Events
January Events
February Events
April Events
Tue Jan 16 2007 Noon - 1:30 PM
“African Women Writers and Their Perspective on Present-Day Africa.”
Bring a bag lunch; dessert and coffee will be served.
Master's house, BK (Berkeley College)
125 High St., Speaker: Prof. Ann Bierstaker. For more info: (203) 488-7279.
Fri Jan 19 2007 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
“Moving Into the Mainstream: Will Journalists' Coverage of Early Childhood Education Lead, Follow or Stand in the Way?”
Rm. 116, WLH (William L. Harkness Hall), 100 Wall St.
Richard Colvin, director, The Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, Teachers College, Columbia Univ. For more info: (203) 432-9935, sandra.bishop@yale.edu
Wed., Jan. 31. New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh will present the Richard W. Goldman Lecture at 4pm in LC 101. The talk will be titled "From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib and Beyond." There will be a reception to follow.
Thursday, February 1st at 4:00 pm
A poetry reading by Terrance Hayes & Major Jackson
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
The Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Contact nancy.kuhl@yale.edu.
Thursday, February 1, 4pm,
Ezra Stiles College Master's Tea with Meghan O'Rourke, culture editor of Slate.com and former editor at The New Yorker. O'Rourke is also a poet whose first collection will be published by W.W. Norton this spring.
Thursday, February 1, at 4pm
Michael Phillips of the Wall Street Journal will be giving a master's tea at Saybrook College.
Friday, February 2, at 7:30pm at the University Theater, 222 York St.
Art Spiegelman, author of Maus, will be speaking as a guest of the Yale Writing Center.
Sat., Feb 3, 2pm
Ronald L. Mallett, Physicist Ronald L. Mallett (UConn) theorizes that “space and time can be manipulated” in his book Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality.
Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway
February 3rd at 3:00pm
New Haven Free Public Library kicks off their Writers Live series this spring with a reading by Tinling Choong from her book Firewife. Robert Stone says: ''Tinling Choong’s extraordinary work, Firewife, combines psychological depth with mythologically inclined reference points, giving it a remarkable freshness and singularity. Firewife represents the debut of an important artist.'' And Harold Bloom says: “Firewife, Tinling Choong’s first book,is both an absorbing short novel and a brilliant erotic phantasmagoria, as poignantly poetic as it is compelling narrative. This is a strong augmentation of American-Asian literature."
NHFPL 133 Elm Street
New Haven, CT06511
contact: john.jessen@nhfpl.org
203-946-7001
Monday, February 5, 4pm.
Morse College Master's Tea with Joe Kane, a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and Esquire, and who who joined an expedition in 1986 to travel the Amazon from its source in the Andes, all the way to its mouth on the Atlantic coast of Brazil. Kane is the author of Running the Amazon and Savages.
Monday, Feb. 5, 7:00 PM
Kati Marton, The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. This inspiring book delivers an intimate account of this group of extraordinary thinkers, including scientists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner, who, along with game theorist and computer pioneer, John von Neuman, spurred Albert Einstein to persuade Franklin Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb. Robert Capa and Andre Kertesz became legendary photojournalists. Alexander Korda was the savior of the British film industry, and Michael Curtiz directed Casablanca. Arthur Koestler penned the monumental anti-Communist novel Darkness at Noon.
RJ Julia Booksellers, Madison, CT
Tues, Feb 6, 6pm
Martin W. Sandler. Pulitzer-Prize nominee Martin W. Sandler discusses his most recent book, Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen’s Ghost Ship.
Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway
Wed, Feb. 7, 7pm
Veteran New York Times staff writer James Barron offers his tribute to the iconic and celebrated Steinway concert grand piano. “Piano is not just for music aficionados; it will also resonate with craftsman, history buffs, and those who are looking for a great book to read—in fact, it was a favorite here at the store for the holiday gift-giving season. Follow the nearly year-long creation process of just one Steinway and learn of the history and lives of people who have been building them for more than a century.”
RJ Julia Booksellers, Madison, CT
Thursday, February 8, at 4pm
Elizabeth Kolbert '83, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe (2006) and a staff writer at The New Yorker, will be giving a master's tea at Saybrook College.
Sunday, Feb. 11, 12:00 PM
David Kamp -- Author Luncheon at Le Petit Cafe
From RJ Julia Booksellers in Branford: “Our author luncheon last fall at Le Petit Cafe--the French bistro and premier fine restaurant on the shoreline--was such a universal success that we couldn't wait to do it again. And we've found the perfect author and book to complement Chef Roy Ip's fabulous food. With The United States Of Arugula, David Kamp, a writer and editor for GQ and Vanity Fair, has produced a hilarious and fascinating account of America's transformation from a nation of eaters of overcooked vegetables and scary gelatin salads to epicurean consumers of free-range chicken, baby greens and Iron Chef. He chronicles the impact of every food innovator, from James Beard to Alice Waters, and he doesn't leave out a morsel of back-kitchen chatter! Join Roxanne and David Kamp for a gourmet lunch prepared especially for this event by Roy Ip. Call Le Petit Cafe for reservations at (203) 483-9791. Seating is very limited. $68.00 per person (includes a three course lunch, wine, coffee, and signed copy of author's book) Location: Le Petit Cafe, 225 Montowese, Branford, CT”
Monday, February 12 at 4pm
Charles Forelle, Pierson College Master's Tea. Mr. Forelle is a writer for The Wall Street Journal, and he will talk about statistics for journalists--how good reporters can use statistics to get at the truth.
Monday, February 12 at 4pm
Vanessa Gezari '97, foreign and national correspondent at the St. Petersburg Times, will be giving a master's tea at Saybrook College.
Monday, February 12
Campus visit from Vanessa Gezari, SY’97, national correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times and former international freelancer from India and Afghanistan. Ms. Gezari will be having lunch with students (for information on the lunch, contact Mark Oppenheimer at mark.oppenheimer@yale.edu) and will be the guest of a SY master’s tea at 4pm.
Thursday, February 15th at 4:45pm
Chip Giller, President and founder of the online environmental
magazine Grist.org will be speaking in Sage Lounge, 205 Prospect St. Chip has won numerous awards and honors for his work with Grist.org, which uses humor to make environmental journalism palatable and to increase environmental awareness.
Monday, February 19th, 2007 at 5:30PM
Panel Discussion: J. Alexander, P. Brooks, C. Lemert, S. Smith — The Civil Sphere
“A debate among colleagues: Please join us as Peter Brooks, Charles Lemert, and Steven Smith join Jeffrey Alexander in a discussion of his recent book, The Civil Sphere. From classical to contemporary times, philosophers and social scientists have tried to describe what binds societies together and how these social orders can be structured in a fair way. Power and self-interest are crucial, but they aren't enough. Ethical and emotional convictions are necessary as well. How then do real individuals live together in societies in the real world? Jeffrey Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere , addresses this central paradox of modern life.”
Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street
Monday, February 19, at 4pm
Juliet Eilperin, author of Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives (2006) and a reporter at The Washington Post will be giving a master's tea at Saybrook College.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at 5:30PM —
Susan Eaton — The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial
“Someone said to me this morning, 'Yeah, but your children are doing well compared to a third world country.' But we don't live in a third world country. We live in the richest state in the nation.” –Ms. Negron, Elementary School Principal
Please join us for a reading, discussion, and reception with Susan Eaton, author of The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial. Through thorough, candid, and passionate reporting, author Susan Eaton does for inner-city schools what Barbara Ehrenreich did for low-income workers in her bestseller Nickel and Dimed. Eaton relates how she spent four years in a public school in Harford, CT, one of the most dangerous, burned-out cities in the country and became part of the local community. The story she tells is one that could be written about virtually every major city in the United States: Schools are poorer and growing more segregated every year. And it's far worse today than it was forty years ago.
Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street.
Monday, February 26, at 4 pm,
Silliman College Master's Tea: A Conversation with Michaela Davis, beauty editor of Essence magazine. 1st Floor Common Room, 100 Tower Parkway.
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 at 4:30PM
Saidiya Hartman and Hazel Carby — Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Labyrinth Books and Yale's Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization invite you to join us for a discussion with Saidiya Hartman and Hazel Carby, celebrating Professor Hartman's new book, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy.
Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street
Monday, April 2, 2:40-5:20pm,
Room B60 in SOM, Jay Rosen from NYU--journalism prof, blogger of PressThink, leading author and advocate of the new web journalism--comes speaks to a class. The public is welcome.
Thursday, April 5th at 4:00 pm, location TBA
The Department of English presents:
The Graduate student-selected Lecture
Elaine Scarry, Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University
This lecture is open to the public.
Tuesday, April 10th at 4:00 pm, Sterling Law Building, 127 Wall St., Faculty Lounge, a public lecture will be delivered by Ismael Beah, whose book on being a child soldier in Africa has been a huge best-seller, even landing him on The Daily Show.
Tuesday, April 10th at 5:00 pm, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., Room 208. Novelist and National Book Award finalist Hugh Nissenson will deliver the fifth and final lecture on "The Drama of Science," the inaugural series of Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities. Nissenson's talk, titled "The Darkness Within: H.G. Wells and 'The Island of Dr. Moreau,'" will take place at 5 p.m. in Rm. 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Wednesday, April 11th at 4:00 pm, Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
The Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
A poetry reading by Ron Padgett. Contact nancy.kuhl@yale.edu.
Wednesday, April 11, at 4pm, there will be a poety reading by Ron Padgett at BRBL (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library), 121 Wall St.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007. PBS host Charlie Rose will be delivering the Fryer Memorial Lecture at 5:30 pm in the auditorium of Yale Law School. The talk will be called "The Interview at the Heart of Changing Journalism." Before that, he will give a master's tea at Jonathan Edwards College at 4pm.
Monday, April 23, Calhoun College. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert will be on campus for a master’s tea.
Monday, April 23, Jonathan Edwards College Master's House, 4pm. All Things Considered producer Kate Davidson, Yale '98, columnist Bob Herbert will be on campus for a master’s tea.
Sun Apr 29 2007 TBA
“After Sundance: The Independent Cinema Now”
Filmmaker Jim Stark will be joined by a director, a distributor and a critic in a discussion about the past, present and future of the independent cinema. Two films produced by Stark will be screened prior to the discussion.
WHC (Whitney Humanities Center), 53 Wall St., www.yale.edu/cinema