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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.”

"Becoming White," Virtual Talk by Professor Hazel Carby

Drawn from Imperial Intimacies, A Tale of Two Islands, the lecture will discuss how Professor Hazel Carby employed the insights of Stuart Hall into the nature of identities “as stories we tell ourselves,” and systems of recognition that we adopt, to trace the role of visual culture in creation of British imperial subjects and subjectivity.

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.

Gender Series Conversation II: Debates Sobre Violencia de Género en América Latina

Moderated by Ever Osorio (Yale University) in Spanish with English translation.
Please register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xPMd2VV4SGiDKxNNE4NITw

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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