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5PM  Thursday, November 1, 2012
 

Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature

Why Violence Has Declined

Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium, 53 Wall St., New Haven, CT, 06511 MAP
Location is wheelchair accessible
The Inaugural Franke Program in Science and the Humanities Lecture
Steven Pinker, Harvard University
“The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”

Open to: General public
Admission: Free
Contact Information: Susan Stout, susan.stout@yale.edu, 203-432-6556

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Week of October 28, 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
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
In memoriam: Bernard Chaet, Yale School of Art (Green Hall), OCT 25 – NOV 4
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28
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Exhibition Tour: “Caro: Close Up”
Yale Center for British Art
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Collection of Musical Instruments – piano recital
Yves Henry
Collection of Musical Instruments
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Visiting Artist
 
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Choral Conducting Recital: Robert Strebent
Marquand Chapel
 
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Direct-er’s Cuts with Steve Cossman
Steve Cossman, founder and director of Mono No Aware
212 York Street
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Visiting Artist
 
MONDAY, OCTOBER 29
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“Meet the Writer, Claudio Magris”
CANCELLED Claudio Magris
82-90 Wall, RLL (3rd floor)
Visiting Artist
 
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Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research of Black Culture
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
 
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10 Jokes That Will Teach You Everything You Need to Know About Screenwriting
CANCELLED Pavel Jech, Dean of FAMU
Whitney Humanities Center
Visiting Artist
 
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Liturgy Symposium: Todd Johnson
CANCELLED Todd Johnson
Institute of Sacred Music
 
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Fridays @ Five with Victoria Clark
CANCELLED Victoria Clark
Stoeckel Hall
Visiting Artist
 
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A DRAMATalk with Michael Mayer, Peter Lerman, Margo Lion, and Amanda Lipitz
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University Theatre
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“Theater and Censorship under the Greek Military Dictatorship (1967-1974)”
CANCELLED Gonda Van Steen, Dept. of Classics and Center for Greek Studies, University of Florida
Luce Hall 202
 
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Dan Graham will offer a lecture.
36 Edgewood Avenue
Visiting Artist
 
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“Marie Antoinette”
By David Adjmi
Yale Repertory Theatre
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World Premiere
 
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30
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Art in Context: “Bill Brandt and Henry Moore in the London Underground Shelters, 1940”
CANCELED
Yale Center for British Art
 
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Mary Reid Kelley, Visiting Artist will offer a lecture.
36 Edgewood Avenue
Visiting Artist
 
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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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Bhangra Dance Lessons
International Center
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Undergraduate
 
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Guitarra Boricua: A Night of Puerto Rican Classical Guitar
La Casa Cultural Center
 
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Iphigenia Among the Stars
Adapted from Euripides by Benjamin Fainstein Conceived and directed by Jack Tamburri
Iseman Theater
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8PM
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“Marie Antoinette”
By David Adjmi
Yale Repertory Theatre
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World Premiere
 
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Open Drawing
Yale School of Art
Yale School of Art (Green Hall)
Community Arts
 
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“Baader Meinhoff Komplex”
William L Harkness Hall
 
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31
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Occupying Literacy: Whiteness and the Possessive Investment in Writing
Birgit Rasmussen
Hall of Graduate Studies
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Made and Broken by The Great War: Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant and her Circle of Friends at the Beinecke
Wendy Moffat, current Beinecke visiting fellow
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
 
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Performance of ‘Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad’
Alice Oswald
Whitney Auditorium
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Royal Oak Foundation Lecture and Book Signing: “London Squares and Gardens Fit for a Queen”
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, landscape architect and historian
Yale Center for British Art
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Argentine Tango Classes
Robin Thomas
New Haven People’s Center
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8PM
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“Marie Antoinette”
By David Adjmi
Yale Repertory Theatre
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World Premiere
 
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Iphigenia Among the Stars
Adapted from Euripides by Benjamin Fainstein Conceived and directed by Jack Tamburri
Iseman Theater
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Yale Symphony Orchestra – Halloween Show
Yale Symphony Orchestra
Woolsey Hall
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Undergraduate World Premiere
 
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Digitization and Digital Libraries in France: A Changing Landscape
CHANGE OF DATE
Sterling Memorial Library
 
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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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“Ed Bullins and the Theatrical Spectacle of Civil Rights”
GerShun Avilez
African American Studies
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Sarah Calhoun, Memories of British South Asia: A hands on examination of the history of Yale in South Asia, from Eli Yale onward
Luce Hall
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Filming Interviews with Cambodians
Gregory Stanton, Ben Kiernan, Yale University and Socheata Poeuv, Khmer Legacies
Institution for Social and Policy Studies
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Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Whitney Humanities Center
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Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture: “Prisoners of the Sun”
Hew Locke, visual artist
Yale University Art Gallery
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Visiting Artist
 
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“Collecting Dante from Tuscany: A Bibliographical Romance”
Christian Dupont
82-90 Wall, RLL (3rd floor)
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CMES Cinema: “Tunisia Votes”
Luce Hall
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The Eisenman Collection: An Analysis
Paul Rudolph Hall
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Oxhide II
China, 2009, 132 min.
Whitney Humanities Center
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Anthony Madrid, Poetry Reading
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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Yale Glee Club: Schola Cantorum Coralina
Marquand Chapel
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Singing Groups
 
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“Marie Antoinette”
By David Adjmi
Yale Repertory Theatre
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World Premiere
 
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Yale Philharmonia
Woolsey Hall
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Iphigenia Among the Stars
Adapted from Euripides by Benjamin Fainstein Conceived and directed by Jack Tamburri
Iseman Theater
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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New Directions for Digital Scholarship
CANCELLED
Sterling Law Buildings
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Furniture Study Tour
Yale University Art Gallery
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Panel: How Should We Think About Violence?
Steven Pinker, Stephen Darwall, Inderpal Grewal, Stathis Kalyvas, Laurie Santos
Whitney Humanities Center
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Nontsikelelo Mutiti: A NEW WORK/A NOW WORK/A NON WORK
Davenport College
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Roshni: the South-Asian Cultural Showcase
Woolsey Hall
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Undergraduate Singing Groups
 
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Fall 2012 Japan Film Series – The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki/Fine Snow)
Director: Kon Ichikawa (1983), 140 minutes
Whitney Humanities Center
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Yale Anime Society Presents: Kids on the Slope
Saybrook College
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Fall Opera Scenes
Sprague Memorial Hall
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Sakhioba Ensemble: Traditional Georgian Sacred and Folk Music Concert
Sakhioba Ensemble
Dwight Hall
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Richard 2012 or The Body Politic
An Election Event, based on Shakespeare’s Richard II and the 2012 US Presidential Campaign
Whitney Humanities Center
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Undergraduate
 
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La Edad de la Ciruela
Las Chicas de Blanco, Argentinian Theater Group
Off Broadway Theater
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Iphigenia Among the Stars
Adapted from Euripides by Benjamin Fainstein Conceived and directed by Jack Tamburri
Iseman Theater
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“Marie Antoinette”
By David Adjmi
Yale Repertory Theatre
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World Premiere
 
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Lux Improvitas: The Jane Austen Show
Jonathan Edwards College
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JAW-CKO’LANTERN: Just Add Water Halloween Show
Calhoun College
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The Yale Spizzwinks Present: Hocus Pocus 2012
The Treehouse
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Off-Campus Undergraduate Singing Groups
 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3
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Introductory Tour
Yale Center for British Art
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SketchUp Basics
Rorie Fitzsimons
Davenport College
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Just for Students
 
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Highlights Tour
Yale University Art Gallery
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2PM, 8PM
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“Marie Antoinette”
By David Adjmi
Yale Repertory Theatre
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Student Guide Tour: “British Bling:  Metal and Cultural Identity”
Yale Center for British Art
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Undergraduate
 
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Anne-Marie Slaughter
Women in Leadership Conference
Sterling Law Buildings
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2PM, 8PM
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Iphigenia Among the Stars
Adapted from Euripides by Benjamin Fainstein Conceived and directed by Jack Tamburri
Iseman Theater
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Film: “The Mystery of Charles Dickens” (2000)
Yale Center for British Art
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Angles on Art, Famous Last Words
Cora Lewis, PC ’13
Yale University Art Gallery
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Creative Design Solutions
Justin DeLand
Broadway Rehearsal Lofts
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Just for Students
 
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Robin Blaze and Masaaki Suzuki
Robin Blaze, countertenor, and Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord
Marquand Chapel
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Amelie (France, 2001) 122 min. 35mm.
Whitney Humanities Center
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Fall Opera Scenes
Sprague Memorial Hall
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Annual YCC Fall Comedy Show 2012
John Mulaney, Shon Arieh-Lerer ’14, and Ryan Bowers ’14
Woolsey Hall
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One Night Only
 
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CASA Cultural Show
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall
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Richard 2012 or The Body Politic
An Election Event, based on Shakespeare’s Richard II and the 2012 US Presidential Campaign
Whitney Humanities Center
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Berkeley College Orchestra Presents: Music of the British Isles
Berkeley College Orchestra
Battell Chapel
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Yale Swing & Blues Halloween Lesson, Dance & Afterparty
Pratt Hall, Center Church on the Green
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Jazz at the Saybrook Underbrook
Saybrook College
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HIPSTORY: Yale Belly Dance Fall Show
Yale Affiliates Belly Dance Society
Morse/Ezra Stiles College
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Family Friendly Undergraduate
 
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“Jaws”
Midnight Movies, presented by the Yale Film Society
Whitney Humanities Center
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Just for Students