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2 – 3PM  Friday, November 2, 2012
 

Panel: How Should We Think About Violence?

Steven Pinker, Stephen Darwall, Inderpal Grewal, Stathis Kalyvas, Laurie Santos

Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium, 53 Wall St., New Haven, CT, 06511 MAP
A conversation among Steven Pinker (Psychology), Stephen Darwall (Philosophy), Inderpal Grewal (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), Stathis Kalyvas (Political Science) and Laurie Santos (Psychology); moderated by Richard O. Prum (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

A part of the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities.

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

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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 – JUL 17, 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
CANCELLED
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
CANCELLED
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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5:30PM
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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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8:30PM

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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5:30PM

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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11:55PM

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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11:45AM

“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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1:30PM

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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5:30PM

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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6:30PM

CMES Cinema: “Tunisia Votes”
Luce Hall
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6:30PM

The Eisenman Collection: An Analysis
Paul Rudolph Hall
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7PM

Oxhide II
China, 2009, 132 min.
Whitney Humanities Center
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Anthony Madrid, Poetry Reading
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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7:30PM

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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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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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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9:30AM

New Directions for Digital Scholarship
CANCELLED
Sterling Law Buildings
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12PM

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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8PM
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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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Undergraduate
 
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JAW-CKO’LANTERN: Just Add Water Halloween Show
Calhoun College
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Undergraduate
 
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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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World Premiere
 
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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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Undergraduate
 
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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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Undergraduate
 
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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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Berkeley College Orchestra Presents: Music of the British Isles
Berkeley College Orchestra
Battell Chapel
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Undergraduate
 
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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