Public Humanities at Yale | E-Newsletter | November 2023
Greetings from the Public Humanities at Yale team! We are pleased to share some upcoming programs for Fall 2023 and beyond, including talks with Nancy Escalante, Dario Valles, Clara Mejía Orta, and Imani Mosley, as well as the Spring 2024 North Eastern Public Humanities Symposium. Read on for event details, along with updates from our Public Humanities affiliated faculty and students, and a new Puzzling the Humanities crossword puzzle from Matthew Stock, Yale College '18. As always, please don't hesitate to contact us at publichumanities@yale.edu with news items, questions, or suggestions!
"Skyline view of New Haven," New Haven Free Public Library Digital Collections.
Upcoming Events
WEBINARS AND EVENTS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
November 27, 2023 | 4:30pm | HQ 107 (320 York Street)
Counter-Archives with Nancy Escalante
How does community-based archiving reimagine the conventional archive? Join us for a conversation about community-based archiving with Nancy Escalante, PhD Candidate in American Studies, as she talks about her dissertation project. She will discuss the María Guardado Collective and raise questions about conventional forms of knowledge production and the usefulness of thinking with a “counter-archive.” Escalante’s project explores how U.S. Central Americans in Los Angeles are refiguring and reimagining the conventional archive through their own memory-making practices that are rooted in intergenerational community building.
November 27, 2023 | 5:30pm | HQ 107 (320 York Street)
Public Humanities Working Group Fall Social
Want to hear more about the Public Humanities Working Group? Join us for some fall treats and warm drinks after Nancy’s Escalante's "Counter-Archives" presentation.
December 6, 2023 | 4:30pm | HQ 107 (320 York Street)
Participatory Methods: Digital Storytelling, Documentary, and Testimonios with Professor Dario Valles
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Dario Valles, Assistant Professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at California State University, Long Beach, an interdisciplinary anthropologist whose research lies at the intersection of gender/sexuality, race, transnational migration and technology linking Central America, Mexico and the US. Dr. Valles’ current work includes developing a feature-length, participatory documentary entitled No Separate Survival on the global asylum crisis converging in Mexico. He is developing digital storytelling workshops with Black, Indigenous and LGBTQ migrants from Central America and the Caribbean petitioning for US legal protection from Tijuana. Following the talk we will host a dinner with Dr. Valles, spaces are limited. Please RSVP for dinner by emailing clara.mejiaorta@yale.edu.
February 1, 2024 | 4:00pm | Room TBD
The Water Remembers: Sound, Trauma, and Memory in the Legacy Museum with Professor Imani Mosley
Dr. Imani Mosley is a musicologist, cultural historian, and digital humanist and technologist focusing on the works of Benjamin Britten. She received her PhD from Duke University (2019) and is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Florida's School of Music. In addition to her work on Britten, she also specializes in contemporary opera, postwar studies, reception history, sound studies, queer theory, masculinities studies, and race in 21st-century popular musics. Her talk for this series is titled The Water Remembers: Sound, Trauma, and Memory in the Legacy Museum. The talk is about the way the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama uses sound and music as historical landmarks, guideposts, and access to emotion and trauma.
February 7, 2024 | 4:30pm | HQ 107 (320 York Street)
Essential NOT Disposable: Oral Histories of Meatpacking Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic with Clara Mejía Orta
Join us for a conversation with Clara Mejía Orta, a fourth year PhD student in the History Department, as she discusses her project “Essential NOT Disposable: Oral Histories of Meatpacking Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
Save the Date: North Eastern Public Humanities Consortium (NEPH) Spring 2024 Symposium, April 12–14
Yale Public Humanities is excited to host the Spring 2024 NEPH Symposium from April 12–14, 2024 on campus. NEPH fosters public projects animated by humanistic inquiry in support of art, culture, history, and education for a more democratic society. Linking eleven diverse institutions across the region, the consortium provides opportunities for faculty, students, professionals, and community members to build partnerships and enhance the relationship between liberal arts and the public through public humanities practices such as historic preservation, oral history, public history, material culture, curation and exhibition, documentary work, digital humanities, public art, cultural heritage, and more.
Save the date and learn more at the NEPH website! Registration coming soon.
News
Some highlights of Public Humanities–affiliated faculty,
graduate students in the certificate program, and alumni:
Melissa Barton, curator of prose and drama for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and Nancy Kuhl, curator of poetry for the Beinecke's Yale Collection of American Literature, were featured in a Connecticut Public Radio article about the Beinecke's newly-acquired archives of writer Cynthia Ozick.
Ned Blackhawk, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies, has been shortlisted for the National Book Award in nonfiction for his new book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (Yale University Press, 2023). The winners will be announced on November 15.
On September 15, Daphne Brooks, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music, moderated a sold-out performance and conversation with Grammy-winning musician Corinne Bailey Rae at Yale's Schwarzman Center. The event was part of Rae's tour in support of her new album Black Rainbows. Read more in the New Haven Arts Paper.
Dylan Gee, Associate Professor of Psychology and in the Child Study Center and of Psychiatry, was featured in a New York Times article about teen behavior called "How to Break Through When Your Teen Tunes You Out."
Langdon Hammer, the Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English, published "Poet of October," a tribute to the late poet and Yale instructor Louise Glück, in the Yale Review. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize, and National Book Awards, as well as a one-time U.S. poet laureate, Glück passed away on October 13 of this year.
Daniel HoSang, Professor of Ethnicity, Race, & Migration and American Studies, published an article in The Conversation titled "Why are brown and Black people supporting the far right?" on the rise of multicultural white supremacy in the U.S.
Daniel HoSang and his collaborators from the Anti-Eugenics Collective at Yale were recently featured on Connecticut Public Radio for a segment called Uncovering the history of eugenics at Yale University, and its 'afterlives'.
On September 19, Matthew Jacobson, the Sterling Professor of American Studies & History and Co-Director of Public Humanities, joined Robin D. G. Kelley of UCLA for a conversation at the New Haven Free Public Library on Jacobson's new book, Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era, A Cultural History (University of California Press, 2023). Watch a recording of the event here.
Joanne Meyerowitz, Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and Professor of American Studies, published an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune titled "What the Percy Amendment, focused on women’s global poverty, has to teach 50 years later" exploring the legacy of the 1973 Percy Amendment to the US Foreign Assistance Act
Meghan O'Rourke, Editor of the Yale Review and Senior Lecturer in English & Creative Writing, published "The poet who taught me to write books," a tribute to the late poet and Yale instructor Louise Glück, in the Yale Review. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize, and National Book Awards, as well as a one-time U.S. poet laureate, Glück passed away on October 13 of this year.
Didac Queralt, Assistant Professor of Political Science, won an International Book Prize from Yale's Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies for his book Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance (Princeton University Press, 2022).
Anna Reisman, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Program for Humanities in Medicine, published a new piece in the New England Journal of Medicine's Perspectives section on her sister's experience of cancer as a person with intellectual disabilities, titled "Standards of Care."
Timothy Young, previously Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, has taken a new position as Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Yale Center for British Art.
Puzzling The Humanities
Click the "START THE PUZZLE" button below to play this month's crossword puzzle. This puzzle was created by Matthew Stock, Yale College '18.
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In January 2021, Matthew Jacobson spoke with Paul Sabin, the Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Professor of History and Professor of American Studies, about climate, energy, and democracy.
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