We live in a world of color. We are surrounded by it constantly, and it marks our psychological and social existence in ways we can’t fully fathom. But for all color's weightedness and inescapability we don’t actually know that much about it. In On Color, Yale literature professor David Scott Kastan, in collaboration with artist Stephen Farthing, has assembled a thoughtful investigation into the ways we see, perceive, understand, and codify color. Join Kastan as he divulges how ten individual colors, from the redness of roses to the racial dynamics of yellow, have gathered historical, literary, cultural, political, and philosophical meaning and matter, and in doing so, have shaped our social and moral imaginations.

This program is generously underwritten by Sylvia and Larry Margolies.

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A book signing will follow this program.