Class of '37 Directed Studies Colloquia 2008-2009
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
4:00 p.m.
Fall Semester
on Homer: Iliad 23: Heroes in Mourning, Heroes at Play
Jenny Strauss Clay
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Classics
University of Virginia
Wednesday, September 24
on empire
Amy Chua
John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Wednesday, October 22
on gnosticism
Harold Attridge
Dean and Lillian Klaus Professor of New Testament
Monday, November 3
Linsley-Chittenden Hall Room 102
Spring Semester
on ethics
Shelly Kagan
Clark Professor of Philosophy
Tuesday, March 24
on international politics
Francis Fukuyama
Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Johns Hopkins University
Steven B. Smith
Alfred Cowles Professor of Government
Monday, April 6
on religion and law
Christine Hayes
Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Religious Studies
Monday, April 13
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Directed Studies Art Gallery Talks
Yale Art Gallery
4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Fall Semester
on classical art
Susan Matheson
Molly and Walter Bareiss Curator of Ancient Art
Tuesday, October 7
on renaissance art
Suzanne Boorsch
Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Monday, October 27
The Influence of the Classical World on American Decorative Arts and Design
John Stuart Gordon
Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Assistant Curator of American Decorative Arts
Tuesday, November 11
Spring Semester
on medieval art
Laurence Kanter
Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of Early European Art
TBA
on modern art
Jennifer Gross
Seymour H. Knox Jr. Curator
TBA
Yale Center for British Art
4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
on Turner and Constable
Scott Wilcox
Curator for Prints and Drawings
Tuesday, March 3