Graduate and Professional

Matthew Jacobson (Yale University), “Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era”

Join us for a conversation with Matthew Jacobson (co-director of the Yale Public Humanities Program and the Sterling Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale) and Robin D. G. Kelley (the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles) on Professor Jacobson’s new book, “Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era, A Cultural History” (University of California Press, 2023).

Red Summer: Percival Everett’s American Landscapes

Over a period of two years, starting in 2019 when he began work on his novel The Trees, Percival Everett made a series of paintings to commemorate the century anniversary of the Red Summer, a summer that saw so many lynchings in the United States. In the conversation and slide presentation, Everett and Crystal Feimster discuss the ways he uses oil paints, watercolors, and photographs of his own paintings to create portraits of an American landscape that is ever-present, but often conveniently ignored.

Inaugural Lecture in American Studies: Audra Simpson, “Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow”

Audra Simpson, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University

Author of the award-winning book Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States, Audra Simpson is a political anthropologist whose work is rooted within Indigenous polities in the US and Canada and crosses the fields of anthropology, Indigenous Studies, American and Canadian Studies, gender and sexuality studies as well as politics.

American Studies Interdisciplinary Methods Workshop

All students are invited to join American Studies graduate students as they share insights into their research, interdisciplinary methods, and the academic journeys that led to their graduate work.
Panelists Include: Ever Osorio Ruiz, Aanchal Saraf, Maria (MJ) Plascencia, and Candace Borders.
The discussion will cover a broad range of methods including:
visual & cultural studies
geography
Black feminist theory
oral history
ethnography
public humanities

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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