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Calls From Home Screening and Discussion with Sylvia Ryerson, Elizabeth Hinton, and Matthew Jacobson

Join us for a special film screening and discussion of Calls From Home, a 2023 short film directed by Sylvia Ryerson, a Yale PhD student in American Studies. Ryerson will be in conversation with Matthew Jacobson (co-director of the Yale Public Humanities Program and the Sterling Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale) and Elizabeth Hinton (Professor of History, African American Studies & Law at Yale).

Clara Mejia Orta, "Essential NOT Disposable: Oral Histories of Meatpacking Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic"

Join us for a conversation with Clara Mejia 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.” Presented as part of the Public Humanities Working Group (PHWG).

Day With(out) Art 2023: Everyone I Know is Sick

In recognition of the 2023 Day With(out) Art, the Yale Office of LGBTQ Resources, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, and Public Humanities at Yale are proud to partner with Visual AIDS to present Everyone I Know is Sick, a screening of five short videos highlighting connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability. The program features work by Dorothy Cheung, Hiura Fernandes and Lili Nascimento, Beau Gomez, Dolissa Medina and Ananias P. Soria, Vasilios Papapitsios, and Kurt Weston.

Dario Valles: "Participatory Methods: Digital Storytelling, Documentary, & Testimonios"

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.

"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.

Matthew Jacobson (Yale University), “Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era”

Join us for a conversation with Matthew Jacobson (co-director of the Yale Public Humanities Program and the Sterling Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale) and Robin D. G. Kelley (the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles) on Professor 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).

Matthew Jacobson (Yale University), “Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era”

Join us for a conversation with Matthew Jacobson (co-director of the Yale Public Humanities Program and the Sterling Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale) and Robin D. G. Kelley (the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles) on Professor 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).

Exhibition Discussion - The Practice of Democracy: A View from Connecticut

Join us for a conversation with Elihu Rubin, Associate Professor of Urbanism at the Yale School of Architecture, and Melissa Kaplan-Macey, Vice President, State Programs & Connecticut Director at the Regional Plan Association, on the current Housatonic Museum of Art exhibition, The Practice of Democracy: A View From Connecticut. This site-specific immersion examines how justice, equality and power appear in our built environment – our cities and neighborhoods, the places we call home. On view at the Housatonic Museum of Art (January 17 - February 24, 2023).

Elihu Rubin: "Spaces for Democracy: The Goffe Street Armory as Civic Infrastructure"

Join us for a conversation with Elihu Rubin, Associate Professor of Urbanism at the Yale School of Architecture, moderated by Matthew Jacobson, co-director of the Public Humanities Program and the Sterling Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale. This program is presented as part of the ongoing “Democracy in America” series, a collaboration between the New Haven Free Public Library and Public Humanities at Yale.

Adriane Jefferson: "Cultural Equity: A Road Map to Advancing Equity in the City of New Haven in ALL of Our Communities"

Join us for a conversation with Adriane Jefferson, Director of Cultural Affairs for the City of New Haven and the Executive Director of New Haven Festivals, Inc., moderated by Matthew Jacobson, co-director of the Public Humanities Program and the Sterling Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale. This program is presented as part of the ongoing “Democracy in America” series, a collaboration between the New Haven Free Public Library and Public Humanities at Yale.