ProF. Matthew Jacobson

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

For our first publication, we invite you to listen to two brief and illuminating audio excerpts with Professor Matthew Jacobson, current Co-Director of Public Humanities at Yale.  

Tuesday, Sept. 3 | 6:00 - 7:30 | Lecture and Conversation

"What is Neoliberalism?” with Prof. Matthew Jacobson,
Co-Director, Public Humanities At Yale
Location: New Haven Free Public Library, Elm Street Branch
Address: 133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT

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Thursday, Sept. 5 | 5:00 | Humanities Talk

“The Brain Thieves: Heavy Metals, Pathogens and Other Enemies of Cognition” with Harriet A. Washington, Author and Medical Ethicist
Location: Cohen Auditorium, Yale Child Study Center, Nieson Irving Harris Building, E-02 (Medical Campus)
Address: 230 South Frontage Road, New Haven

Co-sponsored by Yale Program in Humanities and Medicine

Friday, Sept. 6 | 12:00-1:30 | Panel Discussion

Discussion on Environmental Justice and Public Health with Harriet A. Washington (Author and Medical Ethicist), Assoc. Prof. Elihu Rubin (Yale School of Architecture and American Studies), and Mikki Meadows-Oliver (Assoc. Prof. of Nursing at Quinnipiac University)
Location: Gordon Parks Seminar Room 201
Address: 81 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06511

Co-sponsored by Yale Program in Humanities and Medicine

Tuesday, Sept. 17 | 6:00-7:30 | Lecture and Conversation

“Frederick Douglass: Prose Poet of Democracy” with Public Historian David Blight, Prof. of History
Location: New Haven Free Public Library, Wilson Branch
Address: 303 Washington Avenue, New Haven, CT

Thursday Sept. 19 | 7:00-10:30 | Film Screening and Talkback

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” (1989). Talkback following the film with Daphne Brooks (Prof. of African American Studies), Aimee M. Cox (Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology and African American Studies), and Daniel HoSang (Assoc. Prof. of American Studies)
Location: Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
Address: 53 Wall Street New Haven, CT

Friday, Sept. 27 | 12:00-1:30 | Pedagogy Talk and Lunch for Students

with Tim Barringer, Prof. of the History of Art
Location: TBA
Address: TBA

Friday, Sept. 27 | 7:00-10:30 | Film Screening and Talkback
George Roy Hill’s “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969)

Talkback following the film with Joel Pfister, American Studies, Wesleyan University
Location: Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
Address: 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT