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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.”

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.

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.

A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone

Daniel HoSang, Associate Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and 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.

The Teaching Archive

A roundtable discussion with Rachel Sagner Buurma (Swarthmore College) and Laura Heffernan (University of North Florida)—authors of The Teaching Archive—along with Caleb Smith (Yale).
Moderated by Alice Kaplan (Director of the Whitney Humanities Center).
Whitney Humanities Center
4:30 pm EST

Davarian Baldwin, “Building an Abolitionist University: Embedding Ivory Towers in their Chocolate Cities”

Davarian Baldwin a conversation co-sponsored by the Racial Capitalism and the Carceral State (RCCS) Working Group, Department of American Studies, YaleUndergraduate Prison Project(YUPP), Concerned and Organized Graduate Students(COGS) at Yale, and Yale Black Law Students Association (BLSA).

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