Past Events & Programs

December 2024

Wednesday, December 4

  • 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm

    Talk

    Darwin en Patagonia

    Join composers Diego Golombek and Mariano A. Fernandez for a live excerpt of their opera "Darwin en Patagonia" followed by a lecture about the evolution of the work. The hour-long Spanish-language opera follows Charles Darwin and the crew of the H.M.S. Beagle on their five… For information regarding the opera, taking place at Pauli Murray College December 5-6, please visit the opera's event webpage: https://macmillan.yale.edu/latam/events/2024-12/darwin-en-patagonia

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November 2024

Wednesday, November 13

  • 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

    Talk

    Coral Reef Odyssey

    Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture
    with Jeremy Jackson

    With Jeremy Jackson Researchers had barely started to understand the ecology of coral reefs before human impacts began to kill them off. For many the situation seemed hopeless. But there is increasing evidence that local conservation actions achieve modest success, that… Jeremy Jackson studies the ecology, evolution, and conservation of coastal and ocean ecosystems. He holds emeritus positions at the…

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Monday, November 4

  • 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

    Performance

    MƆɹNIŊ [MORNING//MOURNING]

    What would happen on earth after humans disappeared? This experimental opera inhabits a world where humans no longer exist. Experience what The New York Times calls, “…sly and sweet, wistful and winsome and altogether lovable” an ensemble of five vocalist/multi-…

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October 2024

Saturday, October 26

  • 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

    Festival / Family Day

    Halloween Spooktacular Celebration

    Join us at the Peabody for our “Spooktacular” celebration, suggested for little ones up to age 10. Come in costume (nothing too scary, please) and learn about spectacular creatures, collect fun items, and explore the wonderful weirdness of the Peabody’s collections up…

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Tuesday, October 8

  • 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

    Talk

    Artisan Talk: Professor Clarence Cruz

    To create traditional Pueblo pottery, ceramic artisan and professor Clarence Cruz works with raw materials that he gathers from different sites on public lands. In talk about his process, Cruz will demonstrate how to make a pottery vessel, why they are important to his…

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September 2024

Sunday, September 29

  • 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    Festival / Family Day

    ¡Fiesta Latina!

    ¡Fiesta Latina!, a celebration of Hispanic cultures featuring music, dance, and food, will take place September 28 from 1 to 4 pm at Junta for Progressive Action, located at 169 Grand Avenue in New Haven, and at the Peabody September 29 from noon to 5 pm. The event is a… “Our goal is to celebrate Hispanic culture through community programming and through sharing objects from the Peabody’s collections about those cultures. The aim is to move this from a one- day event, to a series of events throughout Hispanic Heritage month at various… The festivities will begin at noon with a performance by Proyecto Cimarron, a Puerto Rican Bomba performance group. The Spanish Community of Wallingford’s youth mariachi band and dance troupe, committed to preserving the cultural heritage of Mexico, will take the stage at… Activities at the Peabody Museum Sunday, September 29 Educational Activities… Event Sponsors …

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Saturday, September 28

  • 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

    Festival / Family Day

    ¡Fiesta Latina!

    ¡Fiesta Latina!, a celebration of Hispanic cultures featuring music, dance, and food, will take place September 28 from 1 to 4 pm at Junta for Progressive Action, located at 169 Grand Avenue in New Haven, and at the Peabody September 29 from noon to 5 pm. The event is a… “Our goal is to celebrate Hispanic culture through community programming and through sharing objects from the Peabody’s collections about those cultures. The aim is to move this from a one- day event, to a series of events throughout Hispanic Heritage month at various… The festivities will begin at noon with a performance by Proyecto Cimarron, a Puerto Rican Bomba performance group. The Spanish Community of Wallingford’s youth mariachi band and dance troupe, committed to preserving the cultural heritage of Mexico, will take the stage at… Activities at the Peabody Museum Sunday, September 29 Educational Activities… Event Sponsors …

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June 2024

Friday, June 21

  • 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

    Artist Spotlight

    A Conversation with Artist Mohamad Hafez

    The artist and architect Mohamad Hafez channels the complexities of his homeland Syria in his art. Using found objects, paint, and scrap metal, Hafez creates surrealistic, yet politically charged Middle Eastern streetscapes that incorporate the ancient and the new in a…

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May 2024

Thursday, May 30

  • 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

    Talk

    Squiggle Studies

    Research Spotlight
    with Caitlin Davis

    During the Late Formative Period (300 BCE – 200 CE), the people who lived in modern-day southern Guatemala and western El Salvador used a distinctive style of pottery called Usulutan.  This unique regional style is characterized by enchanting orange and yellow squiggles… Caitlin Reddington Davis is a doctoral candidate in Yale’s Department of Anthropology. She received her undergraduate degree in archaeology…

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Thursday, May 16

  • 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

    Talk

    The Sea Before Time

    Research Spotlight
    with Caleb Gordon

    While dinosaurs dominated land and pterosaurs ruled the skies, giant marine reptiles swam the Earth’s oceans. These real-life sea monsters’ evolutionary origins remain some of the oldest unsolved mysteries in paleontology. Yale Ph.D. candidate Caleb Gordon will show us how… Caleb Gordon is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University. He studies how reptiles evolved to…

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