Thursday, January 16, 7:00pm
Beyoncé (2013) — Special Screening & Talkback
GR 109, Rosenfeld Hall (109 Grove Street)
Join the Black Sound and the Archive Working Group for a special screening and talkback exploring Beyoncé, the pathbreaking 5th studio album by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and the first visual album of its kind, with speakers Wesley Morris (’97), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times critic-at-large, and Professor Daphne A. Brooks.
Wesley Morris is critic-at-large for The New York Times, as well as co-host, with J Wortham, of The New York Times podcast Still Processing. Mr. Morris is the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for criticism for his work at The Boston Globe, and he is the winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for criticism for his work at The New York Times.
Daphne A. Brooks is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Music at Yale University. She is the author of three books including Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black
Feminist Sound (Harvard UP, 2021).