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A special Mondays at Beinecke featuring Edmund White, American novelist, memoirist, and essayist. White was affiliated with a literary group known as the Violet Quill, whose seven members are regarded as one of the strongest collective voices of the gay male experience in the post-Stonewall era.
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A gallery talk Gabrielle Colangelo ‘22, curator of the Yale University Library Senior Exhibit Project, “We are Everywhere: Lesbians in the Archive,” on view in the Sterling Library Exhibition Corridor May 2 – September 30, 2022.
Colangelo will present the exhibition following introductions by Barbara Rockenbach and Nancy Kuhl at 4pm. Their presentation will be followed by time for q&a from about 4:30pm.
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A Mondays at Beinecke online gallery talk considering the story of the 1831 proposal for a college in New Haven that would have been America’s first HBCU. The talk is in conjunction with the release of a new documentary short film directed by Tubyez Cropper and narrated by Charles Warner, Jr., with design assistance from Alvin Ashiatey. Watch & share the short documentary on the Beinecke Library YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/gmXF3N62Olo
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Albert R. Lee is Associate Professor and Director of Equity, Belonging, and Student Life at the Yale School of Music, where he teaches a course on The Literary Voice of Langston Hughes in American Music. His Mondays at Beinecke presentation at 4pm on May 9 will be followed by half an hour of q&a and conversation from 4:30pm.
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Two new faculty members on campus, Shane Vogel and Ernest Mitchell, will each share about their archivally-informed work in African American literary studies.
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April 17 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth, in 1897, of the illustrious American author, Thornton Wilder. To celebrate the occasion, Tappan Wilder, Thornton Wilder’s nephew and literary executor, and Melissa Barton, curator of drama and prose in the Yale Collection of American Literature, will discuss the Thornton Wilder Papers (https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/1402).
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A presentation of research findings from three students in the Yale College fall 2021 seminar, “Slavery, Race, and Yale.”
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Two new faculty members on campus, Jonathan Howard and Elleza Kelley, will each share about their archivally-informed work in African American literary studies.
