Mondays at Beinecke: Douglass, Baldwin, Harrington: The Collections of Walter O. Evans at Beinecke Library
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Mondays at Beinecke: Yale and Civil Rights in the 1960s with alumni Joan Countryman and Bruce Payne
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Joan Countryman M.U.S. ’66 and Bruce Payne ’65 M.A. were students at Yale in the early/mid 1960s and both were active in the national civil rights movement. In this Mondays at Beinecke a week after Martin Luther King Day, they will discuss campus life in those years, an era when Dr. King himself came to Yale to preach in Battell Chapel in 1961 and to receive an honorary degree in 1964. Each will also share about their involvement in the civil rights movement.
WWN Book Talk - GREAT DAMES: Women Sharing Their Power
Join the Working Women’s Network for a conversation with Yale’s own Wendy Battles about GREAT DAMES: Women Sharing Their Power. Register by Friday, February 23rd for your chance to win a free copy of the book!
What happens when women of all backgrounds, ages, and experiences come together to share their stories? Some Great Dames magic! In this collection of 52 highly relatable true stories, you will find yourself among women who will make you laugh, cry, and spark your own power. Join us in igniting ‘Great Dameness’ in all women.
2024 Yale College Poets
Yale College Poets: an annual reading by outstanding undergraduate poets. This year’s poets: William An, Kanyinsola Anifowoshe, Lukas Bacho, Olivia Bell, Daniel Blokh, Nicole Dirks, David Donnan, Forrest LaPrade, John Nguyen, Awuor Onguru, and Nimran Shergill. Co-sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library and the Creative Writing Program of the Yale Department of English.
2024 Mark Strand Memorial Reading by Emily Wilson
A reading by Emily Wilson: Emily Wilson is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, holding the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. in Classics and Corpus Christi College M.Phil. in Renaissance English Literature) and Yale University (Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature). She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow.
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: Boys Don't Cry
Boys Don’t Cry (Kimberly Peirce, 1999, 35mm, 118 mins)
25th anniversary screening! Peirce’s first feature tells the true story of Brandon Teena, the victim of a transphobic attack in Nebraska. “A stirring, emotionally true testament” (Mark Caro) “driven by performances of such luminous humanity that they break your heart” (Stephen Hunter). Boys Don’t Cry earned Hilary Swank an Oscar, and Chloë Sevigny an Oscar nomination. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Cinemix Film Screening: A Time for Burning
A Time for Burning (Barbara Connell & Bill Jersey, 1967, 35mm, 58 mins)
New print! A Lutheran minister in Omaha attempts to integrate his all-white congregation in this Oscar-nominated documentary. In cinéma-vérité style, it “captures the enduring inflexibility of traditional institutions, and the sustained struggle and personal risk involved in transforming them” (Jared Eisenstat). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive. Co-presented with the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library as part of Yale’s celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964, 35mm, 95 mins)
60th anniversary screening! New print! There’s fighting in the War Room when a mad brigadier general unleashes nuclear-armed B-52s on the USSR in this pitch-black Cold War satire. “Kubrick’s most radical film and greatest dramatic gamble” (Joshua Rothkopf) stars Peter Sellers (in three roles), George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and a rip-roaring Slim Pickens. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989, 35mm, 127 mins)
35th anniversary screening! “Don’t call me ‘Junior’!” Indiana Jones joins forces with his father, Henry Jones, Sr. (Sean Connery), in the third globe-trotting, Nazi-punching installment of the blockbuster series. Spielberg’s action set pieces and Ford’s dry humor make the film “a beautiful machine, thought out and revved up to the last detail, with no other purpose but to delight—and it delights” (Mick LaSalle). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
The World of James Ivory: Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (James Ivory, 1990, 35mm, 126 mins)
Paul Newman and an Oscar-nominated Joanne Woodward give “the most adventurous, most stringent performances of their careers” (Vincent Canby) as a well-off couple in ‘30s and ‘40s Kansas City grappling with a changing world. Adapted from the novels of Evan S. Connell, with a supporting cast that includes Blythe Danner, Kyra Sedgwick, Simon Callow, and Robert Sean Leonard. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
