Yung Wing Lecture Series
The lecture series is named for Yung Wing, Yale College's first Chinese graduate and the first Chinese scholar to receive a degree from an American university. He was born in Nan Ping, Guangdong province, China in 1828 and graduated Yale College in 1854. Yung Wing also received an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree at Yale's centennial commencement ceremony in 1876.
Yung Wing is best known for founding the Hartford-based Chinese Educational Mission, which brought 120 young Chinese students to schools and colleges in Massachusetts and Connecticut, including Yale, in the 1870s. He married Mary Kellogg, of Avon, Connecticut. Both Yung Wing and Mary now lie buried in the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford. Their two sons, Morrison and Bartlett, both went to Yale, and his grandson, Frank, who lives in Hong Kong, returned for the unveiling of his grandfather's portrait when it was presented to Yale University in May 2000. Yung Wing will be remembered for his efforts to promote mutual understanding and connection between cultures and to ensure that many share the advantages of education.
In its inaugural year, the Yung Wing Lecture Series was comprised of a total of six lectures by prominent Yale faculty, three in the Fall 2006 semester and three in the Spring 2007 semester. All lectures are free and open to the public.
Spring 2009 Lecture Schedule
- March 10, 2009: David Joselit, Professor of the History of Art
Topic: Re-enactment: Contemporary Economies of Art - April 2009: Julie Dorsey, Professor of Computer Science
Topic: Design Tools Research at the Yale Computer Graphics Group
Previous Semesters
Fall 2008 Lecture Schedule
- October 25, 2008: Dudley Andrew, R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature
- December 9, 2008: James Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science; Professor of Anthropology
Topic: Zomia: Site of the Last Great Enclosure Movement of (relatively) Sate-less Peoples
in Mountainous Southeast Asia
Spring 2008 Lecture Schedule
- March 18, 2008: María Rosa Menocal, Sterling Professor of the Humanities
Topic: Intimacies and Betrayals: A Glance at the Cultural Entanglements of Medieval Spain
Time and Location: 6:30pm, Room No.2, Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center - April 18, 2008: Sarah Weiss, Assistant Professor, Department of Music
Topic: Sounding Authentic: Listening to Globalization
Time and Location: 6:00pm, East Hall of Lin Hu Xuan
Fall 2007 Lecture Schedule
- September 17, 2007: Jane Edwards, Associate Dean for International Affairs, Yale College
- October 15, 2007: Edmund Yeh, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- December 10, 2007: Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science
Topic: Containment: Rebuilding Strategy Against Global Terror
Spring 2007 Lecture Schedule
- March 13 and 14, 2007:
Meg Urry,
Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Topics: Hidden Black Holes in the Distant Universe, The Accelerating Universe;
How the Attempt to Solve Cosmology Led to the Greatest (and Completely Unexpected)
Discovery of the Century - April 13, 2007:
Sidney Altman,
Sterling Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Professor of Chemistry
Topic: Life and the Properties of a Unique RNA Molecule - May 31 and June 1, 2007: Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History
Topics: On the Trail of Matteo Ricci; 1644 and 1949: Studies in Dynastic Collapse
Fall 2006 Lecture Schedule
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September 20, 2006:
Peter Salovey,
Dean of Yale College,
Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology
Topics: Undergraduate Education at Yale University; What is Emotional Intelligence - October 31, 2006:
Jonathan Spence,
Sterling Professor of History
Topic: A Humanist View of History - November 16, 2006:
Charles Bailyn,
Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Astronomy and Physics
Topic: Observing Black Holes: Probing the Limits of General Relativity
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