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5 – 6PM Tuesday, February 28, 2012

For the Record

A Conversation Reflecting on Thirty Years of the Whitney Humanities Center

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., New Haven, CT, 06511 MAP

A Conversation Reflecting on Thirty Years of the Whitney Humanities Center with Peter Brooks, Founding Director and Founding Fellows Kai Erikson, Geoffrey Hartman, and Robert Shulman

Open to: General public

Admission: Free

Sponsor: Whitney Humanities Center

Contact Information: Whitney Humanities Center, 203-432-0670

FILM, HUMANITIES, MEDIA STUDIES

See Also:

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Youth Rights Media Film Premiere

Yale University Art Gallery

June 14 – June 16, 2013

Historical Verité

International Festival of Arts and Ideas

Whitney Humanities Center

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Children’s Film Festival

Yale Center for British Art

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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

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

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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

Tags: HUMANITIES

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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

Tags: HUMANITIES

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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

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

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

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26

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10AM

Poetry and Mysticism, a symposium

ARFFA Conference

Bingham Hall

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

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

Tags: HUMANITIES, WRITING

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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