public humanities at yale | e-newsletter | october 2019

Professor Laura Wexler,
Co-Director of Public Humanities

Welcome to the new Public Humanities @ Yale monthly e-newsletter.

In our October issue, we invite you to listen to Professor Laura Wexler--current co-director of Public Humanities with Professor Matt Jacobson--who recently sat down with Matt to discuss the history of her involvement with photography and public humanities.

Events coming up in October and November are listed below.  We very much look forward to seeing you there.

Public Humanities Now

Democracy on America Podcast
podcast | 8 minutes

Podcast | Photography and Public Humanities Laura Wexler discusses the history of her involvement with photography and two ongoing projects: Photogrammar and Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography  

listen |  More on collaboration

podcast | 4 minutes

Podcast | Laura Wexler: What is Public Humanities? 
A recurring series, which asks professors, activists, and artists: how do you define public humanities right now?  

listen  

Events This Month 

[ Events Are Free & Open To The Public ] 

Thursday, Oct. 3 | 7:00-10:00 | Film Screening and Talkback

"Sonora: The Devil’s Highway” (2018), Alejandro Springall (Director), and John Sayles (Writer) Talkback following the film with Alejandro Springall and John Sayles
Location: Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
Address: 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT

Tuesday, Oct. 8 | 6:00-7:30 | Lecture and Conversation

“Inside the Writer’s Studio” with Poets Renee Gladman and Joshua Beckman
Location: New Haven Free Public Library, Elm Street Branch
Address: 133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT

Co-Sponsored by the Beinecke Library Yale Collection of American
Literature Reading Series 

Wednesday, Oct. 9 | 4:00 | Lecture and Conversation

“From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post Civil Rights America” with  Patrisia Macias-Rojas, Prof. of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Location: Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC) Rm 101
Address: 63 High Street, New Haven, CT

Thursday, Oct. 10 – Saturday, Oct, 12 | Conference

Valuing Women’s Labor and Building Women’s Economic Empowerment: Celebrating the Centenary of the International Labor Organization and the Future of Women’s Labor Rights
Location: Maurice R. Greenberg Conference Center
Address: 391 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT

Co-Sponsored with the International Labor Organization

view conference website

Tuesday, Oct. 22 | 6:00-7:30 | Lecture and Conversation

“Democracy and Futurity” with James Berger, Senior Lecturer in English and American Studies
Location: New Haven Free Public Library, Wilson Branch
Address: 303 Washington Avenue, New Haven, CT

Events Next Month

[ Events Are Free & Open To The Public ] 

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

with Bryan Garsten, Professor of Political Science and the Humanities and Chair of the Humanities Program
Location: Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC) Rm 208
Address: 63 High Street, New Haven, CT

Tuesday, Nov. 5 | 6:00-7:30 | Lecture and Conversation

"The FBI and the Presidency” with Beverly Gage, Professor of History & American Studies, Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy 
Location: New Haven Free Public Library, Elm Street Branch
Address: 133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT

Friday, Nov. 8 | 12:00-1:30 | Pedagogy Lunch & Talk for Graduate Students

with Joanne Freeman, Professor of History and American Studies
Location: Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC) Rm 208
Address: 63 High Street, New Haven, CT

Tuesday, Nov. 12 | 6:00-7:30 | Lecture and Conversation

“The Air We Breathe: Democracy, Labor, and Combating Toxicity" with Jennifer Klein, Professor of History
Location: New Haven Free Public Library, Wilson Branch
Address: 303 Washington Avenue, New Haven, CT

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