5 – 6PM Tuesday, February 7, 2012

“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, 317, 63 High St., New Haven, CT, 06511 MAP

Location is wheelchair accessible

Professor Gillespie’s research considers the broad range of post-conquest writing in England, with particular interests in literary theory, religious writing, mystical language, and concepts of poetic identity in medieval and early modern writers. At the core of his many publications is a curiosity about the psychology of literary response: the ways in which writers struggle to express experiences and acts of imagination, the strategies they use to articulate their understanding of these experiences and imaginative acts, and the codes and conventions that develop between texts and readers to allow communication and understanding to develop and to be manipulated.

Open to: General public

Admission: Free

Sponsor: Yale University English Department

Contact Information: Department of English, 203-432-2233

HUMANITIES, WRITING

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Robert B. Haas Family Library

April 29 – July 5, 2013

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DAY WEEK MONTH

February 2012

Exhibitions

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

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

“While these visions did appear”: Shakespeare on Canvas, Yale Center for British Art, JAN 3 – JUN 3

“Remembering Shakespeare,” Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, FEB 1 – JUN 4

“Making History: Antiquaries in Britain,” Yale Center for British Art, FEB 2 – MAY 27

Yale’s Shakespeareans, Sterling Memorial Library, FEB 13 – MAY 18

“Shakespeare & the Law” at the Yale Law Library, Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School, FEB 15 – AUG 15

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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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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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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7PM

Connecticut Poetry Circuit Prize Reading

Connecticut Undergraduate Poets

Jonathan Edwards College

Undergraduate

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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

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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12PM

The Stuff of Life in Islamicate Eurasia: Towards a history of premodern folk ontologies

Iran Colloquium Gagan Sood, Yale University

Luce Hall

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4

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7:30PM

Underbrook Coffeehouse: Boston’s We Avalanche and Yale’s Sister Helen

Boston’s “We Avalanche” and Yale’s “Sister Helen”

Saybrook College

One Night Only Visiting Artist

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5

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8PM

Weekly Reading with the Yale Shakespeare Project

Saybrook College

Shakespeare Undergraduate

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6

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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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4:30PM

Anthems of the Singing Revolution and the Cultural Politics of Representation

Luce Hall

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4:30PM

Reading: Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Visiting Artist

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7

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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

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

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4PM

“The Author and History”

Lecture by Patrice Nganang, Stony Brook University

82-90 Wall, RLL (3rd floor)

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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

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6PM

6th Annual Reading by Anne Fadiman and her students

Anne Fadiman, the Francis Writer-in-Residence, Yale University

New Haven Free Public Library

Undergraduate

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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4PM

Forming National Favo(u)rites: Invictus, If and the Legacies of Victorian Recitation

Catherine Robson, Associate Professor of English, New York University

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12

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2PM

The Sonnet Dessert

Sterling Memorial Library

Shakespeare Undergraduate

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8PM

Weekly Reading with the Yale Shakespeare Project

Saybrook College

Shakespeare Undergraduate

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

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14

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1PM

Digital Comics: Age of Bronze

Thomas Beasley

Sterling Memorial Library

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4PM

Scott Wallace, The Unconquered

Lustman Fellowship Lecture Scott Wallace

Davenport College

Visiting Artist

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4PM

Subjects and Objects, Words and Things (The Matter of Modernism in Philip K. Dick)

Bill Brown, Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of English and the visual arts, University of Chicago

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

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5:15PM

“Shakespeare in Love”

Beinecke Exhibition Tour Kathryn James

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Shakespeare

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7PM

“Shakespeare in Love” – Shakespeare at Yale Film Series

(John Madden 1988) 35mm, 123 min

Whitney Humanities Center

Shakespeare

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15

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4:30PM

Remembering the Corpus: The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Beinecke Library Exhibition Opening and Lecture David Scott Kastan

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Shakespeare

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4:30PM

Master’s Tea with Rachel Saltz

Rachel Saltz

Pierson College

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5:30PM

“Literary Translation and African Languages”

Nathalie (Nell) Arnold, Charles Cantulupo, Annmarie Drury

Rosenkranz Hall

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16

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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

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4PM

Eagle and Hound: The ‘Epitaph’ of Talbot and the Date of 1 Henry VI

Lawrence Manley, William R Kenan Jr Professor of English

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

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4PM

Baraka’s Newark: Performing Black Arts

Lytle Shaw, Associate Professor of English at NYU

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

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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

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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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

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7:30PM

Underbrook Coffeehouse

Laureline Kruse (Yale) & You Won’t (Boston)

Saybrook College

One Night Only Undergraduate

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19

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8PM

Weekly Reading with the Yale Shakespeare Project

Saybrook College

Shakespeare Undergraduate

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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4PM

“Internal Frontiers: Sanskrit and Persian Literary Encounters in the Mughal Empire”

Anthony Truschke (Columbia University)

Bingham Hall

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

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12:15PM

“Understudying Hamlet: A Look into the Studio Practice of Edwin Austin Abbey”

Gallery Talk Cindy Schwarz (Conservation Fellow, Yale University Art Gallery)

Yale University Art Gallery

Shakespeare

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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

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23

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4PM

“Gandhi vs. Lenin? Literary Figures of Antagonism in Colonial India”

Ben Baer (Princeton University)

Bingham 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

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24

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4PM

“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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5PM

The Dialects and Dialectics of Subtitling: Graphing Language Matters in Film

Day One

Whitney Humanities Center

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

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26

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10AM

Poetry and Mysticism, a symposium

ARFFA Conference

Bingham Hall

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8PM

Weekly Reading with the Yale Shakespeare Project

Saybrook College

Shakespeare Undergraduate

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27

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4PM

Criticism Outside the Classroom—Reviewers Talk about their Work

Lev Grossman

Calhoun College

Visiting Artist

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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

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29

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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

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4:30PM

Vulgar Venus and Politic Poetry: Reading Shakespeare in the Renaissance

Adam G. Hooks

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Shakespeare

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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