| Library Projects
and Activities in or about...
LATIN AMERICA
AND CARIBBEANS
VERBIVOCOVISUAL: brazilian concrete poetry
Presented
on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the First National
Exhibition of Concrete Art in 1956, verbivocovisual: brazilian
concrete poetry draws from rare examples of Brazilian concrete
poetry in the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library and Sterling Memorial Library. Many of the objects on display
were donated by the Brazilian concrete poet Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003)
in 1978, when he was a visiting professor at Yale University. The
exhibition is dedicated to his memory. More...
Sterling Memorial Library Exhibition,
October 31 - November 30, 2006
Contact: Cesar
Rodriguez, Curator, Latin American Collection
TAKING
POSSESSION: Imperial Encounters and Re-encounters with Native
Meso-America
An exhibition
of Yale's resources for the study of 16th-century encounters
among Europeans and the indigenous peoples of Meso-America and
of the early 19th-century re-emergence among European and North
American writers of an interest in understanding the culture
and history of Aztec, Olmec, and Mayan communities. The exhibition
features the Codex Reese, a mid-16th-century manuscript map of
the Valley of Mexico that incorporates Nahuatl and Spanish elements.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition,
September 15 - December 21, 2006
Mapping
the Worlds of Sixteenth-Centruy Mexico
The symposium addresses a broad range of topics
relevant to studies of the early colonial period in Central Mexico,
including the changing politics of land usage, the role of women
in society, and the place of religious institutions in the Nahua-Christian
world, while also examining related manuscripts from sixteenth-century
Mexico and their social, cultural, and visual contexts.
Sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies of
the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and
Area Studies at Yale, and the Department of the History of Art.
Time frame: September 15-16, 2006
Donation of ATLA Religion
Database CD to United Theological College of the West Indies
Yale Divinity Library orders, receives,
pays for, and re-ships a duplicate copy of the annual ATLA
Religion Database on CD-ROM to the United Theological College
of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
Time frame: 2001
Contact: Rolfe
Gjellstad, Serials
and Preservation Librarian, Divinity Library; Paul
Stuehrenberg, Divinity Librarian
Latin
American Microform Project (LAMP)
The Latin American Microform Project (LAMP)
was established in 1975 to acquire, preserve and maintain for
its subscribers microform collections of unique, scarce, rare
and/or bulky and voluminous research materials pertaining to
Latin America. The Project emphasizes original filming, though
it may also purchase existing microfilm. The Project conducts
its activities on the basis of annual subscription fees, plus
outside resources including grant funds as appropriate.LAMP has
conducted projects in cooperation with Latin American repositories
and is devoting greater attention to filming primary source materials
such as political archives. While its holdings are widely representative
of the region, LAMP's Brazilian materials, annual ministerial
reports from all countries and Haitian imprints are particularly
extensive. LAMP has digitized a substantial body of Brazilian
materials already in microform, as a means of expanding access.
Time frame: 1975 onward
Contact: Cesar
Rodriguez, Curator, Latin American Collection
Back to Top
|
