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Upcoming Events

Saturday, January 16

James Baldwin: Price of the Ticket (USA, 1989) 87 min.

25th Anniversary Screening
Director Karen Thorsen
Followed by a Q&A with the director
(African American Studies, Yale College Dean’s Office, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4:00pm, Auditorium
    

Friday, January 22

Amanda Anderson, Brown University

CHESS

“Psyche and Ethos”
For more information see website(link is external)
12:00pm, Room 208
    

Monday, January 25

The Watermelon Woman (USA, 1996) 90 min.

Lesbian Filmmakers and Queer Representations
Director Cheryl Dunye
Introduced and followed by a discussion with the director
(LGBT Studies, Mandelbaum Fund for LGBT Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4:00pm, Auditorium
    

Thursday, January 28

Investigation of a Flame: A Portrait of the Catonsville 9 (USA, 2001) 45 min.

Religion and Social Change Film Series
Director Lynne Sachs
Introduced by Frida Berrigan, Waging Nonviolence (columnist)
(Religion and Film Series, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, Religious Studies, American Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00pm, Auditorium
    

Friday, January 29 to Saturday, January 30

Ideology: A Philosophy Conference

Friday, January 29 at Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall and Memorabilia Room / 120 High Street
Saturday, January 30 at Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
(Department of Philosophy and Whitney Humanities Center)
For more information see website(link is external)
Poster
Auditorium
    

Sunday, January 31

Fargo, 20th Anniversary Screening (USA, 1996) 98 min. 35mm.

Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Introduced by Archer Neilson
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
For more information see website(link is external)
2:00pm, Auditorium
    

Wednesday, February 03

Shulman Lectures

Research at the Energy Frontier: What, Why, and How?

Physics and Dance
Jonathan Butterworth, University College London
5:00pm, Auditorium
    

Wednesday, February 03

The Yield: Kafka's Atheological Reformation

Paul North (Germanic Languages and Literatures) in conversation with
Paul Franks (Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Judaic Studies)
Rüdiger Campe (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
and Peter Fenves (German, Northwestern University)
moderated by Matthew Shafer (PhD student, Political Theory)
(Judaic Studies and Whitney Humanities Center)
5:30pm, Room 208
    

Friday, February 05

Andrew Sabl, Yale University

CHESS

“Toleration Isn’t What It Used To Be: From Enlightened Magistrates to Democratic Constitutionalism”
(MacMillan Center and Whitney Humanities Center)
For more information see website(link is external)
12:00pm, Room 208
    

Monday, February 15

Shulman Lectures

Innovation in Dance: Back and Forth with Yvonne Rainer

Physics and Dance
Yvonne Rainer, choreographer, filmmaker, and writer
5:00pm, Room 208
    

Thursday, February 18

Steven Beller, independent scholar

When Does It Make Sense to Call Hostility Towards Jews Antisemitism; and When Does It Not? Some Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Debates

The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
(Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, Judaic Studies Program, and Whitney Humanities Center)
5:00pm, Room 208
    

Wednesday, February 24

Power and Imagination in America: The Autobiographies of Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt

Philip Horne, University College London
(Department of English and Whitney Humanities Center)
 
4:30pm, Room 208
    

Thursday, February 25 to Saturday, February 27

Hello Again by Michael John LaChiusa

A Senior Project in Theater Studies for Thomas Stilwell
(Theater Studies and Whitney Humanities Center)
Saturday performances at 2 and 8pm
For tickets and information, visit Hello Again’s Yale Drama Coalition Pagehttp://yaledramacoalition.org/shows/844(link is external)
8:00 pm, Whitney (Black Box) Theater
    

Tuesday, March 01 to Wednesday, March 02

Finzi-Contini Lectures

Dinaw Mengestu, acclaimed novelist, writer, and MacArthur Fellow

Talk Title TBD

DINAW MENGESTU came to the U.S. with his family from Ethiopia at the age of two. Since earning his MFA at Columbia University in 2005, he has published three novels, all of them New York Times Notable Books, including his most recent, ALL OUR NAMES. A 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Mengestu also earned a 2007 National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Award and was included on The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” list in 2010. He is the recipient of a Lannan Fiction Fellowship, The Guardian First Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among numerous other awards. His work has been translated into more than 15 languages. 
Also a freelance journalist who has reported from sub-Saharan Africa about life in Darfur, northern Uganda, and eastern Congo, Mengestu has had his work published in Harper’s, Granta, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.
5:00pm, Auditorium
    

Thursday, March 03

Religion and Social Change on the Internet

Religion and Social Change Film Series
A multimedia presentation by Rahiel Tesfamariam, Urban Cusp
Post-presentation discussion with Rahiel Tesfamariam and Candace E. West, Social Science Research Council
(Religion and Film Series, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, Religious Studies, American Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00pm, Auditorium
    

Thursday, March 10

Shulman Lectures

An Atom as an Onion

Physics and Dance
Young Kee-Kim, University of Chicago
5:00pm, Room 208
    

Monday, March 28

Shulman Lectures

Creative Research: Crossing Borders, Disciplines, and Domains

Physics and Dance
Liz Lerman, choreographer, performer, writer, educator, and speaker
5:00pm, Room 208
    

Tuesday, March 29

Ilan Greilsammer, Bar-Ilan University

The New Historians of Israel: Is the Destruction of National Myths a Delegitimization of Zionism?

The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
(Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and Whitney Humanities Center)
For more information please see http://ypsa.yale.edu/(link is external)
5:30pm, Room 208
    

Wednesday, March 30 to Friday, April 01

Tanner Lectures

Judith Butler, University of California Berkeley

Interpreting Non-Violence

Wednesday, March 30
“Why Preserve the Life of the Other?”
5:00pm
Thursday, March 31
“Legal Violence: An Ethical and Political Critique”
5:00pm
Friday, April 1
Roundtable discussion
10:30am
Auditorium
    

Tuesday, April 05

Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City

Adina Hoffman, essayist, biographer, and Windham Campbell literature prize winner
(Council on Middle East Studies and Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism)
For more information please seehttp://ypsa.yale.edu/(link is external)
5:30pm, Room 208
    

Tuesday, May 03

Languages of the People: A Romanian-Jewish Linguist on Yiddish, Romanian, and French

Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University and University of Toronto
(Council on European Studies, Judaic Studies Program, and Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism)
For more information please seehttp://ypsa.yale.edu/(link is external)

12:30pm, location TBD
    





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