kelleher on The Elevator Project
February 5: Natalie Rose Schwartz, ’17, Bread and Jam for Frances skipping song
February 12: David Blight, re: Frederick Douglass
February 19: Raffaella Donatich, ’19, PaJaMa and Aché Magazine collaborations
February 26: Jill Campbell, The Mouse and His Child or Bread and Jam
March 5: Tim Young, on the acquisition of the Hoban papers and the children’s books of Langston Hughes
NOTE: no talks or teas during Spring Recess, March 12 and 19
March 26: Brent Salter, Province Town Players and legal considerations for theatrical collaborations
April 2: Moira Fitzgerald, Head of Access ServicesApril 9: Richard Deming on Orson Welles
April 16: Curators Melissa Barton, Elizabeth Frengel, and Nancy Kuhl with a wrap-up on + The Art of Collaboration
April 23: TBA
Fall 2017
September 18: Ray Clemens and Diane Ducharme, Curating the Takamiya Exhibition
September 25: Joe Stadolnik, Beinecke MS 228, A manuscript of the medieval English religious text Dives and Pauper, or "Rich One and Poor One," made in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1465.
October 2: Michael Morand on history and highlights of the 1742 Library of Yale
October 9: Alexandra Reider, PhD candidate ‘19, English Dept., and co-curator of Takamiya exhibition
October 16: Anna Franz, Assistant Head of Access Services, Takamiya MS 8, Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ, specifically how it was owned and gifted by three different women
October 23: Jessica Brantley, Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies,
October 30: Emily Ulrich, PhD candidate ‘18, Medieval Studies., and co-curator of Takamiya exhibition
November 6: Eric Ensley, PhD candidate ‘21, English Dept., and co-curator of Takamiya exhibition – Piers Plowman vitrine, Takamiya MS 23, etc.
November 13: Gina M. Hurley, PhD candidate ‘19, Medieval Studies and co-curator of Takamiya exhibition – The Arthurian Legend in manuscript, including Takamiya MS 99 and Beinecke MS 12.
No tea November 20 due to Thanksgiving recess
November 27: Diane Ducharme, archivist, paleographer and co-curator of the Takamiya exhibition on early English scripts and the Takamiya collection
December 4: Rebecca Hill, PhD candidate, UCLA Dept. of English, and Beinecke visiting graduate student fellow, Summer 2017 – mss tbd
Spring 2017
January 23
Emily Bernard, Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance
January 30
Melissa Barton, acquisition of Night-Club Map of Harlem
February 6
Willie Ruff, W. C. Handy
February 13
Phoenix Alexander, grad student, on George S. Schuyler and speculative fiction
February 20
Robert Stepto on Aaron Douglas
February 27
Eve Houghton, ’17, William Davenant and the earliest extant manuscript of “Macbeth”
March 6
Nancy Kuhl, Miguel Covarrubias
March 27
Kathi Isham, Archiving the Beinecke Records and the invasion of the death-watch beetles
April 10
Information to come
April 17
Information to come
April 24
Michael Morand, 1748 Map of New Haven
Fall 2016
October 3
Kathryn James, Curator, Early Modern & Osborn Collections, Carew ms, Pirie sale
October 10
(NO TEA, however: Mondays at Beinecke co-sponsoring reading by Elizabeth Alexader at 4:00 p.m. with YCAL-JWJ
October 17
Kevin Repp, Curator, Modern European Books and Manuscripts, "British Punk at Both Ends of the Dial"
October 24
Bill Reese, Alexander Gardner’s photographs of the Union Pacific Railway
October 31
Jackie Goldsby on James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
November 7
Liz Hebbard, doctoral candidate, Dept. of French. Book breaking and the Otto Ege manuscripts
November 14
Tim Young, Curator, Modern Books & Manuscripts, Margaret Wise Brown acquisition
(Nota bene: no tea the week of Thanksgiving)
November 28
Adam Mahler, ’17, “Wandering Lyric” a Troubadour performance of chanson, followed by Pound’s poems, set to music, including Ancient Music, a parody of medieval rota.
(Nota bene: no tea on Monday, Dec. 5)
December 12
Juliette Wells, Goucher College 1816 Philadelphia Emma.
Spring 2015
January 12
Alison Clemens, Beinecke Archivist, The Yale 1742 Library
January 19
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, NO TEA
January 26
Daniel Botsman, Professor of History, Japanese Treasures
February 2
Kevin Repp, Curator of Modern European Books and Manuscripts, Fun on the Titanic
February 9
Haruko Nakamura, Librarian for Japanese Studies, Yale University Library, Japanese Treasures
February 16
Stacie Vos, Graduate Student, Yale Divinity School, Gutenberg Bible
February 23
Melissa Barton, Curator of Prose/Drama, Yale Collection of American Literature, Paul Robeson as Othello
March 2
Daphne Brooks, Professor of African American Studes and Theater Studies, Casting Shadows
March 9
Spring Break, no gallery talk
March 16
Spring Break, no gallery talk
March 23
Ray Clemens, Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts, Yale Collection of Incunabula
March 30
Kevin Repp, Curator of Modern European Books and Manuscripts, Fun on the Titanic
April 6
E.C. Schroeder, Director of the Beinecke Library, Behind the scenes of the Beinecke's renovation
Fall 2014
September 8
Diane Ducharme, archivist, Beinecke Library, Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder (Osborn fb100)
September 15
No tea scheduled.
September 22
Ray Clemens, Beinecke Curator of Early Book and Manuscripts, co-curator of Reading English
September 29
Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater and English, W. K. Wimsatt and James Marshall Osborn
October 6
Andrew Brown, graduate student and co-curator of Reading English
October 13
Rebekah Ahrendt , Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Music, The Grand Tour
October 20
Patty Guardiola, 2014-15 Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
October 27
Barbara Shailor, Senior Research Scholar in the Classics Department, John Gower
November 3
Tea with the library's visiting research fellows
November 11
No tea
November 17
Katherine Hindley, medieval prayer roll in the Takamiya collection
November 24
No tea
December 1
Kathryn James, Beinecke Curator of Early Modern and Osborn Collections, Thomas Thistlewood papers
December 8
Marie-France Lemay, Paper Conservator at the Yale Library, pigments and dyes, “Reading English”
Spring 2014
January 27 Bruce Gordon, Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Yale Divinity School
Newly acquired Tyndale Bibles
February 3 Nancy Kuhl, Curator for Poetry, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library
"Blue: Color and Concept," an exhibition on view through April 19, 2014
February 10 Timothy Young, Curator for Modern Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library
"Stephen Tennant: Work in Progress," an exhibition on view through May 28, 2014
February 17 No talk scheduled
February 24 Jae Rossman, Assistant Director, Special Collections, Haas Family Arts Library
"Blue: Color and Concept"
March 3 Melissa Barton, Curator for Prose and Drama, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library
"St. Louis Woman," from "Blue: Color and Concept"
March 10 Lindsay King, Personal Librarian, Haas Family Arts Library
"Stephen Tennant: Work in Progress"
March 17 Timothy Young, Curator for Modern Books and Manscripts, Beinecke Library
Children's Books and Blue / Seguy's Insects & Butterflies, "Blue: Color and Concept"
March 24 Katie Trumpener, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Yale University
"Inivitation to a Tale," from "Under the Covers: A Visual History of Decorated Endpapers," an exhibition on view through May 28
March 31 Elana Herzog, Lecturer, Yale University School of Art
Manuscript Waste as Endpapers, "Under the Covers: A Visual History of Decorated Endpapers"
April 7 Catherine H. Stephens, Senior Conservation Scientist, Center for Conservation and Preservation
Conservation Principles as Applied to Exhibitions
April 14 Linda Peterson, Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English, Yale University
Winnowings from Wordsworth, "Under the Covers: A Visiual History of Decorated Endpapers"
April 21 Howard Bloch, Sterling Professor of French and Chair of the Humanities Program, Yale University
Medieval French Illuminators, "Under the Covers: A Visiual History of Decorated Endpapers"
April 28 Elizabeth Frengel, Research Librarian, Beinecke Library
E.H. Shepard's Endpaper Map of the "100 Aker Wood" and "The Wild Wood and Surrounding Country"
May 5 Olivia Hillmer, Exhibitions Assistant, Beinecke Library
The Craft of Exhibition Installation
Fall 2013
September 16 Kathryn James, Curator for Early Modern Books and Manuscripts & the Osborn Collection, Beinecke Library
A recently acquired manuscript reader's copy, ca. 1613, of John Donne's Satires
September 23 Heather Dean, Archivist, Beinecke Library
"In the Mind's Eye: Beinecke Architecture Imagined," an exhibition on view through December 31, 2013
September 30 Kevin Repp, Curator for Modern European Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library
An introduction to the Beinecke Library graduate and visiting research fellowship program
October 7 George Miles, Curator for Western Americana, Beinecke Library
"The Power of Pictures," an introduction to the new Beinecke exhibition
October 14 Janice Carlisle, Professor of English, Department of English
An original drawing for Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, with his comments and corrections
October 21 Mia Reinoso Genoni, John B. Madden Dean of Berkeley College; Lecturer in History of Art and Special Programs in the Humanities
An early 16th-century copy of Francisco Giorgio di Martini's architectural manuscript, Trattati di archittetura ingegneria e arte militare.
October 28 Kevin Repp, Curator for Modern European Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library
November 4 Timothy Young, Curator for Modern Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library
Sodoms zonde und straffe [Sodom's Sin and Punishment], from early 18th-c. Amsterdam
November 11 Laura Wexler, Professor of American Studies & Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Personal photography - the Romanov family album, the poet H.D.'s scrapbook, and J.M. Barrie's The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island
November 18 John Faragher, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History & American Studies and Director of the Howard R. Lamar Center
Western expeditionary art - works by Alfred Jacob Miller and Carl Bodmer
November 25 Ray Clemens, Curator for Early Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library
Portolan charts of the Mediterranean from sixteenth-century Portugal
December 2 Nancy Kuhl, Curator for Poetry, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library
December 9 Susan Gibbons, University Librarian, Yale University Library
The city of God and the city of Man, an illuminated copy of Augustine's De Civitate Dei, Paris, ca. 1415
December 16 Jonathan Holloway, Professor of History and American Studies; Professor and Chair of African American Studies
Posters by Emory Douglas, illustrator for the Black Panther Party
Spring 2013
January 27 Kathryn James, Beinecke Library
By Hand, the current exhibition
February 4 Lanny Hammer, Yale Department of English
James Merrill’s Ouija board
February 11 Re-scheduled due to snow
February 18 Anders Winroth, Yale Department of History, and Ray Clemens, Beinecke Library
The Vinland Map and Voynich Manuscript
February 25 No Fellows' Tea
March 4 Jessica Brantley, Yale Department of English
Rothschild canticles and ivory writing tablets
March 11 Tom Bolze, Beinecke Library, and Ellen Ellickson, Beinecke Library
Marjorie Wynne
March 18 Kevin Repp, Beinecke Library
The Milles Pensees of Henri Chopin
March 25 Tim Young, Beinecke Library
Monroe Wheeler and Glenway Wescott datebooks
April 1 Richard Deming, Yale Department of English
Thoreau’s manuscript of Walden
April 8 Larry Manley, Yale Department of English
William Henry Ireland album of Shakespeare forgeries
April 15 Susan Howe, 2011 winner of the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry
Sarah Pierpont Edwards’ wedding dress
April 22 Nancy Kuhl, Beinecke Library
Ernest "Hem" Hemingway's postcards
April 29 George Miles, Beinecke Library
Lewis and Clark Map
May 6 Kathryn James, Beinecke Library
May 13 Michael Warner, Chair and Seymour H. Knox Professor, Yale Department of English
Sermon notes by Jonathan Edwards
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Monday 10 am - 7 pm
Tuesday-Thursday 9 am - 7 pm
Friday 9 am - 5 pm
Saturday (Exhibitions only) 12 pm - 5 pm
Sunday (Exhibitions only) 12 pm - 4 pm