Public Humanities @ Yale | E-Newsletter | April 2021
Welcome to our April 2021 spring issue of the Public Humanities @ Yale e-newsletter. We hope you are staying safe and healthy.
Please join us this month for excellent new conversations: Chitra Ramalingam, Christopher Newfield and Khalil Johnson join Professor Matt Jacobson's "Democracy in America" series and Josh Shepperd joins Public Humanities Fellow Swagato Chakravorty in a discussion of "Culture and Its Publics." More details and Webinar links below.
If you missed any of March's terrific talks--with David Roediger, Phillip Atiba Goff, Emma Robbins, Key Jo Lee, or Joan Cavanagh, Dorothy Johnson, Jeanne Criscola and Elihu Rubin--or wish to see them again, please visit our Public Humanities YouTube channel.
Play this month's new "Puzzling the Humanities" crossword, "50 Percent Off," created by Matthew Stock, Yale College '18.
As always, please don't hesitate to contact us: publichumanities@yale.edu. We look forward to hearing from you.
“Mitchell Branch Library Exterior, New Haven, Connecticut,” New Haven Free Public Library Digital Collections.
Public Humanities Now
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"The Need For a Third U.S. Reconstruction"
Watch Phillip Atiba Goff in conversation with Matt Jacobson. Recorded on March 11, 2021. Luis Chavez-Brumell, Deputy Director of the New Haven Free Public Library gives the introduction.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America" @ the NHFPL series.
Webinar Events in April
WEBINARS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Monday, April 5 | 4:00-5:00 pm
MLK / FBI Webinar
Please join the Brady-Johnson Program for a virtual webinar with Sam Pollard and Benjamin Hedin, director and writer for the award-winning documentary “MLK/FBI.” Advanced screening of the film will be available to anyone who registers. The link to the film will expire on April 5, 2021 at 12:00pm EST. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about accessing the film and joining the webinar.
Co-sponsored by Public Humanities at Yale and the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration.
Tuesday, April 7 | 5:00 pm
"Natasha Trethewey"
Part of the Yale Department of English's 2021 Foundational Courses Lecture, presented with the John Christophe Schlesinger Writers Series.
Friday, April 9 | 4:00-5:00 pm
"Public Media, Public Archives, Public Humanities"
Josh Shepperd in conversation with Swagato Chakravorty.
Part of the ongoing "Culture and Its Publics" series.
Monday, April 12 | 4:00 pm
"Mondays at the Beinecke: Road Show--Travel Papers in American Literature"
Student presenters on April 12: Kelsey Champagne (History and Renaissance Studies), Stéphanie Machabee (Religious Studies), Abigail Fields (French Studies), Brittany Levingston (English and African American Studies). Presenters will be joined by Nancy Kuhl, Beinecke Library curator.
Part of the Museums & Collections Micro-Credential series.
Tuesday, April 13 | 7:00-8:00 pm
"Decolonizing the Museum"
Chitra Ramalingam in Conversation with Matt Jacobson.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America" @ the NHFPL series.
Thursday, April 15 | 4:00-5:00 pm
Douglas Kearney @ Yale Lit
"I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction and the Poetry Reading" A Lecture by Douglas Kearney
Introduced by Ananya Kumar-Banerjee. ASL Interpreter Billy A. Sanders. Douglas Kearney's lecture is supported by the Bagley Wright Lecture Series and co-hosted by Yale Literary Magazine, Creative Writing at Yale and the Beinecke Library.
Friday, April 16 | 12:00-1:00 pm
"Does Post-Democracy Need Universities? Higher Education After 2020"
Christopher Newfield in Conversation with Matt Jacobson.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America" @ the NHFPL series.
Monday, April 19 | 4:00 pm
"Mondays at the Beinecke: Road Show--Travel Papers in American Literature"
Student presenters on April 19: Bench Ansfield (American Studies), Claire Barnes (Divinity School), Anna Duensing (History and African American Studies), Rebecca Flemister (Drama School), Jathan Martin (Divinity School). Presenters will be joined by Nancy Kuhl, Beinecke Library curator.
Part of the Museums & Collections Micro-Credential series.
Wednesday, April 21 | 5:00-6:00 pm
"Writing a History of the Present Pandemic: On the Convergence of Science, Culture & Race"
A Conversation Between Katherine J. Wu and Brandon Ogbunu, Moderated by Leah Mirakhor
Part of the Public Writing series, co-sponsored by Ethnicity Race & Migration
Tuesday, April 27 | 7:00 pm
"American Education and Domestic Imperialism"
Khalil Johnson in Conversation with Matt Jacobson.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America" @ the NHFPL series.
News
Some highlights of Public Humanities affiliated faculty,
graduate students in the certificate program, and alumni:
Beinecke Library Curator Nancy Kuhl is leading a spring semester Museums & Collections Micro-Credential for graduate students on reimagining exhibitions during the pandemic. The students' final presentations will take place at two Beinecke Monday teas on April 12 + April 19 @ 4:00pm. Register using the links above.
Public Humanities announces a new summer micro-credential on podcasting, taught by Nicholas Forster, host of the podcast, "The Lower Frequencies." The application, description and Zoom meeting dates will be available on the Public Humanities @ Yale website beginning in mid-April and due during the first week of May.
Congratulations to Sylvia Ryerson, current graduate student in American Studies, who just received a 2021 Working Films Docs in Action Film Fund for "Restorative Radio." These grants "support the production of short documentaries that address critical issues of social and environmental justice." Read more here.
Puzzling The Humanities
Click the "START THE PUZZLE" button below to play our March humanities crossword puzzle: "Top Schools." This month's puzzle was created by Matthew Stock, Yale College '18.
From The Archive
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From the Archive
Andy Horowitz's Katrina, a History: 1915-2015 (Harvard University Press, 2020) was just awarded the Bancroft Prize. Watch Andy Horowitz and Matt Jacobson in conversation (the first "Democracy in America" @ the NHFPL Webinar) from September 22, 2020.
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