LECTURE
Winter Lecture Series: Connecticut River during the Revolution at Essex Meadows
Essex Meadows 30 Bokum Rd, EssexJoin your friends and neighbors with the return of Essex Historical Society’s (EHS) popular Winter Lecture Series, hosted by our partners at Essex Meadows. This year’s theme highlights the American Revolution. The series concludes on Sunday, January 19, at 3pm with "A Family at War: Colonel Jedediah Huntington and Faith (Trumbull) Huntington at the Outset […]
Mariners, Patriotism and Revolution. Tars on the Thames at Lyman Allyn Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonNew London County Historical Society, Lyman Allyn Art Museum and Thames River Heritage Park Foundation are pleased to present the 2025 lecture series – Seeds of Revolution on the Thames and Beyond. Events that seeded discontent and revolution along with the social, cultural, political, economic and ecological influences and their impact and influence on life […]
Lecture: “August Wilson in Waterford, 1982-2002” at Charles E. Shain Library Connecticut College
Charles E. Shain Library 270 Mohegan Ave, New LondonThe lecture will explore August Wilson’s place in the American theater and Wilson’s connections with New London and the O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. This lecture will provide audience members with a greater appreciation of August Wilson and insight into The Acting Company’s performance of Wilson’s Two Trains Running on Friday, February 7. Herman D. Farrell, […]
2025 Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Lecture at Southern State
Southern Connecticut State University 501 Crescent Street, New HavenThe annual MLK Unity Lecture provides an opportunity for the campus community and the general opportunity to celebrate the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The event will feature a keynote address by David W. Robinson-Morris, Ph.D. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to listen to Dr. Robinson-Morris’s keynote address, “A Time for Reflection & […]
Geology, Decrees and Deposits – Connecticut Unrest Beyond the Thames at Lyman Allyn Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonNew London County Historical Society, Lyman Allyn Art Museum and Thames River Heritage Park Foundation are pleased to present the 2025 lecture series – Seeds of Revolution on the Thames and Beyond. Events that seeded discontent and revolution along with the social, cultural, political, economic and ecological influences and their impact and influence on life […]
Lecture:Thrown Upon the World and No Place to Stay: Reconsidering the Neue Sachlichkeit at Wesleyan
Boger Hall Wesleyan 41 Wyllys Avenue, MiddletownSabine Kriebel, Senior Lecturer, History of Art, University College Cork, Ireland The year 2025 marks the centenary of the “Die Neue Sachlichkeit” exhibition curated by Gustav Hartlaub, which gave the signature aesthetic movement of Weimar Germany its name. Variously translated as “The New Objectivity” or “The New Sobriety,” it swiftly became a buzzword of mid- to late- […]
Artist Lecture with YING LI, PAINTER at WCSU Gallery
Visual & Performing Arts Center WCSU Art Gallery 43 Lake Ave Extension, DanburyFree & Open to the Public, Limited Seating Available Ying Li was born in Beijing, China, and studied traditional landscape painting at Anhui Normal University, where she received her BFA and then taught for six years. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1983 and received her MFA from Parsons School of Design. She lives and […]
Lecture Series: Coastal Perspectives: The Case for Human / Coastal Shorebird Coexistence: Why the Public Cultures of Shorelines Matter for Equitable Climate Resilience
Avery Point Auditorium 1084 Shennecossett Road, GrotonBryce DuBois, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of New Haven and Coordinator of the M.A. Program in Marine Policy and Management Beaches, the foreshore, are legally defined as public land owned by no one. As one of few spaces with such legal protections, they afford coastal communities a uniquely protected public […]
Lecture Series: Coastal Perspectives: Whalemen Go Down from the North: The History of the North American Whale Hunt in the South Atlantic, Especially in Brazilian Cost. 1760 to 1850
Avery Point Auditorium 1084 Shennecossett Road, GrotonWellington Castellucci Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Human Science at the Universidade do Estado da Bahia & Assistant Professor of Latin American History at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia, Brazil Biography: Wellington Castellucci Junior is a Professor of Human Science at the Universidade do Estado da Bahia and an Assistant Professor of Latin […]
Equal, Enslaved, Marginalized – Seeds of Emancipation and Abolition on the Thames at Lyman Allyn Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonNew London County Historical Society, Lyman Allyn Art Museum and Thames River Heritage Park Foundation are pleased to present the 2025 lecture series – Seeds of Revolution on the Thames and Beyond. Events that seeded discontent and revolution along with the social, cultural, political, economic and ecological influences and their impact and influence on life […]
Lecture Series: Coastal Perspectives: Traditional Rigging in the 21st Century
Avery Point Auditorium 1084 Shennecossett Road, GrotonCourtney J. Andersen Courtney Andersen will explore the evolution of sailing ship materials and designs over the pre-Industrial age, and then illustrate how rapidly materials have changed after WW2, as synthetics took over the industry. He will discuss what this means for today’s riggers. Using various museum ships and movie sets as examples, he will […]
The Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series —”Nature and the Environment” at UCONN Storrs
Dodd Center for Human Rights 405 Babbidge Rd Unit 1205, StorrsThe Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series —"Nature and the Environment" — honors the legacy of a prominent American naturalist, photographer, and writer who helped bridge the gap between the conservation and ecological movements of the 20th century. All lectures are free, open to the public, and unless otherwise noted held at 4 p.m. in the […]