David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times, “Obama’s Surprising Uses of American Power: Confronting Iran, Leaving Afghanistan and Coping with the Arab Spring”
Monday, April 16, 2012
5:00 p.m.
Room 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street
See attached poster for more details.
Michael Kimmelman of the New York Times: "Public space, social responsibility, and the role of the critic"
Monday, April 16
6:30 p.m.
Yale School of Architecture, 180 York Street
Michael Kimmelman is an author, critic, columnist and pianist. He is the architecture critic for The New York Times and written on issues of public housing, public space, community development and social responsibility. He was the paper's longtime chief art critic and, in 2007, created the Abroad column, as a foreign correspondent covering culture, political and social affairs across Europe and elsewhere. In late summer, 2011, the Times appointed him architecture critic and also made him the paper's senior critic. He returned to New York from Europe in autumn, 2011, and hisarticles since then have begun to reshape the public debate about urbanism,architecture and architectural criticism.
He was born and raised in Greenwich Village, the son of a physician and civil rights activist. He attended Friends Seminary in Manhattan, graduated summa cum laude from Yale College and received his graduate degree in art history from Harvard University. A concert pianist, who still regularly performs as a soloist and with chamber groups on series in New York and across Europe, he started as a music critic at the paper, then moved into art. A former editor at ID Magazine and architecture critic for New England Monthly, he has written at length about, among others, the artists Richard Serra, Michael Heizer, Lucian Freud, Raymond Pettibon and Matthew Barney along with the architects Shigeru Ban, Peter Zumthor and Oscar Niemeyer. Author of TheAccidental Masterpiece, he has hosted various television features, appearing in the 2007 documentary film My Kid Could Paint That.
From fall 2007 into summer 2011 he was based in Berlincovering, among other subjects, the crackdown on cultural freedom in Vladimir Putin's Russia, life in Gaza under Hamas, the rise of the far-right in Hungary, Négritude in France, bullfighting in contemporary Spain, Czech humor in the context of political protest, and Holocaust education for a new generation of Germans.
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, he also contributes regularly to the New York Review of Books.
Melissa Harris-Perry, “Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America”
Thursday, April 19, 2012
12:10-1:30
Room 127, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street
Melissa Harris-Perry is host of MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry,” which airs on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 12 noon ET. She is professor of political science at Tulane University, where she is founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South. She previously served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and Princeton University
Harris-Perry is author of the well received book, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America (Yale 2011), which argues that persistent harmful stereotypes—invisible to many but painfully familiar to black women—profoundly shape black women’s politics, contribute to policie that treat them unfairly, and make it difficult for black women to assert their rights in the political arena.
Her academic research is inspired by a desire to investigate the challenges facing contemporary black Americans and to better understand the multiple, creative ways that African Americans respond to these challenges. Her work is published in scholarly journals and edited volumes, and her interests include the study of African American political thought, black religious ideas and practice, and social and clinical psychology.
Amitav Ghosh “China and the Making of Modern India: A Story of Fantasy, Abuse and Recovered Memory”
Thursday, April 19, 2012
5:30 – 6:30PM
“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, Robert L. McNeil Jr. Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel St.,
Amitav Ghosh is the author of several works of fiction that have earned him prestigious international awards over the last twenty years. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages, and his essays have been published in major periodicals in the United States. He has taught at many universities in India and the United States, including Delhi University, Columbia, Queens College, and Harvard. In January 2007 he received the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest honors, from the president of India, and in 2010, honorary doctorates from Queens College, New York, and the Sorbonne, Paris.
Established to honor the memory of Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, director of the Yale University Art Gallery from 1957 to 1971, the annual Ritchie Lectures, which are jointly sponsored by the Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery, bring to the University distinguished members of the international visual arts community. These lectures are free and open to the public, honoring Ritchie’s belief that the art museum serves as a gathering place for all members of the community. This lecture will be presented in the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Lecture Hall, Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street.
Chuck Collins, “99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It”
Saturday, April 21, 2012
03:30 PM-04:30 PM
The Yale Bookstore
Please join us as discusses and signs copies of his latest book, 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It
ISP Data Journalism Conference
Friday, March 9
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Yale Law School, Room 122
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is hosting the conference "Data Journalism: New Tools and New Challenges for Accessing Information."
The production of news increasingly involves the processing, analysis, and presentation of data. While governments and other organizations have made more data publicly available, newsrooms have been adding new tools and expertise to manage the flow of information. Two panel discussions with journalists, computer scientists, and media researchers will explore the role of data in journalism and the effects of using data to make information public. Discussions will address topics like the various forms data journalism takes, the role news organizations play in mediating and curating data, and how data journalism interacts with issues like freedom of information, open government and privacy. Panelists include Amanda Cox, Graphics Editor of the New York Times; Reginald Chua, Editor, Data and Innovation at Thomson Reuters; and Matt Stiles, Database Recording Coordinator at NPR. Event contact: Heather Branch at heather.branch@yale.edu.
Inside NBC Universal
Thursday, March 1
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
30 Rockefeller Center
NBCUniversal Internship Program- An Inside Look. Here's your chance to network with leaders from NBCUniversal and find out what our internships have to offer! Submit your resume to Campus2CareerEC@nbcuni.com, with the subject line: An Inside Look at NBCUniversal by Monday, February 20.You must be entering your Sophomore, Junior or Senior year in Fall 2012 to attend. Opportunities may be available in the following departments: News, Broadcast Journalism, Production, Development, Programming, Sports & Olympics, Advertising & Promotions, Graphic Arts, New Media, Editorial Sales, Marketing, Human Resources.
Miss Representation Film Screening & Discussion
Wednesday February 29
7:00 p.m.
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
The Yale Women’s Center and Queer Peers Present: Miss Representation (90 min), written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself. Featuring stories from teenage girls and provocative interviews with politicians, journalists, entertainers, activists and academics, like Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Margaret Cho, Rosario Dawson and Gloria Steinem. Watch the short trailer here, and see the attached poster. Cosponsored by Broad Recognition, CCEs, the LGBTQ Co-op, MEChA, Pi Beta Phi, Queer Peers, Women in Science at Yale, WYSE, Yale Black Women’s Coalition & more.
Master’s Tea with Masha Gessen
Tuesday, February 28
4:00 p.m.
Davenport College Master’s House
Russian-American journalist and author, will talk at a 4 pm Master’s Tea in the Davenport College Master’s House about her new book, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. Masha Gessen has written for the New York Times, Slate, U.S. News and World Report, The New Republic, Granta, the Guardian, and the New Statesman, among others, and is the author of six other books, including (a New York Times Notable Book of the year) and Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century (about Grigori Perelman).
Interrogation After 9/11, Censorship, & Journalism
Tuesday, February 28
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Yale Law School, Room 120
Panelists:
Ali Soufan, Former FBI Agent and Author of "The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda"
Andrew Weissman, General Counsel of the FBI
Charlie Savage, Washington Correspondent for the New York Times
Daniel Freedman, Policy Analyst and Co-Author of "The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda"
Moderated by: Asha Rangappa, Former FBI Agent and Associate Dean for Admissions, Yale Law School and Nicholas Bramble, Director, Law and Media Program, Information Society Project at Yale Law School. This event is sponsored by the Information Society Project. Contact: Meredith Berger at meredith.berger@yale.edu.
Master’s Tea with Lev Grossman
Monday, February 27|
4:00 p.m.
Calhoun College Master’s House
Calhoun College, The Poynter Fellowship, and the Yale English department present “Criticism Outside the Classroom – Reviewers Talk about their Work.” Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist. He is the author of the novels Warp, Codex, The Magicians, and The Magician King. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications, and is a senior writer and book critic for TIME.
Music, Media and the Environment: Garth Neustadter’s Emmy winning music composition for the PBS documentary “John Muir in the Woods”
Tuesday, February 21
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Kroon Hall, Burke Auditorium
Hosted by the Deans of the Schools of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the School of Music, the evening includes clips from the PBS Documentary “John Muir in the Woods”, with music composed by Music grad student and Emmy winner, Garth Neustadter. There will be a panel with the Director, Catherine Tatje, and environmental historian Char Miller. Light refreshments will be served at a reception immediately following.
Reading and Discussion by Scott Shapiro
Tuesday, February 21
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
The Yale Bookstore
What is law? This question has preoccupied philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes to H. L. A. Hart. Yet many others find it perplexing. How could we possibly know how to answer such an abstract question? And what would be the point of doing so? In Legality, Scott Shapiro argues that the question is not only meaningful but vitally important. In fact, many of the most pressing puzzles that lawyers confront including who has legal authority over us and how we should interpret constitutions, statutes, and cases will remain elusive until this grand philosophical question is resolved. Scott Shapiro is Professor of Law and Philosophy at Yale Law School.
A Conversation with David Samuels
Wednesday, February 22
4:30 p.m.
Slifka Center
David Samuels is a Contributing Editor of Harper's Magazine and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He is also the author of two books, "The Runner" and "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," which were published on the same day, and were variously compared to the work of Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe, Joseph Mitchell, Elmore Leonard, and Michelangelo.
Writing in the Kitchen: Peter Meehan
Tuesday, February 28
4:00 p.m.
Branford College Master's House, 80 High Street
Peter Meehan's career in journalism has spanned from the august and established pages of The New York Times to his most recent gig helping Momofuku chef David Chang start up an innovative food-focused quarterly called Lucky Peach. He's also co-authored cookbooks and covered some of the world's best international cuisine as a freelancer. Come hear him talk about capturing chefs' recipes on the page, and what it's like to write about food for a living. Co-sponsored by Branford College.
The Dialects and Dialectics of Subtitling: Graphing Language Matters in Film
Friday, February 24
5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
5pm Michael Raine: Subtitles in the New Media Age
7pm City of Sadness ( Taiwan, 1989,35mm)
A screening of The City of Sadness.
Followed by a day of discussion of translation. We plan to pay attention exclusively to the “Dialects and Dialectics of Subtitles,” this unwieldy supplement (and uncouth servant) of pure cinema. And we plan to do so dialectically, by putting into conversation experts who care about matters of translation and those who care about matters of cinema, including practitioners who make subtitles and scholars who ruminate about their possibilities and limitations.
Inside NBC Universal
Thursday, March 1
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
30 Rockefeller Center
NBCUniversal Internship Program- An Inside Look. Here's your chance to network with leaders from NBCUniversal and find out what our internships have to offer! Submit your resume to Campus2CareerEC@nbcuni.com, with the subject line: An Inside Look at NBCUniversal by Monday, February 20.You must be entering your Sophomore, Junior or Senior year in Fall 2012 to attend. Opportunities may be available in the following departments: News, Broadcast Journalism, Production, Development, Programming, Sports & Olympics, Advertising & Promotions, Graphic Arts, New Media, Editorial Sales, Marketing, Human Resources.
A Conversation with David Samuels
Wednesday, February 22
Time TBA
Slifka Center
David Samuels is a Contributing Editor of Harper's Magazine and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He is also the author of two books, "The Runner" and "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," which were published on the same day, and were variously compared to the work of Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe, Joseph Mitchell, Elmore Leonard, and Michelangelo.
A Conversation With David Samuels
Wednesday, February 22
4:30 p.m.
The Slifka Center
Details to come.
The Cultural Limitations of Public Health: A Discussion with Anne Fadiman
Friday, February 17
12 -1:00 p.m.
Branford Small Dining Hall
Professor Anne Fadiman is an English professor at Yale, an essayist, reporter, and the author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. The account - of the cross-cultural conflicts between a Hmong family and the American medical system - won a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, among other publications. She is the only writer to have won National Magazine Awards for both reporting (on elderly suicide) and essays (on the multiple and often contradictory meanings of the American flag). Fadiman has also edited a literary quarterly, The American Scholar, and two essay anthologies. As Francis Writer in Residence, she teaches nonfiction writing and serves as a mentor to students who are considering careers in writing or editing. See the attachment for more information. Presented by The Public Health Coalition.
Tim Lee of Ars Technica on "How the Internet is Transforming Journalism"
Thursday, February 16
12-1:30 p.m.
Yale Law School, 40 Ashmun Street, Room A424
Online news is increasingly driven by communities of shared interest, rather than arbitrary geographical boundaries. This allows for different styles of journalism because the readership can be expected to have a deeper knowledge and interest in particular subjects, allowing greater depth of coverage.
* There's been a shift from the traditional model of objective journalism to the more advocacy-oriented journalism that's more common on the Internet.
* The Internet allows greater overlap between the work of traditional journalists and others who write about their subjects of interest or expertise on a part-time or hobbyist basis.
Timothy B. Lee is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. He writes about technology, public policy, and the intersection of the two. At the moment, he does most of his writing for Ars Technica and at his Forbes blog. He earned a master’s degree in computer science from Princeton University in 2010. He was advised by Ed Felten, the director of Princeton’s Center for IT Policy. He is a co-creator of RECAP, a software project that helps users liberate documents from PACER, the federal judiciary’s paywalled website for public records. His studies were supported by a Humane Studies Fellowship. He is also an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Contact: Heather Branch heather.branch@yale.edu.
Master’s Tea with New York Times Film Critic Rachel Saltz
Wednesday, February 15
4:30 p.m.
Pierson Master’s House
Come hear New York Times film critic Rachel Saltz speak about Bollywood films and how to review them.
Master’s Tea with Scott Wallace
Tuesday, February 14
4:00 p.m.
Davenport Auditorium
Scott Wallace is a writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist whose career covering national and international affairs spans the past three decades. He gained an early reputation for gutsy reporting from the battlefronts and barricades of El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Panama in the 1980s, where he filed for CBS News Radio and a succession of print outlets that included the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Newsweek, the Independent of London, and Manchester/London Guardian.
Drawn to big stories involving conflict over land, resources, and ideology, Wallace brings the full range of his writing and reportorial talents and experience to bear in The Unconquered, his critically-acclaimed account of an epic journey into the deepest Amazon wilderness to track an uncontacted indigenous tribe. Part memoir, part travel tale, and part philosophical meditation, Wallace's book brings to life a hidden world of darkness and danger, together with an unforgettable cast of Conradian characters. Two-time National Book award-winner Peter Matthiessen says The Unconquered is "exciting and authentic - a great pleasure to read." Sebastian Junger calls it "riveting and brilliant - journalism at its very very best." And this from The Wall Street: "a rousing adventure tale."
Scott's assignments have taken him from Afghanistan's windswept Wakhan Corridor to the Alaskan Arctic, from the clandestine arms bazaars of the former Soviet Union to midnight raids on suspected fedayeen hideouts in the slums of Baghdad. He has authored two cover stories for National Geographic about the Amazon, and his writings about war, revolution, international organized crime, and vanishing cultures have appeared in Harper's, Grand Street, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, the Village Voice, and Sports Afield, among many others.
His photography has been featured in Smithsonian, Outside, Details, Interview, Sports Afield, the New York Times, and Newsweek, and his television producing credits include CBS, CNN, Fox News, and National Geographic Channel. For more information, see http://scottwallace.com/unconquered/
6th Annual Reading by Anne Fadiman and her students
Thursday, February 9
6:00-7:00 p.m.
New Haven Free Public Library (on the Green at 133 Elm St.)
The student readers:
• Alex Klein ’12 on beekeeping and bee terror
• Lauren Oyler ’12 on a stripper
• Sophia Veltfort ’12 on her search for her biological fatherMaster’s Tea with Sarah Stillman, Investigative Reporter
Wednesday, February 8
4:30 p.m.
Pierson College Master's House, 231 Park Street
If you'd like to attend dinner following the tea, please email susan.m.anderson@yale.edu.
Sarah Stillman is an investigative reporter and visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she teaches a course on reporting the global city. Her recent New Yorker feature story on human trafficking on U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, "The Invisible Army," was named a finalist for the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting. Her coverage of America's wars has also appeared in The Washington Post, Slate.com, The New Republic.com, The Atlantic.com, and The Nation.
Faculty Author Event with Timothy Snyder
Wednesday, February 8
6:00 p.m.
The Yale Bookstore, Lower Level
Please join us as we welcome Yale Professor of History, Timothy Snyder. He will be reading from and signing copies of, Thinking The Twentieth Century - the final book of unparalleled historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt.
Webinar: How Not to Be Bamboozled by Local Economic Studies
February 8 - 9
Online
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism presents a business journalism Webinar, "How Not to Be Bamboozled by Local Economic Studies.” Sarah Cohen will provide key tips for questions to ask sources, ways to spot pumped-up estimates and sources for your own analysis. The main Webinar page is http://bit.ly/mXncXR.
A Conversation with Christiane Amanpour, Award-Winning Journalist
Monday, February 6
4:30 p.m.
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
Ms. Amanpour is the Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News, as well as an anchor and Chief International Correspondent at CNN. Her breaking news dispatches and in-depth pieces enlighten audiences around the world about the most important events of our times, among them the Arab Spring, the Iraq War, the war in Afghanistan, and the fight for the White House. She is also an active member of the Committee to Protect Journalists and on the board of the International Women's Media Foundation.
Presented by The Politic as part of A New Program Featuring Newsmakers and Newsbreakers. The Politic, founded in 1947, is Yale's undergraduate journal of domestic and international political affairs. Visit us online at: www.thepolitic.org.
FOIA Boot Camp
Monday February 6
6:10 -8:00 p.m.
Yale Law School, Room 122
The purpose of the session will be to give you practical strategies for requesting government records through Freedom of Information laws. We will cover both the federal FOIA and the Connecticut state FOI.
Speakers will include Harry Hammitt (Federal FOIA Expert and Editor of Access Reports) and Colleen Murphy (Executive Director and General Counsel of the CT Freedom of Information Commission (FOIC)).
All are invited and welcome, including people outside of YLS. A non-pizza dinner will be served. Presented by the Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic and the Information Society Project.
Yale Conference on Television
February 3-4
Whitney Humanities Center
What makes television, television? "On Television" will address contemporary trends in the field of television studies and will reconsider the historical currents that inform our understandings of the present and future form of medium. For additional information about the conference and registration materials, visit this site.
Master’s Tea with Robert Bazell, NBC News
"Covering science and medicine on TV: the potentials and pitfalls"
Thursday, February 2
4:00 p.m.
Berkeley College Master’s House, 125 High Street
Robert Bazell is NBC News' Chief Science and Health Correspondent. His reports appear on "NBC Nightly News, with Brian Williams" "Today" and "Dateline NBC."
Bazell has received hundreds of awards for his reports, including four Emmys, the Alfred I. DuPont Columbia Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award and a Gracie Award. His extensive tracking of the AIDS epidemic, which began in 1982 when there were only a handful of cases, has included reports from all parts of the United States, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and South America, and earned wide acclaim as did his reports on medical care during the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian Earthquake.
Bazell is a 1967 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, with a B.A. in biochemistry. He did graduate work in biology at the University of Sussex, England, in 1969, and was awarded a doctoral candidate degree in immunology at Berkeley. Bazell's book, "HER-2: The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer" was made into a 2008 Lifetime movie called "Living Proof" starring Harry Connick, Jr. and produced by Bernadette Peters.
Bazell began his journalism career in 1971 as a writer for the News and Comment section of Science Magazine. A year later, he moved to The New YorkPost as a reporter. In 1976, before he joined NBC News, he was briefly a reporter with WNBC-TV, the NBC Television Station in New York.
Miral: A Palestinian/Israeli Dialogue On and Off Screen
Thursday, February 2
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Room 006, 721 Broadway, New York
Screening of Miral (112 min., 2010, Director: Julian Schnabel), followed by a discussion with journalist RULA JEBREAL, who wrote the film’s screenplay and the autobiographical novel, Miral (2010, Penguin). In conversation with ZACHARY LOCKMAN (Middle East/Islamic Studies /History, NYU) and HELGA TAWIL-SOURI (Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU). Moderator: MUSTAPHA TLILI (Center for Dialogues, NYU). Co-sponsors: The Center for Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S.-The West, The Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, and the Department of Cinema Studies.
How to Write an Op-Ed: A Workshop with Emily Bazelon
Monday, January 30
12:10 – 2:00 p.m.
Yale Law School, Room 110
Have you ever wanted to write a short opinion piece and wondered how to go about it? The workshop will be led by Emily Bazelon, Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law, and senior editor at Slate.
Science Writing Workshop
Part one: Monday January 30, 10-noon
Part two: Monday February 6, 10-noon
Peabody Museum Auditorium, 170 Whitney Ave.
The Yale Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology presents a two-part workshop intended for science graduate students who are interested in learning more about science writing. Carl Zimmer, a journalist and Yale lecturer, will introduce students to the art of writing for the public at large. Students will develop their craft by working on a 600-word writing assignment. Topics of discussion will also include the changing media landscape, and how scientists can take advantage of new channels to reach wide audiences.
For more information, visit http://www.eeb.yale.edu/zimmer/
To register, contact Karen Broderick: karen.broderick@yale.edu, 432-3837
Career Stories: Rick Kaplan, CNN and ABC News
Monday, January 30
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Sterling Memorial Library, International Room
Sponsored by the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Rick Kaplan is a renowned network television producer who has served as President of CNN-U.S., Senior Vice President of ABC News, President of MSNBC, Executive Producer of CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, and Executive Producer of This Week with Christiane Amanpour. For more information, please visit this site.
Ross Douthat, New York Times Columnist on Religion in America
Thursday, January 26 (postponed from last week)
4:00 p.m.
WLH 117
Ross Douthat is the youngest New York Times columnist in history. He replaced Bill Kristol as the conservative voice on the Times opinion pages. He was a former senior editor at the Atlantic, is a film critic for National Review and has written for many publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Clarmont Review of Books, and the Weekly Standard.
He will be speaking about the future of religion in America. This event is sponsored by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale.
Ishann Tharoor, ‘06 editor at TIME and Asia correspondent
Tuesday, January 24
4:00 p.m.
Davenport Master’s House, 271 Park Street
Master’s Tea with Ishann Tharoor, ‘06 editor at TIME and the magazine’s recent Hong Kong-based Asia correspondent, speaking on “Global Journalism in the Year of the Protester.”
Master’s Tea with Susan Schwartz, ABC News
Monday, January 23
4:00 p.m.
Branford College Common Room, 74 High Street
Susan Schwartz is an award-winning producer with ABC News’ “World News with Diane Sawyer”. Schwartz previously was a producer for ABC Primetime’s “Turning Point” and PBS’ Children’s Television Workshop (“3-2-1Contact!”). As producer on “World News with Diane Sawyer,” Schwartz manages the medical news unit for the broadcast, where she has developed, produced and edited hundreds of medical and health stories with Chief Medical Editor Dr. Timothy Johnson, Senior Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser and medical correspondent John McKenzie. Susan Schwartz received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Georgetown University and a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Yale University.
“Jews and Israel: Why Should We Care?” A Conversation with Daniel Gordis, President of the Shalem Foundation and Contributor to the NY Times and Jerusalem Post
Monday, January 23
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street
Sponsored by the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale and Yale Friends of Israel
Dr. Daniel Gordis is President of the Shalem Foundation, and Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He is a noted scholar on Israeli society and will discuss the role of Judaism in Israel and the Jewish state in relation to the the international sphere.
Webinar: Investigating Private Companies and Nonprofits
January 23 – 26
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism presents a business journalism Webinar titled, "Investigating Private Companies and Nonprofits.” Attend this free Webinar, and discover the many public documents that are available on private companies and nonprofits. Ron Campbell, reporter for The Orange County Register, and Chris Roush, director of the Carolina Business News Initiative, will lead the four-day Webinar. Each session is approximately one hour long. Attend either session at noon or 4 p.m. ET. The main Webinar page is http://bit.ly/st2R1b.
Creative Writing Faculty Reading
Monday, December 5, 6 p.m. LC 317
The Yale English Department presents: A Creative Writing Faculty Reading with Louise Gluck, Caryl Phillips, and Leslie Woodard.
Paul Bass, Founder and Editor, New Haven Independent. “#People & the #Press Status Update: It's Complicated: Making Sense In the New Era of Journalism.”
Thursday, December 1, 4:30 p.m. Jonathan Edwards Master's House, 70 High Street
A Conversation with Paul Bass, '82, founder and editor, New Haven Independent and Michael Morand Director of Metro, State, & Alumni Relations at Yale University. Paul Bass, '82, has worked as a reporter and editor in New Haven for 30 years. He currently edits the New Haven Independent, a nationally recognized not-for-profit daily news website. He is the co-author with Douglas Rae of Murder In The Model City: The Black Panthers, Yale, & The Redemption Of A Killer (Basic Books; 2006). Bass is the recipient of numerous national and regional awards for journalistic excellence. He lives in Westville with his family and is active in Congregation Beth El Keser Israel synagogue. The event is titled: “#People & the #Press Status Update: It's Complicated. Making sense in the new era of journalism.”
Save the Date: An Evening Conversation with Jose Antonio Vargas
Thursday, December 1, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Yale Law School, Room 127.
Kasama: The Filipino Club, in partnership with a coalition of organizations at Yale Law School and Yale College, wishes to invite you to a special conversation with Jose Antonio Vargas on the evening of Thurs, December 1.
Mr. Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has written for the Washington Post. Born in the Philippines, Mr. Vargas emigrated to the United States at age 12. Stunning the media and political circles and attracting worldwide coverage, Vargas wrote the groundbreaking essay, "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant," for the New York Times Magazine in the summer of 2011. Mr. Vargas has since founded Define American, a new campaign that seeks to elevate the conversation around immigration.
Thomson Reuters ISP Speaker Series on Information Law and Information Policy
Friday, December 2. 12 noon – 2 p.m. Yale Law School, Room 124
Adrian Johns is a professor in the University of Chicago, Department of History. He chairs the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science and is the author of Death of a Pirate: British and the Making of the Information Age (W.W. Norton, 2010), Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates (University of Chicago Press, 2009), and The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (University of Chicago Press, 1998). His specialties are history of science; British history; history of intellectual property; history of the book and other media. Read more about him here.
"The Volatility Economy Wall Street, Main Street, & the Middle Class"
Tuesday, November 29, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
A panel discussion featuring Joe Nocera – New York Times. Presentations by: Jacob S. Hacker, Frank Hatheway, William Casey King, Robert J. Shiller. RSVPs strongly encouraged: isps@yale.edu.
Film Screening: Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Wednesday, November 30, 6:10 p.m.
Yale Law School, Room 127
Film Screening Followed by Discussion with Sandra Schulberg, Restoration Producer and Daughter of Filmmaker Stuart Schulberg.
One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, Nuremberg shows how the international prosecutors built their case against the top Nazi war criminals using the Nazis’ own films and records. The trial established the “Nuremberg principles” – the foundation for all subsequent trials for crimes against the peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Though shown in Germany as part of the Allies’ de-Nazification campaign, US officials decided not to release Nuremberg in America for political reasons, nor was it shown in any other country. Over the years, the picture negative and sound elements were lost or destroyed. Sandra Schulberg & Josh Waletzky’s restoration faithfully reproduced the original film in its entirety; and original audio from the trial allows audiences to hear the defendants’ and prosecutors’ voices for the first time. The film ends with Justice Robert H. Jackson’s stirring words – “Let Nuremberg stand as a warning to all who plan and wage aggressive war” – words that leap the decades and make Nuremberg startlingly contemporary. Read more about the Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration here.
Utpal Sandesara and Tom Wooten: No One Had a Tongue to Speak: The Untold Story of One of History’s Deadliest Floods
Friday, November 18, 7:00 p.m. The Yale Bookstore
On Friday, November 18, at 7:00 PM, join Utpal Sandesara and Tom Wooten (both Harvard '08) for a lively discussion of their new book No One Had a Tongue to Speak at the Yale Bookstore. The book is a narrative nonfiction account of the 1979 Machhu dam disaster, a flash flood that killed as many as 25,000 people in Gujarat State, India. The authors will discuss the flood itself; their personal connections to the story; and their research, which involved photographing a number of top secret documents and a face-to-face meeting with a twice-convicted murderer. Don't miss your chance to learn more about a book Paul Farmer calls "Beautifully written... suspenseful, elegiac, and haunting," and Suketu Mehta describes as "One of the most important books written about India in recent years." Check out www.thefloodbook.com, and the attachment, for more details. The authors wrote the book when they were undergraduates at Harvard.
Miranda Hitti, Senior Health Editor, WebMD: "Online and On Deadline: Health Reporting and Editing in the Digital Age"
Tuesday, November 15, 2:30 p.m.
Workshop with Student Journalists
Before her Master's Tea, Hitti will attend a workshop with student journalists in the Yale Daily News boardroom sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship for Journalism at Yale. Refreshments will be provided. To reserve a spot, email catherine.osborn@yale.edu and include the name of your Yale publication.
4:00 p.m , Master's Tea
Trumbull College Master’s House, 100 High Street
Hitti is a Senior Health Editor at WedMD who assigns and edits features and the Health Insurance Navigator blog. She has covered breaking news stories including the H1N1 outbreak and new medical research and has contributed to special projects about the risk of infertility treatments and breast cancer. Hitti began her career in the CNN main newsroom, world news program, and at CNN Interactive. Hitti is a graduate of Duke University, where she majored in Cultural Anthropology and produced a news show atthe campus TV station. She lives in Atlanta.
Summer Opportunities with the World Fellows- A panel discussion moderated by Dean Allyson Moore
Tuesday, November 15, 4:00-5:30 p.m. LC Room 101
Panelists include:
Please read more about the World Fellows Program here, and about each individual fellow here.
Information Session on Print Internships
Monday, November 14, 4:30 p.m.
Yale Daily News building, third floor conference room
Mark Oppenheimer, Director of the Yale Journalism Initiative, will give an information session on newspaper and magazine internships. All are invited. It would help to familiarize yourself in advance with the resources here.
A Master's Tea with Graham Smith
Monday, November 14, 4:30 p.m.
Calhoun College Master's House
Graham Smith is a senior producer for NPR's "All Things Considered" and was also a war correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he produced award-winning coverage of an IED attack and its aftermath in Kandahar.
After joining NPR in December 2002, Smith spent six years as supervising senior producer for NPR's All Things Considered. Before NPR, Smith was the senior producer and director on The Connection and Here and Now, programs produced by WBUR, an NPR Member Station in Boston. He served as director of the Christian Science Monitor's Monitor Radio from 1995-1997.
During the course of his career, Smith has received many accolades including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award and the Edward R Murrow Investigative Reporting award for his work with Youth Radio. Smith also received the Edward R. Murrow award for Hard News for his work in Afghanistan, the George Foster Peabody award for work with Youth Radio, and he was a Pew Gatekeeper Fellow.
Every day Smith's responsibilities range from investigation and research, production, field recording, running the program, reporting, and photography. Listen to highlights from Graham Smith: “Soldiers Pick Up Wreckage After Afghanistan Bombing,” “Trafficked Teen Girls Describe Life In ‘The Game’” (from Youth Radio).
Andy Court, 60 Minutes producer
Friday, November 11, 2:00 p.m., Location T.B.A.
Join us for a discussion of former TNJ editor Andy Court's work as a producer at CBS's long-running investigative series. If you wish to attend, please email thenewjournal@gmail.com. Presented by The New Journal and The Poynter Fellowship.
Henry Finder, Editorial Director, The New Yorker
Thursday, November 10
4:30 p.m.
“Editing at the New Yorker”
Branford College Master’s House, 80 High St.
Henry Finder, formerly the executive director of Transition, has been the editorial director of The New Yorker since 1997. He is also an alumnus of Yale, Class of ’86.
Master's Tea with Phoebe Tree, TD ’77
Thursday, November 10, 4:30 p.m.
Timothy Dwight Master's House
Phoebe is a comedian, writer and technology entrepreneur who began her career with CBS-TV in Dallas, earning awards from UPI and the National Association of Black Journalists. She also performs professional, stand-up comedy at the Hollywood Improv in Los Angeles and the New York Comedy Club. She will talk about her life and career at the Tea at 4:30, including her current work on teaching comedy. At 8:30 p.m., she has organized a comedy performance incorporating some current Yale students.
Author Adam Gopnik on “The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food”
Monday, November 7, 5:00 p.m., LC Room 102, 63 High St.
Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon and Though the Children's Gate as well as a regular New Yorker contributor, has just released his take on the food world, The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food. Come listen to his thoughts on the subject, hear excerpts from the just-released book, and pick up a copy of your very own.
Marin Cogan, a reporter for POLITICO
Saturday, November 5, 4:45 p.m., WLH Room 211
Marin Cogan, a reporter for POLITICO, is coming to Yale to speak about “A Career and Life in Journalism.” Have you considered journalism as a career, or as something to do for a few years after college? Is your dream to work for HuffPo, or do you enjoy your work for a Yale publication? Whatever your involvement in journalism, and whatever you think your future involvement will be—Marin Cogan can answer your questions about what a journalist's life looks like, what the challenges and benefits are, and why journalism doesn't have to be 'just something you did in college.'
Documentary film screenings
Friday, November 4, 8:00 p.m., Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium
I Had a Dream of Return, a documentary by Andrzej Milosz. A Magic Mountain: American Portrait of Czeslaw Milosz, a documentary by Maria-Zmarz Koczanowicz Milosz and America, Czeslaw Milosz Conference (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; European Studies Council, with a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education; Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; Slavic Languages and Literatures; Adam Mickewicz Institute, Poland; The Institute of the Book, Poland; and Whitney Humanities Center). For more information see http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/milosz/.
Jill Abramson, Executive Editor, The New York Times
Friday, November 4, 4:00 p.m., Sterling Memorial Library, Memorabilia Room
"The New York Times: On the Horizon: A conversation with Jill Abramson"
Jill Abramson is executive editor of The New York Times since September 2011. Previously she was managing editor of the paper from August 2003 until August 2011. As managing editor, Ms. Abramson has helped supervise coverage of two wars, four national elections, hurricanes and oil spills. She also writes about politics, in the Week in Review and Book Review sections. She teaches an undergraduate journalism seminar in the English Department of Yale University during the spring term and is embarking on her fifth year at Yale. Please see the attachments for a more complete biography.
Richard Just, Editor of The New Republic
Friday, November 4, 3:00 p.m., WLH Room 117
Richard Just, Editor of The New Republic, will be speaking about “In Defense of Magazine Journalism”. We are constantly told that long-form journalism dying, and that 140-character news posts are the future. Is there room for long-form journalism in today's media?
Tom Herman '68: A Conversation on the Changing Nature of Journalism
Wednesday, November 2, 4:00 p.m., Jonathan Edwards Common Room
The Yale Globalist will be hosting Tom Herman DC '68 for a conversation on the changing nature of journalism. Herman was a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Before retiring in May 2009, he served as a senior special writer and tax columnist for the paper. Herman was the Political Editor of the Yale Daily News and is an adjunct professor at the Columbia graduate school of journalism and writes a tax column for The Fiscal Times, a Web site that focuses on taxes, budget issues, personal finance and related issues.
A Conversation with Sheryl Wu-Dunn
Tuesday, November 1, 3:00 p.m., Jackson Institute, 115 Prospect St.
Come enjoy a conversation with Sheryl Wu-Dunn. Sheryl WuDunn, who has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, is currently a senior lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Along with her husband, NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. (She became the first Asian American to win the Prize.) While at the Times, she covered global energy, global markets, foreign technology and foreign industry. In 2009, she published her third best-selling book with her husband, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Among her numerous other accomplishments, she is a senior managing director at a boutique investment firm in New York City, has served on the advisory council of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and was in 2011 listed by Newsweek as one of the 150 Women who Shake the World.
Branford College Master’s Tea with Neal Shapiro, President and CEO of New York public media provider WNET
Thursday, October 27
4:00 p.m.
Branford College Common Room, 74 High Street
Neal Shapiro is President and CEO of New York public media provider WNET, which is the parent company of New York public television stations Thirteen and WLIW21 and operates NJTV, the state-wide New Jersey public television network. Before moving to WNET, Mr. Shapiro was President of NBC News from 2001-2005, where he oversaw the global operations of NBC Universal's top-ranked news division.
"Fishing, Farming and the Future of the Last Wild Food"
Thursday, October 27
5:30 p.m.
Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Avenue
Paul Greenberg, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Fish, will trace the overfishing, habitat destruction, aquaculture and technological breakthroughs that have resulted in the most dramatic remaking of a food system since the last Ice Age.
Reading with Ian Frazier, New Yorker Staff Writer: "The Art of Nonfiction: Travels in Siberia and Down the Street"
Thursday, October 27
6:30 p.m.
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102
Ian Frazier is a staff writer at The New Yorker and has been with the magazine since 1974. He is a frequent contributor to the Shouts and Murmurs and Talk of the Town columns, and he is also author of nine books including Dating Your Mom, Nobody Better, Better than Nobody, Great Plains (which began as a three-part “Reporter at Large” series for The New Yorker), and Family, which tells the history of his family in America from the earlycolonial days to the present, reconstructing two hundred years of middle-class life. Frazier’s work is characterized by a combination of first-person narrative and meticulous in-depth research. His most recent book, Travels in Siberia, was published in 2010 to widespread acclaim.
ART SONG with IGIGI and the Yale Literary Magazine
Wednesday, October 26
4:00 p.m.
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall St.
Yale College composers set poems by Yale College poets. Featuring mezzo sopranos Bonnie Antosh, Marisa Karchin, and Katey McDonald. Gabriel Zucker, piano (Pierson College CPA Award and Music at the Whitney).
Young Jewish Author Series: Joshua Foer, author of “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”
Wednesday, October 26
4:30 p.m.
Slifka Center, 80 Wall St.
Moderated by Rabbi Jordie Gerson and Professor Mark Oppenheimer. Free and open to the public. The first 10 student attendees will receive a complimentary copy of “Moonwalking with Einstein.” Free loaf of Atticus bread with book purchase.
Master’s Tea and Film Viewing
Tuesday, October 18, 4:00 p.m., Branford College Common Room
Join us for the viewing of a short by award-winning photojournalists Marie-Helene Carleton and Micah Gareb. The film documents the protests in Egypt and Shima’a Helmy’s participation in them. Shima’a is a human rights activist from Cairo who participated in the uprising from day one by organizing marches, demonstrations, and protests. All three of these guests will be present at the tea for questions and discussion.
A Master’s Tea with ABC News’ Senior Foreign Correspondent Jim Sciutto
Tuesday, October 18, 4:00 p.m., Pierson Master’s House, 231 Park St.
Master’s Tea with Lisa Lee
Wednesday, October 19, 4:00 p.m., Branford College Master’s House, 80 High St.
When Lisa Lee isn’t working in Product Operations a Facebook, she is busy working as the publisher of Hyphen magazine, an Asian American magazine that covers art, culture, and politics. She has also launched Thick Dumpling Skin with actress Lynn Chen, a community forum dedicated to discussing body image issues within the Asian American community, Lisa has been on Angry Asian Man’s list of 30 Most Influential Asian Americans under 30 and is the recipient of the San Francisco Emerging Leader Asian American Heritage Award. Co-sponsored by Yale’s Chinese American Student Association.
Mark My Words: An Evening with David Baldacci, John Grisham, and Jodi Picoult
Wednesday, October 19, 8:00 p.m., Woolsey Hall, 500 College St.
MARK MY WORDS is a once-in-a-lifetime event – a conversation between three of America’s most popular and beloved authors. Moderated by author and community activist Malaak Compton-Rock, this is a unique opportunity to hear writers talk about writing, the publishing industry, the fate of the book, and, of course, the legacy of the man who has been called “The Lincoln of our Literature” - Mark Twain.
With the breathtaking Woolsey Hall serving as the backdrop for this unforgettable night, audiences will laugh, learn and be inspired by these New York Times-bestselling authors. Twain received two honorary degrees from Yale University: a Master of Arts in 1888 and a Doctorate of Literature in 1901. The Mark Twain House & Museum is delighted to present this historic occasion in such a historic setting. Please visit this site for more information.
Live Broadcast: “Funniest American Writers,” with Andy Borowitz, Nora Ephron, and Calvin Trillin
Wednesday, October 19, 8:00 p.m., Live Broadcast at the Shubert Theater
Award-winning comedian and New Yorker humorist Andy Borowitz presents an evening of literary laughter and a look at the new Library of America collection he edited, The Fifty Funniest American Writers. PLEASE NOTE: These are LIVE BROADCASTS - the featured guests will not appear in person at the Shubert Theater.
Utilizing cutting-edge satellite technology, the Y's renowned series of lectures, interviews, and readings will be broadcast live to the Shubert and projected on a large screen in the informal atmosphere of the Shubert Mezzanine Lounge. Patrons are encouraged to arrive 1 hour prior to the start of the broadcast for registration and have the opportunity to submit questions via email for the speaker to answer during the broadcast. Admission is $10 at the door. Due to limited seating we recommend making reservations in advance: email Elisabeth Verrastro or call 203.562.5666. Please visit this site for more information.
FOR ALUMNI: Yale Alumni Journalism Association working group meeting
Saturday, October 22, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. , Association of Yale Alumni, 1201 Chapel St., New Haven
Stanley Flink '45 is starting a Yale Alumni Journalism Association through the Association of Yale Alumni. In trying to get the word out about the organization itself, as well as a strategic planning meeting to discuss next steps, he asks that interested alumni email Tricia Cushing of the AYA (tricia.cushing@yale.edu, or 203-432-4699) in order to join the mailing list and/or RSVP to the meeting. The RSVP deadline will be extended to Oct. 20 for anyone on the YJI list who would like to join the meeting in New Haven. During the session, we will discuss the following: E Establishment of the association as an AYA shared interest group, Mission, Symposium, and Programming.
The YAJA working group will hold its Strategic Planning Meeting on Saturday Oct. 22 from 10AM-1PM at the Association of Yale Alumni, 1201 Chapel St., New Haven, CT.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Info Session
Saturday, November 12, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Third floor of the Journalism Building
We invite you to attend our Information Sessions to explore the school and a career in journalism. Faculty, students and staff will be available to answer your questions. The program will include a Q & A, faculty and student presentations and small group sessions. Saturday sessions will be from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. All sessions are held on the 3rd floor of the Journalism Building.
RSVP here for information sessions. You’ll find a link here to our new M.A. brochure, which goes into more detail on the courses students take and the faculty who teach them. We encourage your students who have little or no journalism experience to consider our Master of Science degree program. If you have any questions about any of our programs, please get in touch. And if you know anyone who would be a good potential applicant for either program, I hope you’ll encourage him or her to contact our associate dean of admissions, Christine Souders, at cs2534@columbia.edu. Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027.
Screening and Q&A with the Winner of India's National Award for Best Documentary of the Year
Thursday, October 6 , 6:00 p.m., Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
Kanaka-Purandara (India, 1988). Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director, Girish Karnad. Hosted by the South Asian Studies Council and Films at the Whitney. For more information email Kasturi.Gupta@yale.edu and visit http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/.
Poetry Reading with Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
Wednesday, October 5, 4:00 p.m., Whitney Humanities Center Room, 208
Introduced by Langdon Hammer and hosted by the Department of English, International Security Studies, and Whitney Humanities Center.
Book Talk: "Washington, Wall Street and the Struggle to Restore Confidence in America's Future" with Ron Suskind and Gregory J. Fleming '88
Monday, October 3, 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m., Yale Law School, Room 127
"Washington, Wall Street and the Struggle to Restore Confidence in America's Future." Credit Crisis Book talk, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and best-selling author, Ron Suskind, will be introduced by Gregory J. Fleming '88, Executive Vice President and head of asset management and global wealth management at Morgan Stanley. The event is sponsored by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law and the Yale Law and Business Society. Suskind's book, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, was just released and has sparked some controversy from those in the Obama administration who feel that they were misquoted or taken out of context. Read about it here. Please RSVP to patricia.florio@yale.edu by Friday, September 30 if you are interested.
Mark Schoofs, Pultizer Prize winning Journalist on AIDS and Global Health
Wednesday, October 12, 3:00 p.m., Yale School of Public Health, Room 101, 60 College Street
“Ending the AIDS Epidemic: A Revolutionary Opportunity.” A discussion with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Mark Schoofs. Sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship for Journalism at Yale. Mark Schoofs is a senior editor at ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative reporting powerhouse. Previously, he worked for 11 years at The Wall Street Journal, ultimately as an investigative reporter for Page One. Over the past 25 years, one of his constant interests has been reporting on the global AIDS epidemic.
"From Journalist to Advocate: Israelis and Arabs From Two Different Perspectives"
Thursday, October 13, 4:00 p.m., Pierson College
Alan Elsner is the Executive Director of The Israel Project. He has previously served as a National Correspondent and Editor-in-Charge for Reuters.
Buckley Program Discussion with Reihan Salam: “Keep America Weird”
Thursday, October 13, 5:00 p.m., WLH 116
“Keep America Weird,” an argument about how our poilitical economy might interact constructively with our changing demographic. Salam worked as a reporter-researcher at The New Republic and as an editor and researcher at The New York Times. He wrote a regular column for The Daily Beast and Forbes.com. He is well known for having co-authored “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream” with Ross Douthat.
Write for Rights: Amnesty International Letter Writing for Journalists At Risk
Sunday, October 16, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m., Blue State on Wall Street
Join Amnesty International members this Sunday, October 16 from 2-5 PM at Blue State Coffee on Wall Street to write letters to world leaders about journalists are threatened or imprisoned for exercising their right to freedom of expression. We will be writing about cases in Mexico, Bahrain, Sri Lanka, China, and many other countries. Stop by, grab some coffee, and write a letter or two.
Manhattan Short Film Festival
Friday, September 30, 7:00 p.m., Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
World's First Global Film Festival. Presented by the Yale College Dean's Office and Films at the Whitney. For more information see http://www.manhattanshort.com/.
"This Is My Life": The Sonnet and the Emergence of Black Subjectivity
Thursday, September 29, 2:00 p.m., Beinecke Library, Room 38
Part of a larger research project on the African American sonnet, this talk will explore the role of the sonnet form in the emergence of an individualized subjectivity in turn-of-the-century black writing. African American poetry in the nineteenth century was overwhelmingly public. Where it did not take a stand in political debates, it at least presented the kind of exteriorized, carefully crafted persona deemed suitable in the struggle for cultural recognition. It was in the sonnet, that poets were first able to move beyond these constraints toward a fuller self-expression. Dunbar, Braithwaite, and a number of their contemporaries took advantage of the emotional depth associated with the sonnet form to articulate a literary subjectivity that was often partial and paradoxical but constituted an important step toward cultural and psychological emancipation.
Timo Müller is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Augsburg, Germany, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 2009. His main research areas are modernism, ecocriticism, and African American and Caribbean literature. He has published The Self as Object in Modernist Fiction: James, Joyce, Hemingway (2010) as well as articles in journals including Anglia, The Journal of Modern Literature, and Twentieth-Century Literature. An article on James Weldon Johnson and the genteel tradition is fortcoming. His research at Beinecke is for his current book project, The African American Sonnet.
Rae Armantrout Poetry Reading
Wednesday, September 14, 4:00 p.m., Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library
Rae Armantrout in the author of numerous books of poetry, including: Versed (Wesleyan University Press, 2009), winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for poetry; Next Life, (2007), a New York Times notable book of 2007; Up to Speed (2004); Veil: New and Selected Poems (2001); Made To Seem (1995); and The Invention of Hunger (1979). Armantrout is also the author of a memoir, True (1998). She has taught writing for nearly twenty years at the University of California, San Diego. This event is part of the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series. Poetry at Beinecke blog
Reading and Discussion with Shalom Auslander
Wednesday, September 14, 4:30 p.m., Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, Susman Lounge
This American Life and New Yorker contributor Shalom Auslander kicks off series at the Slifka Center. “Shalom Auslander writes like Philip Roth’s angry nephew,” says Tom Perrotta, author of the best-seller Little Children. “Foreskin's Lament is a scathing theological rant, a funny, oddly moving coming-of-age memoir, and an irreverent meditation on family, marriage, and cultural identity. God may be a bit irritated by this book, but I loved it.”Ira Glass also loves Auslander, and millions have heard Auslander’s witty poignant essays about growing up Orthodox on This American Life. Auslander’s memoir Foreskin’s Lament was named a New York Times notable book of the year, and of his debut fiction collection Beware of God the novelist A. M. Homes wrote, “The stories in Beware of God mark the debut of the freshest voice in Jewish Literature since Phillip Roth arrived on the scene.”Auslander is the first guest of this year’s Young Jewish Authors Series at the Slifka Center, which this semester will also feature Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein (October 26) and Elisa Albert, author of How This Night Is Different (November 16). The series is co-sponsored by the Slifka Center and the Judaic Studies program, and Atticus Bookstore. Free loaf of bread with every book purchased (cash or checks only) and free books to the first 10 students. Shalom Auslander (http://shalomauslander.com/) was born in 1970 and grew up in Monsey, N.Y. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, and he now lives in Woodstock, N.Y.
Yale World Fellows Night
Thursday, September 15, 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., Betts House, 393 Prospect Street
Get to know the global leaders of tomorrow. Meet, chat, eat, drink with the Fall 2011 Yale World Fellows. Please see the event poster and more information about the fellows here.
BBC Documentary Screening: “Are We Still Evolving?”
Friday, September 16 , 2:00 p.m., Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
Screening of BBC documentary, followed by panel discussion of current human evolution with Brenda Bradley, Richard Bribiescas, Kenneth Kidd, Peter Ellison, Stephen Stearns, and Sarah Tishkoff (Departments of Anthropology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities, and the Traphagen Alumni Speaker Series). Watch the Trailer: Horizon: Are We Still Evolving?
Master’s Tea with Meghan O’Rourke, “The Long Goodbye, a Memoir,”
Tuesday, September 20, 4:00 p.m., Davenport Common Room
Meghan O'Rourke (BR, '97) is the author of The Long Goodbye, a memoir about grief, and the poetry collections Halflife and Once. She has worked as a fiction editor at The New Yorker, a poetry editor at The Paris Review, and as the culture editor for Slate, where she continues to write a column. She lives in Brooklyn. The New York Times Book Review of The Long Goodbye can be read here: New York Times Book Review The Long Goodbye. Please see attached poster.
History of the Book Series: The Revolution Will Be Published
Wednesday, September 21, 4:30 p.m., Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Richard Nash is an independent publishing entrepreneur, presently launching Cursor, a platform that will power the world's next 50,000 independent publishers, the first of which, Red Lemonade, launched in May 2011. For most of the past decade, he ran the iconic indie Soft Skull Press for which work he was awarded the Association of American Publishers' Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing in 2005. Books he edited and published landed on bestseller lists from the Boston Globe to the Singapore Straits-Times; on Best of the Year lists from The Guardian to the Toronto Globe & Mail to the Los Angeles Times; twice on the cover of the New York Times Book Review; the last book he edited there, Lydia Millet's Love in Infant Monkeys, was selected as a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist. In 2006 Publishers Weekly picked him as one of the ten editors to watch in the coming decade. Last year the Utne Reader named him one of Fifty Visionaries Changing Your World and Mashable.com picked him as the #1 Twitter User Changing the Shape of Publishing. Cosponsored with the Beinecke Yale Collection of American Literature (YCAL) Prose Series and Calhoun College.
Master’s Tea with Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics
Thursday, September 22, 4:00 p.m., Davenport Common Room
The Yale Record and Davenport College present a Master’s Tea with Ryan North , creator of Dinosaur Comics.
History of the Book Series: Around the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1583
Thursday, September 22, 4:30 p.m., Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Giles Mandelbrote was appointed Librarian and Archivist of Lambeth Palace Library in 2010, after working for some fifteen years as a Curator, British Collections, 1501-1800, at the British Library. Among his publications are Out of Print & Into Profit: A History of the Rare and Secondhand Book Trade in Britain in the 20th Century (2006), as well as the second volume (1640-1850) of The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland (2006), edited jointly with K.A. Manley. More recently he contributed to and edited (with Barry Taylor) Libraries within the Library: The Origins of the British Library's Printed Collections (2009). A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, he is also an honorary Senior Research Fellow of King's College, London, and one of the convenors of the annual London conference on book trade history. At present his research is mainly concerned with the book trade in early modern Europe and with book ownership and collecting in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England.
Faculty Author Event: Marianne LaFrance
Thursday, September 22, 6:00 p.m., Yale Bookstore
We are delighted to welcome Yale faculty author and expert in nonverbal communication, Marianne LaFrance. She will be discussing and signing copies of her new book, Lip Service - Smiles in Life, Death , Trust, Lies, Work, Memory, Sex, and Politics. Marianne LaFrance's groundbreaking work says how the smile says much more than we realize or care to admit. To read this book is to learn just how much the smile influences our lives and our relationships.
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker staff writer
Thursday, September 22, 6:30 p.m., Branford Common Room, 74 High St.
New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik will read and discuss a sampler of his works. Gopnik's books include Paris to the Moon (which the Boston Globe called "simply wonderful") and Through the Children's Gate (which the Los Angeles Times called "enchanted"). He has won three National Magazine Awards for essays and criticism and been a frequent guest on Charlie Rose.
The event is part of the Schlesinger Visiting Writer series, which has brought to Yale such distinguished writers as John McPhee, Joan Didion, Dave Eggers, Michael Pollan, and Gay Talese. Francis Writer-in-Residence Anne Fadiman will give the introduction.
Screening and Q&A with J.P. Sniadecki
Friday, September 23, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m., St. Anthony Hall, 483 College St.
The documentary filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki will be giving a screening and Q&A. The talk is open to the public, and all are welcome to attend. J.P. Sniadecki is a filmmaker and a PhD candidate in anthropology at Harvard University. His films have shown around the world and received numerous awards, including the Joris Ivens Award at the 2009 Cinema du Reel Film Festival for Chaiqian (Demolition), and two Pardo D'oro at the 63rd Locarno Film Festival for Best First Feature and the Special CINÉ CINÉMA Jury Prize for Foreign Parts, which has been acquired by the MOMA for their permanent collection J.P. is also a chief organizer and curator of Emergent Visions, a film series that screens new independent cinema from the People's Republic of China. A Harvard Film Study Center Fellow, he currently lives in Beijing and is involved in a number of research and film projects, including a feature-length documentary on China's railway system.
Master’s Tea with Carl Zimmer
Monday, September 26, 4:00 p.m., Morse College Master’s House
Science Writer Carl Zimmer will talk about his latest book, A Planet of Viruses. "In A Planet of Viruses, science writer Carl Zimmer accomplishes in a mere 100 pages what other authors struggle to do in 500: He reshapes our understanding of the hidden realities at the core of everyday existence."--The Washington Post.
Master’s Tea with Author Kamila Shamsie
Monday, September 26, 4:00 p.m., Ezra Stiles College Master’s House
Kamila Shamsie is the author of five novels, including Burnt Shadows, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and has been translated into more than 20 languages. In 2010, The Telegraph newspaper named her among the 20 best novelists under 40 in Britain. She frequently writes about politics and international affairs for The Guardian (UK). She grew up in Karachi, and now lives in London. The tea is co-sponsored by: The English Department; The Program of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration; The Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; The South Asian Studies Council; The Asian American Cultural Center; The South Asian Students Association.
Lecture by Kamila Shamsie
Monday, September 26, 7:00 pm, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102
The Yale College Writing Center presents The John Hersey Lecture Dedicated to Writing in the Public Interest: “You're in our stories, but we aren't yours: the perils of the parochial imagination.” Open to the public. Reception to follow.
Film Screening of “Unwanted Witness”
Saturday, April 2, 6:45 p.m.
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 101, 63 High Street
Presented by the subject of the documentary, Colombian journalist Hollman Morris. From the film’s website: “Hollman Morris is an internationally acclaimed journalist whose weekly television show, Contravía, boldly confronts the violence that ravages his homeland of Colombia. Though he has won prestigious awards abroad, at home he is faced with death threats and intimidation putting a strain on his family life.”
William Finnegan, The New Yorker
Monday, April 4, 7:30 p.m., Davenport Common Room
William Finnegan, staff writer at The New Yorker, will be visiting as a Lustman Fellow. He will speak about “Reporting on Organized Crime in Mexico.” “William Finnegan has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1984 and a staff writer since 1987. He has reported from South Africa, Mozambique, Somalia, Sudan, Central America, South America, Spain, the Balkans, and Britain, as well as from many places in the United States. He writes about politics, war, poverty, race, crime, and international trade, and has also contributed articles on surfing, the Olympics, and punk-rock music” (read more here).
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Columnist
Tuesday, April 5, 4:30 p.m., Levinson Auditorium, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall Street
“Half the Sky: From Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide”
upcoming campus visit by Nick Kristof of the New York Times on April 5. Kristof will be this spring’s Chubb Fellow, an endowed speaker’s program administered by Timothy Dwight College. ristof co-authored “Half the Sky” with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, who will be a senior fellow next fall at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. The two are also authors of “China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power” and “Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia.” Please see press release for more information.
“Communicating Strength: Mass Media Reach and the Geography of Insurgency”
Wednesday, April 6, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m., Rozenkranz Hall, Room 05, 115 Prospect Street
Camber Warren, research fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, will speak on “Communicating Strength: Mass Media Reach and the Geography of Insurgency” as part of the Order, Conflict, and Violence Speaker Series.
Eggsploitation documentary viewing and discussion
Thursday, April 7, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., Yale Law School, Room 120
WINNER of Best Documentary at the California Independent Film Festival 2011. The infertility industry in the United States has grown to a multi-billion dollar business. What is its main commodity? Human eggs. Young women all over the world are solicited by ads—via college campus bulletin boards, social media, online classifieds—offering up to $100,000 for their “donated” eggs, to “help make someone’s dream come true.” But who is this egg donor? Is she treated justly? What are the short- and long-term risks to her health? Produced by The Center for Bioethics and Culture (Lines That Divide, 2009), Eggsploitation spotlights the booming business of human eggs told through the tragic and revealing stories of real women who became involved and whose lives have been changed forever.
Come for a lunchtime viewing of the award winning documentary and a special talkback with producer/director, Jennifer Lahl on Thursday, April 7 from 12:00-1:30pm in Room 120. Non-pizza lunch provided. Please RSVP to alice.shih@yale.edu.
Co-sponsored by Yale Law Women, Yale Law Students for Reproductive Justice, Yale Law Christian Fellowship, Women of Color Collective and the Rivendell Institute.
A.O. Scott, Film Critic, New York Times
Thursday, April 7, 5:00 p.m., Linsley-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St., Room 101
A. O. Scott joined The New York Times as a film critic in January 2000. Previously, he was a Sunday book reviewer for Newsday, and a frequent contributor to Slate, The New York Review of Books and many other publications. He graduated with a B.A. degree in Literature (magna cum laude) from Harvard College in 1988 and was a grad-school dropout (from Johns Hopkins, in American Literature). He has also served on the editorial staffs of Lingua Franca and The New York Review of Books.
His address is part of the series "Criticism Outside the Classroom: A Reviewer Talks About His Work" and is sponsored by the English Department and the Poynter Fellowship for Journalism at Yale.
Cathleen McGuigan, Journalist and Critic
Monday, April 11, 6:30 p.m., Loria Center, 190 York St., Room 351
Cathleen McGuigan is a critic, journalist and editor specializing in architecture and culture. A longtime contributor to Newsweek magazine, where she also served as arts editor, her articles have appeared in many other periodicals as well, including The Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine, Art News, Rolling Stone, Harper’s Bazaar and Architectural Record. A graduate of Brown University, McGuigan was awarded a Loeb Fellowship at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and has lectured at the School for Visual Arts and the Museum of the City of New York. McGuigan is a member of the Forum for Urban Design and serves on the board of directors of the Skyscraper Museum in New York. She is at work on a biography of Aline Saarinen. McGuigan lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter.
Her address will be titled "Journalism, Architecture, and the Role of Criticism: A Conversation with Carter Wiseman '68 and Paul Needham '11" and is sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale.
Slavenka Drakulic: “A Conversation with an East European Zoo Keeper”
Tuesday, April 12, 4:00 p.m., Davenport College Master’s House, 271 Park Street
Slavenka Drakulic is a Croatian writer who addresses issues of feminism and communism in both fiction and nonfiction, including A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism.
Ken Gormley in Conversation with Linda Greenhouse: The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr
Tuesday, April 12, 5:30 p.m., Labyrinth Books
Labyrinth Books and the Yale Law Library invite you to a discussion that revisits a divisive moment in recent American political history.
Ten years after one of the most polarizing political scandals in American history, Ken Gormley offers a balanced and revealing analysis of the events leading up to the impeachment trial of President Clinton. From Ken Starr’s initial Whitewater investigation through the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit to the Monica Lewinsky affair, The Death of American Virtue is a gripping chronicle of an ever-escalating political feeding frenzy. For more information, please visit the Labyrinth Books website.
Law School Film Series: Juvenile Court
Tuesday, April 12, 7:00 p.m., Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, Auditorium
Juvenile Court (USA, 1973) 144 min. Director Frederick Wiseman Followed by discussion between Frederick Wiseman and Dean Robert Post (Yale Law School and Films at the Whitney). “JUVENILE COURT shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses. The sequences illustrate such issues as community protection vs. the desire for rehabilitation, the range and the limits of the choices available to the court, the psychology of the offender, and the constitutional and procedural questions involved in administering a juvenile court.” “Fred Wiseman is probably one of today’s greatest living documentary filmmakers. For close to thirty years, thanks to the Public Broadcast Service (PBS), he has created an exceptional body of work consisting of thirty full length films devoted primarily to exploring American institutions. Over time these films have become a record of the western world, since now more than ever as we approach the century’s close, nothing North American is really foreign to us.” For a complete biography, please visit this website.
Alison Bechdel, Author, Graphic Novelist, Cartoonist
Wednesday, April 13, 7:00 p.m., LC 317, 63 High Street
Author of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Booklist: “One of the best graphic novels ever.” Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Series.
Franke Visiting Fellow Lecture Series
Thursday, April 14, 4:00 p.m., Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, Room 208
Peter Cole and Adina Hoffman will speak about the publication of their new book, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza.
Screening of Latin American films from the UN Collection
Thursday, April 14, 6:45 p.m., LC 101, 63 High Street
Prize-winning films presented by filmmaker Chaim Litewski. Chaim Litewski was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and graduated from the Polytechnic of Central London/Westminster University, London, UK with a BA and MA in film studies. Chaim has worked for the British Film Institute, Channel Four, UK, TV Globo (Brazil) and many other international broadcasters. Currently, Chaim is Senior United Nations Television Producer in New York. For more information, please visit the UNAFF website.
The Soul and Its Forms in Modern Times: The Yale Hermann Broch Symposium
Friday, April 15 to Saturday, April 16, Beinecke Rare Books Library
To register, please visit the symposium website.
In crucial aspects of his literary work and his philosophical, psychological, and political thinking, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch was both representative and idiosyncratic, typical of 20th-century European modernism and yet an exception as well. This is particularly true of the ways in which conceptual thinking and literary experimentation are intertwined in Broch's work. As the author of pioneering novels such as Sleep Walkers or The Death of Virgil as well as of theoretical essays on philosophy, political, economic theory, and mass psychology, Broch presents us with an interesting problem: To what extent did his literary writing put into practice a more general theoretical attitude? Was his conceptual framework consistent with the challenges and goals of modernism and modernist writing?
The state of the novel in the first half of the last century is undoubtedly at the heart of the matter. Writing the novel and the theory of the novel—the complex and difficult configuration of what György Lukács once termed 'the soul and the forms'—were emblematic for the practice of a writing between literature proper and the various fields of experimental thinking in particular in the context of psychology, anthropology, and political theory.
In order to shed light on this modernist constellation, the discussion is set up in three panels:
1. The Psyche and the Political
2. Style and Empire
3. Writing in the Context of European Modernism
David Savona, Senior Editor at Cigar Aficionado
Tuesday, April 19, 4:00 p.m., The Owl Shop
Savona is Senior Editor of Cigar Aficionado, Director of CigarAficionado.com, and formerly Senior Editor at International Business Magazine. Topics he'll be discussing will range from cigars, to journalism, to the proposed campus-wide smoking ban at Yale. This event is hosted by SIGAR at Yale (the Society for Intellectual Growth and Reinvigoration). Please see the attachment for more information.
Scott Shaprio and Heather Gerken in Conversation — Legality
Tuesday, April 19, 6:00 p.m., Labyrinth Books
What is law? This question has preoccupied philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes to H. L. A. Hart; Labyrinth and the Yale Law Library invite you to come and debate it with Scott Shapiro and Heather Gerkin.
How could we possibly know how to answer such an abstract question? And what would be the point of doing so? In Legality, Scott Shapiro argues that the question is not only meaningful but crucial. In fact, many of the most pressing puzzles that lawyers confront—including who has legal authority over us and how we should interpret constitutions, statutes, and cases—will remain elusive until this grand philosophical question is resolved.
Scott J. Shapiro is Professor of Law and Philosophy at Yale Law School. Heather Gerken is also Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is the author of The Democracy Index: Why Our Election System is Failing and How to Fix It.
“The Role of Social Media in Japan During Natural Disasters” with Kyoko Yoshinaga
Wednesday, April 20, 11:00 a.m., Room 121, Yale Law School
A devastating earthquake hit northeastern Japan followed by a major tsunami on 3.11 and a nuclear crisis. Many people in the coastal areas lost their lives. During and following these catastrophic events, people used Facebook and Twitter to locate their family and friends.
This talk will review those information technologies that worked and those that did not work as well as how people used social media in creative ways following the disasters. Finally, we will consider regulatory changes and technical innovations that might foster more effective implementation of social media during future times of crisis. Sponsored by the Yale Information Society Project and Yale Law School Office of Student Affairs.
Yale College Poets reading from their work
Wednesday, April 20, 4:00 p.m., Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Student poets: Ilan Ben-Meir, Elisa Gonzalez, Alice Hodgkins, Laurel Hunt, Casey Blue James, Kate Lund, Noah Warren, Cooper Wilhelm, Jesse Williams, and Hannah Zeavin. This event is part of the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series. For information on Poetry at Beinecke Library: beineckepoetry.wordpress.com.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher of The Nation
Wednesday, April 20, 4:00 p.m., Law School Auditorium, 127 Wall St.
In addition to editing and publishing The Nation, Katrina vanden Heuvel is a frequent commentator on American and international politics on ABC, MSNBC, CNN and PBS. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Foreign Policy magazine and The Boston Globe. She is the editor of Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover," (Nation Books, 2009); and co-editor of Taking Back America--And Taking Down The Radical Right.
Vanden Heuvel is a recipient of Planned Parenthood's Maggie Award for her article, "Right-to-Lifers Hit Russia." The special issue she conceived and edited, "Gorbachev's Soviet Union," was awarded New York University's 1988 Olive Branch Award. Vanden Heuvel was also co-editor of "You and We,” a Russian-language feminist newsletter. She has received awards for public service from numerous groups, including The Liberty Hill Foundation, The Correctional Association and The Association for American-Russian Women. In 2003, she received the New York Civil Liberties Union's Callaway Prize for the Defense of the Right of Privacy. She is also the recipient of The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's 2003 "Voices of Peace" award, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s 2006 “Justice in Action” award. In 2010, she received the Exceptional Woman in Publishing Award honoring women who have made extraordinary contributions to the publishing industry.
At Yale, she will sit on a panel titled "What's Left for the Left?" with Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont and past chair of the Democratic National Committee, to discuss the future of progressive politics in the United States. The forum will be moderated by Yale Professor Jacob Hacker, co-author with Paul Pierson of “Winner-Take-All Politics” and widely credited as the “architect” of the public option of health care policy. Also participating in the conversation will be Yale College junior Daniel Hornung, president of the Yale chapter of the progressive undergraduate organization The Roosevelt Institute.
Sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale. Please see the attachment for more information.
Learning to Write about Health: A Panel about Journalism and Medicine
Wednesday, April 20, 6:00 p.m., LC 202
The Yale Journal of Medicine and Law presents a unique panel with 3 outstanding medical journalists and authors.
Carl Zimmer is an acclaimed popular science writer and frequent contributer to the New York Times and Discover Magazine. His is a recipient of the Prize for Science Communication from the US National Academy of Sciences, and his books include Parasite Rex, Soul Made Flesh, and At the Water's Edge.
Dr. Laura Manuelidis is a Professor of Surgery at Yale Medical School and Section Chief of Neuropathology in the Department of Surgery at Yale. Dr. Manuelidis is on the faculty of Neurosciences and Virology, and has challenged the conventional explanation for the cause of Mad Cow Disease.
Dr. Randi Epstien is a medical journalist and received her MD from Yale University. She has contributed to the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Daily Telegraph, and is an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Her most recent book is "Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank."
Make It Here, Make It Anywhere: How to Survive in NYC while Actually Having a Creative Career
An Arts Panel by the Creative Yale Alumni Network (CYAN), Sponsored by UCS
Wednesday, April 20, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m., WLH 207
Come meet Yalies who have been successful in every facet of the arts. This event is open to all Yale seniors (and non-seniors) interested in pursuing arts careers in New York (and beyond), including theater, film, comedy, television, fine arts, music, dance, journalism, and publishing. The panelists will address your specific concerns about surviving in NYC while developing your artistic career.
Topics covered will include: supporting yourself on an artist’s salary, building your resume, getting health insurance, finding an apartment, staying creative while working, finding a niche, networking, and living on ramen. An informal networking mixer will follow.
Panelists (subject to change): Ian Cheney, BK '02 -- documentary director, Jenny Fiedler, ES '02 -- food writer/journalist, Mollie Goldstein, SM '02 -- film editor, Adam Overett, SM '00 -- Broadway actor, Jonathan Zalben, PC '03 – composer. Moderator: Timothy Cooper, BK '02 – screenwriter.
Movie Screening: “Death on a Factory Farm”
Thursday, April 21, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., SLB, Room 122, Yale Law School
Please join the Animal Legal Defense in its screening of Death on a Factory Farm, an HBO documentary which follows both the undercover investigation of Wiles Hog Farm, and the resulting court case against it.
5th Annual Yale Crossword Puzzle Tournament
Friday, April 22, 7:30 p.m., LC 102
Featuring NY Times Crossword Editor & NPR Weekend Edition Sunday
Puzzlemaster Will Shortz. Register online here. Or walk-in registration at 7:00 p.m. Presented by the Yale Cruciverbalist Society
Foreign Correspondence Workshop
Monday, April 25, 6:00 p.m., Trumbull Common Room
Jeremy Kutner, a former correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, will talk about how to go about finding good stories while abroad. All his experience will be very valuable to anyone thinking about trying to write something based off of their summer travels.
Zvi Kadushin: Photography from Kovno to Landsberg, 1941 – 1946
Open every day this week, 9:00 am – 10:00 p.m.
Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St.
In August 1945, Zvi (Hirsch) Kadushin, a young Jewish photographer from Lithuania, organized an exhibition at the Displaced Persons Camp in Landsberg, Germany. It was one of the earliest efforts to portray Jewish communities under Nazi rule, and the first to present the daily life of the ghettos. Kadushin was one of 500 survivors from the Kovno ghetto, which housed 40,000 members at its height in 1941, and was murderously liquidated in July 1944. Curated by Noam Gal. On view through May 4.
Films at the Whitney: The Human Experience
Tuesday, April 26, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m., Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium, 53 Wall St.
The Human Experience (USA, 2008) 90 min. Director Charles Kinnane. Screening will be followed by a Skype discussion with Michael Campo, writer and actor, and Jeffery Azize, actor. Part of Yale Human Rights and Environment Dialogues.
The Ordinary Evening Reading Series: Eleanor Lerman and Gail Mazur
Tuesday, April 26, Anchor Bar, Mermaid Room, 272 College St.
Eleanor Lerman's most recent collection of poems, The Sensual World Re-Emerges was published by Sarabande Press in 2010. It has been nominated for three awards: ForeWord's Book of the Year (poetry), The Audre Lorde Poetry Award from the Publishing Triangle and the Lambda Literary Award (poetry). Her collection of short stories, The Blonde on the Train (Mayapple Press), came out in 2009.
Gail Mazur’s poems celebrate the din and detail of ordinary life. Her most recent volume, Zeppo’s First Wife: New and Selected Poems, won the Massachusetts Book Award and her 2001 volume They Can’t Take That Away from Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. Gail published her first collection, Nightfire in 1978 and followed that with The Pose of Happiness (1986).
For information, please visit http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/.
Reintroducing The York Street Muse
Thursday, April 28, 7:00 p.m., Davenport buttery
Davenport's literary and arts magazine (previously known as Davenport Sketchbook) will be having an open organizational meeting for anyone interested in joining next year's staff. There will be Claire's Cake.
The magazine, funded by a Sudler Fund Grant and printed quarterly, welcomes contributions and magazine staff applications from Yale undergraduates in all residential colleges. There are staff positions available in every area of the publication — from editorial to production to web design to distribution.
Alumna Event - Alexandra Robbins
Tuesday, May 3, 6:00 p.m., Yale Bookstore
We are pleased to welcome 1998 Yale Graduate, Alexandra Robbins as she discusses and signs copies of her new book, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth. In this smart, entertaining book that reads like fiction, Alexandra Robbins manages to cross Gossip Girl with Freaks and Geeks and explain the fascinating psychology and science behind popularity and outcasthood. She reveals that the things that set students apart in high school are the things that help them stand out later in life. She is best known for her book, Secrets of the Tomb p published in 2002.
Discussion & Signing: DeSteno & Valdesolo
Thursday, May 4, 6:00 p.m., Yale Bookstore
Please join us as we welcome Psychlogy professors, David DeSteno & Piercarlo Valdesolo as they discuss & sign copies of their new book, Out of Character. Out of Character is a surprising and revealing look at the hidden psychological forces that drive us to cheat on our spouse, become wildly jealous for no good reason, allow ourselves to be fooled by people in power, and exhibit many more of the puzzling behaviors that shape our lives.
"How (Not) to Start a Little Magazine"
Tuesday, March 1, 5:00 p.m., Saybrook Master's House
Mark Greif and Marco Roth, co-founders and editors of n+1 magazine, discuss the magazine's founding, lessons from its early days, and the circumstances that led a bunch of disaffected PhD and MFA students to attempt something everyone told them was doomed to fail, and what happened after that.
Having just published its tenth issue, the magazine is at a very exciting point in its development. Last summer, n+1 published its first book with HarperCollins, Diary of a Very Bad Year — a series of interviews conducted with an anonymous hedge manager during the months leading up to, during, and following the economic crisis of Fall 2008 by Keith Gessen, one of the magazines editor's. The book has received incredible reviews from a number of reputable publications, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. In September, n+1 launched the first issue of the n+1 Film Review and in October it released What Was the Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation, the third in n+1's small book series.
Broad Recognition
Tuesday, March 1, 7:00 p.m. , Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 105
Are you interested in feminism, multimedia journalism, writing, website design, or photography? If so, we welcome you to join us at Broad Recognition! We are an online feminist magazine at Yale dedicated to covering women's issues and offering feminist cultural commentary. We're looking for interested writers, multimedia journalists, and photographers, as well as those with an interest website design and management. Come eat Claire's cake and learn more about how you can get involved with Broad Recognition at our info session. Absolutely no experience necessary! We'll help you hone your skills in whatever avenue you choose. Visit us at www.broadrecognition.com to learn more about our magazine.
Yale in Hollywood New York Summit
Saturday, March 5, New York
Celebrating the contributions of Yale alumni in the entertainment industry, the "Yale in Hollywood: New York Summit" will use this seminal gathering of alumni to promote our national student and alumni initiatives in the Arts. This year's theme, "What Inspires You?" provides an opportunity for alumni to build creative networks and fosters an atmosphere where the best of Yale can be the best for Yale and our greater communities throughout the world. The summit will bring together emerging and established alumni in film, TV, music, theater and publishing to discuss the latest trends having an impact across these creative and business sectors of the industry. Unparalleled access to some of the most creative minds and industry leaders, together with a celebration of Yale, makes this an event you don't want to miss! For more information on the event and to register go to http://hollywood.alumni.yale.edu/home.
A Rabbi’s Tea about Cultural Criticism
Tuesday, March 22, 4:00 p.m., Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall Street
The Yale Journalism Initiative and the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale present “A Rabbi’s Tea about Cultural Criticism,” featuring Sara Marcus, a rock journalist and author Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution and Jon Caramanica, rock music critic and men's shopping critic for The New York Times.
Joseph Finder, “The Writing Life in the Digital Age”
Thursday, March 24, 4:00 p.m., Branford College Master's House, 74 High Street
“The Writing Life in the Digital Age: Can a writer make a living anymore if the book is dead, magazines and newspapers are disappearing, nobody’s reading, and “content” is free?”
Joseph Finder, Yale (Branford) ’80, is the author of 6 consecutive New York Times bestselling novels, including High Crimes (the basis of the Morgan Freeman/Ashley Judd movie), Paranoia, and Killer Instinct (both of which are in various stages of development as motion pictures). A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, and a graduate of Harvard’s Russian Research Center, he’s taught at Harvard and has written nonfiction for The New Yorker, the New York Times (Op Ed, Week in Review, and Book Review) the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Harper’s, and The New Republic. His controversial first book, an exposé of the billionaire industrialist Dr. Armand Hammer’s ties to Soviet intelligence, almost got him thrown out of Moscow at the end of the Cold War. Finder has also written (and sold) several movie projects and recently sold a TV drama series pilot to CBS/Paramount. At Yale he majored in Russian and East European Studies, sang with the Whiffenpoofs, and was recruited to the CIA before choosing the riskier life of a full-time writer.
The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture 2011: A Reading & Conversation with New Yorker critic Hilton Als
Wednesday, March 23, 4:00 p.m., Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street
Hilton Als, a staff writer and theatre critic at The New Yorker, is a recipient of a Guggenheim Award for Creative Writing, and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He has written for The Village Voice and The Nation, and served as Editor-at-Large at Vibe magazine. He edited the catalogue for the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art" (November 1994-March 1995) and recently co-curated the exhibition "Self-Consciousness" with the artist Peter Doig at the Veneklasen Werner Gallery in Berlin (2010). His book, The Women, a meditation on gender, race, and personal identity, was published by FSG in 1996. Als has taught at Yale, Wesleyan, and Smith College. He lives in New York City.
The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Arts and Letters at the Beinecke Library was founded by Carl Van Vechten in 1941 in honor of James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), poet, novelist, lyricist, diplomat, educator, and noted civil rights leader. The Collection celebrates the accomplishments of African American writers and artists from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies and Calhoun College.
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Friday, March 25, 10:30 a.m., Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street
“Can a Novelist Write Philosophically?" Panel discussion chaired by Amy Hungerford featuring Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Harry Frankfurt, and Michael Cunningham.
Discovering E. M. Forster's Secret Lives
Friday, March 25, 4:00 p.m., Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street
Using photographs, images of holograph letters, and other evidence, Wendy Moffat will explore a few puzzles she had to solve in writing her biography of the British novelist E. M. Forster. A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster won the Biographers' Club Prize, was selected as an ALA Stonewall Honor Book and a New York Times' Top 10 for 2010. If you're interested in biography, history of sexuality, archives, social history, or literature, this talk is for you.
Wendy Moffat is a Professor of English at Dickinson College, and she earned her Ph.D. in English literature from Yale University. She was a visiting fellow at Beinecke in 2007. More information about the book: www.wendymoffat.com.
Master's Tea with Mitch Waldrop, Features Editor for Nature
Monday, March 28, 4:00 p.m., Berkeley College Master's House, 125 High Street
A conversation with Mitch Waldrop, who has served as both Editorial Page Editor and Features Editor at Nature. Waldrop earned a Ph.D. in elementary particle physics at the University of Wisconsin in 1975, and a Master's in journalism at Wisconsin in 1977. He has served as both a freelancer and staff writer at The Chemical and Engineering News, Science, and the National Science Foundation, covering subjects such as physics, space, astronomy, computer science, artificial intelligence, molecular biology, psychology, and neuroscience. He is the author of Man-Made Minds, a book about artificial intelligence; Complexity, a book about the Santa Fe institute and the new sciences of complexity; and The Dream Machine about the history of computing. In his spare time he is an avid cyclist. Co-sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale.
Patricia Everett and Paul Lippmann: “A. A. Brill and Mabel Dodge Luhan: A Reading from their Correspondence”
Tuesday, March 29, 5:00 p.m., Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street
Psychoanalyst A. A. Brill maintained an active correspondence with his patient Mabel Dodge Luhan, a writer and New York salon hostess. Luhan's analysis began in June 1916 and continued until she moved to Taos, New Mexico, in December 1917, after which analyst and writer corresponded for nearly thirty years. This reading from the Mabel Dodge Luhan Papers presents a selection of letters that reflect the highly personal, expressive, and exploratory nature of their correspondence. Luhan recounted her dreams and reported on her current mental states. Brill responded with advice, warmth, and forceful interpretations. These letters provide views into often inaccessible aspects of analytic relationships.
Gordon Martin, Black Mississipians Fighting for the Right to Vote
Tuesday, March 29, 5:30 p.m., Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street
Here is the personal account of a community and a lawyer united to battle one of the most recalcitrant bastions of resistance to civil rights. Labyrinth and Yale's Law Library invite you for a discussion in honor of Gordon Martin's new book. Gordon A. Martin, Jr., Boston, Massachusetts, is a retired trial judge and an adjunct professor at New England School of Law. His work has been published in the Boston Globe, Commonweal, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, various law reviews, and other periodicals. Please visit this website for more information.
Rebecca Blumenstein, The Wall Street Journal: “Titling East—Is the West Ready for China’s Rise?”
Wednesday, March 30, 2:00 p.m., Yale School of Management Steinbach Lounge, 52 Hillhouse Avenue
Rebecca Blumenstein is the Deputy Managing Editor for Foreign, Money & Investing of The Wall Street Journal. She oversees the Journal's entire international coverage and the Money & Investing Section. She has also directed The WSJ Online and served as China Bureau Chief. Originally covering General Motors for the Journal in Detroit, Rebecca moved to covering AT&T and WorldCom Inc., for which her team won the Gerald Loeb Award for deadline writing. As chief of the Journal's New York Technology Group, she covered the historic mergers and changes in technology that recast the telecommunications industry before moving to China in 2005. She then oversaw the China team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2007. Blumenstein began her journalism career at the Tampa Tribune, and then later moved to Gannett Newspapers and Newsday. She received a 1993 New York Newswomen’s Award for best deadline writing for her coverage of the aftermath of the Long Island Railroad shootings. In March, she was named to the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellowship for 2009. Rebecca holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and social science from the University of Michigan, where she was Editor in Chief of the Michigan Daily.
She will speak at the School of Management about Investing and Journalism. Cosponsored by the Yale School of Management Investment Club and the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale.
Environmental Filmmaking Workshop with Ian Cheney
Wednesday, March 30, 4:00 p.m., Kroon Hall, Room 319, 195 Prospect Street
Join Yale College and School of Forestry graduate, Ian Cheney, as he shares film clips, stories from the field, and practical advice on making films. Free and open to the public. RSVP required at effy@yale.edu.
An Evening of Poetry at the Gallery
Thursday, March 31, 5:30 p.m., YUAG, 1111 Chapel Street
Special event with Natasha Trethewey, Professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry, Emory University; Yusef Komunyakaa, Global Distinguished Professor of English, New York University; and Thomas Sayers Ellis, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Sarah Lawrence College.
The Profile: 5th Annual Reading by Anne Fadiman and Her Students
Thursday, March 31, 6:00-7:00 p.m., New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm St.
Three undergraduate writers--Riley Ford ’11, Zara Kessler ’12, and Peter Lu ’11--will join Anne Fadiman, Yale's Francis Writer-in-Residence, to read from their profiles of a 94-year-old typewriter repairman; a driving instructor coping with an especially challenging student (the author); and an artist who sculpts sea slugs out of marble. Fadiman will read from a work in progress about the troubled relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his son Hartley.
2011 Environmental Film Festival at Yale
Monday, March 28 to Sunday, April 3, Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium
The third annual Environmental Film Festival at Yale (EFFY) will take place March 28-April 3 and includes a lineup of feature and short films as well as talks and panel discussions with filmmakers. The festival, which aims to raise awareness about environmental and related social issues, has become New Haven's premiere event for engaging films that explore the critical environmental issues facing us today.
"Festival-goers have come to expect a lineup of the best environmental films from around the world, and this year's films will not disappoint" said Chandra Simon, the Executive Director. "EFFY 2011 features a number of intensely personal stories. These films are about people who seek to understand their relationship to the world around them, people who ask hard questions about the direction we are heading, and people who are willing to risk their lives for what they believe in."
Sponsored by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Films at the Whitney. For more information, complete program, and complete roster of sponsors see http://environment.yale.edu/film/films.
Rebecca Blumenstein, The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, February 2, 4:00 p.m., Branford College Master’s Tea, 80 High St.
Rebecca Blumenstein is a Deputy Managing Editor and the International Editor of The Wall Street Journal. Most recently, she was Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal Online. Previously, Rebecca was the China Bureau Chief.
Prior to moving to China in 2005, Rebecca served as chief of the Journal’s New York Technology Group, which covered the historic mergers and changes in technology that recast the telecommunications industry. Before that, she was the group’s Deputy Chief and a reporter covering AT&T Corp. and WorldCom Inc. Rebecca joined the Journal in 1995 as a reporter in the Detroit bureau, where she covered General Motors.
She began her journalism career at the Tampa Tribune, and then later moved to Gannett Newspapers and Newsday. She received a 1993 New York Newswomen’s Award for best deadline writing for her coverage of the aftermath of the Long Island Railroad shootings.
In 2003, she was part of a team that won the Gerald Loeb Award for deadline writing for coverage of WorldCom. She oversaw the China team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2007. In March, she was named to the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellowship for 2009. Rebecca holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and social science from the University of Michigan, where she was Editor in Chief of the Michigan Daily.
Sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship (http://opac.yale.edu/poynter.aspx).
Elisabeth Rosenthal, International Environment Correspondent, New York Times
Wednesday, February 9, 12:00 p.m.,
Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect St.
Elisabeth L. Rosenthal is the International Environment Correspondent for the New York Times, covering developments in climate politics and environment across the globe since 2008. Prior to that she was European Health and Environment Reporter for the International Herald Tribune (2003-2007), and a correspondent in the New York Times' Beijing bureau (1997-2003), where she broke a number of landmark stories about the spread of AIDS among Chinese population. Trained as a medical doctor, she joined the New York Times in 1994 to cover medicine and health policy.
Sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship (http://opac.yale.edu/poynter.aspx).
John Tierney, Science Columnist, New York Times, "The Rediscovery of Willpower"
Wednesday, February 9, 4:00 p.m.
, Calhoun College
Master's House, 189 Elm St.
John Tierney writes a science column, Findings, for the New York Times. Before joining the Times in 1990, he wrote for a variety of publications, specializing in science.
He is the author of The Best-Case Scenario Handbook (Workman Publishing, 2002), which explains, among other things, how to deal with a broken ATM spewing cash, how to accept the Nobel Peace Prize and even how to cope with a polite teenage child. Tierney is also the co-author, with Christopher Buckley, of the comic novel, God Is My Broker: A Monk Tycoon Reveals the 7 ½ Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth.
Mr. Tierney has written about controversies in science and medicine, such as the prosecution of doctors for prescribing pain medication, and about environmental issues. His reporting took him to six continents, and he published articles in The Atlantic, Esquire, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Reason, Rolling Stone, Washington Monthly, Playboy, Outside, Reader’s Digest, National Geographic Traveler, Vogue, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Mr. Tierney has won awards from American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics and the New York Publishers Association.
He graduated in 1976 from Yale University, where he majored in American Studies.
Sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship (http://opac.yale.edu/poynter.aspx).
Reading & Signing with author Lauren Willig
Wednesday, February 9, 7:00 p.m., The Yale Bookstore
Lauren Willig will be reading from and signing copies of her newest addition to the bodice ripping Pink Carnation Books, The Orchid Affair. Please visit her online at www.laurenwillig.com.
Elizabethan Club Centenary Lecture: "What Is a Book?"
Wednesday, February 16, 5:30 p.m.
Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
"What Is a Book?" Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania. This Elizabethan Club Centenary Lecture is co-sponsored by the Elizabethan Club of Yale University and Whitney Humanities Center.
Seth Mnookin, "The Panic Virus"
Thursday, February 17, 4:00 p.m., Morse College Master's House
Seth Mnookin is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and writes for New York, Wired, The New York Times, and other publications. He is the author of the bestselling Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top, and Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media. In his new book is The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear, Mnookin uses a combination of investigative reporting, intellectual and scientific history, and sociological analysis to explore the controversies over vaccines and their rumored connection to developmental disorders.
A Conversation on Memoir and Essay
Friday, February 18, 4:00 p.m., Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books, and Jeremy Harding, contributing editor "Memoirs: Why Write Them? More to the Point, Why Read Them?" For more information email edit@lrb.co.uk. Memoirs. Why write them? More to the point, why read them? Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the 'London Review of Books', and Jeremy Harding, a contributing editor, will discuss their own memoirs with Michael Wood and explore the role of memoir and essay in Europe's most widely-read literary journal.
Poetry Reading: Charles Douthat, Blue for Oceans
Saturday, February 19, 4:00 p.m., Labyrinth Books
Labyrinth Books and The New Haven Review are pleased to invite you to a poetry reading by Charles Douthat, who will be introduced by Mark Oppenheimer.
Blue for Oceans is a debut collection of poems about family and growing older, written in a style that is sharp, direct, and affecting; J.D. McClatchy calls it “a wise and haunted book.”
Charles Douthat, a New Haven-area writer, has published poems in Frogpond, New York Quarterly, Concho River Review, Wisconsin Review, Urthona Magazine, Connecticut Review, and many other fine journals.
Mark Oppenheimer, editor of The New Hven Review, is the author of Thirteen and a Day: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Across America and Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture. He is the former editor of the New Haven Advocate and writes for Slate, The New York Times Magazine, and Nextbook. His most recent book is a memoir about high school debate, Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate.
Ted C. Fishman, Writer
Monday, February 21, 4:00 p.m., Silliman College Master's House, 71 Wall St.
China Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World—Fishman has helped describe for the world the effects of China's momentous change on the lives and businesses of people everywhere.
Shock of Gray—Released in October 2010, the book looks at how the aging of the world propels globalization, redefines nearly every important relationship we have, and changes life for everyone young and old.
Master's Tea with Jon Wertheim '93, Senior Writer for Sports Illustrated
Tuesday, February 22, 4:00 p.m., Saybrook Master's House, 90 High St.
A conversation with Jon Wertheim '93, senior writer for Sports Illustrated and co-author of Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won. In coordination with the Yale Daily News. Saybrook College Master's Teas are supported by the Mott-Atkins fund.
Melissa Weiner, Power, Protest and Public Schools
Tuesday, February 22, 5:00 p.m., Labyrinth Books
Please join us as Melissa Weiner discusses her new book—an examination of racial barriers in public education, and of the efforts they inspired on the part of the marginalized.
New York City schools did not always serve as pathways to mobility for Jewish or African American students. Instead, at different points in the city’s history, politicians and administrators erected barriers to social advancement by denying resources that other students enjoyed. Power, Protest, and the Public Schools explores how activists, particularly parents and children, responded to inequality, and concludes by considering how today’s Hispanic and Arab children face similar inequalities within public schools.
"Just when you thought there was nothing left to say about race and American education, Melissa F.Weiner comes along to prove you wrong. By comparing black and Jewish protesters in New York City, Weiner sheds new light upon both groups – and, best of all, upon the shadowy racial politics of twentieth-century schools."-Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of Education & History, NYU, and author of Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools. Melissa F. Weiner is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Quinnipiac University.
Career Conversation: Erik Meers '93
Tuesday, February 22, 7:00 p.m., Undergraduate Career Services, 55 Whitney Ave.
Don't miss this opportunity to meet and talk with Erik Meers '93! Erik is the Founder and Editor of Uinterview.com, the former Managing Editor of GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Interview and Paper magazines. He also worked for seven years at People magazine. Space is limited; advanced registration is required to attend. To register, log into eRecruiting and click on "Workshop" located in the left side Calendar section of the eRecruiting homepage.
Poetry Reading by Winners of the Connecticut Poetry Circuit
Thursday, February 24, 7:30 p.m., Silliman Master's House, 71 Wall St.
A Reading and Conversation with Nicholas Dawidoff
Thursday, February 24, 8:00 p.m., Branford College Master's House, 80 High St.
Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball. He will be introduced by Anne Fadiman, Francis Writer in Residence. As Nicholas Dawidoff was losing his father to mental illness, he found a safe haven in his love for baseball. The New York Times called this unforgettable memoir “a beautiful portrait of a wounded family.” Michael Pollan wrote that it belongs on the “short shelf of great books about American boyhood.”
Adam Phillips: “Freud's Impossible Life: An Introduction”
Friday, February 25, 5:00 p.m., Beinecke Rare Books Library, 121 Wall St.
Writer and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips is the author of more than ten books, including Side Effects; On Terrors and Experts; Promises, Promises: Essays on Poetry and Psychoanalysis; and On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, the London Review of Books, and The Observer. Dr. Phillips is the general editor of the Penguin Classics Freud series; he is currently at work on a new biography of Sigmund Freud to be published in the Yale University Press Jewish Lives Series.
Master’s Tea with Bill Cronon
Monday, February 28, 4:00 p.m., Davenport Common Room
William Cronon, President-Elect, American Historical Association, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and award-winning author of Changes in the Land and Nature’s Metropolis
“Exploring Environmental History: Creating a New Academic Field”
William Cronon studies American environmental history and the history of the American West. His research seeks to understand the history of human interactions with the natural world: how we depend on the ecosystems around us to sustain our material lives, how we modify the landscapes in which we live and work, and how our ideas of nature shape our relationships with the world around us. In July 1992, Cronon became the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of WisconsinMadison after having served for more than a decade as a member of the Yale History Department.
Photo Exhibit, “Ground Shaking: Haiti After the Earthquake”
Monday, February 28, 7:00 p.m., Jonathan Edwards College Gallery
In November, a group of nine students from the YIRA Haiti Election Study Mission traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to document the first round of the Haitian presidential elections. They interviewed people on the street, political figures, influential celebrities, and the presidential candidates themselves to learn about the state of Haitian politics today. With their findings, they have put together a photo exhibition and a documentary, vividly recording life in Haiti a year after the earthquake. At the reception, they will be giving a presentation about their experiences in Haiti, as well as showing a preview of the much-awaited documentary! The exhibit will be on view through May 5.
Film and Discussion with Taylor Krauss, Voices for Rwanda
Wednesday, January 12
7:30 p.m.
Davenport College Common Room
Taylor Krauss “is an independent documentary filmmaker who has worked for various media networks including the Associated Press, BBC, Discovery, PBS, and HBO. Krauss has worked on various human rights films on subjects ranging from Rwandan media, refugees, healthcare, illegal immigration, sexual violence, global human smuggling and trafficking, and the genocide in Darfur. He graduated from Yale University in 2002, with a degree in Film Studies. As a founder of “Voices of Rwanda,” a not-for-profit dedicated to recording and preserving testimonies of eyewitnesses to the 1994 Rwanda genocide, Taylor splits his time between Kigali, Rwanda, and Brooklyn, NY” (http://www.vday.org/meet-vday/v-men/krauss). For more information about “Voices of Rwanda” please visit http://voicesofrwanda.org/.
Isabel Wilkerson, "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration"
Wednesday, January 19
Time and location TBD
Isabel Wilkerson, who spent most of her career as a national correspondent and bureau chief at The New York Times, is the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in the history of American journalism and was the first black American to win for individual reporting. Inspired by her own parents’ migration, she devoted fifteen years to the research and writing of this book. She interviewed more than 1,200 people, unearthed archival works and gathered the voices of the famous and the unknown to tell the epic story of the relocation of an entire people in The Warmth of Other Suns.
Sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship (http://opac.yale.edu/poynter.aspx).
Kate Beaton, Cartoonist
Monday, January 24
4:00 p.m.
Pierson Master's House
231 Park St.
View Kate Beaton's work at http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php. The tea is co-sponsored by the Yale Record.
Filmmaker Doug Liman
Wednesday, January 26
4:00 p.m.
Davenport College Master's Tea
Film director and producer Doug Liman is best known for The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Jumper. He currently produces the USA Network series Covert Affairs.
Adam Richman of “Man vs. Food”
Thursday, November 18
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Yale Bookstore
Yale welcomes back one of our own as the Bookstore hosts Adam Richman, Yale grade and star of the Travel Channel's hit show Man vs. Food!
Stop by and check out Adam's new book America the Edible, a fascinating and in-depth look at the ethnic, economic, and cultural factors that shape the way we eat and how food, in turn, reflects America as a nation.
Master's Tea with Gail Berman, Fox Broadcasting
Tuesday, November 16
4:00 pm
Pierson College Master's Residence
231 Park St.
Gail Berman, former president of entertainment at Fox Broadcasting Company, former pres. of Viacom's Paramount Pictures, & co-founder of BermanBraun.
Donald McNeil, Science Reporter, New York Times
Monday, November 15
Time, date & title TBD
For more information on the Poynter Fellowship, please visit http://opa.yale.edu/poynter.aspx.
Mark Strand, Gallery Talk on William Bailey
Thursday, November 11
5 p.m.
Whitney Humanities Center, Room 108
A gallery talk in conjunction with our exhibition of works by William Bailey.
Master's Tea with author Mark Helprin
Wednesday, November 10
4:00 p.m.
Branford Master’s Residence
74 High St.
Mark Helprin, the author of Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, Swan Lake, and other novels, will read from and discuss his work. Helprin rarely makes public appearances of this sort. The Boston Globe has written of Helprin’s work, “He has simply galvanized the universe!” Publisher’s Weekly has written, “He creates tableaux of such beauty and clarity that the inner eye is stunned.” Although he is best known for his fiction, Helprin has written political speeches and commentary (including Bob Dole's Senate retirement speech) and served in the British Merchant Marine and the Israeli infantry. His most recent book is Digital Barbarism: A Writer’s Manifesto, a defense of authors’ rights in the digital age. Please see attached poster for more information.
Discussion and Book Signing with Faculty Author Carlos Eire
Wednesday, November 10
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Yale Bookstore
T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale and National Book Award winner Carlos Eire presents the follow up to his bestselling memoir about the Cuban Revolution Waiting for Snow in Havana. In Learning to Die in Miami, the author describes the early years of his exile in the United States as one of 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children airlifted by Operation Peter Pan.
Reading with Monique Truong, The Book of Salt
Saturday, November 6
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave.
National bestselling author of her debut book "The Book of Salt", Monique Truong reads from her much anticipated second novel, "Bitter in the Mouth." Truong is sculptor Joseph Saccio's daughter-in-law. Works by Saccio will be on display during the reading.
Great Science Writing At Yale
Friday, November 5
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Moderated by science writer and Yale lecturer Carl Zimmer and sponsored by the Yale Environmental Studies Program, four of the country’s leading science writers come together to read from their new books:
Richard Conniff: The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, And The Mad Pursuit Of Life On Earth
Jennifer Ouellette: The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
Annie Murphy Paul: Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives
Jonathan Weiner: Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality
Please see the attached “Beinecke announcement” for more information.
Master's Tea with Bukhard Bilger, The New Yorker
Thursday, November 4
4:00 p.m.
Trumbull Room of Branford College, 74 High St.
"Searching for Sweetness, Parachuting from Great Heights": A Conversation with Burkhard Bilger, staff writer for the New Yorker (and Branford College at Yale '86). Burkhard Bilger has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2001. To read more about Bilger, please visit this site. The event is hosted by Branford College and English 454 with support from the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale. See attached poster for more information.
Patti Smith, Poetry, songs, and reading from her new book, Just Kids
Thursday, November 4
7:30 p.m.
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
Master's Tea with Lorin Stein '95, editor of The Paris Review
Thursday, November 4
4:00 p.m.
Trumbull College
Stein will focus on the state of publishing, his vision for The Paris Review, a famous 57-year-old literary journal, and his experiences at Yale. He will also provide advice on how to contribute to and participate in the publishing world. Audience members will be allowed to ask questions during the tea. RSVP is encouraged but no required (Click here).
Lorin Stein recently was appointed editor of the famous 57-year-old literary journal The Paris Review. He is a young star of the literary world, having worked as an editor at the world-renowned publishing firm Farrar, Straus and Giroux. At the company, Stein worked with famous authors such as Jonathan Franzen, James Wood and Richard Price. Books he edited have received the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Patti Smith, Film screening and Q&A
Wednesday, November 3
7:30 p.m.
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
Patti Smith: Dream of Life (USA, 2008) 109 min. Introduced by Patti Smith with Q&A to follow.
Talk by Garry Trudeau
Wednesday, November 3
5:15 p.m.
Yale University Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street
In conjunction with “Doonesbury in a Time of War,” an exhibition at Beinecke Library in celebration of the comic strip’s fortieth anniversary on view through December 17. A reception will follow the talk at Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street. All events are free and open to the public, but seating for the lecture will be limited.
Master's Tea with Gary Nash, American historian and author
Wednesday, November 3
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Branford College Master's Residence
74 High St.
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau
Wednesday, November 3
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Yale Bookstore
Join author Brian Walker and Doonesbury artist and creator Garry Trudeau in celebrating 40 years of the award winning cartoon in the new Yale Press book "Doonesbury and the Art of G.B. Trudeau."
Master's Tea with Bradley Martin, Career Asia Correspondent
Tuesday, November 2
4:00 pm
Pierson college Master's Residence
231 Park St.
Talk by Nushin Arbabzadah, The Guardian
Tuesday, November 2
4:00 p.m.
WLH 117
Arbabzadah will speak on “Afghan Mediascape: Internal Debates on War, Islam, and Democracy.” Please email shahla.naimi@yale.edu if you are interested in attending a dinner following the discussion. Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council and the Yale Afghanistan Forum. See attached poster for details.
Verlyn Klinkenborg, New York Times Editorial Board
Tuesday, November 2
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect St.
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
New York Times editor for Environment and Agriculture Verlyn Klinkenborg will give a talk on "The Writing of Nature." Hosted by Yale Environment 360 and F&ES 745 environmental writing seminar, with support from the Poynter Fellowship at Yale. See attached poster for more information on the event, and visit this site for more information on the guest.
Evening of Storytelling and Halloween Fun with The Moth at Yale
Saturday, October 30
7-9 p.m.
St. Anthony Hall
483 College Street (corner of College and Wall)
Refreshments will be served.
The Moth is sweeping across campus, making holes in your clothes and buzzing around your light fixtures. Last week we brought you a workshop with the Moth executives from New York. The Moth is a national storytelling organization based in New York that hosts regular storytelling events called "Story Slams." A theme is chosen ahead of time and ten people are chosen out of a hat to tell a nonfiction story they've prepared ahead of time on the theme. Stories have a time limit of five minutes and audience judges choose a winner that will perform at a "Grand Slam." Hosted by Dan Kennedy, the theme of the first Slam will be “Disguises.”
We invite storytellers to the mike to perform their best five minute true stories on this theme. Anyone who is interested in getting feedback on their stories before the event is invited to attend a special workshop at 8:00 PM on Thursday, October 28th. For more information, please contact themothatyale@gmail.com.
Claudia Roden, critically acclaimed food writer
Thursday, October 28
5 p.m.
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
Franke Visiting Fellow Lecture: “A Good Soup Holds History and Culture: Reconstructing Worlds through Food”
Jim Laurie, professor in the journalism M.A. program at Hong Kong University
Tuesday, October 26
Laurie has just returned from a month in China consulting with China Central Television and Xinhua. He will be available to meet with interested Yale students. If interested in meeting with him, please email mark.oppenheimer@yale.edu.
Q & A with Louis Menand of The New Yorker
Tuesday, October 26
5:30 p.m.
LC 101
Designed specially for students of English 120 (but open to all Yale students), here is an opportunity to ask questions about writing process and writing strategies to Louis Menand, one of America's great writers of critical and witty nonfiction on subjects such as:
What's the point of the new cell-phone ringtone that adults can't hear?
Why complain (or not) about objectivity and the Fox News Channel?
What good is done (or not) by creative writing programs?
Menand is a Staff Writer at the New Yorker, Professor of English at Harvard, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History. All students attending this event should come prepared with at least one question based on a piece by Menand that they have read or about magazine writing in general. Read more about Menand and find many examples of his work here: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/louis_menand/search?contributorNa...
Cynthia Zarin, Master's tea and discussion
Thursday, October 14
Tea 4:15 pm, reading and discussion at 4:30pm
Jonathan Edwards Master's House
Cynthia Zarin, New Yorker writer and poet whose fourth book, The Ada poems, has just been published.
Robert Gottlieb, Master's Tea
Thursday, October 14th
4:00 pm
Berkeley College Master's House
Robert Gottlieb has served as Editor-in-Chief of The New Yorker, Simon and Schuster, and Alfred A. Knopf. He also writes for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and is a dance critic for The New York Observer. His talk is titled "On Editing and Publishing."
Dana Hand, Writing History Working Group
Tuesday, October 12
5:00 pm
Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
Dana Hand, the pen name of Will Howarth and Anne Matthews, of Princeton University, discuss history & fiction. Under their own names, they have published 18 books on American history, literature, and public issues. The event is sponsored by the Yale History Department and the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Borders & Frontiers.
Investigative Reporter Nick Reding
Thursday, October 7
8 p.m.
Master’s Residence at Branford College, 80 High St.
The investigative reporter Nick Reding will read from and discuss his book Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town as part of Yale College’s series of Francis Conversations with Writers and Editors. The event is being co-sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism and the Francis Writer in Residence program. Anne Fadiman, the current Francis Writer in Residence is the host of the event.
Michael Specter, staff writer for the The New Yorker and author of Denialism
Monday, October 4
4 p.m.
302 York St.
Morse College Master's Tea
“Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives.” New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter discusses his book Denialism an exploration of the shocking rise of anti-scientific attitudes in the United States, and the risks they pose to our collective future.For more information on the Poynter Fellowship, please visit http://opa.yale.edu/poynter.aspx.
Roger Sergel Managing Editor, ABC News
Friday, October 1
4:00 p.m.
Master’s Tea, Pierson College, 231 Park St.
For more information on the Poynter Fellowship, please visit http://opa.yale.edu/poynter.aspx.
“Memoir Writing” class by author Patricia Lapidus
Wednesday, September 29
6:00 p.m.
New Haven Free Public Library
Writing consultant and author Patricia Lapidus offers a class on "Memoir Writing" entitled: "The Stories You Lived: putting Your Life Into Words". Registration is required at www.memoir4.eventbrite.com or call 203-946-8835.
Mark Winne, author of Food Rebel, Guerilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin Mamas
Wednesday, September 29
6:00 p.m.
New Haven Free Public Library
Meet Mark Winne, author of "Food Rebel" "Guerilla Gardeners" and "Smart-Cookin Mamas: Fighting back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture" Presented by CitySeed. Info:www.markwinne.eventbrite.com or 203-946-8835.
Randy Olson, Scientist-turned-filmmaker, Randy Olson Productions
Wednesday, September 29
4:00 p.m.
"Communicating Global Warming: This is a Job for Superman!" Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies 195 Prospect St. For more information on the Poynter Fellowship, please visit http://opa.yale.edu/poynter.aspx.
Philip Gourevitch: "We Wish To Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families"
Monday, September 27
4:00 p.m.
Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale
268 Park St.
Talk by Michael Bellesiles, 1877: America's Year of Living Violently
Thursday, September 23 5:30 p.m.
Labyrinth Books
Michael Bellesiles visits Labyrinth to discuss his sweeping history, which brilliantly recaptures one of the truly pivotal years in U.S. History. Bellesiles teaches history at the Central Connecticut State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Arming America; The Origins of a National Gun Culture. For more information, please visit http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/events_calendar.aspx.
Charles Euchner, Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington
Wednesday, September 22
6:00 p.m.
New Haven Free Public Library
Charles Euchner discusses his new book: "Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington" Euchner has a BA from Vanderbilt University, an MA and Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University and presently teaches at Yale University. He is completing a new book for writers called "The Writing Code" Books will be available for sale and signing. RSVP: www.marchondc.eventbrite.com or call 203-946-8835.
Robert Boynton, "Literary Journalism in the Age of Twitter"
Wednesday, September 22
5:30 PM
St. Anthony Hall
483 College Street
Robert Boynton is the Director of Literary Reportage concentration at the Arthur
L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and author of The New New
Journalism (Vintage 2005).
Brian Ross, Chief Investigative Correspondent, ABC News
Tuesday, September 21
4 p.m.
125 High Street
Berkeley College Master’s Tea: "Scams, Scandals, and Scoundrels." Visit this site for more information on Ross.
“Extreme Journalism: A Talk By Richard Preston”
Monday, September 20
5:30 p.m.
Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
195 Prospect St.
For more information on the Poynter Fellowship, please visit http://opa.yale.edu/poynter.aspx.
"A Conversation David Hare"
Monday, September 20
3:30 PM
Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG), McNeil Lecture Hall
Enter through 201 York St.
Academy Award-nominated screenwriter David Hare, judge of the 2009 and 2010 Yale Drama Series competitions, will participate in a moderated discussion.
“Global Perspectives: Fareed Zakaria Comments on Today's Geopolitical Climate"
Monday, September 20
3:30 PM
Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), 53 Wall St.
Dedication ceremony for the opening of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs will include an interview by President Richard C. Levin of Fareed Zakaria ’86, editor, Newsweek International and host of CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" and author.
Honoring Pablo Neruda “Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair,” Opening Reception
Saturday, September 18 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
74 State St. New London CT 06320
An Invitational Exhibit To Celebrate The Life And Work Of Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda. Artists: Diane Barceló - Lori Blados - Ronald Crusan - Mark Dixon Ana Flores - Guido Garaycochea - John Kotula - Julia Pavone Linda Peduzzi - Yolanda Petrocelli September 18 through November 6, 2010.
Book Party for Alexander Nemerov's Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War
Thursday, September 16 5:30 p.m.
Labyrinth Books
What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of Macbeth in Washington DC on October 17, 1863 --with Abraham Lincoln in attendance-- to explore this quesiton and illuminate American art, politics, technology, and life as it was being lived. Nemerov is Professor of the History of Art at Yale University and the author of Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures, The Body of Raphael Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, and Frederick Remington and Turn-of-the-Century America.
Talk by Jared Malsin, “Journalism and Power in Isreal-Palestine”
Tuesday, September 14, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. WLH 116
Jared Malsin '07 will give a talk on the impacts of militarism on the practice of journalism. The talk, entitled "Journalism and Power in Israel-Palestine," will focus on Malsin's experiences as the former Chief English Editor for Ma'an News Agency in the West Bank. He was detained at and deported from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport earlier this year in a story that garnered international attention.
New Yorker Covers (1931-2010)
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Tuesdays through Fridays repeating until November 18.
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
15 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT 06511
Exhibition features New Yorker covers devoted to musical subjects by 23 New Yorker artists, including Rose Silver, Abe Birnbaum, Perry Barlow, Mary Petty, Robert Tallon, William Steig and Peter De Seve. All of the covers on display are from the collection of Susan E. Thompson, curator of the museum.
