On Becoming a Reader/Writer
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.
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Black Feminist Writing
Erica R. Edwards moderates a conversation about Black feminist authorship with 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jasmine Lee-Jones, and Dominique Morisseau.
Co-hosted by the Black Feminist Collective at Yale University.
Windham-Campbell Prize Ceremony and Lecture by Greil Marcus
Yale University President Peter Salovey presents the 2023 awards in drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and legendary music critic Greil Marcus delivers the annual Windham-Campbell Lecture “Why I Write.”
Marcus will be introduced by Daphne Brooks, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale.
The lecture will also be livestreamed on the Windham-Campbell YouTube channel.
Matthew Jacobson (Yale University), “Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era”
Join us for a conversation with Matthew Jacobson (co-director of the Yale Public Humanities Program and the Sterling Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale) and Robin D. G. Kelley (the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles) on Professor Jacobson’s new book, “Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era, A Cultural History” (University of California Press, 2023).
Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival Welcome Party
Join us for free food and music as we welcome the 2023 recipients to campus! Free food from Taquería Tlaxcala, Caseus Cheese Truck, Big Green Truck Pizza, and The Cannoli Truck. Performance by the Yootây Singers and music by DJ Shay.
Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival
The 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients will be in residence on Yale’s campus from September 19-22 for a multi-day international literary festival during which they will share their work, engage in conversation on a range of subjects, and celebrate reading and the written word with the New Haven community.
The festival will feature a keynote address by American cultural critic and music journalist Greil Marcus.
The full schedule of talks, discussions, and readings is available at windhamcampbell.org.
VIRTUAL: YAAA Book Club Discussion - The New Black Woman: Loves Herself, Has Boundaries, and Heals Every Day
Join the Yale African American Affinity Group for a book club discussion of The New Black Woman: Loves Herself, Has Boundaries, and Heals Every Day by Marita Golden. Register by Friday, July 28th for your chance to win a free copy of the book!
Marita Golden, a prominent interviewee of Oprah Winfrey, wrote this mental and physical health guide for women to learn who they are, to set healthy boundaries, and to jump into health related fitness practices to balance out their daily lives.
Developers Lunch-and-Learn: Accessibility - Inclusive Design
In this session, we will highlight what it means to consider inclusive design, what it practically looks like, when it is appropriate, and how it overlaps with universal design principles.
https://zoom.us/j/94764258445
Back to School Supply Drive 2023
Support the 2023 School Supply Drive. Needed school supplies include: pencils, erasers, 12” rulers, glue, composition notebooks, backpacks, binders, highlighters, markers, crayons, folders, and pens.
Drop off locations are listed on the flyer. Items can also be purchased on our Amazon wish list.
Donations will be distributed in partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Haven on Thursday, August 24th from 4-6pm.
Festival Puertorriqueno De New Haven Volunteers Needed
Please join the New Haven Hiring Initiative and YLNG for a fun tabling event at the Festival Puertorriqueno on the New Haven Green, Saturday, August 12.
We will provide Yale University employment information, answer questions around what it is like to work at Yale University and provide swag to the community.
