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4PM  Monday, October 15, 2012
 

Apes and Academics, Debates and Sermons

Jefferson and Darwin: Science and Religion in Troubled Times

Keith S. Thomson, University of Oxford

Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium, 53 Wall St., New Haven, CT, 06511 MAP
Location is wheelchair accessible
The third in a series of four Dwight H. Terry lectures focusing on “Jefferson and Darwin: Science and Religion in Troubled Times.” Reception will follow in Rm. 108 WHC.

Website: 2012 Dwight H. Terry Lectures
Open to: General public
Admission: Free
Sponsor: Dwight H. Terry Lectureship
Contact Information: Lauralee Field, lauralee.field@yale.edu, 203-432-2317

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Week of October 14, 2012
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“Art in Focus” Student Guide Exhibition: “The Technical Examination of Early English Panel Painting,” Yale Center for British Art, APR 13 – DEC 9
Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery, AUG 3 – OCT 28
Staging History, Making History: The Yale School of Drama & Yale Repertory Theater, Robert B. Haas Family Library, AUG 27 – DEC 18
Palladio Virtuel, Paul Rudolph Hall, AUG 29 – OCT 27
Simonides: Photographs by Norman McBeath, Texts by Robert Crawford, Whitney Humanities Center, AUG 29 – DEC 7
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies: Achievements and Challenges 1982-2012, Sterling Memorial Library, SEP 7 – NOV 6
“The Comic Art of Joseph Hémard,” Sterling Law Buildings, SEP 15 – DEC 15
Latvian Publishing Between the Wars, Sterling Memorial Library, SEP 17, 2012 – JAN 24, 2013
Wade in the Water: Musical Life of American Civil Rights Leader, Sterling Memorial Library, SEP 18 – DEC 14
Hail to the Chief: Presidents in the Gilmore Archives, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Sterling Memorial Library, SEP 18 – NOV 6
Nurses, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, SEP 22, 2012 – JAN 14, 2013
Yale Bands, Yale College Dean’s Office, OCT 1, 2012 – JUN 1, 2013
“The English Prize: The Capture of the ‘Westmorland,’ an Episode of the Grand Tour,” Yale Center for British Art, OCT 4, 2012 – JAN 13, 2013
Architecture in Dialogue: The Peter Eisenman Collection at Yale, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, OCT 8 – DEC 14
Descriptions of Literature: The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, OCT 8 – DEC 14
Shaping Community: Poetics and Politics of the Eruv, Institute of Sacred Music, OCT 10 – DEC 14
“Caro: Close Up,” Yale Center for British Art, OCT 18 – DEC 30
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14
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Yale Children’s Theater Presents: Sherlock Holmes
By Kate Weiner
Dwight Hall
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Family Friendly Undergraduate
 
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Family Programs, Stories and Art
Yale University Art Gallery
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Introductory Tour
Yale Center for British Art
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1:30PM

Bulldog Productions: Screening of Student Films
William L Harkness Hall
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Puppet & Art Workshops for the Carnival and Day of the Dead Parade in Fair Haven
Bregamos Community Theater
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Community Arts
 
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Family Weekend Student Guide Tour: “Ways of Seeing”
Yale Center for British Art
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Angles on Art, Charged Spaces: When Art Exceeds Its Boundaries
Angie Shih, BR ’14
Yale University Art Gallery
Undergraduate
 
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Family Weekend Student Guide Tour: “Between the Lines: Reflections and Symmetries in British Art”
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Schola Cantorum: Handel’s Samson
Yale Schola Cantorum with Nicholas McGegan, guest conductor, and members of the Yale Baroque Ensemble
Woolsey Hall
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Just the Tip: Back to School
Morse College
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 15
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Apes and Academics, Debates and Sermons
Jefferson and Darwin: Science and Religion in Troubled Times Keith S. Thomson, University of Oxford
Whitney Humanities Center
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Master’s Tea with Brian Reed
Pierson College
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Ghassan Zaqtan: Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me
A bilingual Arabic and English poetry reading
Whitney Humanities Center
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16
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Being Du Bois: Lessons in the Management of Identities
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University
Whitney Humanities Center
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Master’s Tea with Laura Shapiro
Saybrook College
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Christian Destruction and Desecration of Images of Classical Antiquity
John Pollini, University of Southern California
Phelps Hall
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Julia Child at 100: Does She Still Matter?
Laura Shapiro
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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Ballet Technique Class
Instructors from New Haven Ballet
Broadway Rehearsal Lofts
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Just for Students
 
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Loring Sabin Ensign Lecture
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
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Open Drawing
Yale School of Art
Yale School of Art (Green Hall)
Community Arts
 
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17
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Gershun Avilez and Samuel R. Delany
An ENDEAVORS Colloquium Samuel Delany and Prof. GerShun Avilez
African American Studies
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Investigative Journalism at Work: Revealing the Corruption of Power Wielders
Sterling Law Buildings
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12:30PM

Literature & Spirituality Series: Christian Wiman
Christian Wiman
Institute of Sacred Music
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Gallery Talk, Sol LeWitt and the Wall
Molleen Theodore, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Fellow, Education Department
Yale University Art Gallery
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LaToya Ruby Frazier
Yale School of Art (Green Hall)
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Joe’s Junk Yard Book Party & Signing
Lisa Kereszi
Holcomb T. Green Jr. Hall
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Raminder Kaur Kahlon, University of Sussex,“Bertrand Russell in Bollyworld”: Post-Nehruvian Narratives about Peace and Japan in 1960s India
Raminder Kaur Kahlon, University of Sussex
Luce Hall
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Samuel R. Delany: A View From The Valley’s Edge
James Robert Brudner ’83 Memorial Prize Lecture Samuel Delany
William L Harkness Hall
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Opening Lecture: “Caro: Close Up-A Private View”
Julius Bryant, Keeper of Word & Image, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Yale Center for British Art
 
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Yale Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert
Yale Jazz Ensemble, Thomas C. Duffy, Director
Sprague Memorial Hall
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Master’s Evening Talk with Michael Warner
Michael Warner
Davenport College
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18
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Exhibition Tour: “The English Prize: The Capture of the ‘Westmorland,’ An Episode of the Grand Tour”
Yale Center for British Art
 
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Professor Merze Tate: Diplomatic Historian, Cosmopolitan Woman
Barbara Savage, University of Pennsylvania
African American Studies
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Video-Interviews with Rescuers in Cambodia and Bosnia
Leora Khan, Yale University
Institution for Social and Policy Studies
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Opening Tour for Members: “Caro: Close Up”
Yale Center for British Art
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“Science, Religion, and the Contest for Authority”
Keith S. Thomson, executive officer, American Philosophical Society and former dean, Yale Graduate School and director, Peabody Museum.
Whitney Humanities Center
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C. S. Giscombe Poetry Reading
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Exhibition Opening and Tour – Poetics and Politics of the Eruv
Institute of Sacred Music
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At War with Israel: East Germany and the West German Radical Left, 1967-89
Jeffrey Herf
Whitney Humanities Center
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Lecture, On Robert Adams
Professor Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University
Yale University Art Gallery
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Dido and Aeneas
Opera Theater of Yale College
Stiles-Morse Crescent Theater
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“ManDove”
Filmmakers Jim de Sève and Kian Tjong
Luce Hall
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Sabbath and This Is Not a Film
Double screening in Religion & Film Series @ Yale
Whitney Humanities Center
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The Seagull
Afro-American Cultural Center
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White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
by Nassim Soleimanpour
Yale Cabaret
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Spring Awakening
Off Broadway Theater
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19
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“Dreaming Up Classics: Petrarch’s ‘Africa’ and beyond”
Emily Schurr
Phelps Hall
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Furniture Study Tour
Yale University Art Gallery
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Artist Talk, Tod Papageorge
Tod Papageorge, the Walker Evans Professor of Photography, at the Yale School of Art
Yale University Art Gallery
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Birgit Rasmussen & Hilary Wyss
The Americanist Colloquium of the English department
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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Terence Irwin, ‘The Subject of the Virtues’
Terence Irwin
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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Dido and Aeneas
Opera Theater of Yale College
Stiles-Morse Crescent Theater
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Yale Philharmonia
Suzana Bartal, Peter Oundjian
Woolsey Hall
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The Seagull
Afro-American Cultural Center
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Spring Awakening
Off Broadway Theater
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White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
by Nassim Soleimanpour
Yale Cabaret
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20
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“Exploring Artism: A Program for Families”
Yale Center for British Art
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Architecture Tour
Yale Center for British Art
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Contact Improv Workshop with ADAY
Elise Knudson, NY based dancer/dance-maker
Broadway Rehearsal Lofts
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Highlights Tour
Yale University Art Gallery
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Film: “David Copperfield” (1935)
Yale Center for British Art
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Dido and Aeneas
Opera Theater of Yale College
Stiles-Morse Crescent Theater
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Student Guide Tour: “Revolution!”
Yale Center for British Art
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Spring Awakening
Off Broadway Theater
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Angles on Art, Depictions of Infinity
Sofia Gearty, BR ’13
Yale University Art Gallery
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Films: Careful and Archangel
Film Cultures Colloquium and Screening Series
Whitney Humanities Center
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Underbrook Coffeehouse
Yale bands, touring bands (folk, soft rock, jazz), Yale artist and writer.
Saybrook College
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The Seagull
Afro-American Cultural Center
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8PM, 11PM
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White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
by Nassim Soleimanpour
Yale Cabaret
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“Shaun of the Dead”
Midnight Movies, presented by the Yale Film Society
Whitney Humanities Center
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Just for Students