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

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
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A chronicle of Dr. 

Saturday, May 4, 2019 - 4:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
Whitney Humanities Center

John Lucas The Situation
Gaspar Gonzalez A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball’s Desegregation

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
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
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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
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
Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 7:30am | Talk back with Laura Wexler
Yale Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Director:

The story of 

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 12:00am | Tanya Hernandez (Fordham) and Zaire Dinzey-Flores (Rutgers) WLH Room 309 (100 Wall St, New Haven, CT 06511)
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
Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 7:30pm | Talk back with Jim Sleeper
Yale Political Science
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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:

Black Americans boycott Montgomery’s public buses during the 1950s civil rights movement.

Friday, December 7, 2018 - 12:00pm | Graduate Workshop
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
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
Saturday, October 13, 2018 - 7:30pm | Talk back with Katie Trumpener, Yale Comparative Literature
Director:

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
Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 7:30pm | Talk back with Michael Denning
Whitney Humanities Center
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An Arkansas drifter becomes an overnight media sensation.

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 7:00pm | Roy Wood, Jr., The Daily Show
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00pm | Emily Greenwood
Friday, September 21, 2018 - 10:00am | Race, Indigeneity, and Capitalism (a Social Text symposium)