Videos
Mondays at the Beinecke at Yale University
June 28, 2021
This talk, given at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, describes the life and work of the American photographer Robert Giard, my first life partner. Giard is best known for having photographed over 500 LGBTQ+ writers and activists during the 1980s and 1990s. The Beinecke houses the complete Giard archive, including photographs and ephemera.
The Robert Giard Foundation & Queer|Art
May 24, 2020
The Robert Giard Foundation which I established in 2002 gives grants to emerging and heretofore unrecognized LGBTQ+photographers. This short video describes the grant program against the background of a major exhibition of Giard images of LGBTQ+ writers and activists.
City and Country School
December 18, 2020
In December 2020 I was invited to participate in a panel discussion marking the publication of the latest edition of Caroline Pratt’s seminal book, I Learn from Children. The panel explores the relevance of Pratt’s contribution to our understanding of what progressive education is and can be.
The Institute for the Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto
May 28, 2018
This talk explores the central themes of my 2018 book, Early Childhood, Aging and the Life Cycle, especially the period of “young-old age” that is little understood and often ignored in the literature on aging.
"Hope belongs to all of us — the oldest as well as the youngest, the most vulnerable as well as the able bodied. Regardless of age and situation feeling hopeful for ourselves as well as for those who are to follow is essential to a fully realized life."
—Jonathan Silin, Early Childhood, Aging and the Life Cycle: Mapping Common Ground