Yale Arts Calendar

DAY WEEK MONTH

April 2012

Exhibitions

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“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

“Medicine in Shakespeare’s London,” Sterling Hall of Medicine, MAR 5 – JUN 18

“The God of Our Idolatry”: Garrick and Shakespeare, The Lewis Walpole Library, MAR 12 – JUL 31

SUNDAY, APRIL 1

1PM

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Book Launch: “LOOK! LOOK! LOOK! at Sculpture”

Yale Center for British Art

8PM

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Weekly Reading with the Yale Shakespeare Project

Saybrook College

Shakespeare Undergraduate

MONDAY, APRIL 2

4PM

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“Editing the Online Wall Street Journal”

Alan Murray, deputy managing editor and executive editor, The Wall Street Journal Online

Davenport College

TUESDAY, APRIL 3

4PM

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“Brazil on the Rise: Myth and Reality”

Ezra Stiles College

4:30PM

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“No Easy Choice”

Author’s book signing Ellen Painter Dollar, author

Sterling Hall of Medicine

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4

2PM

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Baking With the Bard: Honey-Glazed Fig Pastry

Davenport College

Shakespeare

4PM

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Iran Colloquium: Form and Meaning and the Meanings of Forms in the Poetry of Rumi

Rosenkranz Hall

4:30PM

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The Poetry of Kabbalah

Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition Peter Cole

Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale

Visiting Artist

5:30PM

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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

THURSDAY, APRIL 5

2PM

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Reading by Belinda McKeon

Belinda McKeon, author, “Solace.”

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Visiting Artist

4PM

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Beinecke Poetry Reading

Susan Howe

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Visiting Artist

4:30PM

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A Reading and Discussion with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Adichie

Luce Hall

Visiting Artist

5:30PM

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“The Life, Work and Death of Hypatia”

Alan Cameron, Columbia University

Phelps Hall

SATURDAY, APRIL 7

2PM

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“Telling Rhymes” Workshop with Kate Tempest

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

Shakespeare

7:30PM

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Underbrook Coffeehouse

Jamestown (Yale) & These Animals (NYC)

Saybrook College

One Night Only

7:30PM

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“Slamlet”

Shakespearean slam poetry Teeth Slam Poets

Whitney Humanities Center

Shakespeare Undergraduate

SUNDAY, APRIL 8

8PM

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Weekly Reading with the Yale Shakespeare Project

Saybrook College

Shakespeare Undergraduate

MONDAY, APRIL 9

5:30PM

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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

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11

4PM

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Lecture by Holland Cotter, “Criticism: Taking It Personally”

The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism

Yale University Art Gallery

THURSDAY, APRIL 12

4:30PM

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“Appropriation vs. Interpretation: The Question of Eighteenth-Century Shakespeare Adaptation”

Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book series Jenny Davidson

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Shakespeare

5:15PM

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Yale Literature & Spirituality Series: Ilya Kaminsky

Marquand Chapel

Visiting Artist

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

12PM

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“Senecan tragedy”

Department of Classics seminar Emma Buckley, Lecturer in Classics University of St Andrews

Phelps Hall

7:30PM

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Oye’s Five Year Anniversary Show

Oye!

Davenport College

Undergraduate

SATURDAY, APRIL 14

ALL DAY SEE ALL DATES

“Double stories – Double lives”

Reflecting on Textual Objects in the Pre-Print world Keynote speakers: John Pollini (USC), Rolena Adorno (Yale)

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

7:30PM, 9:30PM

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Oye’s Five Year Anniversary Show

Oye!

Davenport College

Undergraduate

SUNDAY, APRIL 15

ALL DAY SEE ALL DATES

“Double stories – Double lives”

Reflecting on Textual Objects in the Pre-Print world Keynote speakers: John Pollini (USC), Rolena Adorno (Yale)

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

8PM

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Weekly Reading with the Yale Shakespeare Project

Saybrook College

Shakespeare Undergraduate

MONDAY, APRIL 16

4:30PM

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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

6:30PM

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“Public Space, Social Responsibility, and the Role of the Critic”

Michael Kimmelman

Paul Rudolph Hall

TUESDAY, APRIL 17

4PM

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“African-American Art Today”

Prof. Elizabeth Alexander in conversation with poet Kevin Young

Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall

Visiting Artist

4PM

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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

4PM

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Hindy Najman: “Scriptural Authority and the Life of the Text”

Hindy Najman, Religious Studies, Yale

Sterling Memorial Library

4:30PM

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“Queer Texts, Queer Times”

Carla Freccero, UC Santa Cruz

Whitney Humanities Center

6PM

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Amitav Ghosh: Reading from his Work

Amitav Ghosh

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

Visiting Artist

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18

4PM

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A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh and South Asian Studies

Amitav Ghosh

Luce Hall

Visiting Artist

THURSDAY, APRIL 19

12PM

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Lost in Time Colloquium

Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge

Phelps Hall

12:10PM

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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America

Melissa Harris-Perry, Tulane University

African American Studies

4PM

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Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Ambition

Professor David Bromwich

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

Shakespeare

5PM

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Out of the Blue (ex nihilo)

Akira Mizuta Lippit, Professor of Cinematic Arts, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Languages and Cultures

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

5:30PM

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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

FRIDAY, APRIL 20

ALL DAY SEE ALL DATES

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

2PM

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“Character Studies”

Portraying Shakespeare’s Richard III in Words and Image Helen A. Cooper, Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture and Murray Biggs, Associate Professor of English and Theater

Yale University Art Gallery

Shakespeare

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

4PM

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Bloom on Shakespeare

Harold Bloom

Battell Chapel

Shakespeare

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

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

2PM

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“Character Studies”

Portraying Shakespeare’s Richard III in Words and Image Helen A. Cooper, Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture and Murray Biggs, Associate Professor of English and Theater

Yale University Art Gallery

Shakespeare

7PM

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The Wasteland (Poetry+Film)

212 York Street

8PM

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

Shakespeare

SUNDAY, APRIL 22

ALL DAY SEE ALL DATES

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

8PM

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Weekly Reading with the Yale Shakespeare Project

Saybrook College

Shakespeare Undergraduate

8PM

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

Shakespeare

MONDAY, APRIL 23

12PM

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The Concentrators’ Ball

Undergraduate fiction, nonfiction & poetry reading

St. Anthony Hall

Undergraduate

4PM

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Czech Mates: When Shakespeare Met Kafka

Professor Marjorie Garber

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

Shakespeare

8PM

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

Shakespeare

TUESDAY, APRIL 24

4PM

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Beinecke Yale Student Poets Reading

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Undergraduate

5:30PM

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“‘Brethren of the quill’: Antiquaries and Discoveries in Eighteenth-Century Cambridge"

Yale Center for British Art

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25

11AM

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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

7PM, 8:45PM

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YDC PRESENTS: READINGS WEEK!

Theater Studies

Undergraduate

THURSDAY, APRIL 26

4:30PM

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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

5:15PM

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Christian Wiman, poet

Institute of Sacred Music

Visiting Artist

7PM, 8:30PM

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YDC PRESENTS: READINGS WEEK!

Theater Studies

Undergraduate

FRIDAY, APRIL 27

12:30PM

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“Rosalind’s Footing” and “‘Affecting’ Genre in the English Madrigal”

Matt Hunter and Megan Kaes Long

Yale Center for British Art

4PM

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Wordsworth’s Autism

Leslie Brisman, Leslie Brisman

Linsly-Chittenden Hall

5PM, 7:30PM

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YDC PRESENTS: READINGS WEEK!

Theater Studies

Undergraduate

7PM

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C.P. Cavafy and Music: An Evening of Songs and Reflections

Alexandra Gravas, mezzo soprano; concert performer, opera singer, recording artist, Vienna Dr. Pantelis Polychronidis, pianist; Adjunct Professor, Music Program, Institute for the International Education of Students (IES), Vienna; Visiting Scholar, Modern Greek Program, University of Michigan Dr. Vassilis Lambropoulos, speaker; C.P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek, Classical Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan

Whitney Humanities Center

SATURDAY, APRIL 28

1PM

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Symposium: The Creation in Context

Sterling Memorial Library

7:30PM

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Underbrook Coffeehouse

Say Bop (Yale) & Gill Aharon Trio (Boston)

Saybrook College

Visiting Artist

SUNDAY, APRIL 29

8PM

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Weekly Reading with the Yale Shakespeare Project

Saybrook College

Shakespeare Undergraduate

MONDAY, APRIL 30

2:30PM

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Mini Conference: “Nineteenth-Century Life Writing”

Linsly-Chittenden Hall