Public Humanities @ Yale | E-Newsletter | Jan-Feb 2021
Welcome to our first 2021 issue of the Public Humanities @ Yale e-newsletter. We hope you are staying safe and healthy in this new year.
Join us this Tuesday January 26th from 7:00-8:00 pm for our first event of the spring semester: Paul Sabin on "Thinking Historically About the Future of Energy and Climate." He will be in conversation with Matt Jacobson as part of the "Democracy in America: the History of Our Time and Place" @ the virtual NHFPL Webinar series. Mark your calendars for a discussion of Daphne A. Brooks's highly lauded new book: "Liner Notes for the Revolution" on February 23rd and the Beinecke Biography Symposium February 24-26. (Links to join below.)
Please check out our three new features:
Watch a "Conversation about Libraries and Democracy": with Luis Chavez-Brumell, Marian Huggins, Seth Godfrey and Isaac Shub from the NHFPL.
"Puzzling the Humanities": play this month's Acrostic, created by Tom McCoy Yale College '17, currently a PhD student in Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins.
Listen to "From the Archive": Professor Jacob Hacker discusses politics and the pandemic with Matt Jacobson. Recorded in May 2020, the principles they discussed still speak to our 2021 moment in important ways, but their conversation also offers a time-capsule glimpse of what the world looked like early in the pandemic, as the death toll was just reaching 100,000.
Finally, if you missed any of our 2020 Fall Series events, visit our YouTube channel. As always, please don't hesitate to contact us: publichumanities@yale.edu. We look forward to hearing from you.
Digging the Foundation of the New Haven Free Public Library, New Haven, Connecticut, circa 1908. (Digital Image © New Haven Free Public Library)
Public Humanities Now
Watch ▶ | 26 minutes
A Conversation about Libraries
In this Zoom conversation about libraries and democracy, which took place on December 21, 2020, Matt Jacobson talks with librarians at the New Haven Free Public Library about their work during the pandemic. Joining Matt are: Luis Chavez-Brumell (Deputy Director of the NHFPL); Marian Huggins (Manager of the Mitchell Branch); Seth Godfrey (Manager of the Adult Services Department, Ives Branch); and Isaac Shub (Reference Aide at the Ives Branch). For some recent articles see: "3 Kings Day Program" and "MLK Day perspective on librarians as change agents."
Webinar Events in January and February
WEBINARS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Tuesday, January 26 | 7:00 pm
"Thinking Historically About the Future of Energy and Climate"
Paul Sabin in Conversation with Matt Jacobson.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America" @ the NHFPL series.
Tuesday, February 23 | 7:00pm
"Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound"
Daphne A. Brooks in Conversation with Matt Jacobson.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America" @ the NHFPL series.
Wednesday to Friday February 24-February 26 | 12:00-1:00 pm
Beinecke Biography Symposium Writing about Writers: 3 Conversations
February 24 @ noon:
Langdon Hammer & Terrance Hayes
February 25 @ noon:
Imani Perry & Ruth Franklin
February 26 @ noon:
Hermione Lee & Stacy Schiff
Upcoming Webinar Events
WEBINARS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | LINKS TBA
Tuesday, March 2 | 7:00 pm
"Race and American Democracy"
David Roediger in Conversation with Matt Jacobson.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America" @ the NHFPL series. (Link forthcoming)
Thursday, March 11 | 7:00 pm
"The Need for a Third U.S. Reconstruction"
Phillip Atiba Goff in Conversation with Matt Jacobson.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America" @ the NHFPL series. (Link forthcoming.)
Tuesday, March 30 | 7:00 pm
"Our Community at Winchester"
Joan Cavanagh and Elihu Rubin in Conversation with Matt Jacobson.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America" @ the NHFPL series. (Link forthcoming.)
Tuesday, April 13 | 7:00 pm
"Decolonizing the Museum"
Chitra Ramalingam in Conversation with Matt Jacobson.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America" @ the NHFPL series. (Link forthcoming.)
Friday, April 20 | 12:00 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. (Link forthcoming.)
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. (Link forthcoming.)
News
Some highlights of Public Humanities affiliated faculty,
graduate students in the certificate program, and alumni:
Beinecke Library Curator Nancy Kuhl will lead a spring semester Museums & Collections Micro-Credential for graduate students. All information, including dates, requirements and the application due Tuesday January 26, 2021 can be accessed here.
Beverly Gage and Emily Bazelon's op-ed "How to Ensure This Never Happens Again" was published in The New York Times on January 8, 2021.
Timothy Snyder's essay "The American Abyss" was published in The New York Times on January 9, 2021.
David Blight's op-ed "How Trumpism May Endure" was published in The New York Times on January 9, 2021.
Bryan Garsten's op-ed "Impeach and Convict Trump. Congress Must Defend Itself" was published in The New York Times on January 10, 2021.
Joanne Freeman was interviewed and quoted on the events of January 6th for discussions in the Washington Post and PBS.
Puzzling The Humanities
To begin solving the Acrostic Puzzle and to see clues, please click on the "START THE PUZZLE" button below. This month's puzzle was created by Tom McCoy, Yale College '17.
From The Archive
Listen Excerpt 1 ▶ | 5 minutes
Listen Excerpt 2 ▶ | 4 minutes
Listen Excerpt 3 ▶ | 6 minutes
Listen Full ▶ | 47 minutes
From the Archive
In late May, 2020, political science professor Jacob Hacker talked with Matt Jacobson (via Zoom audio) about inequality in America. The principles they discussed still speak to our 2021 moment in important ways, but their conversation also offers a time-capsule glimpse of what the world looked like early in the pandemic, as the death toll was just reaching 100,000.
For more related reading, look at the recent book by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson: Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality. (July, 2020).
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