Past Events & Programs

April 2023

Saturday, April 29

  • 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    Talk

    Fleshing out the Past

    John H. Ostrom Lecture Series
    with Lawrence Witmer

    The latest advances in high-tech imaging and 3D computer modeling, combined with old-school anatomy, allow us to “flesh out” dinosaurs in unprecedented ways and shed new light on their biology. Yale’s John Ostrom (1928-2005) laid the groundwork for these advances by…

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Sunday, April 23

  • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

    Adult Program

    Trees of Connecticut

    Join Peabody Museum Education Coordinator Jim Sirch and Senior Botany Collections Manager Patrick Sweeney for this adult education program at Yale's West Campus.  Trees of Connecticut: Identification and Ecology introduces Connecticut's landscape history and ecology,…

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Wednesday, April 19

  • 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

    Talk

    Cinderella’s Secrets

    Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture
    with Jessica Thompson, Assistant Curator of Anthropology

    Pioneering paleoarchaeologist J. Desmond Clark once described what is now the country of Malawi as the “Cinderella of central African prehistory”. Nearly 70 years later, teams led by Yale professor Jessica Thompson are proving it. In this year’s Edward P. Bass…

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Monday, April 3

  • 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm

    Film Screening

    Pleistocene Park

    Co-presented by the Yale Peabody Museum & Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies Join us for a different way to start your week! We'll watch Pleistocene Park, have a short discussion, then close with a fun happy hour. This is open to the public, but in-person only.  …

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March 2023

Thursday, March 30

  • 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    Webinar

    Opening the Third Eye

    Senses are crucial for navigating the world, but not all animals perceive their environments in the same way. A few living reptiles, like some lizards and the tuatara of New Zealand, possess a special sensory structure on the top of their heads that acts like a third eye,…

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Thursday, March 16

  • 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

    Adult Program

    FrogWatch Training Workshops

    Frogs and toads play a crucial role in wetland ecosystems and are considered indicators of environmental health. Many frog and toad populations have been in decline, and it is important to understand the scope, geographic scale, and cause of these declines. FrogWatch U.S.A… February 23 from 7:00—8:30 PM Virtual (Hosted by The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk… March 8 from 7:00—8:30 PM Virtual (Hosted by The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk… March 16 from 7:00—8:30 PM In-person at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo…

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Wednesday, March 8

  • 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

    Adult Program

    FrogWatch Training Workshops

    Frogs and toads play a crucial role in wetland ecosystems and are considered indicators of environmental health. Many frog and toad populations have been in decline, and it is important to understand the scope, geographic scale, and cause of these declines. FrogWatch U.S.A… February 23 from 7:00—8:30 PM Virtual (Hosted by The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk… March 8 from 7:00—8:30 PM Virtual (Hosted by The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk… March 16 from 7:00—8:30 PM In-person at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo…

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February 2023

Friday, February 24

  • 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

    Talk

    The Making of Crafting Worldviews

    Crafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 1500–1800 is a multidisciplinary exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery that examines the inseparable relationship among art, science, and European colonialism from the 16th through the 18th century—an era of voyage,…

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Thursday, February 23

  • 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

    Webinar

    The Complexities of Indigenous Representation in the Arts

    Join Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf (Eastern Shoshone, Hidatsa, and Mandan), Yale University Presidential Visiting Fellow and the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Associate in Native American Art and Curation between the Department of the History of Art and the Yale University Art…

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  • 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

    Adult Program

    FrogWatch Training Workshops

    Frogs and toads play a crucial role in wetland ecosystems and are considered indicators of environmental health. Many frog and toad populations have been in decline, and it is important to understand the scope, geographic scale, and cause of these declines. FrogWatch U.S.A… February 23 from 7:00—8:30 PM Virtual (Hosted by The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk… March 8 from 7:00—8:30 PM Virtual (Hosted by The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk… March 16 from 7:00—8:30 PM In-person at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo…

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