West Campus Happy Hour!
Join West Campus Colleagues for pizza and refreshments. Second floor lounge, Conference Center.
Cultivating Conversations
West Campus Happy Hour!
Join West Campus Colleagues for pizza and refreshments. Second floor lounge, Conference Center. All welcome!
Mondays at Beinecke: Taught by the Pen: The World of Islamic Manuscripts with Roberta Dougherty
A conversation with a co-curator of Beinecke’s current exhibition: Roberta L. Dougherty, Yale Library’s librarian for Middle East studies.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://bit.ly/42J0SjC
Mondays at Beinecke: Schooling the Nation - The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women with Jennifer Rycenga
Jennifer Rycenga recovers a pioneering example of antiracism and Black-white cooperation. Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandall, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence. Racism in eastern Connecticut forced the teen students to walk a gauntlet of taunts, threats, and legal action to pursue their studies, but the school of higher learning flourished until a vigilante attack destroyed the Academy.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://bit.ly/42Nm6N5
Mondays at Beinecke: Taught by the Pen: The World of Islamic Manuscripts with Roberta Dougherty, Ozgen Felek, and Agnieszka Rec
A conversation with the co-curators of Beinecke’s latest exhibition: Roberta L. Dougherty, Yale Library’s librarian for Middle East studies, Özgen Felek, a lector of Ottoman in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Agnieszka Rec, curator at the Beinecke Library.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://bit.ly/3Q7CPTS
Advance Screening: ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
Join us for an advance screening of the new A24 film ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
Winner of Cannes Award for Un Certain Regard – Best Director
Date and time: Wednesday, February 26 at 8:30pm
Location: Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L02
(320 York St, New Haven, CT 06511)
Free and open to the public!
(No registration required.)
Screening: OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND THE SLAVE TRADE
Reception will follow the screening and Q&A
Description: Oxford University benefited financially and socially from the proceeds of the 400-year Atlantic slave trade. This film looks at how Balliol (one of Oxford’s oldest colleges) responded to the slave trade during the Age of Revolution. Through college archives and interviews, a portrait emerges of the discord the slave trade inflicted on the college, and how those issues impact the college today.
50 minutes
Sponsored by Yale Urban Ethnography Project
TONGUES UNTIED at 35
Join us at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music for a two-day commemoration of the 35th anniversary of Marlon Riggs’ groundbreaking documentary, Tongues Untied, a film that Riggs famously described as an effort to “shatter the nation’s brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference.”
Community Day: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery Exhibition at New Haven Museum
A special community day at the New haven Museum, 115 Whitney Avenue, will be held Saturday, February 15, 2025, offering tours and conversation around the New Haven Museum’s exhibition, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery,” prior to its closing on Saturday, March 1, 2025. Presented by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale Library, the exhibition highlights the essential role of enslaved and free Black people in New Haven and at Yale.
Exhibition Opening Reception of Taught by the Pen: The World of Islamic Manuscripts
All are welcome to attend the opening reception for the new exhibition, Taught by the Pen: The World of Islamic Manuscripts. The reception is on Wednesday evening, February 26, from 5pm to 7pm. The exhibition is on view at Beinecke Library beginning on Monday, February 24, through August 10.
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