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4:30 – 6PM Monday, February 13, 2012

“Eastern Insights and Western Liturgical Reforms”

Liturgy Symposium Series

Anne McGowan

Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, ISM Great Hall, 409 Prospect St., New Haven, CT, 06511 MAP

Anne McGowan is a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Her talk is entitled, “Eastern Insights and Western Liturgical Reforms”. Refreshments will be served.

Presented by Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Website: ISM events page

Open to: General public

Contact Information: Melissa Maier, melissa.maier@yale.edu, 203-432-3222

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DAY WEEK MONTH

February 2012

Exhibitions

“Making Sense of Religion,” Sterling Memorial Library, OCT 4, 2011 – FEB 3, 2012

“People, Piety, and Sacred Power in the Eastern Mediterranean,” Institute of Sacred Music, OCT 5, 2011 – MAR 2, 2012

“Sacred Satire: Lampooning Religious Belief in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” Lewis Walpole Library, NOV 29, 2011 – MAR 2, 2012

“Alexander Smith Cochran and the Founding of the Elizabethan Club,” Sterling Memorial Library, DEC 3, 2011 – MAR 2, 2012

“Monarchs in Mesopotamia,” Sterling Memorial Library, DEC 20, 2011 – APR 1, 2012

“Defining the Nation,” Yale University Art Gallery, JAN 31 – APR 8

“Le Leçon de Dr. Velpeau,” Sterling Hall of Medicine, FEB 10 – MAR 1

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

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

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11:45AM

“Sacred Architecture in Urban Contexts”

CMES Colloquium Series

Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Tags: ARCHITECTURE, HUMANITIES

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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

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

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4PM

“The London Look: The Contemporary City as Cultural Production”

Ashley Mears

Loria Center

Tags: VISUAL ART, HUMANITIES, MEDIA STUDIES

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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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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

Tags: ARCHITECTURE, HUMANITIES

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

Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES

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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

Tags: VISUAL ART, HUMANITIES

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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

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

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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

Tags: FILM, HUMANITIES

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4

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7PM

Yale Anime Society Presents: Historical Showing!

William L Harkness Hall

Tags: CULTURAL, HUMANITIES

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

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

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

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

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

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

Tags: HUMANITIES, MUSIC

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10

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12PM

“Hacking on science and make-believe.” Reading from: The Emergence of Probability (2006).

Phelps Hall

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

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

Tags: FILM, HUMANITIES

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

Tags: FILM, HUMANITIES, WRITING

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15

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12:30PM

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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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

Tags: HUMANITIES, MUSIC, WRITING

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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

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17

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12PM

“Second Maccabees as Hellenistic Historiography”

Workshop in Ancient Societies Robert Doran, Amherst College

Phelps Hall

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

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12PM

Lost in Time Colloquium

Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina)

Phelps Hall

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

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

Tags: HUMANITIES, 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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4:30PM

“Gambling Awareness Event”

Graduate and Professional Student Center at Yale

Tags: FILM, HUMANITIES

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5PM

The Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities

Jamshed Bharucha, Cooper Union University

Whitney Humanities Center

Tags: HUMANITIES, MUSIC

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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

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

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

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

Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, VISUAL ART, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES

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4PM

After the American Century

Brian Edwards

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

Tags: HUMANITIES, MEDIA STUDIES, WRITING

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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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4PM

“A Proposed Narratology of Hymns”

Leanna Boychenko

Phelps Hall

Tags: HUMANITIES, MUSIC, WRITING

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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

Tags: HUMANITIES, MUSIC

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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

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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5PM

For the Record

A Conversation Reflecting on Thirty Years of the Whitney Humanities Center

Whitney Humanities Center

Tags: FILM, HUMANITIES, MEDIA STUDIES

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5:30PM

“Desires, Loves, and Reasons”

Prof. Margaret Farley

Sterling Divinity Quadrangle

Tags: HUMANITIES

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29

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12PM

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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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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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

Tags: VISUAL ART, HUMANITIES

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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