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Mondays at Beinecke: Beinecke Library Community Engagement

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.

Redaction: Revisiting the Sweet Flypaper of Life with Titus Kaphar, Dwayne Betts, and Bridget R. Cooks

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

Mondays at Beinecke online: The Life and Legacy of Inge Morath with Rebecca Miller

This year marks the centennial of Inge Morath (1923-2002), a legendary and groundbreaking photographer whose photographs and papers are archived at Beinecke Library. Rebecca Miller (Yale College ’85), will discuss her mother’s life and legacy in this special Mondays at Beinecke.
Mondays at Beinecke online talks focus on materials from the collections and include an opening presentation at 4pm followed by conversation and question and answer begininng about 4:30pm until 5pm.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3Hca3h2

Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival

The 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients will be in residence on Yale’s campus from September 19-22 for a multi-day international literary festival during which they will share their work, engage in conversation on a range of subjects, and celebrate reading and the written word with the New Haven community.
The festival will feature a keynote address by American cultural critic and music journalist Greil Marcus.
The full schedule of talks, discussions, and readings is available at windhamcampbell.org.

Conversation with David A. Richards '67, '72 JD on his new book, I Give These Books: The History of Yale University Library, 1656-2022

“I Give These Books: The History of Yale University Library, 1656-2022”, presents a comprehensive history of one of America’s oldest university libraries from its founding through the present day. The library began with books brought over from Europe and England by Puritans seeking to found their own colony, and grew through donations from overseas donors, personal libraries of faculty members, and alumni endowments.

Mary Berry's Fashionable Friends

An entirely new version of the comedy directed and abridged by Laura Engel.

The Play:

In 1801 Anne Damer, Mary Berry, and Agnes Berry embarked on a remarkable collaboration staging a performance of Berry’s comedy Fashionable Friends as an amateur theatrical production at Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. Damer and Berry starred in the play as the titular fashionable friends; Damer played the seductive and sly Lady Selina and Berry the sentimental and clever Mrs. Lovell.

Mary Berry's Fashionable Friends

An entirely new version of the comedy directed and abridged by Laura Engel.

The Play:

In 1801 Anne Damer, Mary Berry, and Agnes Berry embarked on a remarkable collaboration staging a performance of Berry’s comedy Fashionable Friends as an amateur theatrical production at Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. Damer and Berry starred in the play as the titular fashionable friends; Damer played the seductive and sly Lady Selina and Berry the sentimental and clever Mrs. Lovell.

Mary Berry's Fashionable Friends

An entirely new version of the comedy directed and abridged by Laura Engel.

The Play:

In 1801 Anne Damer, Mary Berry, and Agnes Berry embarked on a remarkable collaboration staging a performance of Berry’s comedy Fashionable Friends as an amateur theatrical production at Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. Damer and Berry starred in the play as the titular fashionable friends; Damer played the seductive and sly Lady Selina and Berry the sentimental and clever Mrs. Lovell.

The Study of Things: George Kubler in Latin America

The 1962 book “The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things” radically altered how we now think about the history of art. Studying and traveling through Latin America, the author George Kubler (1912–1996) developed a methodology that would expand the scope of art history—moving it away from the study of great works of art and biographies of makers toward a consideration of every intentionally made object.

Arts Library Artist Book Hour

Join us at Haas Arts Library for a peek at artist books from Arts Library Special Collections! Frances Osugi will join us to highlight handmade paper found in artist books.

The term “artist book” can be hard to define. Simply put, an artist book is an art object inspired by the form and/or function of a conventional book. Haas Arts Library has thousands of artist books in its special collections. During this lunchtime session, library staff will showcase a few recent acquisitions. Feel free to drop in anytime during the hour.