Past Events
Wednesday, October 28–Friday, March 5
The Gallery at the Whitney
MW 3–5 pm
Or by appointment at (203) 432-0670
yale.edu/whc/GalleryAtTheWhitney/main.html
Tuesday, January 19
The Franke
Lectures in the Humanities
The Age of Cathedrals
Walter Cahn,
"Romanesque and Gothic as Biblical Architecture"
5:30 pm, Room 208
Monday, January 25
Tavia Nyong'o,
Associate Professor of Performance Studies,
"The Gentrification of Freakishness"
Response by Joanne Meyerowitz
In conjunction with "The Be(A)st
of Taylor Mac,"
Yale Rep, January 28–30
(Yale Repertory Theater, World Performance Project, and
5:30 pm, Room 208
Thursday, January 28–Friday, January 29
2010 Film Studies Graduate Student
Conference
"Screens, Sounds, Seats"
(Film Studies Program,
and Films at the Whitney)
Auditorium
For more information see http://www.yale.edu/exhibition
Saturday, January 30–Sunday, January 31
2010 South Asian Film Festival
Featuring Karma Calling (2009), Harishchandrachi Factory (2009),
and Kaminey (2009)
(Asian American Cultural Center; Chaplain's Office; Film Study Center; Films at the Whitney; Pacific Islander, Asian, and Native American Law Students; South Asian Film Society; South Asian Studies Council; Undergraduate Organization Funding Committee/Yale College Council; Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; Paul Joskow, Yale ‘72 PhD)
2 pm, Auditorium
[Friday, January 29 screening of Sita Sings the Blues (2008) in LC 102 at 6:30 pm]
For more information see http://www.yale.edu/safs
Monday, February 1
The Poynter
Fellowship in Journalism at Yale presents
a Conversation with Farai
Chideya
Journalist with NPR, Newsweek, MTV News, CNN, ABC News
(Office of Public Affairs
and
4 pm, Room 208
Limited seating. First come, first seated.
For more information see http://opa.yale.edu/poynter.aspx
Wednesday, February 3
Finzi-Contini
Lecture
Alberto Manguel, acclaimed essayist,
novelist, anthologist, translator, and editor
"Borges and the Impossibility of Writing"
5 pm, Auditorium
Mr. Manguel is the bestselling
author of numerous award-winning titles, including With Borges; A Dictionary of
Imaginary Places; A History of Reading; Reading Pictures; A Reading Diary; The
City of Words; and The Library at Night, a personal meditation on the critical
role libraries play in civilization. Books and reading are his essential
subjects: “I believe that we are, at the core, reading animals. We come into
the world intent on finding narrative in everything,” he writes in his new
book, A Reader on
The Finzi-Contini lectureship is devoted to aspects of European or comparative literature and culture. The distinguished list of past lecturers includes Umberto Eco, René Girard, Tzvetan Todorov, Charles Rosen, A. S. Byatt, Simon Schama, Orhan Pamuk, W. S. Merwin, and Azar Nafisi.
Thursday, February 4
The Man Who Shot
(
Introduction by Robert Post
(Dean,
Post-screening discussion on issues of jurisprudence in the film between Dean Post and Prof. Akhil Reed Amar.
(
6:15 pm, Auditorium
Limited seating. First come, first seated.
For more information email Ronald.Gregg@yale.edu
Friday, February 5–Sunday, February 7
Yale Film Studies Program Annual
Conference
"The Avant-Garde in the Indian New Wave"
(Film Studies Program, Department of Comparative Literature, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, and
Auditorium
Tuesday, February 9
The Franke
Lectures in the Humanities
The Age of Cathedrals
Robert Nelson,
"Hagia Sophia: An Alternative Biblical
Architecture of Light"
6 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, February 11
Award-winning Cuban filmmaker Miguel Coyula
Memorias del Desarrollo/Memories of Overdevelopment
(Cuba/USA, 2010) 115 min. Digital format.
Post-screening discussion with Director Miguel Coyula following the film
(Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies and Films at the Whitney)
Promptly at 5:30 pm, Auditorium
Friday, February 12
Who Knew? You Too Can Paint!
Pemaquid Shadow, 2009,
watercolor on paper, 18 x 14"
(private collection), by Suzanne Siegel
An introduction to painting in water color
with local artist and teacher Suzanne Siegel
in conjunction with Who Knew?
Paintings by Hazel Carby, Paul Fry,
Richard Lalli and John Loge
The Gallery at the Whitney
3 to 4:30 pm, Room 108
Materials provided. Reservations required.
To reserve a place, email inessa.laskova@yale.edu
or call (203) 432-0673
For information about Suzanne Siegel see http://www.suzannesiegel.net/information.html
yale.edu/whc/GalleryAtTheWhitney/main.html
Thursday, February 18
Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies
Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp
Professor of History
"European Impressions of
(Medieval Studies and
5:30 pm, Room 208
Friday, February 19–Saturday, February
20
"The Past’s Digital Presence:
Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities"
A Graduate Student Symposium
(Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Fund; Department of English; Department of Comparative Literature; American Studies Colloquium; Theory and Media Studies Colloquium; Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery; Department of History; Yale Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure; Center for History and New Media at George Mason University; Department of Classics; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Council of East Asian Studies; Department of the History of Art; Department of Philosophy; Department of Cognitive Science; Department of French; Film Studies; Gilder Lehrman Center; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Department of Religious Studies; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Digital Humanities Working Group; Cross-Lingual Poetics Working Group; and Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Friday, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
9 am, Saturday, WHC Auditorium
and Room 208
For more information visit http://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp
or email pdp@yale.edu
Wednesday, February 24
The Shulman
Lectures in Science and the Humanities
Science and Spectacle in the Enlightenment
Larry Stewart,
“Experiment and Response: Discovering the Philosophic Audience in the Enlightenment”
5 pm, Room 208
Friday, February 26
"Observation and Judgment in the Humanities" Symposium
(
10 am–6 pm, Auditorium
For more information email norma.thompson@yale.edu
Saturday, February 27
Music at the Whitney
Commemorating the Bicentenary of Robert Schumann
Abegg Variations, Opus 1; Davidsbüdlertänze, Opus 6; G minor Sonata, Opus 22
Performed by undergraduate musicians
in Wei-Yi Yang's piano studio
(Department of Music and
4:30 pm, Auditorium
Tuesday, March 2
The Franke
Lectures in the Humanities
The Age of Cathedrals
Jay Rubenstein,
"Guibert de Nogent and His Demons"
5:30 pm, Room 208
Monday, March 22–Friday, June 25
Invented Bodies: Shapely Constructs of
the Early Modern
Curated by Mia Reinoso Genoni, Mellon Special Collections Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, this exhibition of printed and hand-colored maps, portraits, illustrations, and pages from architectural treatises explores the ways that Early Modern Europeans viewed the world, society, and themselves in the form of “invented bodies.”
The Gallery at the Whitney
MW 3–5 pm
Or by appointment at (203) 432-0670
yale.edu/whc/GalleryAtTheWhitney/main.html
Wednesday, March 24
No Boundaries Lectures
Reginald Jackson,
"Baby Q and the Bio-Politics of Japanese Choreography in the Wake of Butoh"
Response by Paige McGinley,
(Yale Repertory Theater, World Performance Project, Theater Studies, and
5:30 pm, Room 208
Thursday, March 25
Music at the Whitney
CHAMBER MUSIC: A CONVERSATION BETWEEN FRIENDS
Works by Beethoven, Schumann, Smetana, Barber and Brahms,
performed by undergraduates from Wendy Sharp’s Performance of Chamber
Music seminar.
4:30 pm, Auditorium
Friday, March 26–Sunday, March 28
"Dante's Volume from Alpha to
Omega"
Graduate Student Symposium
on the Poet's Universe
(Department of Italian Language and Literature; Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Bob and Suzy Pence Family Fund; Department of Classics; Department of History; Department of History of Science and Medicine; Department of Music; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; European Studies Council, USDE Title VI Grant; Institute of Sacred Music; Yale Divinity School; Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; and Whitney Humanities Center)
10 am–6:15 pm, Friday, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
8:30 am–6:15 pm, Saturday, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
9 am–12 pm, Sunday,
For more information visit http://www.yale.edu/italian/news/index.html
Saturday, March 27
Music at the Whitney
METAMORPHOSIS / PIANO TRANSCRIPTIONS
150 years of intriguing works transcribed expressly for the piano,
performed by
from Wei-Yi Yang’s piano studio.
4:30 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, March 31
The Shulman
Lectures in Science and the Humanities
Science and Spectacle in the Enlightenment
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
“The Enlightenment and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth
in Eighteenth-Century
5 pm, Room 208
Wednesday, March 31
Award–winning film by Ashish Chadha
Nirakar Chhaya/Shadows Formless
(
Introduction and post-screening Q&A with Director Ashish Chadha
(South Asian Film Society and
Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information see http://www.avikunthak.com/Nirakar.html
or email snigdha.sur@yale.edu
Thursday, April 1
Asian American Film Festival
Songs of a Sorrowful Man
(
Directors Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östör,
and Aditi Nath Sarkar
Followed by Q &A with Lina Fruzzetti
(South Asian Studies Council, South Asian Society, South Asian Graduate/Professional Association, Muslim Students Association, Women's Center at Yale,
and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information see www.der.org/films/songs-of-a-sorrowful-man.html
Friday, April 2
Music at the Whitney
Commemorating the Bicentenary of Frédéric Chopin
Chopin's most famous pieces performed by Jeffrey and Olivia Ly,
winners of the 2009 IAMGC, Inc. International Piano Contest,
under the tutelage of Dr. Bella E. Oster
(
(Polish Student Society at Yale and
7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, April 4
Music at the Whitney
The Yale Raga Society proudly presents
Purbayan Chatterjee (sitar), Rakesh Chaurasia (flute), and Yogesh Samsi (tabla) Live in Concert
(Asian American Cultural Center, Office of the Secretary,
South Asian Studies Council,
7 pm, Auditorium
Reserve seats online at www.yaleragasociety.org
Seating not guaranteed without advance reservation.
Monday, April 5
Music at the Whitney
LA MÉLODIE FRANÇAISE
Works by Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Chausson, and Duparc,
sung by undergraduates in Richard Lalli’s Vocal Music seminar, with pianist
Sara Kohane.
4:30 pm, Auditorium
Monday, April 5
Asian American Film Festival
The Cats of Mirikaitani
(
Director Linda Hattendorf
(Japanese American Students
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information see
www.thecatsofmirikitani.com/aboutFilm.htm
Tuesday, April 6
The Franke
Lectures in the Humanities
The Age of Cathedrals
Alyce
“The Sainte-Chapelle in
5:30 pm, Room 208
Tuesday, April 6
2010 Environmental Film Festival at Yale
East Coast Premiere
(
Director Nicole Torre
Screening with
Hanasaari A (
Directors Hannes Vartiaine
and Pekka Veikkolainen
(
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information and complete roster of sponsors see
http://environment.yale.edu/film/Films.html
Wednesday, April 7
Naomi Schor
Memorial Lecture
Alice Kaplan, John M. Musser
Professor of French
"Susan Sontag's Parisian Year"
(Department of French and
4 pm, Room 208
For more information contact Agnes Bolton at (203) 432-4900 or agnes.bolton@yale.edu
Wednesday, April 7
The Shulman
Lectures in Science and the Humanities
Science and Spectacle in the Enlightenment
Jan Golinski,
"Sublime Science in the Late Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion”
5 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, April 7
2010 Environmental Film Festival at Yale
The Blood of the Rose
(
Director Henry Singer
Screening with One of the Last
(
Director Paul Zinder
(
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information and complete roster of sponsors see
http://environment.yale.edu/film/Films.html
Thursday, April 8
2010 Environmental Film Festival at Yale
and
the Poynter
Fellowship in Journalism at Yale present
A Conversation with Dan Rather:
Journalism, Justice, and the Environment
(Office of Public Affairs,
and
5 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, April 8
2010 Environmental Film Festival at Yale
The End of the Line (
Director Rupert Murray
Screening with The Incident at Tower 37
(
Director Chris Perry
(
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information and complete roster of sponsors see
http://environment.yale.edu/film/Films.html
Friday, April 9
2010 Environmental Film Festival at Yale
Dive! (
Director Jeremy Seifert
Screening with
Soy Story (
Directors Caroline Eccles and David Pownall
and World Premiere
Foodshed (
Director Justin Freiberg
3:30 pm, Auditorium
***
Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home
(
Director Jenny Stein
Screening with
The Hunter and the Bear
(
Director Joachim Brandenberg
(
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information and complete roster of sponsors see
http://environment.yale.edu/film/Films.html
Saturday, April 10
2010 Environmental Film Festival at Yale
Born Sweet (
Director Cynthia Wade
Screening with East Coast Premiere
Pumzi (
Director Wanuri Kahiu
3 pm, Auditorium
***
Bananas!* (
Director Fredrik Gertten
Screening with Logorama
(
Directors Francois Alaux, Herve de Crecy and Ludovic Houplain
Winner of the 2010 Academy Award for Best Animated Short
(
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information and complete roster of sponsors see
http://environment.yale.edu/film/Films.html
Sunday, April 11
2010 Environmental Film Festival at Yale
The Cove (
Director Louie Psihoyos
Screening with Skylight
(
Director David Baas
3 pm, Auditorium
***
Gasland (
Director Josh Fox
Screening with
Plastic and Glass (
Director Tessa Joosse
(
6:30 pm, Auditorium
For more information and complete roster of sponsors see
http://environment.yale.edu/film/Films.html
Tuesday, April 13
The Franke
Lectures in the Humanities
The Age of Cathedrals
Jacqueline Jung,
"Some Strange Region of the Universe: Material Things in the Gothic Cathedral"
5:30 pm, Room 208
Wednesday, April 14
The Shulman
Lectures in Science and the Humanities
Science and Spectacle in the Enlightenment
Paula Findlen,
"
5 pm, Room 208
Thursday, April 15
Descartes' Devil–Durs
Grünbein in conversation
and reading from Descartes’ Devil: Three
Meditations
A book signing will follow.
(Charles Gallaudet Trumbull Lectureship, Department of
Comparative Literature, and
4 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, April 15
Festival of New Italian Cinema
Fortapàsc/Fort Apache
108 min.
Director Marco Risi
(
and
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Friday, April 16
Festival of New Italian Cinema
Anche libero va bene/Along the Ridge (2006) 108 min. 35mm.
Director Kim Rossi Stuart
(
and
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Friday, April 16–Saturday, April 17
"Conceptualising
Literary History: Foundations of Arabic Literature" Colloquium
(Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Comparative Literature, Council on Middle East Studies, Embassy of France in Washington, CampusFrance, Stanley T. Woodward Lectureship, and Whitney Humanities Center)
9 am–6 pm, Room 208
For more information email beatrice.guendler@yale.edu or see http://www.yale.edu/nelc/events.html
Saturday, April 17
Festival of New Italian Cinema
Si può fare/Yes We Can (2008)
111 min. 35mm.
Director Giulio Manfredonia
(
and
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Friday, April 16–Sunday, April 18
Yale Women's, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies and Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
Anniversaries
"Celebrating 30 years of Innovative Scholarship at Yale"
(WGSS, LGBTS, Yale Provost's Office, Women Faculty Forum, and
Auditorium and Room 108
For more information visit yale.edu/wgss/anniversaries/index.html or email john-albert.moseley@yale.edu
Sunday, April 18
Festival of New Italian Cinema
Fame Chimica/Chemical Hunger (2004)
114 min.
Directors Antonio Bocola and Paolo Vari
1 pm, Auditorium
Pranzo di Ferragosto/Mid-August Lunch (2008) 75 min.
Director Gianni Di Gregorio
(
and
4 pm, Auditorium
Monday, April 19
The Poynter
Fellowship in Journalism at Yale presents
Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor,
The New Republic
"What Now"
(Office of Public Affairs
and
4 pm, Auditorium
For more information see http://opa.yale.edu/poynter.aspx
Tuesday April 20
The Poynter
Fellowship in Journalism at Yale presents
Robert Krulwich, Co-Host, NPR Radio Lab and Correspondent, NPR Science Unit
"Saddam Hussein's Secret Octopus and Other Tales of Science"
(Office of Public Affairs
and
4:30 pm, Auditorium
For more information see http://opa.yale.edu/poynter.aspx
Thursday, April 22
Music at the Whitney
THE CATCH CLUB
Popular vocal music from Restoration England, as well as catches newly composed and performed by students in Judith Malafronte’s Early Music Performance seminar.
4:00 pm, Auditorium
Friday, April 23
Friends (With Benefits) (
Director Gorman Bechard
What happens when two Yale Med students blur the line between friendship and romance?
Filmed entirely in the
(Films at the Whitney)
8 pm, Auditorium
Limited seating. First come, first seated.
For more information see http://www.FWBmovie.com
Saturday, April 24
"Beyond Opera: Staging
Theatricality" Conference
(Yale Baroque Opera Project and
9 am–1:15 pm, Auditorium
2:15–4:30 pm, Room 208
For pre-registration, please contact leanne.dodge@yale.edu.
Saturday, April 24
Special Screening
When You're Strange (
Directed and Written by Tom DiCillo
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, April 25
Jews of the
A symposium on the History and Culture of North African Jewry
(Program in Judaic Studies, Yale University Library, Center of Jewish Languages and Literature at Hebrew University, Council on Middle Eastern Studies,
and
10 am–4 pm, Room 208
For more information email nanette.stahl@yale.edu or renee.reed@yale.edu or call 203-432-7207
Monday, April 26
Music at the Whitney
VOYAGES: Travels through Contemporary Soundscapes Linnea Clark, flute
An exploration of the textures, timbres, styles, and sounds of twentieth- and twenty-first century American music in works for flute by Muczynski, Corigliano, Reich,
and other composers.
4:30 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, April 28
Yale Undergraduate Film Festival
Exciting short films by independent undergraduate filmmakers at Yale
(Films at the Whitney)
8pm, Auditorium
Thursday, April 29
Music at the Whitney
THIS JOURNEY: DEPARTURES, ARRIVALS, AND MEMORIES
Art songs sung by the students of Janna Baty.
4:30 pm, Auditorium
Friday, April 30
Music at the Whitney
THE CHAMBER SINGERS OF
THE YALE GLEE CLUB
New choral works composed by members of Kathryn Alexander and Michael Klingbeil’s Yale College Composition seminar.
4:30 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, May 1
Music at the Whitney–Two Concerts!
INDETERMINACY / IMPROVISATION
New and old works of indeterminate and improvised music by John Cage and the students of Brian Kane’s Improvisation performance seminar, with an emphasis on sounds generated by creatively repurposing, salvaging, hacking, and tweaking common household electronic devices.
4:30 pm, Auditorium
BY MEANS OF MUSIC–Canceled
New works by Rex Isenberg and Loren Loiacono, Abraham Beekman Cox
Prize winners
(Yale College Composition seminar)
8 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, May 2
The First
(Korean American Students at Yale, Korean Youth Leadership
in
EduGiant Corporation,
and Music at the Whitney)
6 pm, Auditorium (Seating starts at 5:30pm)
Admission free with a reserved ticket (Reservations are required)
Please send an email to YaleKoreaNight@gmail.com that includes your name, address, phone number, email address, and number of tickets requested
For more information call 203-285-7220
Monday, May 3
Music at the Whitney
YALE COLLEGE MUSICAL THEATRE COMPOSERS' SHOWCASE
Featuring new works by Mark Sonnenblick, Ben Wexler, John Lawrence, Sarah Hirsch, and Jeremy Lloyd
Under the instruction of Joshua Rosenblum
8 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, May 5–Canceled
A Celebratory
and John Hollander
Participating readers: Marie Boroff, Leslie Brisman, David Bromwich, Jill Campbell, Paul Fry, Sara Suleri Goodyear, Lanny Hammer, and Jonathan Spence
(Department of English and
4 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, May 12
The Mirror Visions Ensemble presents
"Crossing the Channel: Songs of Britten
and Ravel"
performed by Vira Slywotzky, soprano; Scott Murphree, tenor; Jesse Blumberg, baritone;
Jane Shelly, flute; Miriam Eckelhoefer, cello; and featuring Gary Chapman, piano
(Mirror Visions Ensemble and
Music at the Whitney)
8 pm, Auditorium
For more information see http://mirrorvisions.org/