Cultivating Conversations

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

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

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