Professor Emily Bernard--author, most recently, of the acclaimed book of essays Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine--gave a reading & talk at the Wilson Branch of the NHFPL on January 21st.

Welcome to the February issue of the Public Humanities @ Yale monthly e-newsletter.

This month we invite you to watch the widely acclaimed author Emily Bernard read two essays from her new book, Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine.  

Currently the Julian Lindsay Green & Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont, Professor Bernard (who holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale) read and discussed her book two weeks ago at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library as part of the "Democracy in America" series.  This event was in collaboration with the Wilson Branch Library's Urban Experience Discussion Group lead by librarian Marian Huggins and supported by branch manager Luis Chavez-Brumell.  

As always, upcoming Public Humanities events in February and March are listed below.  We look forward to seeing you there.

Tuesday, February 4 | 6:00-7:30 | Lecture & Conversation

“Race and the New Right Wing Politics of Precarity" 
with Daniel HoSang & Joseph E. Lowndes on their recent book: Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity (2019)
Location: New Haven Free Public Library, Ives Main Branch
Address: 133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT

Tuesday, February 18 | 6:00-7:30 | Lecture & Conversation

“Global Food Challenges to Health and the  Environment” with John Wargo
Location: New Haven Free Public Library, Wilson Branch
Address: 303 Washington Avenue, New Haven, CT

Thursday, February 27 | 7:00 | Film Screening & Talkback

The Conversation  (1974), Talkback with Michael Denning, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies and English and Chair of American Studies
Location: Whitmey Humanities Center Auditorium
Address: 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT

Friday, February 28 |12:00-1:30 | Pedagogy Lunch & Talk for Graduate Students

with Emily Greenwood, Professor of Classics and African-American Studies and Chair of the Department of Classics
Location: McClellan Hall, Seminar Room 101
Address: 1037 Chapel Street (On Old Campus)