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.
Yale University President Peter Salovey presents the 2023 awards in drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and legendary music critic Greil Marcus delivers the annual Windham-Campbell Lecture “Why I Write.”
Marcus will be introduced by Daphne Brooks, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale.
The lecture will also be livestreamed on the Windham-Campbell YouTube channel.
Join us for free food and music as we welcome the 2023 recipients to campus! Free food from Taquería Tlaxcala, Caseus Cheese Truck, Big Green Truck Pizza, and The Cannoli Truck. Performance by the Yootây Singers and music by DJ Shay.
Visit the Beinecke Library website for daily hours and other visitor information.
A special Mondays at Beinecke online about the 2023 WIndham-Campbell Literary Prizes, with insights about the winners and a preview of the 2023 Festival upcoming on campus and in the community from September 18 - 22. (More about the prizes: https://windhamcampbell.org)
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/46tZUqW
This exhibit celebrates the Elizabethan Club’s rare book collections, largely assembled in the early 1910s by a young Yale alumnus who was inspired by his Shakespeare lectures. The exhibit constellates around the 1623 First Folio but tells a broader story, foregrounding early modern printers, 20th-century bibliographers, and booksellers today. We’ll see how the First Folio established Shakespeare’s iconic status.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/42bb3JK
Mary A. Goodman possessed a vision that transcended her time. In her last years, Goodman craved progress for African Americans in post-Civil War society. It was too late for her own education, so she focused on the generations that would follow her, especially those pursuing church leadership and theological education.
A presentation about “Crafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 1500–1800,” an exhibition on view now at the Yale University Art Gallery, organized by Jessie Park, the Nina and Lee Griggs Assistant Curator of European Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and Paola Bertucci, Associate Professor, History of Science and Medicine Program, Yale University, and Curator of the History of Science and Technology Division, Yale Peabody Museum.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/41CMXXY
The Beinecke Library is committed to encouraging both scholarly and public engagement with Yale Library’s special collections, especially as sources of historical reckoning and restorative justice for our region. This work happens through public programs and events (online and onsite), tours, and other visitor experiences, and in in strategic partnerships with neighborhood groups, public library branches; K-12 schools; and civic & cultural organizations.
A discussion with artist Titus Kaphar, poet Dwayne Betts, and art historian Bridget R. Cooks, in celebration of Kaphar and Betts’s new book, “Redaction,” and in light of artist Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes’s “The Sweet Flypaper of Life” (1955).
For more on Kaphar and to learn more about “Redaction,” visit https://www.kapharstudio.com
For more on Betts, visit: https://www.dwaynebetts.com
