General Public

Acts of Witness: Photographs of Spatial Apartheid

Join us for a lecture celebrating the opening of the exhibition David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive with the South African architect and scholar Ilze Wolff, Dean’s Visiting Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York. Goldblatt’s pictures offer key and focused views on spatial apartheid in South Africa. This lecture looks behind, above, below, and beside Goldblatt’s lens to describe the broad territory of social imaginaries that accompany his images.

Building Trusted Data: An Idea For A Community Driven Approach

There has been a revolution in the production of data, and many possible answers to complex questions can be produced from these data with new AI technologies. Yet a black-box conversion of data to evidence may not be trusted by the public: incorrect results can be generated that lead to confusion and even harm.

Family Narratives/Cultural Shifts Film Screening Series

This film series features deeply personal films by documentarians, artists, activists, and agents of change who are united in their use of the nonfiction format to speak truth to power. These filmmakers use media to build community, family, and ultimately, family albums and archives that future generations can use to build their own practices.

Schwarzman Session - Gospel, Imagination, and Revolution: A Conversation with Kirk Franklin

Gospel music luminary Kirk Franklin has spent decades in the vanguard of the genre. Known for edgy conveyances of the gospel message through eclectic musical devices, Franklin famously wrested attention that “gospel music had gone too far” in the opening lines of his 1997 hit song “Stomp”—one of many chartbusters in his more than 30 years of music making.

Josh Kun: "Listening to Lampedusa: Music, Migration, and the Mediterranean"

Join us for a special talk by Josh Kun, “Listening to Lampedusa: Music, Migration, and the Mediterranean.” Josh Kun is a cultural historian, author, curator, and MacArthur Fellow. He has been the recipient of a Berlin Prize and an American Book Award and is a 2025 Grammy Nominee. His books include Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America; Songs in the Key of Los Angeles; Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez, and several others.

Storywork in Teresa Baker’s Time To Be Still

Join Royce K. Young Wolf (Hiraacá, Nu’eta, and Sosore, ancestral Apsáalooke and Nʉmʉnʉʉ), the inaugural Assistant Curator of Native American Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Collections Manager of the Native North American Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum, for a Gallery Talk exploring storywork and layered meanings in Teresa Baker’s (Mandan and Hidatsa) abstract landscape painting Time To Be Still (2023). Young Wolf invites visitors to experience a deeper understanding of the intersections of materiality and contextual meaning in Baker’s artwork.

Making the Invisible Visible: A Decade-Long Medical School–Museum Partnership

Consisting of brief presentations and tours, this event celebrates the 10-year anniversary of Making the Invisible Visible: Art, Identity, and Hierarchies of Power, a workshop required of all first-year students at the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) that draws on the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA).

Maren Hassinger in Conversation

In celebration of the Yale University Art Gallery’s acquisition and installation of Maren Hassinger’s Monument (Pyramid) (2022), the artist joins Margaret Ewing, the Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, in a conversation about her groundbreaking work. Underrecognized until recently by museums, Hassinger has worked steadily in sculpture, installation, and performance, becoming one of the leading artists of our time.

Yale Library MLK25 Citywide Read: Engaging with our Elders

This event will be held at 1267 Chapel Street, New Haven

Yale Library MLK25 Citywide Read: Online Bible Study

Yale Library DEIA and the MLK25 Citywide Read Planning Committee are partnering with churches across the New Haven and Greater Connecticut area to engage in a civic discourse on the written works of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. We are hosting a collaborative virtual Bible study session led by Yale staff members on Thursday, January 30, from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. This session will focus on Dr. Barber’s perspective on the history of civil rights in the United States and the role religion has played in shaping that history.