General Public

Josh Kun: "Listening to Lampedusa: Music, Migration, and the Mediterranean"

Join us for a special talk by Josh Kun, “Listening to Lampedusa: Music, Migration, and the Mediterranean.” Josh Kun is a cultural historian, author, curator, and MacArthur Fellow. He has been the recipient of a Berlin Prize and an American Book Award and is a 2025 Grammy Nominee. His books include Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America; Songs in the Key of Los Angeles; Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez, and several others.

Storywork in Teresa Baker’s Time To Be Still

Join Royce K. Young Wolf (Hiraacá, Nu’eta, and Sosore, ancestral Apsáalooke and Nʉmʉnʉʉ), the inaugural Assistant Curator of Native American Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Collections Manager of the Native North American Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum, for a Gallery Talk exploring storywork and layered meanings in Teresa Baker’s (Mandan and Hidatsa) abstract landscape painting Time To Be Still (2023). Young Wolf invites visitors to experience a deeper understanding of the intersections of materiality and contextual meaning in Baker’s artwork.

Making the Invisible Visible: A Decade-Long Medical School–Museum Partnership

Consisting of brief presentations and tours, this event celebrates the 10-year anniversary of Making the Invisible Visible: Art, Identity, and Hierarchies of Power, a workshop required of all first-year students at the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) that draws on the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA).

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: Engaging with our Elders

This event will be held at 1267 Chapel Street, New Haven

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.