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)
January 27: “What is our Life?: The Music of Melancholy in Early Modern England”

A conversation between the authors of two recent books exploring the interplay between techniques of assemblage in media and in architecture: Craig Buckley, Assistant Professor of Art History at Yale, author of Graphic Assembly: Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s, and Martino Stierli, Philip Johnson Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, author of Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space.

Anastasia Eccles, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University; Eve Houghton, graduate student, Department of English, Yale University; and Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Theater and Professor Emeritus of English, Yale University
Part of a series of panel discussions with Yale faculty and visiting speakers related to the exhibition Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500–1800 (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)

Marta Figlerowicz, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Yale University; David Scott Kastan, George M. Bodman Professor of English, Yale University; and Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
One in a series of panel discussions with Yale faculty and visiting speakers related to the exhibition Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500–1800 (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)

All are cordially invited to the opening reception for Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800, on Friday, January 24; the exhibition is on view from Saturday, January 18, 2020 to Sunday, April 19, 2020.
Was the pen ever mightier than the sword? This exhibition looks closely at the hand-written text in early modern Britain, and asks what it has to tell us about power, wit, and the questions we might ask of the manuscript past.
Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800 consists of three individual exhibits: