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Inside the World of Hummingbirds with CT Audubon’s Joe Attwater at the Guilford Free Library
Guilford Free Library 67 Park Street, GuilfordHummingbirds are the smallest and most brilliantly colored birds in the world and are among the most loved and most sought-after species. Given their diminutive size and rapid flight, they are also among the most difficult to observe, and the lives and behaviors of many species are relatively unknown. Join CT Audubon Society’s Joe Attwater, […]
Opening Night Lecture: For Which It Stands… at Fairfield University Art Museum
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldOpening Night Lecture: For Which It Stands... Aaron Weinstein, PhD, Assistant Professor, Politics, Fairfield University, and Exhibition Faculty Liaison Quick Center for the Arts, Kelley Theatre, and streaming Dr. Weinstein’s talk explores the complex role of the U.S. flag in America’s “civil religion,” examining how its meaning shifts based on context, political use, and personal interpretation. […]
Lectuire: Yale Whitney Humanities Center: Gojko Barjamovic: Swords, Germs, and Tin
Whitney Humanities Center 320 York Street, New HavenFranke Program in Science & the Humanities Combined advances in archaeological science and the field of history allows a retelling of the cross-continental exchange system that connected Mongolia to the Mediterranean four thousand years ago. The talk integrates isotopic analysis, archaeozoology, prosopographical studies, historical geography, material culture, and human pathology to paint a picture of […]
Lawrence Lecture: “Reckoning with the US Empire” at Charles E. Shain Library Connecticut College
CONN College Olin Science Center 270 Mohegan Ave Pkwy, New LondonMoon-Ho Jung is the Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies in the Department of History at the University of Washington. He is the author of Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (2022), named one of Smithsonian Magazine’s Favorite Books of 2022. In Menace to Empire, Jung examines how the modern […]
“Hernándo Colón and the Total Library” at Beinecke Library at Yale
Beinecke Library 121 Wall Street, New HavenThis lecture brings together scholars Matilde Malaspina (University of Copenhagen) and Seth Kimmel (Columbia University), who will present new perspectives on the monumental 2019 discovery of the long-lost manuscript copy of Hernando Colón’s 16th-century Libro de los epitomes in the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection at the University of Copenhagen. The manuscript is just one of various bibliographic tools […]
Tanner Lectures at Yale: Whitney Humanities Center: Government by Machine Jill Lepore
Whitney Humanities Center 320 York Street, New HavenTwo Lectures: Feb. 4, Government by Machine Feb. 5, What Robots Want Jill Lepore’s 2026 Tanner Lectures on Human Values are an inquiry into what humans mean and intend—to think what we are doing—in abandoning constitutional democracy and the liberal nation-state for rule by automation and government by machine. Much in history is headlong but […]
Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel: Up and Down the River: A Mohegan History Film for America 250 at Lyman Allyn Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonThis year’s theme is Freedom: The Victories, Promises, and Potentials of 1776. The speakers will explore the meaning of freedom in America, examining its historical implications for various segments of society, all from a local perspective. The plot of Up and Down the River follows the challenges faced by the Mohegan people, especially tribal women, living along the Massapequotuck (now called Thames) as […]
$15 – $20Grace Farms Lectures | Dr. Miroslav Volf
Grace Farms 365 Lukes Wood Road, New CanaanFounding Director of Yale Center for Faith & Culture and one of the most significant theologians of our time, Dr. Miroslav Volf will create the opportunity to pause and consider the question: what is a life worth living? He will explore the global human need for grace, forgiveness and true generosity, and how the systems we depend […]
Free – $60Scott Rothkopf “The Whitney Museum of American Art: A New Paradigm for Artists and Audiences” at The Quick Center in Fairfield
Charles Dolan School of Business 1073 N Benson Rd, FairfieldPhilip I. Eliasoph Open VISIONS Forum Scott Rothkopf became the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum in November 2023. Rothkopf first joined the Whitney as a curator in 2009 and was promoted to Curator and Associate Director of Programs in 2012. Following the opening of the new building in 2015, he was appointed […]
$25 – $35Jim Sciutto “Reporting Foreign Affairs: How Does It Impact the USA?” at The Quick Center in Fairfield
Charles Dolan School of Business 1073 N Benson Rd, FairfieldPhilip I. Eliasoph Open VISIONS Forum Jim Sciutto is CNN’s chief national security analyst and anchor of The Brief with Jim Sciutto weekdays on CNN International and CNN Max. Sciutto reports and provides analysis on all aspects of U.S. national security including foreign policy, the military, intelligence community, and the State Department. Throughout his career, he has […]
$25 – $35Lecture: Beyond the Wine-Dark Sea: Sardis between East and West at Fairfield University
Aloysius P. Kelley Center Loyola Drive, FairfieldJoin us for a talk by Alexis Belis, Associate Curator of Greek and Roman Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art! In a lecture on Tuesday, February 24th in the Kelley Center's Presentation Room, Alexis Belis, PhD, Associate Curator of Greek and Roman Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will explore new discoveries and […]
Marvin Espy: The African American Perspective of Celebrating the 250th at Lyman Allyn Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonThis year’s theme is Freedom: The Victories, Promises, and Potentials of 1776. The speakers will explore the meaning of freedom in America, examining its historical implications for various segments of society, all from a local perspective. Understand the African American perspective of the promises and potential of the freedom offered in the Declaration of Independence, particularly through the lens of Juneteenth […]
$15 – $20
