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12:30 – 1:30PM  Wednesday, February 15, 2012
 

The Violences of Knowledge: Edward Said, Sociology, and Post-Orientalist Reflexivity.

Jonathan Wyrtzen

Luce Hall, 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT, 06511 MAP
Location is wheelchair accessible
Jonathan Wyrtzen (Assistant Professor, Dept of Sociology) – The Violences of Knowledge:
Edward Said, Sociology, and Post-Orientalist Reflexivity.

Open to: General public

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1
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11:30AM

Gulliver’s Travels: Slavery, Political Economy and Empire ca. 1715-ca.1725
Steven Pincus, Bradford Durfee Professor of History, Yale University
230 Prospect
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11:45AM

“Sacred Architecture in Urban Contexts”
CMES Colloquium Series
Institution for Social and Policy Studies
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3:30PM

“The Hungry Tide” (2005) by Amitav Ghosh
Book Talk Mark Schenker, Associate Dean of Yale College
Yale Center for British Art
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4PM

“The London Look: The Contemporary City as Cultural Production”
Ashley Mears
Loria Center
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4:30PM

Sufi Practice in the Age of Print and Islamic Revivalism
Sana Haroon, Yale University
Luce Hall
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5PM

“The Prison of Christ in the Middle Ages: Purgatory and Romance”
Anthony Bale Reader in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck College, London
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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5:30PM

“Antiquaries and the British Past: Locating and Recording Buildings”
Opening Lecture, “Making History”
Yale Center for British Art
Shakespeare
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2
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11:45AM

Americanize, Africanize, or Radicalize: The Pageantry of W.E.B. DuBois
Professor Mabel O. Wilson (Architecture, Columbia University)
African American Studies
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5:30PM

The Daughters of Eli: Yale, Family, and the Needle Arts in Early America
Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Lecture Susan Schoelwer, Curator at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Garden
Yale University Art Gallery
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6:30PM

“The Matchmaker” – CMES Cinema
(Avi Nesher; Israel, 2010)
Luce Hall
Tags: CULTURAL, FILM, HUMANITIES, JEWISH
 
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3
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12PM

Akkadian Royal Letters in Later Tradition” (ca.700-100BC)
Workshop in Ancient Societies Mary Frazer
Religious Studies
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2PM

“The Renaissance Reimagined: Early Modern Italy through the Lens of Italian Cinema”
Daniel Leisawitz Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University
William L Harkness Hall
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4
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7PM

Yale Anime Society Presents: Historical Showing!
William L Harkness Hall
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6
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12PM

“Stones of beautiful colors: The City Mosaic from Gerasa”
Greco-Roman Lunch Lisa Brody, Associate Curator of Greek Art at the Yale University Art Gallery
Saybrook College
Tags: ARCHITECTURE, HUMANITIES
 
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12PM

Figuring the Figurehead in Benito Cereno: The True Crime of Melville’s “True Crime Fiction”
Gabrielle Guise, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, Yale University
230 Prospect
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7
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12PM

“The Alicia Foundation: Culinary Knowledge as a Social Tool”
Jaume Biarnés, El Bulli Foundation (La Fundacio Alicia)
Hall of Graduate Studies
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5PM

“The Colours of Contemplation: Less Light on Julian of Norwich”
Vincent Gillespie, J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language, University of Oxford
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8
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4PM

“Vessels of Influence: The Formation on the Porcelain Industry in Japan”
John W. Hall Lecture in Japanese Studies Dr. Nicole Rousmaniere – Director of the Sainsbury Institute, 2nd year of secondment at the British Museum
Luce Hall
Tags: VISUAL ART, ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES
 
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4:30PM

“How Dark is the History of the Night, How Black the Story of Coffee, How Bitter the Tale of Love: The Changing Measure of Leisure and Pleasure in Early Modern Istanbul”
Ottoman Studies Lecture
Hall of Graduate Studies
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9
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4PM

“African American Art Today”: 2012 Devane Lecture Series
Elizabeth Alexander in Conversation with Bill T. Jones
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall
Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, VISUAL ART, CULTURAL, DANCE, FILM, HUMANITIES, MEDIA STUDIES, MUSIC, THEATER, WRITING
 
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5PM

“Evovae: Liturgy, Lyric, Lyricism”
Bruce Holsinger, Professor of English and Music, University of Virginia
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10
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12PM

“Hacking on science and make-believe.” Reading from: The Emergence of Probability (2006).
Phelps Hall
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13
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4:30PM

“Eastern Insights and Western Liturgical Reforms”
Liturgy Symposium Series Anne McGowan
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
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7PM

“Earth Days”
(Robert Stone, 2009) Flo Stone
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14
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1PM

Digital Comics: Age of Bronze
Thomas Beasley
Sterling Memorial Library
Tags: VISUAL ART, HUMANITIES, MEDIA STUDIES, WRITING
 
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4PM

Scott Wallace, The Unconquered
Lustman Fellowship Lecture Scott Wallace
Davenport College
Visiting Artist
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15
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12:30PM

The Violences of Knowledge: Edward Said, Sociology, and Post-Orientalist Reflexivity.
Jonathan Wyrtzen
Luce Hall
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5:30PM

“Literary Translation and African Languages”
Nathalie (Nell) Arnold, Charles Cantulupo, Annmarie Drury
Rosenkranz Hall
Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES, WRITING
 
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16
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11:45AM

Odalisque: Beauty, Sex, and Slavery
Nell Irvin Painter, Visiting Fellow in African American Studies
African American Studies
Visiting Artist
Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES
 
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4PM

“African-American Art Today”
Prof. Elizabeth Alexander in conversation with jazz bassist Christian McBride
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall
Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES, MUSIC
 
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4:30PM

“Behind the Music, Little Dragon Tales: Chinese Children’s Songs”
Dave Liang, producer, “Little Dragon Tales: Chinese Children’s Songs”
Yale-China Association
Family Friendly
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5:45PM

Text History as Reception History in the Transmission of Biblical Law"
Hebrew Bible Lecture Andrew Teeter, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Harvard Divinity School
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17
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12PM

“Second Maccabees as Hellenistic Historiography”
Workshop in Ancient Societies Robert Doran, Amherst College
Phelps Hall
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12PM

Lost in Time Colloquium
Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina)
Phelps Hall
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20
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3:25PM

“Demon Children & Tiger Mothers: A History of Dystopic Domestic Memoir "
WGSS Colloquium Briallen Hopper (Divinity School)
William L Harkness Hall
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
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4PM

“African-American Art Today”
Prof. Elizabeth Alexander
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall
Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, VISUAL ART, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES
 
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4PM

“The Feminization of Indigeneity and the Paradox of Hawaiian Sovereignty”
J. Kéhaulani Kauanui
Hall of Graduate Studies
Tags: CULTURAL, HUMANITIES, NATIVE AMERICAN
 
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4:30PM

“Gambling Awareness Event”
Graduate and Professional Student Center at Yale
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5PM

The Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities
Jamshed Bharucha, Cooper Union University
Whitney Humanities Center
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7PM

Retratos en un mar de mentiras (Portraits in a Sea of Lies)
Claudia Fischer (Production Designer)
Whitney Humanities Center
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
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4:30PM

Mark Turin, Yale University, “Meddling Mother Tongues: Language and Belonging in the State of Sikkim”
Mark Turin
Luce Hall
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23
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4PM

“African-American Art Today”
Prof. Elizabeth Alexander in conversation with poet Terrance Hayes
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall
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4PM

After the American Century
Brian Edwards
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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4PM

Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture by Roya Hakakian
Roya Hakakian, Writer, Journalist, Human Rights Activist, Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center
Whitney Humanities Center
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24
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“A Proposed Narratology of Hymns”
Leanna Boychenko
Phelps Hall
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4PM

The Transmission of Richard Rolle’s Latin Works
Ralph Hanna
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26
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10AM

Poetry and Mysticism, a symposium
ARFFA Conference
Bingham Hall
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27
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4PM

Abraham and Hus: an interdisciplinary symposium
Sterling Memorial Library
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5:30PM

CHINA COLLOQUIUM SERIES: Sima Qian’s Narratives on Assassins / 司馬遷筆下的刺客與刺客外傳
Chi-hsiang Lee（李纪祥） – Professor of Chinese History/Dean of the College of Humanities, Fo Guang University, Taiwan
Hall of Graduate Studies
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
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4PM

“African-American Art Today”
Part of the DeVane Lecture Series Prof. Elizabeth Alexander
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall
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5PM

For the Record
A Conversation Reflecting on Thirty Years of the Whitney Humanities Center
Whitney Humanities Center
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5:30PM

“Desires, Loves, and Reasons”
Prof. Margaret Farley
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29
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Look Behind the Label: Rhetorics and Narratives of Contemporary Slavery
Samuel Martinez, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Connecticut
230 Prospect
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4:30PM

Madhavi Murty, Yale University, “The Development Story: Caste, Religion and Poverty in ‘New’ India”
Madhavi Murty
Luce Hall
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5PM

Worship and Liturgy in the Greek Orthodox Community of Constantinople in the 19th century: The issue of musical reform
Merih Erol, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Hellenic Studies, Princeton University
Luce Hall
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5PM

Dying for Time: T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
Martin Hagglund, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
Whitney Humanities Center
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5:30PM

“Representing Rural Society: Surveyors, Surveying, and the Surveyed in Late Seventeenth-Century England”
Steve Hindle, W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, The Huntington Library
Yale Center for British Art
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5:30PM

Negotiating Taste: Painting Manuals and Artistic Originality in Late Ming China (1550-1644)
J. P. Park, Assistant Professor University of Colorado at Boulder
Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art
Tags: VISUAL ART, ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES