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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Revolutionary Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:Free virtual Presentation! \nDuring the Revolution\, Connecticut women left a trove of written materials – letters\, diaries\, recipes\, journals\, poems\, and account books. Through them\, we can see their cares and interests and how the Revolution affected their daily lives – sometimes in subtle ways and sometimes profound. Yet all of them used writing to create meaning and connection in a deeply unsettled time. \nPlease join us as Dr. Marie McDaniel contextualizes several written materials from the Connecticut Museum’s American Revolution collection.  Dr. McDaniel was the 2025 Project Scholar for of the American Revolution Papers Digitization Project at the Connecticut Museum. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Get tickets to receive the Zoom link.
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/lunch-and-learn-revolutionary-women-writers/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:April 2026,Talks, Lectures, Presentations,Virtual Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Connecticut Museum of Culture and History":MAILTO:kmazzacane@connecticutmuseum.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T200000
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SUMMARY:Courage & Conflict: Women’s Stories from the Ancient Burying Ground in Hartford\, CT
DESCRIPTION:The Ancient Burying Ground Association presents Exploring Freedom\, a Virtual Lecture Series to promote education and discussion. This series will illustrate how burying grounds can be a catalyst for social justice and how historians\, genealogists\, descendants\, and volunteers can become empowered to reinterpret and honor the past.  \nWe often hear about the Founding Fathers in America. In this lecture\, learn more about the hidden histories of women and their contributions to American history. Learn how the colonists benefitted from the knowledge and lifeways of indigenous people while simultaneously limiting their freedoms. We’ll learn about the women in the cemetery through stories from their gravestones and epitaphs along with recently uncovered research. This program will discuss stories of hardship and violence as well as their achievements.  \nBio: Christine Jewell is an educator and consultant with over 25 years of experience developing\, leading\, and promoting educational programs in the arts\, history\, and the humanities in Connecticut. She worked in museum education and community outreach at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury\, CT and the Fairfield Museum in Fairfield\, CT. Jewell has worked with teachers to develop curricula\, teacher resources\, and student activities. She also developed programs for diverse audiences in conjunction with exhibitions on American and Connecticut history and the visual arts. She has a BFA from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Purchase and an MA from SUNY Empire State College. Currently she teaches fiber arts and is the Director of the Ancient Burying Ground Association. 
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/courage-conflict-womens-stories-from-the-ancient-burying-ground-in-hartford-ct/
LOCATION:ancient burying ground association\, 60 Gold Street\, Hartford\, 06141
CATEGORIES:March 2026,Talks, Lectures, Presentations,Virtual Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ancient Burying Ground Association":MAILTO:marydonohue@comcast.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T070429
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SUMMARY:Judge A Book By Its Cover! Find Out How Book Covers Are Created (virtual event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual conversation with  Seth Lerner\, Assistant Art Director at Kensington Books in New York City\, and learn how a book cover is created! \nWhat goes into the design? Do the artists have to read the book? \nWhat factors are important? What happens if everyone hates the designs? \nSeth will share the inside scoop on book cover design with us\, and then answer audience questions. \nThis is a kick-off event to Cozy Con\, and part of our Week of Cozy. (More details on our Week of Cozy soon!) \nPlease register; Zoom links will go out the day before the event.
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/judge-a-book-by-its-cover-find-out-how-book-covers-are-created-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Avon Free Public Library\, 281 Country Club Rd\, Avon\, CT\, 06001\, United States
CATEGORIES:March 2026,Talks, Lectures, Presentations,Virtual Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Avon Free Public Library":MAILTO:tpanik@avonctlibrary.info
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T070429
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn – Songs of Colonial & Revolutionary America
DESCRIPTION:Free virtual program! The songs of Colonial and Revolutionary America rallied and unified Colonists and Revolutionary soldiers; protested grievances\, proclaimed values\, and impelled action; boosted morale and celebrated victories — and were even used as weapons! \nJoin us as we listen to songs from the Colonial and Revolutionary period\, as music historian Robert Cohen helps us understand the role music played during this period\, and why one chaplain in the Revolutionary army stated that “one good song is worth a dozen addresses or proclamations.” \nFree and open to the public – get tickets today to receive the Zoom link! \nAbout the Speaker:\nRobert Cohen has taught and lectured on American folk & popular music and Jewish music for over a quarter-century\, including at the Fifth Avenue New York Public Library and the New England Conservatory of Music\, New School University and the 92nd St. Y in New York\, the Jewish Theological Seminary and Boston College’s Center for Christian-Jewish Learning\, the Afro-American Historical & Cultural Museum in Philadelphia\, and the Mandell Jewish Community Center of Greater Hartford. He has produced and hosted over 100 radio programs and wrote the NPR documentary\, “One People\, Many Voices: American-Jewish Music Comes of Age\,” and he produced the compilation CD\, Open the Gates! New American-Jewish Music for Prayer.
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/lunch-and-learn-songs-of-colonial-revolutionary-america/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:March 2026,Talks, Lectures, Presentations,Virtual Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Connecticut Museum of Culture and History":MAILTO:kmazzacane@connecticutmuseum.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T070429
CREATED:20260107T144951Z
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SUMMARY:Cemetery Citizens: Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds
DESCRIPTION:The Ancient Burying Ground Association presents Exploring Freedom\, a Virtual Lecture Series to promote education and discussion. This series will illustrate how burying grounds can be a catalyst for social justice and how historians\, genealogists\, descendants\, and volunteers can become empowered to reinterpret and honor the past.  \nPresented by Adam Rosenblatt\, PhD\,  Professor\, Duke University and Faculty Director\, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute \nAcross the United States\, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown\, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake\, clean headstones\, and research silenced histories\, they offer care to individuals who were denied basic rights and forms of belonging in life and in death. Cemetery Citizens is the first book-length study of this emerging form of social justice work. It focuses on how racial disparities shape the fates of the dead\, and asks what kinds of repairs are still possible. Drawing on interviews\, activist anthropology\, poems\, and drawings\, Adam Rosenblatt takes us to gravesite reclamation efforts in three prominent American cities. Cemetery Citizens dives into the ethical quandaries and practical complexities of cemetery reclamation\, showing how volunteers build community across social boundaries\, craft new ideas about citizenship and ancestry\, and expose injustices that would otherwise be suppressed. Ultimately\, Rosenblatt argues that an ethic of reclamation must honor the presence of the dead—treating them as fellow cemetery citizens who share our histories\, landscapes\, and need for care. \nBIO: Adam Rosenblatt teaches International Comparative Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. In addition to his academic roles\, he has worked at Physicians for Human Rights\, the Human Rights Center of the University of Chile\, and at the U.S.-Mexico Border. \nAn ethnographer and cartoonist interested in human rights\, the ethics of care\, and our ongoing ties to the dead\, Rosenblatt is the author of Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science after Atrocity (Stanford University Press\, 2015)\, a winner of Choice’s 2016 Outstanding Academic Title award. His second book\, Cemetery Citizens: Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds (Stanford\, 2024). In Durham\, North Carolina\, Rosenblatt works with the Friends of Geer Cemetery\, teaches community-engaged courses\, and is the co-founder of the Durham Black Burial Grounds Collaboratory.
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/cemetery-citizens-reclaiming-the-past-and-working-for-justice-in-american-burial-grounds/
LOCATION:ancient burying ground association\, 60 Gold Street\, Hartford\, 06141
CATEGORIES:February 2026,Talks, Lectures, Presentations,Virtual Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ancient Burying Ground Association":MAILTO:marydonohue@comcast.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260218T200000
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SUMMARY:Blood Countess: Murder\, Betrayal\, and the Making of a Monster/Virtual Author Event with Shelley Puhak
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual conversation with Shelley Puhak\, to celebrate the release of her new book\, The Blood Countess: Murder\, Betrayal\, and the Making of a Monster.  \nThere have long been whispers\, coming from the castle; from the village square; from the dark woods. The great lady— a countess\, from one of Europe’s oldest families— is a vicious killer. Some even say she bathes in the blood of her victims. When the king’s men force their way into her manor house\, she has blood on her hands\, caught in the act of murdering yet another of her maids. She is walled up in a tower and never seen again\, except in the uppermost barred window\, where she broods over the countryside\, cursing all those who dared speak up against her. \nFor over 50 years\, the Guinness Book of World Records has insisted that 17th century Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory was the world’s most prolific female serial killer. This summer\, however\, Guinness quietly revoked that title. Although they did not exonerate Bathory\, they walked back their claims\, stating that “her life history is so shrouded in legend that it is impossible to separate fact from fiction.” \nIn The Blood Countess\, bestselling author Shelley Puhak challenges that assertion\, showing that it is possible to excavate the true story. This is the first English-language biography of Elizabeth Bathory since 1997\, and it makes use of new archival evidence and new translations of old documents to settle the question of Bathory’s guilt once and for all. With the breathlessness of a whodunit\, Shelley traces the Countess’s downfall\, bringing to life an assertive woman leader in a world sliding into anti-scientific\, reactionary darkness—a world where nothing is ever as it seems. In this exhilarating narrative\, Puhak renders a vivid portrait of a tumultuous time\, revealing just how far we will go to destroy a woman in power. \nSHELLEY PUHAK writes literary nonfiction and poetry informed by rigorous historical research. Her prose has appeared in The Atlantic\, Smithsonian\, andVirginia Quarterly Review; been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing; and designated as Notable in four editions of Best American Essays. Her nonfiction debut The Dark Queens (Bloomsbury 2022)\, exploring the little-known queens Brunhild and Fredegund\, was a national bestseller and a USA Today Best Books selection\, an Amazon Editors’ Pick\, and a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist. Her second book The Blood Countess\, a reexamination of the notorious Elizabeth Bathory\, will be released in February 2026. \n​Shelley is also the author of three award-winning books of poetry. The most recent is Harbinger\, a National Poetry Series selection (Ecco/ HarperCollins 2022). Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Missouri Review\, Shenandoah\, and Verse Daily and been awarded the Anthony Hecht Prize\, the Towson Prize for Literature\, and two Maryland State Arts Council grants.  Learn more here. \nPlease register; Zoom links will go out the day before the event.
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/blood-countess-murder-betrayal-and-the-making-of-a-monster-virtual-author-event-with-shelley-puhak/
LOCATION:Avon Free Public Library\, 281 Country Club Rd\, Avon\, CT\, 06001\, United States
CATEGORIES:February 2026,Virtual Event,Written & Spoken Word
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ORGANIZER;CN="Avon Free Public Library":MAILTO:tpanik@avonctlibrary.info
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn – The People and the Law in Revolutionary Massachusetts
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation! Conflict over the law played a defining role in shaping the political landscape of Revolutionary Massachusetts. The state’s Revolutionary period was bookended by upheaval centered around the courts: the rebellion against the Coercive Acts began in 1774 with a series of court closings in western Massachusetts\, and Shays’s Rebellion commenced in a similar manner\, with attempted court closings in the same part of the state. In the interim\, Massachusetts Patriots struggled to work out what the American Revolution meant for the law. Should the English common law inheritance be upheld\, or did the Revolution signal an opportunity to reshape the legal system in the image of the people? \nThis talk by New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, Tristan New\, examines how this struggle to define the relationship between popular rule and the law informed the state’s politics during the Revolutionary era. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Get tickets to receive the Zoom link. \nAbout the speaker: Tristan New is a PhD Candidate in American History at Boston University\, where his research focuses on the political and constitutional dimensions of the American Revolution. His dissertation\, “The People\, the Courts\, and the Contested Revolution in Massachusetts\, 1772-1788\,” examines how conflict over the law shaped the course of the American Revolution in Massachusetts. His research has been supported by institutions including the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium and the Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences\, and he has presented his work at forums including the David Center for the American Revolution and the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/lunch-and-learn-the-people-and-the-law-in-revolutionary-massachusetts/
LOCATION:Digital Event\, Digital Event\, Hartford
CATEGORIES:February 2026,Talks, Lectures, Presentations,Virtual Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Connecticut Museum of Culture and History":MAILTO:kmazzacane@connecticutmuseum.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T070429
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SUMMARY:Reverence: Refocusing the Lens on the Marginalized [Virtual Lecture]
DESCRIPTION:The Ancient Burying Ground Association presents Exploring Freedom\, a Virtual Lecture Series to promote education and discussion. Discover how burying grounds can be a catalyst for social justice and how historians\, genealogists\, descendants\, and volunteers can become empowered to reinterpret and honor the past.  \nJohn Mills\, Genealogist & Independent Scholar\, will discuss how his own family history of enslavement impacted him and spurred him to pursue research into enslaved individuals. Mills will walk through the process he takes in researching African American genealogies\, exploring the ways narratives of the enslaved are presented today. Mills will also discuss his work in repairing and preserving the gravestones and burial plots of his subjects\, which sometimes includes having monuments and markers installed.  \nBio: John Mills is a trained Genealogist\, Independent Scholar\, and President of the Alex Breanne Corporation\, a Connecticut-based non-profit focused on research into lesser known stories of the American enslaved.  The intent of the Alex Breanne Corporation is to give current-day descendants their history\, as well as to inject the formerly enslaved into the landscape of the communities where they lived\, worked or died. John is a published author and social activist\, appearing on the Areva Martin Show and on the Kelly Clarkson Show. John has also been featured in the Washington Post\, Scholastic Magazine\, and in the CPTV Documentary\, “Unforgotten.” John is a member of the Connecticut Freedom Trail Committee and a board member of the Connecticut League of Museums. \n  \n 
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/reverence-refocusing-the-lens-on-the-marginalized-virtual-lecture/
LOCATION:ancient burying ground association\, 60 Gold Street\, Hartford\, 06141
CATEGORIES:January 2026,Talks, Lectures, Presentations,Virtual Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ancient Burying Ground Association":MAILTO:marydonohue@comcast.net
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