A Life of Witness: Carolyn Forché in Conversation with Christian Wiman
Art, Faith, and Social Justice Series
A Life of Witness: Carolyn Forché, in conversation with Christian Wiman, discusses art, trauma, and faith.
Guest Artists
Mystical Poetry of the Bauls: Presented by Parvathy Baul
This presentation was given on October 9, 2020. More information can be found on the original event page.
Presented with the Yale Macmillan Center South Asian Studies Council
Dewanto Sukistono performs Awir Sowan
This lecture-demonstration will explore the drama and visual culture of wayang golek menak, a form of rod puppetry practiced in Java, Indonesia that enacts tales about Amir Hamzah, the uncle of the Prophet Muhammad. The lecture-demonstration, led by two Fellows at the Yale ISM in the fall of 2018, Dr. Dewanto Sukistono and Professor Matthew Cohen, will use puppets in the Dr. Walter Angst and Sir Henry Angest Collection of Indonesian Puppets, the world’s largest collection of Indonesian puppets (wayang) acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery in 2017.
Banaras Soul Music at Battell Chapel
Guest artist Harald Vogel performs Praeludium in C-major by Buxtehude
