Gallery Talk
Chip Kidd, Associate Artistic Director, Knopf Publishing Group
"A Short History of 20th Century Book Cover Design"
4:30 pm, Room 108
November 5–January 28, 2009
Book Jacket Design from the
The Gallery
at the
53 Wall Street
MW 3-5 pm
Or by appointment at (203) 432-0670
The
Gallery at the Whitney is pleased to present an exhibition of outstanding book
jacket design from Yale University Press. The designers for the Press have long
been the recipients of numerous and prestigious awards. This exhibit is part of
the Press's centenary celebrations and aims to honor its designers and excite
viewers with the colorful, witty, and sometimes haunting beauty of these fine
designs. For information about other Press centenary events, see http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/centennial/centennialcelebrations.asp
Shulman Lectures
Janet Browne,
"
5 pm, Room 208
February 5
Brian A. Catlos,
"Towards the Mediterranean: Historical Coherence and Historiographical
Orientation for the Study of the Medieval West"
(Committee on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Department of History, and
5 pm, Room 208
For more information email jean.silk@yale.edu or paul.freedman@yale.edu
February 11
Peter Cole, poet and translator
A reading from his new volume of poems,
Things on Which I've Stumbled, and his anthology of medieval Hebrew
poetry from Spain, The Dream of the Poem
(Department of English, Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, and
Whitney Humanities Center)
5 pm, Room 208
For more information contact Susan Stout at 432-6556 or email susan.stout@yale.edu
That Commitment to Discovery: Paintings and
Drawings by
The
Gallery at the Whitney
Whitney Humanities Center
53 Wall Street
MW 3-5 pm
Or by appointment at (203) 432-0670
The Gallery at the Whitney is pleased to present That Commitment to Discovery, an exhibition of oils,
watercolors, and charcoal drawings by renowned painter and teacher
February 15
The Yuval Ron Ensemble
"Mystical
Music of the Middle East"
(Yale Chaplain's Office and
5 pm, Auditorium
February 18
Rob Riemen, author of Nobility
of Spirit; founder, president, and CEO of
the Nexus Institute
"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Faith, Art, and Truth in the 21st
Century"
(Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, Humanities Program, and Whitney
Humanities Center)
4 pm, Slifka Center
For more information contact Marguerite Camera at 432-7457 or email marguerite.camera@yale.edu
February 19–February 20
Postwar Queer Underground Cinema, 1950–1968—Conference
(Yale Research Initiative on the History of
Sexualities, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Department of the
History of Art, Film Studies Program, Theater Studies Program, and Whitney
Humanities Center)
For more information call Denise Scott at 432-3905 or email denise.scott@yale.edu or visit http://www.yale.edu/yrihs/quconf.html
(Pre-registration will be required)
February 26
Music at the Whitney
"oh the places you'll go: music for piano
inspired by geography and travel"
(Department of Music and
4:30 pm, Auditorium
February 26
Yale Lecture Series in Media and Television
William Boddy,
"Any Platform. Any Media. Anywhere: Targeting Contemporary Television's
Dispersed Audience"
(Film Studies Program and Whitney Humanities Center)
5 pm, LC211
For more information call Susan Hart at 436-4668 or email susan.hart@yale.edu
or visit www.yale.edu/filmstudiesprogram/events.html
February 27
Yale Lecture Series in Media and Television
"Workshop in Film Television and Media
Studies with William Boddy"
(Film Studies Program and Whitney Humanities Center)
9:30 am–11:30 pm, Room 116
For more information call
Susan Hart at 436-4668 or email susan.hart@yale.edu or visit www.yale.edu/filmstudiesprogram/events.html
March 1
(Council on East Asian Studies, Department of East
Asian Languages and Literatures,
Film Studies Program, and Whitney Humanities Center)
For more information email anne.letterman@yale.edu or visit http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/events.php 
David Polonsky, art director
"Art in the Film Waltz with Bashir"
(School of Art, Film Studies Program, Council on Middle East Studies,
Schusterman Visiting Artist Program, and Whitney Humanities Center)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information email ronald.gregg@yale.edu
Yale Lecture Series in Media and Television
Heather Hendershot, City University
of New York
"What’s Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest"
(Film Studies Program and
5:30 pm, Room 208
For more information visit www.yale.edu/filmstudiesprogram
March 24
The Blessing of a Broken Heart
Directed by Todd
Salovey, Artistic Director of the San Diego Repertory Theatre
(Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, Jewish Community Center of
Greater New Haven, Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, and Whitney
Humanities Center)
8 pm, Auditorium
For more information contact Slifka Center at 432-1134 or email gabrielle.pasternak@yale.edu
The 2009 John Hersey Lecture
Olivia Judson, Imperial College London and New York Times
"The Art of Seduction: Evolution, Sex, and the Public"
(
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information contact alfred.guy@yale.edu
Symposium on Mapping Memory: Performance, Witnessing, and Place
Jean Graham-Jones, City University of New York
Grant Kester, UC San
Diego
Jill Lane, New York
University
Diana Taylor, New York
University
Karen E. Till, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University
(World Performance Project; Yale Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies; American Studies; La Casa Cultural; and Whitney Humanities Center)
11 am - 6 pm, Room 208
For more information contact Heidi McAnnally-Linz at 432-0668 or email heidi.mcannally-linz@yale.edu or visit http://www.yalerep.org/
noboundaries/witness.html and http://wpp.research.yale.edu/eventsschedule.php?id=171&type=desc
March 27
Music at the Whitney
The Jasper String Quartet
plays
Joseph Haydn, Quartet in D Major, Op. 76 No.5
Thomas Ades, "Arcadiana" for string quartet
Bela Bartok, Quartet No. 3
(School of Music and Whitney Humanities Center)
4:30 pm, Auditorium
March 31
Bernard Stiegler, Centre Georges Pompidou
"From Plato to Derrida and Beyond...The Question of Pharmacology"
(Humanities Program and
5:30 pm, Room 208
April
1
Shulman Lectures
Bernard Lightman,
"How the Victorians Learned about
5:30 pm, Room 208
April 2
Music at the Whitney
Chamber Music Celebration!
Masterpieces of chamber works for strings, piano, and winds
performed by undergraduate musicians from
Wendy Sharp's Performance of Chamber Music seminar
(Department of Music and
4:30 pm, Auditorium
April 3–April 5
Foundations
of Modernity: A Graduate Symposium on the Italian Renaissance
(Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Departments of Classics,
English, French, History, Italian, and Music; Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke
Kempf Memorial Fund; European Studies Council; Film Studies Program; Institute
of Sacred Music; Renaissance Studies Program; Whitney Humanities Center; and
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences)
For more information visit www.yale.edu/italian/news/index.html
April 7
Music at the Whitney
17th-Century Song: Daring, imaginative, and moving music for solo voice
by Caccini, Monteverdi, Strozzi, D'India, Frescobaldi, and others
Performed by undergraduate and graduate students in Grant Herreid's Performance
of Early Opera class and Ilya Poletaev's Continuo class
(Department of Music and Whitney Humanities Center)
4:30 pm, Auditorium
April 7
Yale
Lecture Series in Media and Television
Anna Everett,
UC
"Obamamia!: Viral Media Gone Global, and the Where U @? Generation"
(Film Studies Program and
5:30 pm, Room 208
For more information visit www.yale.edu/filmstudiesprogram/events.html
April 9
Music
at the Whitney
"1, 2, or even 3": From Mozart (1756-1791)
to Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
Solo, duo, and trio with piano performed by Yale College students
(Department of Music and Whitney Humanities Center)
April 13
Naomi
Schor Memorial Lecture
Judith Butler,
"What Does Gender Want of Me?"
(Department of French; Women Faculty Forum; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies Program; and
4 pm, Auditorium
April 14
Oren
Harman,
"The Evolution of Ethics or the Ethics of Evolution: On Two
Nineteenth-Century Gladiators"
(Humanities Program and
4:30 pm, Room 208
April 16
Vampire
Symphonies
A screening of F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu,
a Symphony of Horror (1922, 85 min.)
with live music accompaniment from Caroline Shaw (violin) and Trevor Gureckis
(piano)
followed by a screening of Guy Maddin's Dracula:
Pages from a Virgin's Diary
(2002, 73 min.) to the score of Gustav Mahler's Resurrection Symphony
(Yale Film Society and
7 pm and 9 pm, Auditorium
April 16
Can
Xue reading from her novel
"If China has one possibility of a Nobel laureate it is Can Xue."-
Susan Sontag
(
5 pm, Room 208
April 17
The
Second Life of Literature: Collaboration and Cultural Intervention in Translation
A panel
discussion in conjunction with the publication of Can Xue's novel Five Spice Street, a Margellos World
Republic of Letters book
Jonathan Brent, Yale
University Press
Karen Gernant, Southern
Oregon University
Alyson Waters, Yale
University
Chen Zeping, Fujian
Teachers' University
Virginia Jewiss,
Whitney Humanities Center, Yale, moderator
(Yale University Press and Whitney Humanities Center)
2 pm, Room 208
April 21
Music
at the Whitney
Chamber Music
from the 17th and 18th Centuries
Yale Baroque Ensemble, Robert Mealy, director
Alexander Woods and Caroline Shaw, baroque violins
Ezra Seltzer, baroque cello
Avi Stein, harpsichord
(Department of Music and Whitney Humanities Center)
4:30 pm, Auditorium
April 21
Yale
Lecture Series in Media and Television
Anna
"Governing by Television"
(Film Studies Program and
5:30 pm, Room 208
For more information visit www.yale.edu/filmstudiesprogram
April 22
Shulman
Lectures
Ronald
L. Numbers,
"Antievolution in
5:30 pm, Room 208
April 23
Music
at the Whitney
"L'heure exquise": An afternoon of
19th- and 20th-century French mélodies
Opulent, ephemeral, and witty songs by Debussy, Ravel, Satie, and others
performed by undergraduates in Judith Malafronte's Art Song class
Sara Kohane, piano
(Department of Music and Whitney Humanities Center)
4:30 pm, Auditorium
Manuscript, Edition,
Production: Readying Cavalli’s Operas for the Stage—Conference
(Yale Baroque Opera Project
and
For more information email lynda.paul@yale.edu
or visit http://www.yale.edu/yalemus/cavalli.html
or http://www.yale.edu/ybop/
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 