Mohammed Sadegh Ansari will present his new book The Science of Music: Knowledge Production in Medieval Baghdad and Beyond (2025). Introduction by Kevin van Bladel. Response by Giulia Accornero.
A conversation with a co-curator of Beinecke’s current exhibition: Roberta L. Dougherty, Yale Library’s librarian for Middle East studies.
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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.
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In honor of our Dixwell neighborhood’s rich music history, we invite you to join us for a night of sounds by the Connecticut-based, drum-centered, Afro-funk fusion ensemble, The Lost Tribe.
Join us for energizing vibes and complimentary wine. Bring your loved ones to be serenaded by these soul-stirring musicians on the eve of Valentine’s Day.
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.
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Join us for an advance screening of the new A24 film ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
Winner of Cannes Award for Un Certain Regard – Best Director
Date and time: Wednesday, February 26 at 8:30pm
Location: Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L02
(320 York St, New Haven, CT 06511)
Free and open to the public!
(No registration required.)
Join us for a lecture celebrating the opening of the exhibition David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive with the South African architect and scholar Ilze Wolff, Dean’s Visiting Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York. Goldblatt’s pictures offer key and focused views on spatial apartheid in South Africa. This lecture looks behind, above, below, and beside Goldblatt’s lens to describe the broad territory of social imaginaries that accompany his images.
There has been a revolution in the production of data, and many possible answers to complex questions can be produced from these data with new AI technologies. Yet a black-box conversion of data to evidence may not be trusted by the public: incorrect results can be generated that lead to confusion and even harm.
This film series features deeply personal films by documentarians, artists, activists, and agents of change who are united in their use of the nonfiction format to speak truth to power. These filmmakers use media to build community, family, and ultimately, family albums and archives that future generations can use to build their own practices.
Gospel music luminary Kirk Franklin has spent decades in the vanguard of the genre. Known for edgy conveyances of the gospel message through eclectic musical devices, Franklin famously wrested attention that “gospel music had gone too far” in the opening lines of his 1997 hit song “Stomp”—one of many chartbusters in his more than 30 years of music making.
