The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil, based on the book Color Bar by Susan Williams.
Co-hosted by the Whitney Humanities Center.
Join us for a celebration of the paperback launch of Ling Ma’s award-winning story collection, Bliss Montage, featuring Ling in conversation with literary critic Anthony Domestico.
Students from Yale’s Native American Cultural Center interview poet dg nanouk okpik about her life and work, with a focus on what it means to write in America as an Inuit/Iñupiaq woman.
Join Darran Anderson and Bonnie Weir as they discuss the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland that came to be known as the Troubles, and how this movement and the people in it found their voices, stories, and songs by delving into and reimagining the past.
An evening of staged readings of selected scenes from the work of the 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients in drama, Jasmine Lee-Jones and Dominique Morisseau.
Come along with us on a journey across centuries of music and the solar system. 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient Darran Anderson will be our guide to the Golden Records onboard the Voyager spacecraft, the furthest manmade object from the Earth and possibly the last songs and traces of humanity in the far-flung future.
Join us for a conversation between Percival Everett and Brian Kane on Arthur Schoenberg’s Opus 19, “Six Little Piano Pieces.”
What are the elements of a good story? How do you construct a scene? What can the novelist learn from the screen writer and filmmaker? Join novelist Ling Ma and poet and critic Richard Deming for a creative reading of a single scene from Francis Ford Coppola’s 1975 classic The Conversation.
Co-hosted by the Whitney Humanities Center.
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa is a book that dives into the archives, revealing new, shocking details of America’s covert program in Africa. The CIA crawled over the continent, poisoning the hopes of 1958 with secret agents and informants; surreptitious UN lobbying; cultural infiltration and bribery; assassinations and coups. As the colonizers moved out, the Americans swept in—with bitter consequences that reverberate in Africa to this day. Celebrate the paperback release of White Malice with Susan Williams and Dan Magaziner in conversation.
Join Windham-Campbell Prize director Michael Kelleher for a conversation with Darran Anderson, Percival Everett, Ling Ma, and dg nanouk okpik about their journeys to becoming writers.
