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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.

Celebrate the Life, Art, & Legacy of Winfred Rembert

The Justice Collaboratory and Public Humanities at Yale honor beloved New Haven resident Winfred Rembert (1945-2021), esteemed artist and 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South,” with a distinguished panel for an evening of discussion and community. Panelists include: Patsy Rembert (Rembert’s wife of 46 years, youth advocate), Erin l.

Five Myths about Gun History

Join Jennifer Tucker, Associate Professor of History, Environmental Studies, Science in Society, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, in conversation with 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.

Yale’s Portraits of Elihu Yale: New Light on the Group Portrait of Elihu Yale, His Family, and an Enslaved Child

Join Courtney J. Martin, Paul Mellon Director, Yale Center for British Art, in conversation with Matthew Jacobson, co-director of the Public Humanities Program and the Sterling Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale, with YCBA researchers Eric James, Abigail Lamphier, Lori Misura, David Thompson, and Edward Town.
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.

Democracy in the Age of Disinformation and Deep Fakes

Join Joshua Glick, the Isabelle Peregrin Assistant Professor of English, Film & Media Studies at Hendrix College and Fellow at the Open Documentary Lab at MIT, in conversation with 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.

Trails and Rails: Mobilizing Public History with Amtrak Trains and the National Park Service

Join Laura Barraclough, the Sarai K. Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University, in conversation with 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.

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics

Join Laura Briggs, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in conversation with 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.

Traveling Black: Race and Resistance on the Road, the Rails, and the Skyways

Mia Bay, the Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, in conversation with Matthew Jacobson, co-director of the Public Humanities Program and the Sterling Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale University. Professor Bay will address her new book, “Traveling Black: Race and Resistance on the Road, the Rails, and the Skyways.”

Envisioning Black Citizenship in Antebellum Louisiana

Join Crystal Feimster, Associate Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, History, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, in conversation with 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.

Day With(out) Art 2021: Virtual Screening

Yale University is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2021 by presenting ENDURING CARE, a video program highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. The program features newly commissioned work by Katherine Cheairs, Cristóbal Guerra, Danny Kilbride, Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad and Uriah Bussey, Beto Pérez, Steed Taylor, and J Triangular and the Women’s Video Support Project.