UPCOMING LECTURES & READINGS

The Linguists
Film screening followed by a discussion with David Harrison,
linguist featured in the film.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 6:00 p.m.
Location: Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street
Half of the world’s languages are on the verge of extinction. Who will record them before they are gone?
David Harrison and Greg Anderson are scientists consumed with documenting endangered languages. In Siberia, India, and Bolivia, the linguists confront head-on the very forces silencing languages: institutionalized racism and violent economic unrest. Their journey takes them deep into the heart of the cultures, knowledge, and communities at stake.
To view a trailer of the film, visit www.thelinguists.com.
PDF file of event announcement.
Co-sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Department of Linguistics.
For more information: 203-432-2969

Joy Harjo, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
Co-Sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series and the Native American Cultural Center
Location: Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
For more information, visit: http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/readings-at-beinecke

Jeremy Black, Lecture
Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
"The Grand Tour as Literary Production"
Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book Series
Location: Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street
Contact: kathryn.james@yale.edu

Christine Petto, Lecture
Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
"The Lion and the Lily: Power and Cartography in Early Modern England and France"
Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: kathryn.james@yale.edu

Donald Hall, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
For more information, visit: http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/readings-at-beinecke

Walter Cahn, Lecture
Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
"The Medieval Title Page"
Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: kathryn.james@yale.edu

Karl Kroeger, Lecture
Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 5:15 p.m.
"A Portrait of Daniel Read"
A lecture with musical examples in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel Read (1757-1836). Read was a composer, tunebook compiler, singing master, combmaker (!), and merchant, who lived and worked in New Haven for most of his adult life. Musicologist Karl Kroeger, who prepared the scholarly edition of Daniel Read's Collected Works for A-R Editions, will speak about Read's life and work. His talk will be illustrated by selections of Read's music, performed by singers from the Yale Camarata, directed by Marguerite Brooks. The lecture is complemented by the exhibition "Daniel Read and the Flowering of Sacred Music in New Haven," on view at the Beinecke Library through January 9, 2008. This event is co-sponsored by the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library and the Beinecke Library.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information: 203-432-2969

Frank Bidart, Poetry Reading
Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Co-Sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series and the Department of English
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
For more information, visit: http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/readings-at-beinecke

Graham Foust and Elizabeth Robinson, Poetry Reading
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
For more information, visit: http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/readings-at-beinecke

Bryn Savage, Remarks
Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 5:00 p.m.
Remarks by Bryn Savage, Yale graduate student and curator of the exhibition "Creating Germany’s National Myth: The Nibelungenlied and its Homerian Context"
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information: 203-432-2969

Catherine Delano-Smith, Lecture
Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
"'Take thee a tile . . . and portray upon it the city' (Ezechiel 4): Maps in medieval exegesis"
Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: kathryn.james@yale.edu

Christian Bök, Poetry Reading
Thursday, November 1, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Co-Sponsored by the Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection and the Beinecke Library-Whitney Humanities Center Working Group in Contemporary Poetry
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: timothy.young@yale.edu
For more information, visit: http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/readings-at-beinecke

David Plowden, Lecture
Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 5:30 p.m.
"Vanishing Point: Reflections on 50 Years of Photography"
David Plowden is the author of The Hand of Man on America and A Handful of Dust: Photographs of Disappearing America. For more information and examples of his work, please visit www.davidplowden.com
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information: 203-432-2969

Charles Bernstein, Poetry Reading
Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
For more information, visit: http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/readings-at-beinecke

Paul Needham, Lecture
Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
"Blockbooks and the earliest incunable book illustration"
Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: kathryn.james@yale.edu

Sarah Knight, Lecture
Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 5:15 p.m.
"'‘Gloriose pompe e' fieri ludi': Italian festival books in context"
A lecture on the occasion of the opening for the exhibition "Celebrating Italian Festivals"
For more information: 203-432-2969

Yusef Komunyakaa, Poetry Reading
Thursday, September 20, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
For more information, visit: http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/readings-at-beinecke

David Richards, Remarks
Friday, September 14, 2007, 5:15 p.m.
Remarks by David Richards, curator of the exhibition "Rudyard Kipling: The Books I Leave Behind"
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information: 203-432-2969

Yale University Student Poets
Wednesday, April 25, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Ron Padgett, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Joel Oppenheimer, Lecture
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 5:00 p.m.
"John James Audubon, His Life and His Art"
Joel Oppenheimer will discuss Audubon's life, the different editions of Birds of America, and how the evolution of printing techniques influenced his art. The lecture will reveal previously unknown information about Audubon's original paintings and contrast those images with printed versions of the birds. Finally, Oppenheimer will address the market for Audubon's work both historically and today.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information: 203-432-2969

Maria Tatar, Lecture
Thursday, March 8, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
"Beauty and Ignition Power: Can Fairy Tales Change Us?"
The 2007 Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature Lecture will be presented by Maria Tatar, Harvard College Professor and John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She is the author of books on the Brothers Grimm (The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales and The Annotated Brothers Grimm), on fairy tales (Off with Their Heads!), and on the Bluebeard legend (Secrets beyond the Door).
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information: 203-432-2969

Nathaniel Tarn, Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 22, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Sponsored by the Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Terrance Hayes and Major Jackson, Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 1, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Co-sponsored by the African American Studies Department
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Natasha Trethewey, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Co-sponsored by the African American Studies Program
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Meredith McGill, Lecture
Thursday, November 2, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
"Poetry in Motion: Lyric Circulation in the Antebellum U.S."
Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: kathryn.james@yale.edu

Laura Engelstein, Lecture
Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
"Russian Political Art of the 1905 Revolution"
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information: rebecca.martz@yale.edu or 203.432.2969

Fanny Howe, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Simon Eliot, Lecture
Thursday, October 5, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
"Recovering the Contents: Public, Circulating and Pornographic Libraries in the UK 1857-1912"
Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: kathryn.james@yale.edu

John Ashbery, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, September 20, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm Streets
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

A Talk by Terry Tempest Williams
Friday, May 5, 2006, 4:30 p.m.
Battell Chapel
corner of College and Elm Streets
For more information call: 203.432.2969

Emanuel Hocquard and Keith Waldrop, Reading
Tuesday, May 2, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the French Department
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: timothy.young@yale.edu

Yale University Student Poets
Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Leonard Marcus, Lecture
Thursday, March 30, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
"Charlotte’s Other Web: Children's Books and their History," the 2006 Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature Lecture
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964

James Green, Lecture
Thursday, March 23, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964

Elizabeth Alexander and Matthea Harvey, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Claudia Rankine, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Cole Swensen, Poetry Reading
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Kwame Davis and Marilyn Nelson, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964

Peter Gizzi, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, October 26, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Michel DeGuy, Poetry Reading
Monday, October 3, 2005, 4:30 p.m.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964

Sherman Alexie, Poetry Reading
Friday, September 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Allison Joseph, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Morris Cohen, Lecture
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
"Reading on Vacation: Tauchnitz Reprints of English and American Authors"
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964

Yale University Student Poets
Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Ellis Schookman, Lecture
Thursday, March 31, 2005, 4:30 p.m.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964

Rodrigo Toscano and Elizabeth Willis, Poetry Reading
Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

James Longenbach and Carl Phillips, Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 10, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964

Joseph Miller, Lecture
Monday, February 7, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
"The Problem of Slavery as History"
This was the first annual David Brion Davis Lecture Series in the History of Slavery, Race, and its Legacies, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964

Arthur Sze, Poetry Reading
Tuesday, January 18, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu