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12 – 1:30PM  Tuesday, April 10, 2012
 

“No Impact Man”

Yale University, Room 305, 55 Whitney Ave., New Haven, CT, 06511 MAP
Bring lunch; light refreshments will be provided. Part of Celebrate Sustainability.

Open to: Yale community
Admission: Free

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April 2012
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SUNDAY, APRIL 1
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Marginality, Canonicity, Passion – International conference
Department of Classics
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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MONDAY, APRIL 2
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5:45AM

“The Unfinished: Indian Stone Carvers at Work”
Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stollen Miller Professor of South Asian Art, Columbia University
Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art
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4PM

“Editing the Online Wall Street Journal”
Alan Murray, deputy managing editor and executive editor, The Wall Street Journal Online
Davenport College
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4:30PM

“When a Column Speaks: The Liturgy of the Christian Parthenon”
Liturgy Symposium Series Stefanos Alexopoulos
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
Tags: HUMANITIES, MUSIC
 
TUESDAY, APRIL 3
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“Endangered Alphabets”
Tim Brookes, Endangered Alphabets Project
Sterling Memorial Library
Visiting Artist
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4PM

“Brazil on the Rise: Myth and Reality”
Ezra Stiles College
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4
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The Problem of Yankeeland: Southern Images of the North, 1865-1920
Sarah K. Bowman, Ph.D. Student, Department of History, Yale University
230 Prospect
Tags: CULTURAL, HUMANITIES
 
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2PM

Baking With the Bard: Honey-Glazed Fig Pastry
Davenport College
Shakespeare
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5:30PM

Translation as Transgression: Christopher Marlowe and “Lucans First Book”
Cultures of the Classical series Emma Buckley, Lecturer in Classics University of St Andrews
Phelps Hall
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THURSDAY, APRIL 5
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Women Make Modern Symposium: New Histories of Modern Art in the United States
Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art
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12PM

“Anglo (Mis)representations of Indian Craft: The Importance of the Object”
Edward Cooke, Yale University
Luce Hall
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5:30PM

Brass, Glass, and Bulldogs: A History of Scientific Instruments at Yale
Shae Trewin, Independent Scholar
Yale University Art Gallery
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5:30PM

“The Life, Work and Death of Hypatia”
Alan Cameron, Columbia University
Phelps Hall
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FRIDAY, APRIL 6
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Women Make Modern Symposium: New Histories of Modern Art in the United States
Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art
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SATURDAY, APRIL 7
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Exhibition Tour, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Defining the Nation
YUAG
Yale University Art Gallery
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MONDAY, APRIL 9
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Self-censorship and counter-censorship: models of interpretation in Valerius’ Argonautica’
Yale/Saint Andrews scholar lecture Emma Buckley, Lecturer in Classics University of St Andrews
Phelps Hall
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TUESDAY, APRIL 10
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“No Impact Man”
Yale University
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4:30PM

“Fans, Fame, and the Roman Circus”
American Institute of Archaeology Lecture Sinclair Bell, Northern Illinois
Phelps Hall
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“Boredom and Its Discontent”
Nicholas Lombardo lecture
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11
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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: C. P. Snow and J. Bronowski
Lisa Jardine, Director, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London
Whitney Humanities Center
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5:30PM

“Antiquaries Speak Out: Objects and Their Histories as Disclosed by John Bargrave and Bryan Faussett”
Yale Center for British Art
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7PM

“Sing Your Song” (USA, 2011, 103 min.)
David and Goldie Blanksteen Lecture Film Screening & Discussion with Harry Belafonte
Whitney Humanities Center
Visiting Artist
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THURSDAY, APRIL 12
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History Without Memory – Creating a ‘Trauma Narrative’ out of Video Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors
Sonja Knopp, Genocide Studies Fellow, Yale University
Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Tags: CULTURAL, HUMANITIES, JEWISH, MEDIA STUDIES
 
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2:30PM

The Indeterminate Status of the Audiovisual Experience
Professor Gianmario Borio (University of Pavia – Italy)
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
Tags: VISUAL ART, FILM, HUMANITIES, MEDIA STUDIES, MUSIC, THEATER
 
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4PM

Adam Van Doren – A Yale Sketchbook
Lustman Fellowship Master’s Tea, Davenport College Adam Van Doren
Davenport College
Visiting Artist
Tags: ARCHITECTURE, VISUAL ART, HUMANITIES
 
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5PM

“Science and Government: C. P. Snow and the Corridors of Power”
Lisa Jardine, Director, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London
Whitney Humanities Center
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5:15PM

Yale Literature & Spirituality Series: Ilya Kaminsky
Marquand Chapel
Visiting Artist
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FRIDAY, APRIL 13
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“Double stories – Double lives”
Reflecting on Textual Objects in the Pre-Print world Keynote speakers: John Pollini (USC), Rolena Adorno (Yale)
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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8:45AM

“Have We Lost the Liberal Arts? Exploring a Teaching Tradition”
Carol Christ, president, Smith College, will give the keynote address.
Woolsey Hall
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“Senecan tragedy”
Department of Classics seminar Emma Buckley, Lecturer in Classics University of St Andrews
Phelps Hall
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SATURDAY, APRIL 14
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“Double stories – Double lives”
Reflecting on Textual Objects in the Pre-Print world Keynote speakers: John Pollini (USC), Rolena Adorno (Yale)
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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SUNDAY, APRIL 15
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“Double stories – Double lives”
Reflecting on Textual Objects in the Pre-Print world Keynote speakers: John Pollini (USC), Rolena Adorno (Yale)
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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MONDAY, APRIL 16
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans, A Book Talk & Discussion with the Author
Lawrence N. Powell, James H. Clark Endowed Chair in American Civilization and Director, New Orleans Gulf South Center, Tulane University
Luce Hall
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TUESDAY, APRIL 17
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“Origins of the Great Books Courses”
An event in the Cultures of the Classical series Elizabeth Sawyer, Oxford
Whitney Humanities Center
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4PM

Hindy Najman: “Scriptural Authority and the Life of the Text”
Hindy Najman, Religious Studies, Yale
Sterling Memorial Library
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The Art of Public Health Reception
Yale School of Art (Green Hall)
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18
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4PM

The Art of Nature and the Nature of Art
Exploring the reunion of arts and biodiversity sciences
Kroon Hall
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THURSDAY, APRIL 19
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Lost in Time Colloquium
Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge
Phelps Hall
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12:10PM

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America
Melissa Harris-Perry, Tulane University
African American Studies
Tags: AFRO-AMERICAN, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES, MEDIA STUDIES, WRITING
 
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4PM

Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Ambition
Professor David Bromwich
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
Shakespeare
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Saybrook College Master’s Tea with Dick Cavett
Saybrook College
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5:30PM

Lecture, Emporium of Images: “Canton” as Seen by its Artists and Craftsmen
Amitav Ghosh, novelist and essayist
Yale University Art Gallery
Tags: VISUAL ART, ASIAN AMERICAN, CULTURAL, HUMANITIES
 
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“China and the Making of Modern India: A Story of Fantasy, Abuse and Recovered Memory”
Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture Amitav Ghosh
Yale Center for British Art
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“China and the Making of Modern India: A Story of Fantasy, Abuse and Recovered Memory”
Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture Amitav Ghosh, novelist and essayist
Yale University Art Gallery
Visiting Artist
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7PM

“Hybridity and Poetics in the Art of Michael Damaskinos”
Medieval-Renaissance Forum Charles Barber, Chair of the Department of Art, Art History and Design at Notre Dame University
Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art
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FRIDAY, APRIL 20
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Byzantium/Modernism Conference
Opening Speakers: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Stratis Papaioannou, Marie-Jose Mondzain, Susan Buck-Morss
Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art
Tags: ARCHITECTURE, VISUAL ART, CULTURAL, FILM, HUMANITIES, MEDIA STUDIES, MUSIC, THEATER, WRITING
 
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12PM

Historiography in the Ancient World
Workshop Finale – Review Panel Eckart Frahm, Bob Wilson, John Matthews (Yale)
Department of Religious Studies
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Knappett on objects and networks.“Communities of things and objects: a spatial perspective” (2010).
Phelps Hall
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3:30PM
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A Celebration of the Picture Book
40th Anniversary of the Edith B. Jackson Child Care Program
Whitney Humanities Center
Family Friendly Community Arts
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4PM

Bloom on Shakespeare
Harold Bloom
Battell Chapel
Shakespeare
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Uno specchio deformante? La stagione d’oro della commedia all’italiana
Dario Tomasello
82-90 Wall, RLL (3rd floor)
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“Zhang Chonghe, the Min-Guo Style, and Heritage of Historical Elegance”
Su Wei
William L Harkness Hall
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SATURDAY, APRIL 21
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Byzantium/Modernism Conference
Opening Speakers: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Stratis Papaioannou, Marie-Jose Mondzain, Susan Buck-Morss
Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art
Tags: ARCHITECTURE, VISUAL ART, CULTURAL, FILM, HUMANITIES, MEDIA STUDIES, MUSIC, THEATER, WRITING
 
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8AM
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A Celebration of the Picture Book
40th Anniversary of the Edith B. Jackson Child Care Program
Whitney Humanities Center
Family Friendly Community Arts
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SUNDAY, APRIL 22
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Byzantium/Modernism Conference
Opening Speakers: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Stratis Papaioannou, Marie-Jose Mondzain, Susan Buck-Morss
Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art
Tags: ARCHITECTURE, VISUAL ART, CULTURAL, FILM, HUMANITIES, MEDIA STUDIES, MUSIC, THEATER, WRITING
 
MONDAY, APRIL 23
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Empire and Emancipation: Catholic Britons in the Nineteenth Century
S. Karly Kehoe, current Beinecke visiting fellow
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Matta’s Day in Court: Black Female Subjects and Anglo-Spanish Struggles over Slave Trade Abolition
Rosanne Adderley, Associate Professor of History, Tulane University
230 Prospect
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4PM

Czech Mates: When Shakespeare Met Kafka
Professor Marjorie Garber
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
Shakespeare
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“The Legal Origins of Imperial Internationalism: Criminal Magistrates and the Global Empire of Law, 1800-1825"
Transitions to Modernity Colloquium Lauren Benton, New York University
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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TUESDAY, APRIL 24
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“The ‘Abyss of Mystery’ and the Searches for Meaning: The Role of Medical Arts and Sciences”
Martin E. Marty
Institution for Social and Policy Studies
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“‘Brethren of the quill’: Antiquaries and Discoveries in Eighteenth-Century Cambridge"
Yale Center for British Art
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25
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Chasing the Ghost of Melesina Trench: A Ten-year Archival Adventure
Katharine Kittredge, current Beinecke visiting fellow
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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4:30PM

The Trade in Antiquities
Roger Bland, Director, UK Portable antiquities scheme
Phelps Hall
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5:30PM

Slaves Waiting for Sale: Slavery and the Victorian Art World
Maurie McInnis, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Yale Center for British Art
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THURSDAY, APRIL 26
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“African American Dialect Poetry in Art Songs from the Black Atlantic”
Tsitsi Jaji, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies at University of Pennsylvania
Stoeckel Hall
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7PM

Timothy D. Barnes: “Interpreting Constantine”
Timothy D. Barnes, University of Toronto (Emeritus)
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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FRIDAY, APRIL 27
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12PM

Lost in Time Colloquium
Kirk Freudenburg, Yale University
Phelps Hall
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12:30PM

“Rosalind’s Footing” and “‘Affecting’ Genre in the English Madrigal”
Matt Hunter and Megan Kaes Long
Yale Center for British Art
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SATURDAY, APRIL 28
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1PM

Symposium: The Creation in Context
Sterling Memorial Library
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MONDAY, APRIL 30
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WGAP: Ravi Sharma (Clark University)
Ravi Sharma
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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