Survivors of the end of world Sylvia, Emmett, and Viktor search for what caused the brutal murder of a dove. With flying grenades, broken court systems, and a puppet show, Pride of Doves is an absurdist exploration of inaction, apathy, distraction and violence.
shorTbread, elderflower, and Three Things worTh knowing in jusT 30 minuTes wiTh ShawkaT M. Toorawa, professor of near eastern languages & civilizations and comparative literature and pierson college fellow
Join us as we reflect on past initiatives and future directions for reparative archival description work in university and community archives. Introductory presentations will be followed by a moderated panel to discuss challenges and opportunities.
Saint Omer is an emotionally complex courtroom drama: Rama, a literature professor and novelist, travels north from Paris to Saint-Omer to observe the trial of Senegalese immigrant Laurence Coly, who is accused of leaving her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to be swept away by the tide. Writer-director Alice Diop’s first narrative feature interweaves “complex themes of mother-daughter bonds, immigrant alienation, and postcolonial trauma into a piercing portrait of two mysteriously connected women” (Criterion).
Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture initiative is pleased to present a dialogical webinar to celebrate the closing of the art exhibition, Biophilia: In Excelsis. Reflecting on the role of art, music and religion in addressing the climate crisis, this cross-disciplinary conversation will feature the exhibition curator M. Annenberg, the artist and composer Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky, the ClimateMusic Project composer Richard Festinger, and the eco-philosopher Timothy Morton. M. Annenberg will discuss some of the works featured in the exhibition.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/4czlHR1
A discussion of how to raise awareness in the present of an essential story from history related to something that did not come to pass: the proposal to establish, in New Haven, the nation’s first college for Black men – and to think about what could have been and what should be.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3IXa6NU
A discussion in conjunction with the exhibition “Douglass, Baldwin, Harrington: The Collections of Walter O. Evans” featuring Kassidi Jones, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale Departments of African American Studies and English, curator of the exhibition’s part, “Ollie Harrington: Expressing the Revolution.”
Laudario: Vanitas Vanitatum
Devotional Music
from 16th and 17th Century Italy
Lecture at 4:30 pm and performance at 5:15 pm
The Yale Collegium Musicum
Grant Herreid, Director
La Práctica (Martín Rejtman, 2023, DCP, 89 mins)
Curious about what working with data can look like in cultural heritage? Interested in learning about how data holders reconcile institutional histories and disciplinary conventions with changing ethical commitments? Not sure you know exactly what reparative metadata is? Join us virtually to hear from five Yale Library experts about their work in reparative metadata at every level, from implementing local changes with code to updating shared international standards, followed by a panel discussion.
