Please join us for a panel conversation with three renowned film critics and curators, all Yale alumnae, discussing the past, present, and future of cinema, writing, and gender and sexual politics in historical moments of crisis.

Panelists: B. Ruby Rich (former Editor-in-Chief at Film Quarterly), YC ‘71; Patricia White (Swarthmore College, Camera Obscura), YC ‘86; Lisa Kennedy (freelance critic, Variety and The New York Times), YC ‘84

Moderator: Oksana Chefranova (Yale Film and Media Studies)

A conversation with a co-curator of Beinecke’s current exhibition: Agnieszka Rec, curator at the Beinecke Library.

Zoom webinar registration link: https://bit.ly/4iwq4yo

Please join us to celebrate the opening of “Street Talk”: Pamphlet Literature of the Nigerian Marketplace on view in the Hanke Gallery of Sterling Memorial Library.

Onitsha Market Literature—named after a city east of the Niger River—emerged in the early 1950s. The popular pamphlet style soon spread to other centers throughout the then British colony of Nigeria. These ephemeral publications circulated widely throughout the busy marketplace, and writers intended them to be both educating and entertaining for the common people.

This March, we are excited to announce that we are partnering with the Collective for Refugee and Immigrant Women’s Wellbeing (CRIW) and other Yale Offices for a very special event to commemorate International Women’s Day on Friday, March 7!

The evening will feature a film screening and talk-back with filmmaker Sepideh Yadegar. We will begin the evening with a screening of One Must Wash Eyes, a timely drama about Sahar, an international student from Iran who struggles to stay in Canada after her visa is compromised when she participates in the Women-Led revolution in Iran.

A Black artist on the path to success is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, a recovering addict desperate to reconcile. Together, they struggle and learn that forgetting might be a greater challenge than forgiving.

Family Narratives/Cultural Shifts Film Series