Events
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - 7:00pm |
We will relaunch our “Democracy in America” Tuesday evening at the New Haven Free Public Library series as a new monthly Webinar. Our fi |
Thursday, April 23, 2020 - 7:00pm |
CANCELLED |
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 - 6:00pm |
Laura Barraclough, Sarai K. Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies |
Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - 6:00pm |
Jacob Padron and Marc Robinson |
Thursday, April 2, 2020 - 7:00pm |
Talk back with Stephanie Allain, Homegrown Films |
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - 11:45am |
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE. MORE INFORMATION TO COME. |
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 - 6:00pm |
Khalil Johnson is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University |
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 6:00pm |
Tracey Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory |
Friday, February 28, 2020 - 12:00pm |
with Emily Greenwood, Professor of Classics and African-American Studies and Chair of the Department of Classics |
Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 7:00pm |
The Conversation (1974), Talkback with Michael Denning, William R. Kenan Jr. |
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 11:45am |
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar is a joint Ph.D. |
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 6:00am |
John Wargo is the Tweedy-Ordway Professor of Environmental Health and Political Science at Yale University and the Chair of the Yale Coll |
Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 4:00pm |
Lecture & Talkback with Brett Story Producer / Director, Ryerson University: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) Talk back with Ca |
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 6:00pm |
Daniel HoSang and Joe Lowndes |
Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 7:00pm |
Promised Land (2012) and talkback with Kathryn Dudley (Professor of Anthopology and American Studies, Yale University) |
Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 4:00pm |
Kathleen Belew is a research fellow at Stanford University, “an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago and an intern |
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 11:45am |
Crystal Feimster is Associate Professor of African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University. |
Friday, January 24, 2020 - 12:00pm |
Alicia Schmidt-Camacho, Chair of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Professor of American Studies |
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 6:00pm |
Acclaimed author Emily Bernard will give a talk & reading, “Writing Race in America: Black is the Body” @ the Wilson Branch of the Ne |
Arts and Humanities, General Public, Graduate And Professional, Law, Politics and Society, Talks and Lectures, Undergraduate, Yale and New Haven
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - 6:00pm |
Professor Mary Lui’s lecture at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, originally scheduled for this evening, has been P |
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 4:00pm |
These lectures explore how a small group of organizers combined experience with theoretical insights to create an abolition geography tha |
Monday, November 18, 2019 - 4:00pm |
These lectures explore how a small group of organizers combined experience with theoretical insights to create an abolition geography tha |
Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 5:00pm | A Conference Celebrating the Centenary of the International Labor Organization and the Future of Women's Labor Rights
Greenberg Conference Center Join us for a working conference with scholars, grass-roots activists, lawyers, labor and bisiness leaders as well as Members of Congres |
Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - 4:00pm | Patrisia Macias-Rojas, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Linsly-Chittenden Hall |
Friday, September 27, 2019 - 7:00pm | Talk back with Joel Pfister (American Studies, Wesleyan University)
Whitney Humanities Center Director:
George Roy Hill Writer:
William Goldman Stars:
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross Wyoming, early 1900s. |
Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 7:00pm | Talk back with Daphne Brooks (African American Studies), Daniel HoSang (Ethnicity, Race & Migration and American Studies), and Aimee Cox (African American Studies and Anthropology)
Whitney Humanities Center Director:
Spike Lee Writer:
Spike Lee Stars:
Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brookly |
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - 6:00pm | David Blight
New Haven Free Public Library |
Friday, September 6, 2019 - 12:00pm | Harriet Washington; Gordon Parks Room, 81 Wall Street
Harriet Washington Author of A Terrible Thing to Waste |
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 5:00pm | Harriet Washington; Nieson Irving Harris Building (Medical Campus)
Author of A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind |
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - 6:00pm | Matthew Frye Jacobson
New Haven Free Public Library |
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - 8:45am | Talk back with Crystal Feimster
Yale African American Studies Director:
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Saturday, May 4, 2019 - 4:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
Whitney Humanities Center John Lucas The Situation |
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 6:00pm | Kehaulani Kauanui
Professor of American Studies, Wesleyan University |
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 7:00pm | Jill Lepore
Harvard University |
Friday, April 12, 2019 - 12:00am |
[cancelled] |
Friday, April 12, 2019 - 12:00am |
CANCELLED |
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 12:00pm | Graduate Workshop
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 6:00pm | Elihu Rubin
Associate Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and American Studies, Yale University |
Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 7:30pm | Talk back with John MacKay
Yale Film & Media Studies Director:
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Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. |
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 - 4:00am | Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State University
Beinecke Library 4pm |
Thursday, February 28, 2019 - 4:30pm | Nell Painter, Professor Emerita, Princeton in conversation with Laura Wexler
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - 6:00pm | Alicia Schmidt Comacho, Daniel HoSang, Stephen Pitti
Professors of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration, Yale University |
Friday, February 22, 2019 - 12:00pm | Graduate Workshop
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Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 7:30am | Talk back with Laura Wexler
Yale Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Director:
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Approaching Conceptions of ‘Blackness’ and ‘Mixed-Race’ in Legal Scholarship and Housing SegregationWednesday, February 13, 2019 - 12:00am | Tanya Hernandez (Fordham) and Zaire Dinzey-Flores (Rutgers) WLH Room 309 (100 Wall St, New Haven, CT 06511)
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Wednesday, February 6, 2019 - 4:30pm | Cheryl Harris, UCLA School of Law
Yale Law School, Room 129 127 Wall St, New Haven, CT 06511 Sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the 320 York Humanities Grant for Democracy in America; the Yale Center for the |
Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 4:00pm | Heather McGhee
Stirling Memorial Library Lecture Hall 128 Wall St, New Haven, CT 06511 |
Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - 6:00pm | Jennifer Hopper
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Southern Connecticut State University |
Friday, January 25, 2019 - 12:00pm | Graduate Workshop
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Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 7:30pm | Talk back with Jim Sleeper
Yale Political Science Director:
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A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor’s ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit. |
Friday, December 7, 2018 - 7:30pm | Talk back with Nikhil Singh
NYU American Studies Director:
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Black Americans boycott Montgomery’s public buses during the 1950s civil rights movement. |
Friday, December 7, 2018 - 12:00pm | Graduate Workshop
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Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 7:30pm | Cathy Davidson
CUNY Grad Center In this talk, Cathy N. |
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 6:00pm | Doug Rogers
Professor of Anthropology, Yale University |
Friday, November 16, 2018 - 12:00pm | Graduate Workshop
POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2019 |
Monday, November 12, 2018 - 4:30pm | Nancy Malkiel
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Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 7:30pm | Talk back with director John Sayles and Maggie Renzi, Anarchists’ Convention, Inc.
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When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-burie |
Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - 6:00pm | Jason Stanley
Professor of Philosophy, Yale University |
Friday, October 26, 2018 - 12:00am | Graduate Workshop
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Saturday, October 13, 2018 - 7:30pm | Talk back with Katie Trumpener, Yale Comparative Literature
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A former prisoner of war is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspira |
Thursday, October 11, 2018 - 4:30pm | Ashley Dawson
CUNY Grad Center Ashley Dawson is Professor of English at the Graduate Center/CUNY and the College of Staten Island. |
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - 6:00pm | Matthew Jacobson
Professor of American Studies, Yale University |
Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 4:00pm | Wendy Brown
University of California at Berkeley Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102 4:00-6:00 pm Conversation followed with Q&A |
Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 7:00pm | Talk back with Beverly Gage
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A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention. |
Friday, September 28, 2018 - 12:00pm | Graduate Workshop
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Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 7:30pm | Talk back with Michael Denning
Whitney Humanities Center Director:
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An Arkansas drifter becomes an overnight media sensation. |
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 7:00pm | Roy Wood, Jr., The Daily Show
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00pm | Emily Greenwood
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Friday, September 21, 2018 - 10:00am | Race, Indigeneity, and Capitalism (a Social Text symposium)
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