Poet and past prize recipient Jonah-Mixon Webster and Lisa Monroe of the Gilder Lehrman Center discuss the ways in which the history of enslavement in the United States continues to haunt the present.
Start your festival day with free coffee and treats, book and tote bag giveaways, and a short reading by poet Ishion Hutchinson.
An evening of staged readings of selected scenes from the work of the 2022 recipients in drama, Sharon Bridgforth and Winsome Pinnock.
After receiving the Windham-Campbell Prize for drama, Kia Corthron published two novels; Abbie Spallen is currently working on her first book. Professor of English, Theater, and Performance Studies, and American Studies, Marc Robinson talks with both writers about leaving their comfort zone to tell stories in a different form.
Tsisti Dangarembga’s three novels have had an enormous impact on women’s writing in Africa and around the world. She’ll discuss all three works in a career-spanning conversation with Courtney J. Martin, the Paul Mellon director of the Yale Center for British Art.
The event will also be livestreamed on the Yale Center for British Art YouTube channel.
Yiyun Li received the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction during the first year of the pandemic. She comes to campus for the first time since receiving the prize to launch her highly-anticipated new novel The Book of Goose and to discuss her work with critic Anthony Domestico. Free copies to the first forty guests! Signing to follow.
Start your festival day with free coffee and treats, book and tote bag giveaways, and a short reading by playwright Aleshea Harris.
The lecture, previously scheduled for Tuesday, November 29, has to be postponed. Information on a rescheduled date will be posted on the Yale calendar and shared through the library e-newsletter when available in the future.
A celebration and exploration of archival materials related to New Haven’s historic Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ.
Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ, founded in 1820, is the oldest African American Congregational UCC church in the world. The church is located in the historic Dixwell neighborhood. The church is celebrating its bicentennial plus 2 in 2022, as COVID interrupted plans for celebrations in 2020!
Travis Zadeh, a scholar of Islamic intellectual and cultural history, is associate professor of Religious Studies at Yale and Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. His talk is in conjunction with the current exhibition, The World in Maps, 1400-1600, which includes a map from the compendium of natural wonders by the Persian judge and scholar al-Qazwini (d. 1283). Zadeh’s most recent book, Wonders and Rarities, is a history of wonder and nature in Islamic thought through a study of Qazwini’s compendium and its lasting reception.
