April Weekend Program Videos
During its Alumni Leadership Convocation April 19 - 22, 2001, Yale held many seminars, panels and special presentations that examined the University's contribution to the intellectual, social and cultural life of the nation and the world.
Many of the programs listed here can be viewed or heard through online video or audio technology. These programs are indicated by a video and audio icon above the description. Please click on the icon or link to view or hear the lecture.
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Yale and Public Service: Former President George H.W. Bush
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George H.W. Bush
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From mayors to senators, from ambassadors to governors and statesmen, from cabinet members to advisers, the contribution of Yale graduates to the health and progress of our nation has been almost without parallel by any other academic institution. Indeed, four of the last six presidents of the United States have held Yale degrees. Join George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States, as he reflects on his presidency, the leadership he offered to the nation, and his hopes for our collective futures.
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Creating Economic Prosperity
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Richard C. Levin
Robert E. Rubin
Janet L. Yellen
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President Richard C. Levin convenes the convocation, after which he joins a panel discussion with Robert E. Rubin and Janet L. Yellen.
The final decade of Yale's third century corresponded with unprecedented economic vitality for our country. Yale graduates were a large part of the leadership team for economic policy in the administration of President William J. Clinton '73 JD.
Join Yale graduates who were instrumental in shaping recent economic policy- Robert E. Rubin '64 LLB, who served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1995 to 1999, and Yale Corporation Fellow Janet L. Yellen '71 PhD, who served as Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1997 to 1999 -as they explore the implications of the economic development of the nineties for the United States and the world in the years ahead. Richard C. Levin '74 PhD, President of the University and Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics, will moderate the discussion.
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The Making of a Writer: Tom Wolfe in Lecture and Conversation
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Tom Wolfe
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From John Knowles '49 to John Hersey '36,from Mark Salzman '82 to Garry Wills '61 PhD, modern Yale has educated novelists and literary journalists of accomplishment and note.
Tom Wolfe '57 PhD is the author of many ground-breaking works, including The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970), The Right Stuff (1979), From Bauhaus to Our House (1981), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), A Man in Full (1998), and Hooking Up (2000). In 1973 Wolfe made a prediction that the future of the American novel would be in "detailed realism," and indeed extensive research is the basis of all of his work. Join him as he talks about how Yale's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences helped prepare him for a career as a novelist for whom "detailed realism" is an art, and elaborates on the important part that journalism can play in reinvigorating the modern novel.
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The First Center for the Study of Slavery
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David Brion Davis
Robert Forbes
Fred Morsell
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From James Hillhouse 1773, the leader of the anti-slavery movement in the First Federal Congress, to Josiah Willard Gibbs 1809, who befriended the captives of the Amistad, to John W. Blassingame '70 PhD, who edited Frederick Douglass's speeches, Yale graduates and faculty have had a long history of activism in the face of slavery and a modern history of scholarship about it. Today the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, located at Yale, is the first of its kind in the world.
Join David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center, the Yale professor whose scholarly work inspired Richard Gilder '54 and Lewis Lehrman '60 to found the Center. Following Professor Davis's story of the Center's founding, Fred Morsell, the foremost actor and interpreter of Frederick Douglass in the world, will recreate Douglass, read from his work, and, in the persona of Douglass, answer questions from the audience. Robert Forbes '92 PhD, Associate Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center and Lecturer in American Studies, will moderate the event, which will conclude with the singing of a spiritual by Yale College senior Mitchener Beasley.
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Inventing Rights: Yale Law School and the Law of Sexual Harassment
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Catharine MacKinnon
Deborah Ashford
Anita Hill
Judith Resnik
Jeffrey Rosen
Vicki Schultz
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The Yale Law School has been a pioneer in the development of a number of fields of law, from the development of the law of outer space by Professor Myres S. McDougal '31 JSD to the seminal work in commercial law by Professor Grant Gilmore '31, '36PhD, '43LLB. In a century that witnessed a revolution in the understanding of women's roles and rights, Yale Law School students and faculty have also been key participants in defining new rights for women, as the example of sexual harassment illustrates.
This discussion on the creation of new conceptions of both women and of rights will open with a presentation by Catharine MacKinnon '77 JD,'87 PhD, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Following remarks by Anita Hill '80 JD, Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's Studies at The Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University; Jeffrey Rosen '91 JD, Associate Professor of Law at George Washington Law School and Legal Affairs Editor of The New Republic; Vicki Schultz, Professor of Law at Yale; and Deborah Ashford '81 JD,Partner, Hogan & Hartson LLP, Professor MacKinnon will offer closing observations. Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale, will moderate the discussion.
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Home of the Unique Teacher/Performer: Willie Ruff in Lecture and Performance
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Willie Ruff
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One of the treasures of the Yale School of Music is Professor Willie Ruff, horn and bass player extraordinaire, the first American to take jazz to the Soviet Union, whose lectures on the musical styles that America invented (spirituals, blues, and jazz) transfix his students, and whose Mitchell-Ruff duo-purported to be the oldest jazz band with the same personnel- has been delighting audiences for forty-five years.
Come listen to Professor Ruff, in a lecture performance, tell the story of the three-string bass fiddle, which early New England churches (including the Center Church on the New Haven Green) often used instead of expensive pianos and organs to accompany hymns. Professor Ruff documents the creation of these fiddles, sings Old Testament hymns from the Black tradition, and tells the remarkable story of how the use of these fiddles eventually reached as far as Hawaii.
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A Legacy of Leadership in the Courts
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Guido Calabresi
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Known the world over for its intellectual rigor and power, Yale Law School has educated and been educated by lawyers who have become some of the nation's leading judges. Among the influential judges who taught or studied at the Law School are Chief Justice William Howard Taft 1878, Justices William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas '33 LLB, Sherman Minton '16 LLB, Potter Stewart '37, ' 41 LLB, Clarence Thomas '74 JD, and Byron White ' 46 LLB of the United States Supreme Court; Judges Robert Bork, José Cabranes '65 JD, Charles E. Clark '11, '13 LLB, Jerome Frank, A. Leon Higginbotham '52 LLB, Jon Newman '56 LLB, Henry Wade Rogers, Sonia Sotomayor '79 JD, Thomas Swan 1900, Patricia Wald '51 LLB, and Ralph Winter '57,'60 LLB, of the United States Courts of Appeals; and Chief Justices Margaret Marshall '76 JD and Ellen Peters '54 LLB of the Supreme Courts of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Join Judge Guido Calabresi '53, '58 JD, former Dean, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law, and Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, as he discusses an issue every judge must face: how can a judge with strong moral opinions of his own handle a case that engages his deepest beliefs? Is it possible to tread the fine line between moral belief and dispassionate legal inquiry and judgment? What, in short, is the Art of Judging? Judge Calabresi will answer these questions with reference to his autobiography and his own rich experience as a legal scholar, academic, and judge.
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Yale and the Frontier of Technology: Donna Dubinsky and the Handheld Computer
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Donna Dubinsky
interviewed by
David Gergen
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The late 20th century was one of enormous change in the application of technology to our daily lives. Many Yale men and women have been in the vanguard of this revolution. As Yale looks forward, the University is focused on educating the leaders who will carry this transformation forward into the 21st century.
Donna Dubinsky '77 is one of the leading entrepreneurs in the field of personal computing, a veteran of nearly twenty years in Silicon Valley. After ten years in a variety of management roles with Apple Computer and its software subsidiary Claris Corporation, Dubinsky joined Jeff Hawkins to create Palm Computing. Palm introduced the first Palm Pilot handheld organizer in 1996, which became the most rapidly adopted new product in the computer industry. Under Dubinsky's leadership, Palm went on to be the central player in a new industry, handheld computing. In July of 1998, Dubinsky and Hawkins founded Handspring, creator of the award-winning Visor family of expandable, handheld computers.
Join Donna Dubinsky in a conversation with David Gergen '63, Yale Corporation member, longtime commentator on public affairs, and an adviser to four Presidents of the United States, as Ms. Dubinsky tells her story and discusses her vision of how technology will shape our daily life in the years ahead.
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Training Great Actors: A Scene from Shakespeare
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Murray Biggs and
School of Drama students
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From Meryl Streep '75 MFA to Paul Newman '54 DRA, from John Turturro '83 MFA to Sigourney Weaver '74 MFA, some of the greatest actors of our time have been educated at the Yale School of Drama.
Join Murray Biggs, Associate Professor of English and Theater Studies, who has captivated many alumni audiences, as he directs a scene from Shakespeare with two students in their final year of the acting program at the School of Drama. Watch the actors do the scene, hear the director's notes on it, see them do it again, then chip in your own comments and questions before the actors redo the whole scene in one culminating run.
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Yale and China: Three Centuries of Association
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Jonathan Spence
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From 1688, when Elihu Yale wrote a prescient letter about trade in China, to the modern era when George Bush ' 48 was this nation's liaison to China, and Winston Lord '59 one of its ambassadors, Yale and those associated with it have had a long and continuing history with China. Missionaries who were Yale graduates taught in China as early as the mid-19th century; Yung Wing 1854 was the first Chinese graduate of an American college; and this year the Yale-China Association is celebrating its 100th birthday.
Join Sterling Professor of History Jonathan Spence '65 PhD, one of the world's foremost authorities on China, and listen as he recounts fascinating, serious, and amusing stories about a country where Yale has a long history, a distinguished scholarly tradition, and a growing number of academic programs.
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Yale and American Frontiers: The Yale Collection of Western Americana and the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders
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Howard R. Lamar
John Mack Faragher
George Miles
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From the missionary efforts of David Brainerd 1742,to the geologic studies of the Benjamin Sillimans (father 1796 and son 1837), to the efforts of George Bird Grinnell 1870 to preserve the natural landscape, those associated with Yale have explored, studied, and built the American West. Since the Yale Collection of Western Americana opened in 1952, Yale has also been home to one of the world's greatest collections of manuscripts, rare books, prints, drawings, and photographs concerning the American frontier and its people. The Yale Western Americana Series, published by Yale University Press, has now exceeded forty volumes. And under the direction of former University President Howard R. Lamar '51 PhD, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, and John Mack Faragher '77 PhD, Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History, Yale has been a leading center for the study of Western and frontier history, graduating well over 60 PhDs in the field since the mid-1950s.
Join Professor Lamar, Professor Faragher, and George Miles '74,'77 MPhil, William Robertson Coe Curator of the Yale Collection of Americana. They will present some treasures from the Western Americana Collection and discuss the ways in which that collection and the new Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders have influenced two generations of undergraduate education and become primary forces in developing a fuller appreciation of our country's frontier heritage and the continuing distinctiveness of the Far West.
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Home of Master Musicians: The Tokyo String Quartet
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Mikhail Kopelman
Kikuei Ikeda
Kazuhide Isomura
Sadao Harada
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Members of the world-renowned Tokyo String Quartet have been artists in residence and members of the faculty at the Yale School of Music for twenty-five years. Join Mikhail Kopelman (violin), Kikuei Ikeda (violin), Kazuhide Isomura (viola), and Sadao Harada (cello) at an open rehearsal, listen to these extraordinary musicians rehearse some of their repertoire, and converse with them about their life and their art.
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A Leader in Theatrical Scenic Design: A Master Class with Ming Cho Lee
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Ming Cho Lee
Michael Yeargan
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The celebrated Yale School of Drama was the first of its kind when it was established in 1925 and has trained more theater practitioners and educators than any other institution in the country. It is continually ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the country's number one graduate theater training program. Ming Cho Lee, Donald M. Oenslager Professor, is a Drama School legend. Recipient of the first Joseph Maharam Award, the National Opera Institute Special Award for Service to American Opera, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Obie Award, multiple Tony nominations and awards, the New York City Mayor's Award for Arts and Culture, and the Chinatown Planning Commission's Award as Man of the Year, he and his former students are among the most distinguished set designers in the world.
Visit a Master Class with Ming Cho Lee and Associate Professor Michael Yeargan '73 MFA. Together with their students, they will introduce you to the aesthetics and the process of scenic design through critique and discussion. This particular class will focus on the American Musical Theater -from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Kander and Ebb, from Anything Goes to Fiddler on the Roof, and everything in between.
Having spent a full year studying with the acclaimed Lee and Yeargan, the students will present their final design projects for the classic American musical Guys and Dolls.
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Yale and the Environment: Inventing American Forestry (then) and a New Environmental Governance (now)
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James Gustave Speth
John C. Gordon
Marian R. Chertow
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On hearing that Gifford Pinchot 1889 was going to testify on forestry, a leading member of Congress asked a century ago, "Who the devil is Gifford Pinchot, and what the devil is forestry?" But within a few decades, Yale's School of Forestry, founded by Pinchot and Yale in 1900, was providing deans for half of the dozens of new forestry schools in the U.S. and directors for almost half of all state and federal forests. Today's environmental challenges are more serious, and more global, than those that spurred Yale to act a hundred years ago, but government is trapped with outmoded regulatory approaches adopted in the early 1970s. Currently, Yale faculty members are developing a new generation of environmental policies that will have farreaching impact on governments, businesses, and individuals from industrial and developing countries.
Join James Gustave Speth '64,'69 LLB, Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, formerly the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme; John C. Gordon, Pinchot Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Director of the Yale Forest Forum, and former Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies; and Marian R. Chertow '81 MPPM, Lecturer in Industrial Environmental Management and Director of the Program on Solid Waste Policy and the Industrial Environmental Management Program, as they explore a new paradigm of environmental governance..
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A Force in Southern History
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Barbara Fields
Glenda Gilmore
William McFeely
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once called the late Professor C. Vann Woodward's book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, "the Bible of the Civil Rights movement." Woodward's presence at Yale as Sterling Professor of History made it for twenty-five years the single most important university at which to study Southern History. Today Yale faculty, as well as illustrious Yale graduates throughout the nation, continue Woodward's legacy.
Join Barbara Fields '78 PhD, Professor of History at Columbia; Glenda Gilmore, Professor of History at Yale; and William McFeely '62 MA, '66 PhD, Abraham Baldwin Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at the University of Georgia, for a discussion of Woodward's pathbreaking book forty-five years after its publication.
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A Leader in Literary Criticism
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Louis Martz
Peter Brooks
Vilashini Cooppan
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For generations Yale has pioneered new ways of reading. In the 1940s and 1950s younger members of the English department, along with Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, helped make the University the epicenter for the study of New Criticism, and their books transformed the way literature was taught in America's schools. In the 1960s and 1970s, Yale was once again in the limelight as Poststructuralism, Deconstruction, and Psychoanalytic theory became the controversial new modes of literary study. Following the rise of Postcolonial Studies and Cultural Studies in the 1980s, scholars have sought to expand their understanding of literature's global forms and its changing social inscriptions.
You've heard about all these theories -but can you actually explain them to anyone?
Join Louis Martz '39 PhD, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English; Peter Brooks, Chester Tripp Professor of the Humanities; and Vilashini Cooppan '88, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, as they explain these theories, why they mattered, who at Yale developed, taught, and disseminated them, and where they stand in literary studies today.
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Art for Yale: Defining Moments
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Helen Cooper
Mimi Gardner Gates
Susan Matheson
Jock Reynolds
Charles Sawyer
Alan Shestack
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The Yale University Art Gallery, founded in 1832, was the first college-affiliated art gallery in the country, and now houses one of the finest art collections extant at any world university. Come to the Gallery to view a major exhibition tracing the fascinating historical development of America's first great teaching museum.
Join distinguished past directors of the Yale Art Gallery -Charles Sawyer '29; Alan Shestack, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, National Gallery of Art; and Mimi Gardner Gates '81 PhD, Director of the Seattle Art Museum-as well as Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director, and the exhibition's co-organizers -Helen Cooper, the Holcombe Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, and Susan Matheson, the Walter and Molly Bareiss Curator of Ancient Art-for a lively discussion of how the Gallery has grown and flourished through the contributions of many remarkable artists, patrons, scholars, and students.
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A Leader in Cognitive Science
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Frank Keil
Marcia Johnson
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From the days of Jonathan Edwards 1720, Yale scholars have been concerned with the nature of knowledge and its origins. The publication in 1977 of a landmark book by Yale Professors Robert Abelson and Roger Schank-Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry Into Human Knowledge Structures -played a central role in the emergence of modern Cognitive Science approaches to these issues. Today, one of the most active areas of research concerns the vulnerability of knowledge. In remembering events, how are we able to distinguish what really happened from fantasies, dreams, and hearsay? What sorts of errors in knowledge are most common and why? How is the young child's knowledge of the world different from our own? How do memory and knowledge change with development?
Join Frank Keil, Professor of Psychology and Linguistics, and Marcia Johnson, Professor of Psychology, for a discussion of how the study of the origins of knowledge at Yale in the next century will involve a convergence of approaches from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and linguistics among other disciplines. Professors Johnson and Keil will provide demonstrations of the cognitive processes that under-lie our conceptions (and misconceptions) of reality.
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The Autobiography of a Nobel Prize Winner
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Sidney Altman
with Maxine Singer
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Teaching, research, and citizenship define the calling of a faculty member at Yale. Sidney Altman, Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, represents all three: teaching undergraduates and graduate students, serving as Dean of Yale College from 1985 to 1989, and conducting the seminal research that led him to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989.
Join Professor Altman and listen to his riveting account of his development as a scientist, including the ups and downs of a career that led to his work on the enzymatic properties of RNA and the award of the Nobel Prize. Former Yale Corporation member Maxine Singer '57 PhD, President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, will introduce and moderate the question period.
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World Famous for Song
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Richard Lalli
and undergraduates
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For generations, Yale has been known as a place renowned for singing. From Charles Ives 1898 to Cole Porter '13 and Paul Hindemith, Battell Professor of the Theory of Music 1941-1953, Yale composers have written great songs and Yale singers have sung them. From the Yale Glee Club to Yale Gilbert and Sullivan, from the Yale Opera Company to the first a cappella singing group in America, Yalies have a tradition of beautiful music and beautiful voices and of singing their way through Yale. Today join Professor Richard Lalli, distinguished baritone and recording artist, as he gives a master class to six talented undergraduate singers, who will offer songs by Yale composers Charles Ives and Cole Porter.
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Undergraduates and Opera: Kurt Weill's "Down in the Valley"
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Yale Opera Company
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Yale has a history of having undergraduates with perfectly glorious voices. Come listen as the Yale Opera Company performs this enchanting forty-minute opera by Kurt Weill, whose papers are held by the Yale Music Library. This ingratiating work, with ties to American musicals, charmed audiences in the fall of 2000 and is being repeated today by special request.
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The Yale Cancer Center: Opening the Black Box
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Vincent T. DeVita, Jr.
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The Yale Cancer Center is the only Comprehensive Cancer Center designated by the National Cancer Institute between New York City and Boston and one of only thirty-seven to be so ranked in the nation. With its research base, the Yale Cancer Center facilitates scientific discoveries through thirteen multidisciplinary research programs and sixteen shared research facilities, including a clinical trials office.
Thirty years ago, the cancer cell was very much like a black box-forbidding, mysterious, the bearer of the worst possible tidings. Since the passage of the National Cancer Act in 1971, the workings of the cancer cell have gone from black box to blueprint.
Join Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., Director of the Yale Cancer Center; Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology, and Epidemiology and Public Health; and former Director of the National Cancer Institute. Dr. DeVita discovered the cure for Hodgkin's disease and made other major breakthroughs in cancer treatment. He will discuss his approach of bringing scientific breakthroughs to patient care as quickly as possible - an approach called "translational research," which is the guiding principle of the Yale Cancer Center.
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Inventing the Modern Game of Football
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Tom Beckett
Carm Cozza
Jack Ford
Kurt Schmoke
Jack Siedlecki
Ed Woodsum
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Knute Rockne, once asked to reveal where the famous Notre Dame "shift" came from, responded, "Where everything else in football came from. Yale." Indeed, Walter Camp 1880 was the man who essentially invented American college football and made Yale's name synonymous with the game. This year Yale's football team was the first in the country to achieve 800 wins.
Join former Yale Coach Carm Cozza; present Yale Coach Jack Siedlecki; former Yale football great Ed Woodsum'53, member of the Yale Corporation 1979-1988 and Director of Athletics 1988-1994; and former football and lacrosse player Kurt Schmoke '71, Mayor of Baltimore 1987-1999 and present Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation, while they review movie clips of some of Yale's legendary games and discuss the extraordinary legacy of Yale football and the players who have brought Yale glory on the field and in later life. Director of Athletics Tom Beckett will introduce, and Jack Ford '72, former All Ivy football player and ABC 20/20 anchor, will moderate and participate.
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Yale and Public Service: Former President George H.W. Bush