Public Humanities @ Yale | E-Newsletter | March 2021
Welcome to our March 2021 issue of the Public Humanities @ Yale e-newsletter. We hope you are staying safe and healthy.
We have three excellent conversations coming up this month in Matt Jacobson's "Democracy in America: the History of Our Time and Place" @ the virtual NHFPL Webinar series. Please mark your calendars for Tuesday March 2 with David Roediger: "Race and American Democracy"; Thursday March 11 with Phillip Atiba Goff: "The Need for a Third U.S. Reconstruction"; and Tuesday March 30 with Joan Cavanagh, Dorothy Johnson, Jeanne Criscola and Elihu Rubin: "Our Community at Winchester." All conversations are @ 7:00-8:00pm. (Links to join below.)
Please also join us for "Culture and Its Publics," a new Webinar series created by Public Humanities Teaching Fellow Swagato Chakravorty. On Friday March 12th @ 4:00pm, he will be in conversation with artist Emma Robbins. On Tuesday March 23rd @ 4:00pm, he will be in conversation with curator Key Jo Lee. (Webinar links below.)
If you missed the terrific talk last week by Daphne A. Brooks on her new book: "Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound," you can watch the recording below:
Play "Puzzling the Humanities": This month's crossword is the invention of Matthew Stock, Yale College '18.
As always, please don't hesitate to contact us: publichumanities@yale.edu. We look forward to hearing from you.
"Winter Scene on the Green" (circa 1907). (Digital Image © New Haven Free Public Library)
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Liner Notes for the Revolution
In this wonderful Webinar conversation that took place on February 23, 2021, Daphne A. Brooks talks to Matt Jacobson about her new book, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound. See a recent New York Times review. Marian Huggins, Manager of the Mitchell Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library introduces and closes out the conversation.
Webinar Events in March
WEBINARS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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.
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.
Friday, March 12 | 4:00 pm
"Culture and Its Publics"
Emma Robbins in Conversation with Swagato Chakravorty.
The first discussion in Swagato Chakravorty's "Culture and Its Publics" series.
Tuesday, March 23 | 4:00 pm
"Culture and Its Publics"
Key Jo Lee in Conversation with Swagato Chakravorty.
The second discussion in Swagato Chakravorty's "Culture and Its Publics" series.
Tuesday, March 30 | 7:00 pm
"Our Community at Winchester"
Joan Cavanagh, Dorothy Johnson, Jeanne Criscola and Elihu Rubin in Conversation with Matt Jacobson.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America" @ the NHFPL series.
Upcoming Webinar Events
WEBINARS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | LINKS TBA
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 16 | 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:
On Monday March 1st (@ 5:00-6:00), Bryan Garsten moderates a conversation on "The Age of Impunity" Politics and Accountability in the Post-Trump Age" with David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. Register in advance for the Webinar: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RJGMAQKxQemvWFZhsc5TJw
Yale Lit Presents Poet Douglas Kearney in a Bagley Wright Lecture. ASL Interpreter Billy Sanders. Introduced by Ananya Kumar-Banerjee. Thursday April 15 @ 4:00pm. Audience Link to join the Webinar https://yale.zoom.us/j/92086661577
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.
Sylvia Ryerson, current graduate student in American Studies, recently published "Precarious Politics: Friends of Coal, the UMWA, and the Affective Terrain of Energy Identification" (American Quarterly, Volume 72, Number 3, September 2020). Here is a link to the piece: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/765830 To read more about the essay and about Sylvia Ryerson’s thinking about it, please see American Quarterly’s "Beyond the Page" website: https://www.americanquarterly.org/content/september-2020
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
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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