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Talk: Lafayette in Norwalk: The Farewell Tour 1824-25
Norwalk Town House Museum 2 East Wall Street, NorwalkCommemorating the Marquis de Lafayette’s 1824 visit to Norwalk As a part of Lafayette’s Bicentennial Tour of Connecticut, the Norwalk Historical Society is collaborating with the Connecticut Bicentennial Committee to present Lafayette in Norwalk as part of The Connecticut Lafayette Trail, which is devoted to presenting information on the life of Marquis de Lafayette, his aid to America […]
Exhibition Opening Lecture: To Live One’s Life as a Work of Art at Yale
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New HavenIn the closing decades of the 19th century, artists like John Singer Sargent, Edwin Austin Abbey, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens created drawings and sketches that hearkened back to the Italian Renaissance. The men depicted in these studies exist as descendants of Michelangelo’s muscular figures, while the women have been transformed into spiritualized and ethereal beings. The […]
Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall/Virtual Author Talk with Christophe Lebold
Avon Free Public Library 281 Country Club Rd, AvonJoin us for a virtual event with Christophe Lebold, to discuss his new book, Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall. This event will be moderated by Amy Weiss, Director, Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, and Tina Panik, Avon Library. About the book: Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall […]
Yale Windham-Campbell Prizes for Literature Fall Festival 2024
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New HavenTuesday, September 17 through Friday, September 20, 2024The fall festival showcases the extraordinary range of talent across the Windham-Campbell Prizes with a series of thought-provoking lectures, panel discussions, workshops, and performances from this year’s recipients. The festival also features a keynote lecture by internationally renowned writer and translator Lydia Davis and the return of our […]
Live from the Boathouse! A Place Called Hope presents Think Outside the Bait Box at Connecticut River Museum
Connecticut River Museum 67 Main Street, Essex, CTRodenticide and similar poisons may seem like an effective method of pest control, but they pose real dangers to us, our pets and to wildlife – including bald eagles! Join Christine Cummings from A Place Called Hope (a Raptor Rehabilitation and Education Center based in Killingworth, CT) and Nicole Rivard from Friends of Animals for […]
James Kuslan: Barber of Seville: Opera Lecture at Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library
Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library 2 Library Lane, Old LymeThe title of the talk is The Barber of Seville's Close Shaves. In addition to briefly describing the plot, James will discuss Figaro's embodiment of revolutionary aspirations against the ancien régime and Rossini's own aspirations to compose serious music in addition to the opera buffa that made him famous, Barber being foremost amongst those. To RSVP contact Salt Marsh Opera: info@SaltMarshOpera.org […]
William Saunders & His World- Hartford History Lecture Series
Connecticut’s Old State House 800 Main St, HartfordDr. Fiona Vernal, UConn History Department For three generations, the Saunders family operated a successful and innovative tailor business in the city of Hartford, eventually establishing a reputation as Black merchant tailors with deep ties in Hartford’s Black and white communities. Their network stretched from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York to Barbados and France. This […]
Connecticut’s Old State House: Historic Firsts: The 2024 Presidential Election
Connecticut’s Old State House 800 Main St, HartfordWhat is the significance of the Nov. 5, 2024 election in US history and politics? What should voters pay attention to as they vote? Three distinguished experts from the University of Connecticut will discuss these issues and answer questions about the upcoming election. Panelists: Evelyn M. Simien is Professor of Political Science and the Director […]
“Hot Summers in the City: Hartford’s Urban Unrest, 1967-1969”- Hartford History Lecture Series
Connecticut’s Old State House 800 Main St, HartfordFEATURING Elena Rosario, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan In the 1960s, protests, demonstrations, and rebellions were widespread across the United States, including in many Connecticut cities. This lecture will focus on a series of late-sixties civil disorders organized by Hartford residents of color from 1967 to 1969. It will also highlight the causes, aftermath, and […]
Live from the Boathouse! Michael Bell Presents The Vampire’s Grasp at Connecticut River Museum
Connecticut River Museum 67 Main Street, Essex, CTIncredible as it may seem to contemporary Americans, vampires preyed upon their not-so-distant ancestors. But these unseen killers did not resemble Count Dracula: New England’s authentic vampires were the pathogenic microbes (“bacteria with fangs”) that caused consumption, or Tuberculosis. Join Michael Bell, author of Vampire’s Grasp: The Hidden History of Consumption in New England, for […]
UCONN: The Fall 2024 Draper Workshop: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic
UCONN Pharmacy-Biology Building 69 N. Eagleville Road, Unit 3092, StorrsThe Fall Draper Workshop will be a book launch for Draper Chair, Manisha Sinha’s recently published book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920. A group of eminent historians of the period will comment on the book with a response from Sinha, followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. The event […]
“A Black Ecological Return to Charter Oak Terrace”- Hartford History Lecture Series
Connecticut’s Old State House 800 Main St, HartfordChannon Miller, Assistant Professor of American Studies and History, Trinity College As much as water protects, nourishes, and sustains Black children’s lives, it also restrains, suffocates, and degrades them. The residents of Hartford’s Charter Oak Terrace confronted a water-based ecological catastrophe in the 1960s. A flooding river—channeled by municipal neglect, class inequality, and racial segregation—drowned […]