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Chartered in 1799 …to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest and happiness of a free and virtuous people…” The Connecticut Academy of the Arts and Sciences is the third-oldest learned society in the United States. Its purpose is the dissemination of scholarly information. For the past 200 years, the Academy has fulfilled this mission through lectures and extensive publications.

The Academy sponsors eight monthly presentations during the academic year (September-May). These provide an opportunity for both the lay person and scholar to hear distinguished speakers discuss current work in the sciences, arts, and humanities. All lectures are free and open to the public and are announced in university calendars, local newspapers, and by direct mail to Academy members. 

Presented by Paul Turner Rachel Carson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Gerald Gaynes
Demystifying the effects of systemic injustice: Gerald Jaynes on using mixed methods to study race-based economic inequality...
A History of CAAS Presented by Sandra Rux, CAAS Publications Manager and Historian Speakers in honor of Gregory Tignor and...
Tracy Heather Strain,  Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies and  Associate Director of the College of Film and the  Moving Image, Wesleyan University
Zora Neale Hurston: The Making of a Documentary   for PBS American Experience  Presented by Tracy Heather Strain,  Corwin-...
Caregivers of the Reformation: The Forgotten Women of Early Modern Europe Presented by Jill Fehleison, Professor of History...
Presented by Nicole Madu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Education and Jessica Powell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of...
Playwright Calvin Alexander Ramsey will make a presentation of and discuss his upcoming play about Edward A. Bouchet, the...
Presented by Philip Gorski, Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology and of Religious Studies,  Yale University