http://events.yale.edu:80/beinecke , ::00 EST en-US Copyright 2009, Yale University calendar@yale.edu http://events.yale.edu:80/events/beinecke/CAL-2c9cb3cd-22e615cf-0122-e6e904fd-0000016cbedework@yale.edu/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST Thu, September 24, 2009 12:00 AM - Sat, December 19, 2009, 12:00 AM Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - 121 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511. “Last night, between seven and eight o’clock,” reported The London Chronicle in the December 11-14 issue of 1784, “died, in his 76th year, at his house in Bolt-court, Fleet street, Dr. Samuel Johnson, so universally known and celebrated in the learned world, that nothing we can say on that head can add to his fame.” Much more was to be said: within days of Johnson’s death, the first sketches of his life began to appear, followed by dozens of newspaper articles, poems, epitaphs, satires, prints, reviews, and biographies. In celebration of the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth in 1709, this exhibition examines the life of Samuel Johnson—author, critic, and above all conversationalist—as it was written after his death. Drawing on James Boswell’s correspondence and the manuscript of his “Life of Johnson,” as well as newspapers, prints, and works written and annotated by Hester Thrale Piozzi and others, the exhibition explores the tensions of memory and identity found in the competing lives of one of England’s first literary celebrities. [ca. 55 items] As a contribution to the tercentenary festivities and in support of scholarship on Johnson and Boswell, Beinecke Library has begun scanning the entire James Boswell segment of the Boswell Family Papers, making the collection available in its Digital Images and Collections. Please join us for three lunchtime talks in October and November, one of which is linked above. http://events.yale.edu:80/events/beinecke/CAL-2c9cb3cd-22e615cf-0122-e6e042fd-0000016abedework@yale.edu/ Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST Tue, October 6, 2009 12:00 AM - Sat, December 19, 2009, 12:00 AM Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - 121 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511. Art and protest went hand in hand before they fused in the worldwide cultural rebellions of 1968. In 1945, young artists and activists from across war-torn Europe began to form international networks. Though established traditions — from Futurism to Surrealism — seemed at first to show the way, by the early 1950s, some had already commandeered the weapons of the past: discarding, scavenging, highjacking from the rubble of modernism to fight new battles. Emphasizing graphic components, the Beinecke exhibition traces the culture of protest as it emerged from interactions between art and revolution in postwar Europe under the rubrics of Art brut, Lettrism, Cobra, Arte Nucleare, the Imaginist Bauhaus, the Lettrist and Situationist Internationals, the Provos of Amsterdam, Gruppe Spur and Berlin’s Kommune I, the Situationist Bauhaus, and the Italian “Movimento ’77.” Highlights include the original working manuscript of Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle and a gallery of fifty posters from the Paris uprising of May 1968. Special guests at the exhibition’s official opening on October 15th will be Alice Becker-Ho, a leading Situationist and the widow of Guy Debord; and Jacqueline de Jong, artist and editor of the Situationist Times. [ca. 200 items and 50 posters] http://events.yale.edu:80/events/beinecke/CAL-2c9cb3cd-235de73e-0123-a613a07a-000000f4bedework@yale.edu/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:00:00 EST Tue, December 1, 2009 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - 121 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511. This event is part of the Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book Series. Alice Prochaska has been the Yale University Librarian since 2001, before which she was the Director of Special Collections of the British Library. Having received her undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Somerville College, Oxford, she will be returning to her alma mater as Principal in 2010.