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A presentation by Melissa Barton, curator of prose and drama in the Yale Collection of American Literature, in conjunction with the exhibition “Road Show: Travel Papers in American Literature,” organized by Nancy Kuhl, curator of poetry in YCAL.
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Claire Barnes, a graduate student at Yale Divinity School, pursuing a Masters of Arts in Religion and Ecology, will discuss materials from the Rachel Carson Papers at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Kenturah Davis will discuss her artist book, “Conditions of Contingency - a Convening” (2021).
Davis is an artist working between Los Angeles and Accra (Ghana). Davis earned her BA from Occidental College and MFA from Yale University School of Art. Davis was an inaugural artist fellow at NXTHVN in New Haven, CT. More information at her website: http://www.kenturah.com/-bio
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A presentation drawing from the Ezra Stiles Papers.
Jason Mancini is the Executive Director of CT Humanities. He was previously the Executive Director of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, and was with the museum in different capacities from 1995 to 2017. He is a lifelong Connecticut resident.
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A conversation flowing from “Dear Ron and Pat: Letters from Joe Brainard,” a case study drawn from the Ron Padgett Papers and part of the current exhibition, “Road Show: Travel Papers in American Literature,” curated by Nancy Kuhl.
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Allen Ellenzweig is a cultural critic and commentator who has published in numerous arts and general interest periodicals, including The Village Voice and Art in America, as well as the online journals Tablet, The Forward, and Poetry Magazine. His landmark history, The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe, was published in 1992. He is a regular contributor to the Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide and teaches in the Writing Program of Rutgers University.
Steven Rome received his B.A. in history from Yale in 2020 and has been a lead researcher with the Yale and Slavery Working Group (https://yaleandslavery.yale.edu). He currently teaches at the Cold Spring School in New Haven.
His Mondays at Beinecke talk will focus on the research-in-progress about Yale’s Civil War Memorial.
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Ben Parten is a Ph.D. student in history at Yale and a lead researcher with the Yale and Slavery Working Group (https://yaleandslavery.yale.edu). His research interests include the histories of race, slavery, abolition, and emancipation. He received his B.A. at the University of Georgia and M.A. from Clemson University.
His Mondays at Beinecke talk will focus on a highlight of research-in-progress about Yale and the time before the Civil War.
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Teanu Reid is a joint Ph.D. history and African American studies at Yale. Her dissertation project explores the hidden economic activities of enslaved and free people of color in Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina from 1670-1770. She received her B.A. from CUNY Brooklyn College.
Her Mondays at Beinecke talk will focus on a highlight of research-in-progress about Yale in the 18th century.
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