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September 21, 2016
The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a special event on Wednesday, October 5, 2016, from 3:00-5:00 pm in the Medical Historical Library at 333 Cedar Street. Stop by "The Medical Library at 75" exhibit, view videos and stories about the library collected this...
September 21, 2016
Join us for the annual Lewis Walpole Library lecture "Mr. Boswell goes to Corsica: Charismatic Authority in the Age of Democratic Revolutions", which examines how new ways of imagining political leadership emerged during the enlightenment, across the Atlantic world, using as a case study the way...
September 21, 2016
All are welcome to join us for the latest talk in our Arts and Humanities Book Talk series on Monday, October 10 at 4:30 pm in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall. Refreshments will be served before the lecture in the Memorabilia Room. In Mounting Frustration Susan E. Cahan investigates the...
September 21, 2016
Chana Kronfeld, author of "The Full Severity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai" (Stanford, 2016) will speak on Thursday, October 13 at 4:00 pm in the SML Lecture Hall about Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) – one of the most important and well-known Hebrew poets of the twentieth century, and an...
September 21, 2016
The book format has long been used as a vehicle for artistic expression. This exhibition opening on September 26 in the Haas Family Arts Library, focuses on the presentation of theatrical texts and documentation of performance in the book arts. The objects on display showcase the space of the page...
September 21, 2016
This annual exhibit opening Monday, October 3 in the Sterling Memorial Library Exhibits Corridor, highlights four Yale students' exceptional research at the Yale University Library. The subjects represented are as diverse as the Yale Library collections and convey a combination of both complete and...
Tora Bora by Art Hazelwood. Image used with permission.
September 19, 2016
The Book As Stage: Performance and Theater in the Book Arts September 26 – December 18, 2016 The book format has long been used as a vehicle for artistic expression. This exhibition focuses on the presentation of theatrical texts and documentation of performance in the book arts. The objects on...

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