Friday, February 10
Special Preview Screening

Hysteria (USA, 2011) 100 min.
Romantic comedy based on the discovery of the vibrator
Director Tanya Wexler, Yale Class of 1992
Introduced by Professor Naomi Rogers
and followed by a DRAMATalk with the director
(Yale Dramatic Association and Films at the Whitney)
4 pm, Auditorium

Friday, February 10
The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915–1960

Rare samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center, Tokyo
Program Four
(Council of East Asian Studies; National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Film Studies Program; and
Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information see
The Sword and the Screen.doc

Saturday, February 11
The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915–1960

Rare samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center, Tokyo
Program Five
(Council of East Asian Studies; National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Film Studies Program; Films at the Whitney; and Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Film screenings, Auditorium
8 pm, Symposium, Auditorium
For more information see
The Sword and the Screen.doc

Tuesday, February 14
Shakespeare at the Whitney Film Series

A special Valentine's Day screening
Shakespeare in Love
(USA, 1988) 123 min. 35mm.
Director John Madden
In conjunction with a 5:15 pm tour of Remembering Shakespeare, an exhibition at the Beinecke Library
led by Kathryn James, curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts
(Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information click here

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Thursday, February 16
Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism

Jonathan Judaken, Rhodes College, and Jeffrey Alexander,
Yale University
"Theorizing the Study of
Anti-Semitism"
(Yale Program for the Study of
Anti-Semitism and
Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Room 208
For more information please see http://ypsa.yale.edu/

Thursday, February 16

Blue Valentine
(USA, 2010) 112 min. 35mm.
Director Derek Cianfrance
Followed by a discussion with Producer Jack Lechner
(Film Studies Program and
Films at the Whitney)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences
7 pm, Auditorium

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Friday, February 17 - Saturday, February 18
French Graduate Student Conference

Ethics and Literature
Keynote speaker, William Calin, University of Florida
"The Ethical Turn: The Moral Imagination? or Ideological Moralism?"
(Department of French, Dean's Fund for Student-Organized Symposia, and Whitney Humanities Center)
For more information see http://yale.edu/french/gradconference2012/index.html32

Saturday, February 18

Bright Everything: new music by Gabriel Zucker '12
for jazz quartet and chamber ensemble (string quartet, wind quintet, percussion)
Conducted by Thomas Duffy
Violins - Jacob Joyce, Alex Vourtsanis; Viola - Jonathan MacMillan;
Cello - Georgia Lill
Oboe - Rachel Perfecto;
Clarinets - Will Benet; Emile Greer; Horn - Casey Rhyne
Bassoon - Nick Baskin;
Percussion - Zach Sima; and Chilled Water Supply
(Department of Music and
Music at the Whitney)
4 pm, Auditorium
For more information about Chilled Water Supply see http://chilledwatersupply.bandcamp.com/

Saturday, February 18
South Asian Film Festival

Delhi Belly
(India, 2011) 103 min. 35mm.
Director Abhinay Deo
(South Asian Film Society, South Asian Studies Council, Yale College Undergraduate Organizations
Funding Committee, Asian American Cultural Center, Yale Film Study Center, ITS Academic Technologies, and
Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information email shunori.ramanathan@yale.edu

Saturday, February 18

Natural Born Killers
(USA, 1994) 118 min.
Director Oliver Stone
(Yale Film Society and
Films at the Whitney)
10 pm, Auditorium

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Sunday, February 19
South Asian Film Festival

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
(India, 2011) 155 min. 35mm.
Director Zoya Akhtar
(South Asian Film Society, South Asian Studies Council, Yale College Undergraduate Organizations
Funding Committee, Asian American Cultural Center, Yale Film Study Center, ITS Academic Technologies, and
Films at the Whitney)
2pm, Auditorium
For more information email shunori.ramanathan@yale.edu

Tuesday, February 21
The Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities

Music and Human Evolution
Jamshed Bharucha,
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
"The Alignment and Synchronization of Brain States through Music"
5 pm, Room 208
For more information click here

Thursday, February 23
Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture

Roya Hakakian, poet, journalist
and writer
"9/17/1992: The Political Assassination, Stubborn Prosecutor,
and Historic Verdict That Shook Iran and Europe" 
(Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture Fund, Department of French; Women Faculty Forum; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Program; and
Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Room 208
For more information email agnes.bolton@yale.edu

Friday, February 24–Saturday, February 25
Film Studies Program Annual Conference

The Dialects and Dialectics of Subtitling: Graphing Language
Matters in Film
(Film Studies Program, Department of Comparative Literature, and
Whitney Humanities Center)
Friday, 5 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, 9 am, Auditorium
For more information visit www.yale.edu/filmstudiesprogram/
events.html