Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org
General Public
Renee Gladman and Joshua Beckman, poetry reading and conversation at NHFPL
Hosted at the New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street
Cosponsors: NHFPL and Public Humanities at Yale; part of the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
From the Poetry Foundation:
Yale Program in the History of the Book: “The Medieval Book from the Spheres to the Critical Zone”
The third of this fall’s series on book history and the environmental humanities.
November 13’s event features Sarah Kay, Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture, New York University, on “Medieval Books from the Spheres to the Critical Zone: Lion and Panther Singers and their Manuscripts.”
Gordon Bunshaft and Skidmore Owings & Merrill: A Conversation with Nicholas Adams
Adams, professor emeritus of architectural history at Vassar College, is author of “Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: Building Corporate Modernism,” new from Yale University Press.
He will discuss the life, career, and works of Bunshaft, including the iconic Beinecke Library itself.
From the Yale University Press:
“A nuanced portrait of the 20th-century architect whose work defined the built aesthetic of corporate America
Archives and Icons: James Baldwin and the Practice of Celebrity - James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture by Robert Reid-Pharr
Robert Reid-Pharr will deliver the 2019 James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture, on the topic, “Archives and Icons: James Baldwin and the Practice of Celebrity,” cosponsored by the Department of African American Studies.
Yale Program in the History of the Book: “Walden’s Carbon Footprint: People, Plants, Animals, and Machines in the Making of an American Book”
A talk by Eric Slauter, Associate Professor of English, The University of Chicago
To learn more about the Yale Program in the History of the Book, please visit https://bookhistory.yale.edu
David (Jhave) Johnston, human + artificial-intelligence poetry reading for Beyond Words
A special reading in conjunction with the fall exhibition, Beyond Words: Experimental Poetry & the Avant-Garde. David (Jhave) Johnston is a renowned digital net-artist-poet concentrating on integrating advanced computational techniques (neural nets, VR, and fluid dynamics) into the creation of art installations and spoken word performances that expose and question human-machine symbiosis.
Read more about Jhave here: http://glia.ca
Opening Reception for Beyond Words: Experimental Poetry & the Avant-Garde
Join us for the opening reception of the fall exhibition, Beyond Words; read more about the exhibition online at https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/beyondwords. Exhibition on view through December 15 along with Drafting Monique Wittig; more information online at https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/draftingmoniquewittig
Yale Program in the History of the Book: “How to Read a Petition: Bureaucracy and Book History in Colonial South Asia”
A panel discussion featuring Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University \nTo read more about Mukhopadhyay, please visit: https://english.yale.edu/people/tenured-and-tenure-track-faculty-assista… \nTo learn more about the Yale Program in the History of the Book, please visit https://bookhistory.yale.edu
Yale Program in the History of the Book: “Textcraft: Teaching Practical Printing for the History of the Book”
A panel discussion with Alexandra Franklin, Coordinator, Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, and Richard Lawrence, Printer, Oxford
To learn more about the Yale Program in the History of the Book, please visit https://bookhistory.yale.edu
