Staged Readings: Jasmine Lee-Jones and Dominique Morisseau
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.
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The Golden Record Playlist
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.
Close Listening: Schoenberg, Opus 19
Join us for a conversation between Percival Everett and Brian Kane on Arthur Schoenberg’s Opus 19, “Six Little Piano Pieces.”
Creative Reading: The Conversation
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
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.
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.
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.
