The Whitney Seminars

Coordinator
Jeffrey Alexander (Sociology) (104 Urban Hall, 432.3320)

The Whitney Seminars, a series of graduate courses inaugurated in 2002–2003, are sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center in association with various departments in the social sciences and humanities. Designed to speak across disciplinary lines and to broad public and intellectual issues, the format of the program includes both the weekly seminar and a series of coordinated public lectures on cultural performance as a new organizing concept in the social sciences and humanities. The lectures, open to the Yale and local community, follow the seminar meetings.

Seminar

WHIT 971bu, Cultural Performances. The Whitney Seminar on New Perspectives in the Social Sciences and Humanities.  Jeffrey Alexander.
W 3.30–5.20, Lect. W 7
“Performance” has become a major new topic in both the humanities and the social sciences, and provides a new bridge for interrelating the disciplines that compose them. Performance allows textual emphasis to be related to contingency and context, symbolic action to be related to power and control, and dramatic production to be related to audience response. In this seminar, we examine the critical texts of this movement and host, in person, some of its most prominent students and practitioners. Also SOCY 567bu.

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