Professor daphne brooks, William R. Kenan, Jr. Prof of African American Studies  

Happy New Year and welcome to the Public Humanities @ Yale monthly e-newsletter.

This month, we invite you to listen to Professor Daphne Brooks discussing the words and ideas of Nobel-prize winning American writer Toni Morrison, who died on August 5, 2019.

In Professor Brooks's recent public humanities lecture, "Toni Morrison and the Question of Democracy," which she delivered at the New Haven Free Public Library as part of the ongoing "Democracy in America" series, she reflected on Morrison's life and art and the experience of teaching her works in an undergraduate course this fall, which began shortly after the incomparable novelist and essayist passed away at the age of eighty-eight.  At the end of Prof. Brooks's moving talk, a member of the audience thanked her for providing a communal space within the library to both celebrate Morrison's life and work and mourn her passing.  

As always, events coming up in January and February are listed below.  We look forward to seeing you there.

Tuesday, January 21 | 6:00-7:30 | Lecture & Conversation

“Writing Race in America: Black is the Body" with Emily Bernard
Location: New Haven Free Public Library, Wilson Branch
Address: 303 Washington Avenue, New Haven, CT

Friday, January 24 | 12:00-1:30 | Pedagogy Lunch & Talk for Graduate Students

with Alicia Schmidt-Camacho, Chair of Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Professor of American Studies
Location: TBA
Address: TBA

Thursday, January 30 | 4:00-5:30 | Lecture

with Kathleen Belew, Professor of History, University of Chicago, “Race, War, Apocalypse, and Futurity in the White Power Movement”“
Location: TBA
Address: TBA

Thursday, January 30 | 7:00 | Film Screening & Talkback

Promised Land (2012) and talkback with Kathryn Dudley (Professor of Anthopology and American Studies, Yale University)
Location: Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
Address: 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT