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Maren Hassinger in Conversation

In celebration of the Yale University Art Gallery’s acquisition and installation of Maren Hassinger’s Monument (Pyramid) (2022), the artist joins Margaret Ewing, the Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, in a conversation about her groundbreaking work. Underrecognized until recently by museums, Hassinger has worked steadily in sculpture, installation, and performance, becoming one of the leading artists of our time.

Yale Library MLK25 Citywide Read: Online Bible Study

Yale Library DEIA and the MLK25 Citywide Read Planning Committee are partnering with churches across the New Haven and Greater Connecticut area to engage in a civic discourse on the written works of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. We are hosting a collaborative virtual Bible study session led by Yale staff members on Thursday, January 30, from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. This session will focus on Dr. Barber’s perspective on the history of civil rights in the United States and the role religion has played in shaping that history.

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.”

Yale Library MLK25 Citywide Read: Online Bible Study

Yale Library DEIA and the MLK25 Citywide Read Planning Committee are partnering with churches across the New Haven and Greater Connecticut area to engage in a civic discourse on the written works of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. We are hosting a collaborative virtual Bible study session led by Yale staff members on Thursday, January 30, from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. This session will focus on Dr. Barber’s perspective on the history of civil rights in the United States and the role religion has played in shaping that history.

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.

Mondays at Beinecke: Belle da Costa Greene and Modern Art with Deborah Parker

In the new book “Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters” (Florence: I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies , 2024), Deborah Parker chronicles the making and empowerment of a female connoisseur, curator, and library director in a world where such positions were held by men. Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950) was Pierpont Morgan’s personal librarian (1908–1913) and the first Director of the Morgan Library (1924–1948). She was also the daughter of two mixed-race parents and passed for white.

Mondays at Beinecke: Reflections on Shining Light on Truth with Michael Morand, David Jon Walker, and Charles Warner

A discussion with the curatorial and design team for the exhibition, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery,” on view through March 1 at the New Haven Museum. The exhibition opened nearly one year ago on February 16, 2024. It presents evidence of the essential role of enslaved and free Black people in New Haven and at Yale. It celebrates Black resistance and community building. And it illuminates knowledge kept alive in archives and memory for more than three centuries—even when the dominant culture chose to ignore, bury, or forget.

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