Leni Ribeiro Leite will present as part of the CLAIS Colloquium Series 22-23.

This talk is given by Dr. Javier Escudero Rodriguez as part of the CLAIS Colloquium Series 22-23.

Yale University President Peter Salovey presents the 2022 awards in drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and former United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey delivers the annual Windham-Campbell Lecture “Why I Write.”
Trethewey will be introduced by Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review.
The lecture will also be livestreamed on the Windham-Campbell YouTube channel

CCAM is thrilled to be working with the International Festival of Arts & Ideas to present director and immersive artist Tamara Shogaolu’s augmented-reality installation “Un(re)solved” — a collaboration between her studio, Ado Ato Pictures, and FRONTLINE (PBS). Please join us on Thursday, June 9 at 5:30pm EDT for a virtual conversation about the piece between Tamara and artist and filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris, hosted by CCAM Assistant Director Lauren Dubowski.

This exhibit traces the career of Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005), Civil Rights attorney and New Haven native.  The first woman attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; the first Black woman to argue before the United States Supreme Court; the first Black woman Senator in New York State; the first woman Manhattan Borough President; the first Black woman to be appointed to the federal bench; one of the first Black women graduates of Columbia Law School: these and others are among the many extraordinary accomplishments of Judge Motley’s career.  Drawing on images and perso