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REMEMBERING
HUNGARY: October 23-November 4, 1956-2006
This
October, Hungary will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the
1956 revolution. On October 23, 1956, Hungarian citizens faced
the brute force of their totalitarian regime demanding accountability,
justice, and autonomy. The revolution culminated in the appointment
of a new cabinet, calling for free elections and withdrawal of
Soviet troops. Victory was glorious, if fleeting: in a few weeks,
Hungary suffered defeat from a large scale Soviet military intervention,
the Communist single-party system was restored, and Hungary's
status was confirmed again as a state in the Soviet sphere of
influence. The Slavic and East European Collection has arranged
a small exhibit of books, images, and documents to commemorate
this exceptional course of events.
Sterling Memorial Library Exhibition,
October 1 - December 31, 2006
Contact: Tatjana
Lorković, Curator, Slavic and East European
Collection
RUSSIAN GRAPHIC ART AND THE REVOLUTION
OF 1905
A brilliant window onto the creative flourish
of fin-de-sicle artists, radicals, and the literary avant-garde
in Tsarist Russia tenuously opened when censorship collapsed for
a brief time in the midst of the revolutionary upheaval of 1905.
Drawing on a newly acquired collection of literary and satirical
magazines, this exhibition highlights the work of graphic artists
who rushed to fill the expressive void with powerful imagery of
anguish and defiance, at once dark and colorful.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition,
September 15, 2006 - mid-January 2007
CROATIA: Themes,
Authors, Books
Slightly smaller than West Virginia and shaped like a boomerang
swinging from the Adriatic Sea to Hungary and Serbia, Croatia served
for centuries as a crossroads between North and South, East and
West; between Central Europe and the Mediterranean world, Christianity
and Islam, science and religion, enlightenment and obscurantism,
and modernity and tradition.
Selected and arranged by Tatjana Lorković,
curator of the Slavic and East European Collections and a native
of Croatia, the exhibition brings together a wealth of materials
in a variety of formats (maps, manuscript and printed books and
photographs) and disciplines (history and geography, linguistics
and literature, religion, travel, astronomy, chemistry, medicine,
neurophysiology and more), and from a number of Yale repositories
(including the Arts Library, the Maps Collection, the Medical Historical
Library, and the Slavic and East European Collections).
Sterling Memorial Library Exhibition, August -
October 31, 2006 Contact: Tatjana
Lorković, Curator, Slavic and East European Collection
FROM PRODIGY TO LEGEND:
250 Years of Mozart brings together a remarkable assemblage
of materials from the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, the Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and Sterling Memorial Library.
Highlights include a complete gavotte in Mozart’s hand
as well as a fragmentary trumpet part and an envelope’s
in Mozart’s hand.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition,
January 17 – March 31, 2006
A BOOK OF HER OWN
Books tell us many things beyond what their authors write in them. Single
copies of books, for instance, often reveal their particular history-who
owned them, who read them, who gave them as gifts, how they changed hands
over the years. The current Beinecke Library exhibition, A Book of Her Own,
explores an unusual aspect of book history: all of the books in the display,
based on various sorts of evidence contained in the books, were owned by
women before the year 1700. The exhibition includes some of the Beinecke
Library's most richly illuminated medieval manuscripts, such as Christine
de Pisan's Livre des toirs virtues (France, 15th century), shown
here.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Exhibition, November 1, 2005–January 31, 2006
Contact: Robert
Babcock, Curator, Early Books and Manuscripts
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
To mark the 200th anniversary of Schiller’s
death, the library presented an exhibition that included first
editions of Schiller’s works, musical settings of texts
by Schiller, and evidence of his reception in the English-speaking
world, including books, playbills, chapbooks, and ephemera.
Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition ,
November - December 2005
DON QUIXOTE IN THE BEINECKE LIBRARY
This exhibition showed the profound impact
that this truly novel novel had on world literature, drama,
and the public imagination. On display were first editions
of Don Quixote in Spanish, important translations, illustrations
for deluxe versions, and adapted texts.
Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition ,
September - October 2005
BOOKS
IN 19th AND EARLY
20th CENTURY GERMANY
In Central Europe, the tradition of children's
literature developed out of 17th-century utopian aspirations, and
throughout the 19th century illustrated books were considered a crucial
means of socialization and political education. Illustrated fairy
tales, both those collected by the Brothers Grimm and those composed
by 19th- and early 20th-century authors are among the many examples
of illustrated works produced during this time, some of which are
on display in the exhibit. Some other examples on display include
educational picture books, sentimental and instructive material, and
the classic children's story Struwwelpeter, with its alternately
punitive and moralizing content. The display concludes with the efflorescence
of picture books during the early decades of the 20th century and
considers the overlaps between visual modernism and children's literature.
Sterling Memorial Library Exhibition, August
- October 2005
Contact: Jae
Rossman, Curator, Arts of the
Book Collection
THE STOLEN TEXTS OF MOLIÈRE
This exhibition examines how seventeeth-century
publishers pirated, plagiarized, and mis-appropriated Molière's
plays. Drawing on the Walter L. Pforzheimer Molière
Collection, it will feature rare first editions displayed
alongside even rarer counterfeit editions. The exhibition
traces the production and distribution of these illegal copies.
There will be a lecture in conjunction with the opening of
this exhibit.
Beinecke Rare
Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition, July -
August 2005
MY
HEART IN COMPANY: The Work of J. M. Barrie and the Birth of
Peter Pan
The life and work of James Matthew Barrie, the creator
of Peter Pan, will be highlighted in an exhibition at the Beinecke Rare
Book and Manuscript Library in early 2005. On view will be original manuscripts,
photographs, documents detailing the influence of the young Llewelyn Davies
brothers on the creation of Peter Pan, and artifacts, including Barrie's
key to Kensington Gardens. More...
Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition ,
February 3 - April 23, 2005
Contact: Timothy
Young, Associate
Curator of Modern Books and Literature
JERZY GROTOWSKI
AND HIS LABORATORY THEATER
The exhibit presents the life
and work of Polish director Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999),
creator of the experimental Laboratory Theatre in Poland
in the early sixties. Three striking posters from the
Laboratory Theatre's exemplary productions presented in
New York in 1969 are the inspiration for this exhibition.
Grotowski's concept of a "poor theatre" and his techniques
for training actors had a major impact on theater worldwide.
Arts and Architecture Library
Exhibition, February-April 2005
Contact: Teresa
Mensz,
Drama Library
THE BELGIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK:
1918-2004
Organized at Sterling Memorial Library and
jointly sponsored by the Arts of the Book Collection, Yale University
Library; the Departments of French and Comparative Literature;
Le Commissariat Général des Relations Internationales
(Belgium); and Les Musée de la Littérature (Bibliothèque
Royale Albert Ier), the exhibition explores the evolution and
flourishing of illustrated books in the Flemish and French-speaking
regions of Belgium and pays special attention to the astonishing
development of the bande dessinée (comic strip or book)
in Belgium during the twentieth-century. More...
Sterling Memorial Library Exhibition
(February
4-29, 2005) and Symposium (February
4, 2005)
Contact: Jae
Rossman, Curator, Arts of the
Book Collection
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE:
Legend and Legacies
This exhibit traces the history and development
of the 20th century illustrated book in Belgium from Frans Masereel
and Herge to contemporary publications.
Sterling
Memorial Library Exhibition, December 15, 2004 - January 31,
2005
Contact: Susanne
Roberts, Librarian for
European History, Coordinator of Humanities Collections
CENTENARY OF WITOLD
GOMBROWICZ
Beinecke Library celebrates the centenary
of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) with an exhibition
drawn from his papers and library, acquired by Yale in 1998.
Gombrowicz, playwright, diarist, and author of several novels,
including Ferdydurke which Susan Sontag has called "one
of the most important overlooked books of the 20th Century," was
born in Poland on August 4, 1904. During his 24 years of exile
in Argentina, he explored themes of identity and alienation
in such works as the novel Trans-Atlantyk and the plays "Slub" [Marriage]
and "Operetka" [Operetta]. After leaving Argentina in 1963,
Gombrowicz settled in the south of France, where he continued
his writing, winning the International Prize for Literature
in 1967 for his novel Cosmos as well as a nomination
for the Nobel Prize. Gombrowicz, who died in July 1969, remains
a powerful voice in modern European literature, though he is
little known in America. The Yale University Press issued a
new translation of his novel, Ferdydurke in 2000. On
display are original manuscripts by Gombrowicz, rare editions
of his publications, pages of his diaries, and photographs showing
the writer throughout his life.
Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition,
October 22, 2004 - January 15, 2005
A
MEMORIAL TO THE MURDERED JEWS OF EUROPE
The German Bundestag passed a resolution on
June 25, 1999 to build a Memorial
to the Murdered Jews of Europe in the center of Berlin, in the immediate vicinity of the Brandenburg
Gate and the Reichstag building. The site includes an Information
Center part of which will present testimonies from the Fortunoff
Video Archive. The testimonies will be presented in an edited
form and excerpts from them may also be included in thematic programs,
as well as a CD Rom will which will prepare students from throughout
Germany to visit the Memorial. The unedited testimonies will be
available for researchers offsite in the offices of the Memorial.
Funding for the project was received from Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
Time frame: 2005
Contact: Joanne
W. Rudof, Archivist, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust
Testimonies
JOHN LOCKE
This exhibition addresses the history and the posthumous legacy of each of
Locke's major works, in Europe, the Americas, and around the world over
the past 300 years. The exhibition also traces Locke's career, his intellectual
circle, and literary legacy in dozens of printed and annotated books, manuscripts,
and historical artifacts.
Beinecke Rare
Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition, thorugh
December 22, 2004
TO THESE SHORES
A survey of the Yale Collection of German
Literature, focusing on how it was formed and grew over the last
century. Collectors, booksellers, scholars, and librarians interacting
with historical forces, such as immigration, exile, and the effects
of both World Wars, resulted in a unique collection of literary
books and manuscripts in German. In conjunction with the 45th
annual Preconference of the Rare Book & Manuscript Section of the Association
of College & Research Libraries, June 21-24 in New Haven, which takes
as its theme the acquisition of foreign collections.
Beinecke Rare
Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition, June
21-September, 2004
Contact: Christa
Sammons,
Curator, Collection of German Literature
MEDICINE
CARICATURED: British Satirical Prints of the Late 18th and
Early 19th Centuries
This exhibit of British satirical prints from the Clements C. Fry Prints and
Drawings Collection was prepared by Susan Wheeler in conjunction with the Yale
Symposium, The Art in Medicine:
Image-Making and Communication. Each case explores a different facet
of medical prints as media of communication.
Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library
Exhibition, April 14 - April 28 and May 4 through June 9, 2004
Contact: Toby
Appel, Historical Medical Librarian
ST.
PETERSBURG: A PORTRAIT OF A GREAT CITY
Books, manuscripts, prints, and photographs document
the role of St. Petersburg as a cultural, artistic, and literary center
from its founding through the Second World War. The exhibition looks
at St. Petersburg through the eyes of non-Russian travelers, while
including such Russian artifacts as the library's renowned Romanov
albums and the recently acquired manuscript of Anna Akhmatova's "Poema
bez geroia" (Poem without a hero). More...
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition,
through January 17, 2004
MARIE
CURIE, RADIOACTIVITY, AND THE EMERGING NEW PHYSICS: The
Extraordinary Career of a Woman Scientist
This online exhibit samples some of the images from an exhibition in the Cushing
Rotunda commemorating the Centennial of the announcement of the Nobel Prize
in Physics to Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel in October 1903..
Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical
Library Exhibition, November 4, 2003 - March
15, 2004 Contact: Toby
Appel, Historical Medical Librarian
BERGEN
BELSEN MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM VIDEOTESTIMONY PROJECT
A partnership to videotape Bergen-Belsen witnesses
and survivors as well as utilize existing testimonies for inclusion
in the expanded museum under construction. Located in a remote section
of Lower Saxony, in Germany, the Memorial and Museum has over 160,000
visitors a year. The Bergen-Belsen
Memorial and Museum is currently
an independent foundation financed by both the state of Lower Saxony
and the German Federal government. This transition provides more
funding that is being used to expand the present museum which is
quite small. An international competition was held to choose the
architectural design and construction is expected to be complete
in summer 2007. They have been collecting artifacts for years for
inclusion in the permanent exhibit and believe the best way to bring
the objects to life is through the words of the survivors and witnesses.
We are jointly recording new testimonies in partnership with Bergen-Belsen
and they are identifying testimonies from our collection that will
be used for the exhibit. The exhibit plans maximize the inclusion
of testimonies in creative and innovative displays intended for
all ages of viewers. Classroom facilities will also utilize testimonies
and there will be a research facility as well.
Time frame: 2004
Contact: Joanne
W. Rudof, Archivist, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust
Testimonies
THE
BUXHEIM LIBRARY
The Web site represents an attempt to recreate
virtually a fifteenth-century library. The library once present
at the Carthusian monastery of Buxheim, Germany, was one of the
largest of its kind. The manuscripts now reside in over fifty
libraries across Europe and North America, and some remain in
private hands. Many remain unlocated or unidentified since their
sale and dispersion at auction in 1883. This project will, over
the next several years, bring these manuscripts together again,
if only in the form of interactive catalogs and databases. The
project will take many years to realize, but it is hoped that
the current pages will give you an idea of what value such a concept
can have for our understanding of late medieval and early modern
librarianship and codicology.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Exhibition, November - December 2003
Contact: Robert
Babcock, Curator of Early
Books and Manuscripts
SLAVIC
AND EAST EUROEPAN MICROFORM PROJECT (SEEMP)
The purpose of the project is to acquire
microform copies of unique, scarce, rare and/or unusually
bulky and expensive research material pertaining to the
field of Slavic and East European studies; and to preserve
deteriorating printed and manuscript materials of scholarly
value. Curator Tajana Lorkovic chaired the program in 2002-2004
and continues to be a member. Geographically its areas of
interest include the countries of Eastern and Central Europe
(Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia & Hercegovina,
Croatia, Czech Repbulic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine), Russia, the Transcaucasian countries
(Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), and the Central Asian countries
that were formerly part of the Soviet Union (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan).
Time frame: 1995 onward
Contact: Tatjana
Lorković, Curator, Slavic and East European Collection
SLAVIC
AND EAST EUROPEAN COLLECTION LIBRARY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Started by the Slavic and East European Collection (SEEC) in 1993, this is the
oldest and most seasoned fellowship program at the Yale Library. It brings
one library professional from Eastern Europe and former Yugoslavia every year,
for a four-month period coinciding with the fall semester. The first 14 fellows
came from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine. Funding for this program has been provided
by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant (1993-1995), the Chopivsky
Family Fund (1996-1997), the Open Society Institute (1999), and the Keggi
Foundation (2000-).
Time frame: 1993 onward
Contact: Tatjana
Lorković, Curator, Slavic and East European Collection
FONDATION AUSCHWITZ TESTIMONY
PROJECT AND INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Since 1992, Fondation
Auschwitz has been an affiliate
project, videotaping survivor and witness testimony in Belgium and
sending copies to the Fortunoff Video Archive. They are our only
European affiliate project which continues to actively video testimonies.
They have sent us 219 testimonies many of which range from five
to fifteen hours. The Fondation publishes an international journal:
Etudes sur le témoignage audiovisual des victims des crimes
et génocides nazis – Studies on the audio-visual testimony
of victims of the Nazi crimes and genocides, Geoffrey Hartman and
Joanne Rudof of the Fortunoff Video Archive are on the editorial
board and have contributed articles. The essays are published in
the language of submission which include English, French, and German.
Time frame: 1992 onward
Contact: Joanne
W. Rudof, Archivist, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust
Testimonies
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