Saturday, September 10
The Big Lebowski
(USA, 1998) 117 min. 35mm.
Directors Joel and Ethan Coen
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Tuesday, September 13
Food Justice and the Farm Bill: A Discussion
Lorette Picciano, Rural Coalition, and Angelines Lamb, Slow Food USA
(Yale Sustainable Food Project and Whitney Humanities Center)
5 pm, Room 208
Thursday, September 15
The Franke Lectures in the Humanities
Art and Music in Venice
Deborah Howard, Cambridge University
"Music and Architecture in Renaissance Venice"
5 pm, Room 208
Friday, September 16
Horizon: Are We Still Evolving?
Screening of BBC documentary
Followed by panel discussion of current human evolution
with Brenda Bradley, Richard Bribiescas, Kenneth Kidd,
Peter Ellison, Stephen Stearns, and Sarah Tishkoff
(Departments of Anthropology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities, and the Traphagen Alumni Speaker Series)
2 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, September 17
Films at the Whitney
Color Me Obsessed: A Film about the Replacements (USA, 2011) 123 min.
Director Gorman Bechard
Introduced and followed by Q&A with the director
(Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Tuesday, September 20
Religion & Film Series @ Yale
Babette's Feast (Denmark, 1987) 102 min. 35mm.
Director Gabriel Axel
Introduced and post-screening discussion led by Kathryn Lofton
(American Studies, Film Studies Program, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures and Religion, Institute of Sacred Music, Religious Studies, and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, September 21
Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism
Jan Gross, Princeton University
"On the Periphery of the Holocaust: Killing and Plunder of Jews by
Their Neighbors"
(Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Department of History, and Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Room 208
Thursday, September 22
Preview Screening!
Wham! Bam! Islam! (USA, 2011) 55 min.
Director Isaac Solotaroff
Followed by Q&A with the director and animators Reno Msad and Camilla Wycoco
(Chaplain's Office, Council on Middle East Studies, Religious Studies, Jews and Muslims at Yale, Muslim Student Association, and Films at theWhitney)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, September 23
Sneak Preview!
Grassroots (USA, 2011) 94 min.
Director and Screenwriter Stephen Gyllenhaal
Introduced and followed by Q&A with the director and producer Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal
(Bulldog Productions, Environmental Film Festival at Yale, and Films at the Whitney)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, September 24
Rushmore (USA, 1998) 93 min. 35mm.
Director Wes Anderson
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Monday, September 26 through Friday, December 16
Gallery at the Whitney
Gertrude Bell in Mesopotamia: Archaeologist, Arabist, Diplomat, Spy
Whitney Humanities Center
53 Wall Street
MW 3–5 pm
Or by appointment at (203) 432-0670
Thursday, September 29
The Franke Lectures in the Humanities
Art and Music in Venice
Edward Muir, Northwestern University
"Venice, The Republic of Processions"
5 pm, Room 208
Friday, September 30
A tragedie called Oedipus
An Elizabethan Manuscript
Re-Discovered Conference
(Elizabethan Club of Yale University and Whitney Humanities Center)
10 am, Room 208
Friday, September 30
Manhattan Short Film Festival
World's First Global Film Festival
(Yale College Dean's Office and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, September 30–Tuesday, October 4
New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema
At the Whitney Humanities Center
Auditorium from
Saturday, October 1 through
Tuesday, October 4
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
Monday, October 3
Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
"On Good and Bad Credit: A Forgotten Chapter in European Debates about Jews and Capitalism"
(Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Transitions to Modernity Colloquium, and
Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Room 38/39, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Wednesday, October 5
Former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky reading from his poems
Introduced by Langdon Hammer
(Department of English, International Security Studies, and Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Room 208
Thursday, October 6
Winner-India's National Award for Best Documentary of the Year
Kanaka-Purandara (India, 1988)
Director Girish Karnad
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director
(South Asian Studies Council and Films at the Whitney)
6 pm, Room 208
Friday, October 7
Utsav (India, 1984) 145 min.
Director Girish Karnad
Introduced by and followed by a Q&A with the director
(South Asian Studies Council and Films at the Whitney)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, October 8
Why Is There Anything?
Cosmos, Logos, and the "Why" of the Universe Conference
Public Session featuringSir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal
"From Big Bangs to Biospheres, and Beyond"
(Divinity School, Religious Studies, Philosophy, Astronomy, and Whitney Humanities Center)
8 pm, Auditorium
Monday, October 10
Nishant / Night's End (India, 1975) 140 min.
Director Shyam Benegal
Introduced by Anuradha Needham
and followed by a Q&A with actor Girish Karnad
(South Asian Studies Council and Films at the Whitney)
6:30 pm, Auditorium
Tuesday, October 11
Religion & Film Series @ Yale
There Will Be Blood (USA, 2007) 158 min. 35mm.
Director Paul Thomas Anderson
Introduced and post-screening discussion led by Kathryn Loftons
(American Studies, Film Studies Program, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures
and Religion, Institute of Sacred Music, Religious Studies, and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, October 12
Vernissage
Gertrude Bell in Mesopotamia:
Archaeologist, Arabist, Diplomat, Spy
The Gallery at the Whitney
5 pm, Room 108
Thursday, October 13
The Franke Lectures in the Humanities
Art and Music in Venice
David Rosand, Columbia University
"Painting Music in Renaissance Venice"
5 pm, Room 208
Friday, October 14
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel 50 Years Later: A Symposium
(Imitatio Foundation, Department of Comparative Literature, and Whitney Humanities Center)
9:30 am, Room 208
Monday, October 17
Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism
Alvin Rosenfeld, Indiana University
"Holocaust Denial and Holocaust Approval: Two Sources of the
'New Anti-Semitism'"
(Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism and Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Room 208
Friday, October 21
Opening reception for Mesopotamia
A play based on the Baghdad career of Gertrude Bell
Archaeologist, Arabist, Diplomat, Spy
In a staged reading with renowned actor Kathleen Chalfant
5 pm, Room 108
Friday, October 21, and Saturday, October 22
Mesopotamia
A play based on the Baghdad career of Gertrude Bell
Archaeologist, Arabist, Diplomat, Spy
In a staged reading with renowned actor Kathleen Chalfant
Directed by Evan Yionoulis, Yale School of Drama, Yale Repertory Theatre
Written by Robert Myers, Franke Visiting Fellow
Followed by a Q&A with the cast, writer, and director
(American University of Beirut, Council on Middle East Studies,
Whitney Humanities Center, and World Performance Project)
7 pm, Auditorium
Monday, October 24
Yale Center for the Study of Globalization Lecture
Josh Haner/The New York Times
Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times
"That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back"
(Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and Whitney Humanities Center)
4:30 pm, Auditorium
For more information see www.ycsg.yale.edu or call 203 432 1904.
Limited seating. First come, first seated.
Monday, October 24
Max Frisch–Year 2011
Homo Faber (Germany, 1991), 117 min.
Director Volker Schlondorff
(Department of German and Films at the Whitney)
6:30 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, October 26
ART SONG with IGIGI and the Yale Literary Magazine
Yale College composers set poems by Yale College poets
Featuring mezzo sopranos Bonnie Antosh, Marisa Karchin, and
Katey McDonald
Sharon Wu and Gabriel Zucker, piano
(Pierson College CPA Award and Music at the Whitney)
4 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, October 27
Max Frisch–Year 2011
Barbara Naumann, Zurich University
"Novel, Media: Max Frisch's 'Mein Name sei Gantenbein'"
(Department of German and Whitney Humanities Center)
5:30 pm, Room 208
Thursday, October 27
Anton Chekhov's The Duel (USA, 2010) 95 min. 35mm.
Director Dover Koshashvili
Followed by a Q&A with Screenwriter Mary Bing and Producer Donald Rosenfeld,
moderated by Murray Biggs
(Films at the Whitney)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Friday, October 28
The Melancholy Fantastic (USA, 2011)
Director A.D. Calvo
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director and actors Robin Lord Taylor and two-time Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe, Tony, and Emmy Award winner Shirley Knight
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, October 29
The Shining (USA, 1980) 142 min.
Director Stanley Kubrick
(Yale Film Society and
Films at the Whitney)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, October 29–Sunday, October 30
Strange Encounters: Asian Religions and the "Other"
(Religious Studies and Whitney Humanities Center)
Saturday, 8:30 am–5 pm, Room 208
Sunday, 8:30 am–1 pm, Room 208
For more information please email Marsha.Dobson@yale.edu
Saturday, October 29–Sunday, October 30
Shakespeare Goes Operatic
Featuring scenes from Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict,
Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Gounod's Roméo et Juliette,
Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate,
Rodgers and Hart's
The Boys from Syracuse, and Verdi's Otello and Falstaff
(Opera Theatre of Yale College and Whitney Humanities Center)
Saturday, 11:00 am, Auditorium
Sunday, 11:00 am, Auditorium
Sunday, October 30
The Broken Tower
(USA, 2011) 99 min.
Director James Franco
(Department of English and
Films at the Whitney)
2 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, November 2
Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism
Bruce Wexler, Yale Medical School
"Joint Israeli-Palestinian Study of the Portrayal of the 'Other' in School Books, Sponsored by the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land: Background, Methods, and Process"
(Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism and Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Room 208
Thursday, November 3
The Franke Lectures in the Humanities
Art and Music in Venice
William Barcham, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
"Public Life and Festivals in Eighteenth-Century Venice"
5 pm, Room 208
Friday, November 4
I Had a Dream of Return, a documentary by Andrzej Milosz
A Magic Mountain: American Portrait of Czeslaw Milosz, a documentary by Maria-Zmarz Koczanowicz Milosz and America, Czeslaw Milosz Conference
(Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; European Studies Council, with a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education; Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; Slavic Languages and Literatures; Adam Mickewicz Institute, Poland; The Institute of the Book, Poland; and Whitney Humanities Center)
8 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, November 5
Making Sense: Colloquium on Beauty, Creativity, and Healing
9:30 am–6 pm
10:15 am, Elaine Scarry, "Beauty and the Pact of Aliveness"
(Muriel Gardiner Program for Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, Program for Humanities in Medicine, Whitney Humanities Center, with the Society for Making Sense)
Saturday, November 5
Dolina Issy, by Tadeusz Konwicki
Milosz and America, Czeslaw
Milosz Conference
(Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; European Studies Council, with a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education; Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; Slavic Languages and Literatures; Adam Mickewicz Institute, Poland; The Institute of the Book, Poland; and Whitney Humanities Center)
9 pm, Auditorium
Monday, November 7
The Emergence of the Everyday: Kipling, Tagore, and Indian
Regional Writing
Amit Chaudhuri, University of
East Anglia
(Comparative Literature Department, South Asian Studies Council, and
Whitney Humanities Center)
5 pm, Room 208
Monday, November 7
Jesus Was a Commie and other
short films
Director, writer, actor
Matthew Modine
(Pierson College, Yale Summer Film Institute, and Films at the Whitney)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, November 9
The Finzi-Contini Lecture
Jonathan Galassi, Farrar,
Straus and Giroux
"A Translator's Confession"
5 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, November 10
An Evening with Milosz and
American Poets
Commemorating the Centenary of Czeslaw Milosz's Birth
Anna Frajlich, Poet and Senior Lecturer, Columbia University
Benjamin Paloff, Poet, Scholar, Translator, and Professor,
University of Michigan
Alissa Valles, Poet and Translator
(European Studies Council, with a USDE Title VI grant, Polish Institute of the Book, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, Alfred Puchala Family Fund, and
Whitney Humanities Center)
4:30 pm, Room 108
Thursday, November 10
Elizabethan Club Centenary Lecture
"Also being present and hearing":
The Common People in the Age of Elizabeth
Keith Wrightson, Randolph W. Townsend Professor of History, Yale
(Elizabethan Club of Yale University and Whitney Humanities Center)
5:30 pm, Room 208
Friday, November 11
Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) Bicentennial
(Department of French, CampusFrance USA, and Whitney Humanities Center)
9 am, Room 208
Friday, November 11
Veterans Day Screening and Panel Discussion
The First Yale Unit and the Birth of Naval Aviation
(Yale Veterans Association, Association of Yale Alumni, and Whitney Humanities Center)
1:30 pm, Auditorium
Friday, November 11–Saturday, November 12
Fashion in Film Symposium
"Secrets of the Orient: Costume, Movement, and Duration in the Cinematic Experience of the East"
Presentations by Hilton Als, Mario Montez, and Agosto Machado
Screenings include
Latcho Drom (1993), Lupe (1966), and The Great Invisible (2002)
(Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Cultural Services of the Embassy of France,
Film Study Center, ITS Academic Technologies, Film Studies Program, KG Productions, Museum of the Moving Image, British Council, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and
Whitney Humanities Center)
Friday, 4 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, 9:30 am, Auditorium
Wednesday, November 16
Music at the Whitney
Poetry in Song: Verlaine vs. Heine
Featuring students from Richard Lalli's Performance of Vocal Music Seminar
4:30 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, November 17
The River / Le Fleuve (France, 1951) 99 min. 35mm.
Director Jean Renoir
(Yale Center for British Art, Film Study Center, and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, November 30
Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism
Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University
"Playing the Blame Game: American Jews and the Historiography of America and the Holocaust"
(Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism and Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Room 208
Thursday, December 1
Day With(out) Art/World AIDS Day Screening
Untitled (USA, 2010) 60 min.
Filmmakers Jim Hodges,
Encke King, and Carlos Marques da Cruz
(Yale College Dean's Office and Whitney Humanities Center with support from the Arts Discretionary Fund)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, December 2–Saturday, December 3
Remnants of Utopia: European Film ca. 1975
(European Studies Council with a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the US Department of Education, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, Film Studies Program, Film Study Center, and Whitney Humanities Center)
Friday, 12:30 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, 12:15 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, December 7
Special Preview Screening
In the Land of Blood and Honey (USA, 2011) 127 min, 35mm.
Director Angelina Jolie
Followed by a Q&A with Production Designer Jon Hutman moderated by John MacKay
(Film Studies Program and Films at the Whitney)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, December 10
Lachrymae
Music for Viola and Piano
Colin Brookes, viola
Daniel Schlosberg, piano
Playing works by Shostakovich, Britten, and Enescu (School of Music and Music at the Whitney)
2:30 pm, Auditorium