Professor Emily Wilson will deliver the 2020 Mark Strand Memorial Reading online on Wednesday, October 7, at 4pm. REGISTER HERE for Zoom webinar: https://bit.ly/3kAuEO1
Celebrated for her vivid and lyrical translation of Homer’s The Odyssey, Wilson will read from new work currently in progress: translations of Homer’s Iliad and Oedipus Tyrannos. The reading will be followed by a conversation with Professor Emily Greenwood, Yale Department of Classics.

For several years, the Beinecke Library has marked the Independence Day holiday with a public reading in early July of the United States Declaration of Independence and the oration by Frederick Douglass given on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, in which Douglass asked: “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?”
This year, when public health requires avoidance of such indoor gatherings, the library is offering these readings online. We look forward to resuming this tradition on-site in 2021.

Beinecke Library YouTube channel playlist: https://bit.ly/3dX7lu0
More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/declarationDouglass2020

A weekly series of insightful, engaging, informal talks on materials from the Beinecke Library’s collections and exhibitions, followed by tea on the mezzanine. NOTE: no talks during Yale spring recess on March 9 or March 16.
Spring semester 2020 talks in conjunction with exhibition “Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800” (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
The schedule of talks for this semester includes:

A weekly series of insightful, engaging, informal talks on materials from the Beinecke Library’s collections and exhibitions, followed by tea on the mezzanine. NOTE: no talks during Yale spring recess on March 9 or March 16. Spring semester 2020 talks in conjunction with exhibition “Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800” (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
The schedule of talks for this semester includes: