CANCELED--The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016): Lecture and Talkback
Lecture & Talkback with Brett Story Producer / Director, Ryerson University: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) Talk back with Caleb Smith, Sylvia Ryerson, Jub Sankofa
General Public
Promised Land: Film Screening & Talkback
Promised Land (2012) and talkback with Kathryn Dudley (Professor of Anthopology and American Studies, Yale University)
POSTPONED: Rod Ferguson: The Heterodoxies of Black Contemporary Art: Carrie Mae Weems, 'The Hampton Project,' and the Tall Tale of Power
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE. MORE INFORMATION TO COME.
Rod Ferguson is a Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and of American Studies. Ferguson’s talk is based on a manuscript-in-progress that analyzes how contemporary Black art and writings from the Black radical tradition converse with one another in their assessments of the ravages of racial capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy.
Orpheus, Director Jean Cocteau
Yale Film Society Screening
(France, 1950) 95 min. 35mm, print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive
Introduced and followed by a discussion with members of the Yale Film Society
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
“Utopia: Imagine a Perfect City”
MOSAIC: Minds on Society, Arts, Ideas, and Culture
Featuring Professor Bryan Garsten
10 am Workshop for students in grades 8-12
Workshop registration required at onhsa.yale.edu/MOSAIC
11am Lecture (open to the public) in Room 208
For more information about the full program, visit onhsa.yale.edu/ah
(Office of New Haven and State Affairs, Yale Pathways to Arts & Humanities, and Whitney Humanities Center)
Daphne Brooks, “Toni Morrison and the Question of Democracy”
Join us for the next lecture and conversation in the Democracy in America / Democracy in Crisis series.
Daphne A. Brooks is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, Theater Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She is the author of two books: Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 (Durham, NC: Duke UP), winner of The Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship on African American Performance from ASTR, and Jeff Buckley’s Grace (New York: Continuum, 2005).
POSTPONED: The Material Force of Justice: Diffractive R Quantum Physics (2019–20 Terry Lectures) Lecture 3: What Flashes Up: Infinity, Nothingness, and the Material Force of Justice
2019-20 Terry Lectures delivered by Karen Barad, Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Contact: Office of the Secretary and Vice President for Student Life, secretary.office@yale.edu
POSTPONED: The Material Force of Justice: Diffractive Readings of Walter Benjamin and Quantum Physics (2019–20 Terry Lectures)Lecture 1: Theological-Political-Scientific Fragments: Constellations, Diffractions, and the Materiality of Theorizing
2019-20 Terry Lectures delivered by Karen Barad, Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Contact: Office of the Secretary and Vice President for Student Life, secretary.office@yale.edu
POSTPONED: The Material Force of Justice: Diffractive Readings of Walter Benjamin and Quantum Physics (2019–20 Terry Lectures) Lecture 2: Troubling Time/s: Theses on the Philosophy of History
2019-20 Terry Lectures delivered by Karen Barad, Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Contact: Office of the Secretary and Vice President for Student Life, secretary.office@yale.edu
POSTPONED- Public Humanities Library Talk - Mary Lui
Professor Mary Lui’s lecture at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, originally scheduled for this evening, has been POSTPONED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER. An alternate date and time will be announced in the coming weeks.
“Mr. Saund Goes to Washington” This talk discusses the historic 1956 election of Congressman Dalip Singh Saund, the first Asian American elected to the U.S. Congress. Mary Lui will discuss the political, cultural, and social significance of Saund’s campaign and victory in the context of the 1950s Cold War.
