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4 – 5:15PM  Tuesday, February 28, 2012
 

“African-American Art Today”

Part of the DeVane Lecture Series

Prof. Elizabeth Alexander

Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, Room 114, 1 Prospect St., New Haven, CT, 06511 MAP
Part of the DeVane Lecture Series.

Open to: General public
Admission: Free

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1
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4:30PM

Sufi Practice in the Age of Print and Islamic Revivalism
Sana Haroon, Yale University
Luce Hall
Tags: CULTURAL, HUMANITIES, WRITING
 
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7:30PM

“Senses of Wonder: Love Writ Large”
An Evening of Poetry at the Slifka Center
Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale
Tags: CULTURAL, JEWISH, WRITING
 
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2
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Americanize, Africanize, or Radicalize: The Pageantry of W.E.B. DuBois
Professor Mabel O. Wilson (Architecture, Columbia University)
African American Studies
Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES
 
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4PM

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

“Politics, Theater and Political Theater in Russia Today”
John Freedman
Yale Repertory Theatre
Visiting Artist
Tags: VISUAL ART, CULTURAL, THEATER
 
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6PM

Cheongsam Ball
New Haven Lawn Club
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, DANCE, MUSIC
 
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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

The Stuff of Life in Islamicate Eurasia: Towards a history of premodern folk ontologies
Iran Colloquium Gagan Sood, Yale University
Luce Hall
Tags: CULTURAL, WRITING
 
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7PM

The Sword and the Screen – Program Three
The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960
Whitney Humanities Center
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, FILM
 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4
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7PM

Yale Anime Society Presents: Historical Showing!
William L Harkness Hall
Tags: CULTURAL, HUMANITIES
 
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5
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1PM

“Cape No. 7”
(Wei Te‐sheng, 2008) 129 minutes Opening remarks by Aaron Gerow, Professor of Film Studies and East Asian Languages & Literatures
Whitney Humanities Center
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, FILM
 
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1:30PM

The Quiltmaking Project
Cupcake Study Break
Office of International Students and Scholars
Undergraduate
Tags: CULTURAL
 
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3:30PM

“No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti (Cannot Live Without You)”
(Leon Dai, 2009) 85 minutes Opening remarks by Aaron Gerow, Professor of Film Studies and East Asian Languages & Literatures
Whitney Humanities Center
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, FILM
 
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7
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4PM

“African-American Art Today”
Prof. Elizabeth Alexander
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall
Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, VISUAL ART, CULTURAL
 
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
Tags: CULTURAL, HUMANITIES
 
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6PM

“Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football”
(Rashid Ghazi, 2011) 92 min
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
Tags: CULTURAL, FILM
 
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9
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11:30AM

“The Oriental Transformation of the American Book, 1890-1910”
Asst. Professor of English John Williams
Whitney Humanities Center
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, WRITING
 
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4PM

“The Author and History”
Lecture by Patrice Nganang, Stony Brook University
82-90 Wall, RLL (3rd floor)
Tags: CULTURAL, WRITING
 
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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
 
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10
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6PM

Southeast Asia Spring Cultural Festival
Hosted by the SEAS Language and Literature Faculty
Luce Hall
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, DANCE, MUSIC
 
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7PM

The Sword and the Screen – Program Four
The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960
Whitney Humanities Center
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, FILM
 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11
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1PM

The Sword and the Screen – Program Five
The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960
Whitney Humanities Center
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, FILM
 
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13
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4PM

“Across the Divide: Literary and Filmic Perspectives on Commonality in Colonial South Asia”
David Lunn (School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London)
Bingham Hall
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, FILM, WRITING
 
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7PM

Screening of “Band Baaja Baaraat”
Followed by Skype with Ranveer Singh!
Silliman College
Tags: CULTURAL, FILM
 
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11:30PM

Shades Valentine’s Day Jam: A Midnight Love Affair
Shades of Yale
Saybrook College
Undergraduate
Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, CULTURAL, MUSIC
 
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15
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The Violences of Knowledge: Edward Said, Sociology, and Post-Orientalist Reflexivity.
Jonathan Wyrtzen
Luce Hall
Tags: CULTURAL, HUMANITIES
 
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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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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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“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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4PM

Baraka’s Newark: Performing Black Arts
Lytle Shaw, Associate Professor of English at NYU
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, CULTURAL, WRITING
 
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4PM

“Praise, Performance and Power: Shifting Theories of Language and Literature in the Poetics of Tamil South India”
Jennifer Clare, Colorado College
Bingham Hall
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, WRITING
 
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4:30PM

RON AGAM, Recent Works
Artist Reception
Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale
Visiting Artist
Tags: VISUAL ART, CULTURAL, JEWISH
 
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17
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ALL DAY
Surrealism in Polish Cinema
a European Studies Council conference
Luce Hall
Tags: CULTURAL, FILM, MEDIA STUDIES
 
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4PM

The Womb as Text: Reproductive Marking and the Male Reader in The Clerk’s Tale
Samantha Katz, PhD candidate, Yale University
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
Tags: CULTURAL, WRITING
 
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7PM
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“Luminarias”
by Evelina Fernandez ¡Teatro! de Yale College
Morse College
Undergraduate
Tags: CULTURAL, LATINO, LGBT, THEATER
 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18
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ALL DAY
Surrealism in Polish Cinema
a European Studies Council conference
Luce Hall
Tags: CULTURAL, FILM, MEDIA STUDIES
 
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4PM

Screening of Caramel
Silliman College
Tags: CULTURAL, FILM, LGBT
 
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7PM

“Delhi Belly”
(Abhinay Deo, India, 2011) 103 min. 35mm. South Asian Film Festival
Whitney Humanities Center
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, FILM
 
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7PM
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“Luminarias”
by Evelina Fernandez ¡Teatro! de Yale College
Morse College
Undergraduate
Tags: CULTURAL, LATINO, LGBT, THEATER
 
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19
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2PM

“Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara”
(Zoya Akhtar, India, 2011) 155 min. 35mm. South Asian Film Festival
Whitney Humanities Center
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, FILM
 
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20
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4PM

“Internal Frontiers: Sanskrit and Persian Literary Encounters in the Mughal Empire”
Anthony Truschke (Columbia University)
Bingham Hall
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, WRITING
 
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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7PM

Retratos en un mar de mentiras (Portraits in a Sea of Lies)
Claudia Fischer (Production Designer)
Whitney Humanities Center
Tags: CULTURAL, FILM, HUMANITIES
 
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23
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“African-American Art Today”
Prof. Elizabeth Alexander in conversation with poet Terrance Hayes
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall
Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, VISUAL ART, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES
 
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4PM

“Gandhi vs. Lenin? Literary Figures of Antagonism in Colonial India”
Ben Baer (Princeton University)
Bingham Hall
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, WRITING
 
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6:30PM

“Ice Cream, I Scream (Dondurmam Gaymak)" – CMES Cinema
(Yüksel Aksu; Turkey, 2005)
Luce Hall
Tags: CULTURAL, FILM
 
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8PM
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“The Rehearsal”
by Cuqui Jerez
Iseman Theater
Visiting Artist
Tags: CULTURAL, LATINO, THEATER
 
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24
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2PM, 8PM
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“The Rehearsal”
by Cuqui Jerez
Iseman Theater
Visiting Artist
Tags: CULTURAL, LATINO, THEATER
 
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5PM

The Dialects and Dialectics of Subtitling: Graphing Language Matters in Film
Day One
Whitney Humanities Center
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, FILM, MEDIA STUDIES, WRITING
 
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7PM

Classical India: Lecture Demonstrations on South Indian Music & Dance
Sisira Gorthala – Bharatnatyam
Morse College
Undergraduate
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, DANCE
 
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8PM

Laugh Out Loud!
Asian American Arts Festival Stand-up comedians, Ron Josol and Vidur Kapur and Yale students
William L Harkness Hall
One Night Only Undergraduate Visiting Artist
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, COMEDY, CULTURAL, MUSIC, THEATER
 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25
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9:15AM

The Dialects and Dialectics of Subtitling: Graphing Language Matters in Film
Day Two
Whitney Humanities Center
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, FILM, MEDIA STUDIES, WRITING
 
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4PM

FIlmmaker Andrew Ahn and his Sundance Short, Dol
Andrew Ahn
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
Visiting Artist
Tags: CULTURAL, FILM, LGBT
 
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7PM

Classical India: Lecture Demonstrations on South Indian Music & Dance
Vijay Narayan, Karthikeyan Ardhanareeswaran, and Sudharshan Mohanram
Saybrook College
Undergraduate
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, MUSIC
 
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27
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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
Tags: CULTURAL, HUMANITIES, WRITING
 
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8PM

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP — Special Screening
Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art
Tags: CULTURAL, FILM, LGBT
 
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
Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, VISUAL ART, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES
 
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5:30PM

American Made: Film, Dinner, and Discussion
Intercultural Affairs Council and the Department of Justice
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, FILM
 
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
Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES
 
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12PM

Post-Mandarin Prose and Prostitution in Colonial Vietnam
Ben Tran, Asian Studies and the Department of English, Vanderbilt University
Luce Hall
Tags: CULTURAL, WRITING
 
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4:30PM

Madhavi Murty, Yale University, “The Development Story: Caste, Religion and Poverty in ‘New’ India”
Madhavi Murty
Luce Hall
Tags: ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES
 
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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
Tags: CULTURAL, HUMANITIES, MUSIC
 
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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
 
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6:30PM

CMES Cinema Special Presentation: “1/2 Revolution” (Directed by Karim El Hakim and Omar Shargawi)
Discussion with filmmakers Karim El Hakim and Omar Shargawi
Luce Hall
Tags: CULTURAL, FILM