Thursday, January 12
Shakespeare at the Whitney Film Series

Richard III with John Barrymore
(UK, 1929) short, 16mm.
Henry V (UK, 1989)
137 min. 35mm.
Director Kenneth Branagh
(Film Study Center and
Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information click here
http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Saturday, January 14

Enter the Dragon
(Hong Kong, 1973) 98 min.
Director Robert Clouse
(Yale Film Society and
Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Wednesday, January 18

"Galileo, Mathematics, and the Arts"
Mark A. Peterson,
Physics Chair, Mt. Holyoke
(Mechanical Engineering,
Franke Program in Science
and the Humanities, and
Whitney Humanities Center) 
2:30 pm, Room 208
For information about this talk
click here

Thursday, January 19
Shakespeare at the Whitney Film Series

Othello (USA, 1952) 90 min. 35mm.
Director Orson Welles
Murray Biggs will introduce the
film and lead a short
post-screening discussion
(Film Study Center and
Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information click here
http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Friday, January 20–Saturday, January 21
Comparative Literature Graduate Students Conference

The Global 1990s: Looking Back on the End of History
Keynote speaker, John MacKay
(Comparative Literature and
Whitney Humanities Center)
Friday, 4 pm, Room 208
Friday, 7 pm, Auditorium
Screening of Chungking Express
(Hong Kong, 1994) 98 min. 35mm.
Saturday, 10 am, Room 208
For more information email joshua.sperling@yale.edu

Saturday, January 21
The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915–1960

Rare samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center, Tokyo
Program One
(Council of East Asian Studies; National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Film Studies Program; and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information see
The Sword and the Screen.doc

Monday, January 23–Friday, June 29
The Gallery at the Whitney

Shakespeare at the Yale Rep
Whitney Humanities Center
53 Wall Street
MW 3-5 pm
Or by appointment at
(203) 432-0670
This exhibit is part of Shakespeare at Yale, a semester of special events celebrating the Bard.
For more information click here
Gallery at the Whitney

Wednesday, January 25
Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism

David Feldman, University of London
"The 'Jewish type' and the 'mean Englishman': Equality, Difference, and the Jews, 1750-1900"
(Yale Program for the Study of
Anti-Semitism, Yale Modern Britain Group, European Studies Council,
and Whitney Humanities Center)
6:15 pm, Luce Hall
For more information please see http://ypsa.yale.edu/

Thursday, January 26
Religion & Film Series @ Yale

Tree of Life  
(USA, 2011) 139 min. 35mm.
Director Terrence Malick
Introduced and post-screening discussion led by Sally Promey
(American Studies, Film Studies Program, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures
and Religion, Institute of Sacred Music, Religious Studies, and
Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/
Trailer: Tree of Life  

Friday, January 27
Taiwan Film Festival

Touch of Zen
(Taiwan, 1971) 185 min.
Director King Hu
7 pm
The Fourth Portrait
(Taiwan, 2010) 104 min. 35mm.
Director Chung Mong-hong
10:30 pm
(Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, Council on East Asian Studies, Film Studies Program, and
Films at the Whitney)
Auditorium

Saturday, January 28
The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915–1960

Rare samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center, Tokyo
Program Two
(Council of East Asian Studies; National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Film Studies Program; and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information see
The Sword and the Screen.doc

Sunday, January 29
Taiwan Film Festival

Beauty of Beauties
(Taiwan, 1965) 154 min.
Director Li Hanziang
1 pm
Autumn Execution
(Taiwan, 1971) 99 min.
Director Li Zing
4 pm
(Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, Council on East Asian Studies, Film Studies Program, and
Films at the Whitney)
Auditorium

Tuesday, January 31
The Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities

Music and Human Evolution
Sally McBrearty,
University of Connecticut
"The Revolution That Wasn't"
5 pm, Room 208
For more information click here

Thursday, February 2
Shakespeare at the Whitney Film Series

Hamlet at Elsinore with Christopher Plummer(UK, 1964) 170 min. 16mm.
Director Philip Saville
Deborah Margoline will introduce the film and lead a short post-screening discussion
(Film Study Center and
Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information click here

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Friday, February 3
The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915–1960

Rare samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center, Tokyo
Program Three
(Council of East Asian Studies; National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo;
Film Studies Program; and
Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information see
The Sword and the Screen.doc

Friday, February 3–Saturday, February 4
Yale Conference on Television

Keynote Speakers:
John Caldwell,
University of California Los Angeles
Anna McCarthy,
New York University
Candace Moore,
University of Michigan
(Film Studies Program and
Whitney Humanities Center)
For more information see http://ontelevision.commons.yale.edu/

Sunday, February 5
Taiwan Film Festival

Cape No. 7
(Taiwan, 2008) 129 min.
Director Wei Te-sheng
1 pm
Cannot Live Without You
(Taiwan, 2009) 85 min.
Director Leon Dai
3:30 pm
(Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, Council on East Asian Studies, Film Studies Program, and
Films at the Whitney)
Auditorium

Wednesday, February 8

Doing Virtuous Business
(USA, 2011) 60 min.
Based upon the best-selling book Spiritual Enterprise by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
Professor Malloch will lead a conversation after the screening
(Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions, Film Studies Program, and Films at the Whitney)
5 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, February 9
Spectral Scriabin Colloquium

With pianist Eteri Andjaparidze
(Theater Studies Program, Yale Repertory Theatre and
World Performance Project-
No Boundaries Series, and
Whitney Humanities Center)
4:30 pm, Auditorium
Prometheus - Poem of Fire
(USA, 2010) 30 min.
A documentary of the YSO performance of this color symphony
6:30 pm, Auditorium
For more information see http://www.yalerep.org/noboundaries
/1112/spectralscriabin.html

Friday, February 10
The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915–1960

Rare samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center, Tokyo
Program Four
(Council of East Asian Studies; National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Film Studies Program; and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information see
The Sword and the Screen.doc

Friday, February 10
Special Preview Screening

Hysteria (USA, 2011) 100 min.
Romantic comedy based on the discovery of the vibrator
Director Tanya Wexler, Yale Class of 1992
Introduced by Professor Naomi Rogers
and followed by a DRAMATalk with
the director
(Yale Dramatic Association and
Films at the Whitney)
4 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, February 11
The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915–1960

Rare samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center, Tokyo
Program Five
(Council of East Asian Studies; National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Film Studies Program; Films at the Whitney; and Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Film screenings, Auditorium
8 pm, Symposium, Auditorium
For more information see
The Sword and the Screen.doc

Tuesday, February 14
Shakespeare at the Whitney Film Series

A special Valentine's Day screening
Shakespeare in Love
(USA, 1988) 123 min. 35mm.
Director John Madden
In conjunction with a 5:15 pm tour of Remembering Shakespeare, an exhibition at the Beinecke Library
led by Kathryn James, curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts
(Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information click here

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Thursday, February 16
Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism

Jonathan Judaken, Rhodes College, and Jeffrey Alexander,
Yale University
"Theorizing the Study of
Anti-Semitism"
(Yale Program for the Study of
Anti-Semitism and
Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Room 208
For more information please see http://ypsa.yale.edu/

Thursday, February 16

Blue Valentine
(USA, 2010) 112 min. 35mm.
Director Derek Cianfrance
Followed by a discussion with Producer Jack Lechner
(Film Studies Program and
Films at the Whitney)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences
7 pm, Auditorium

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Friday, February 17–Saturday, February 18
French Graduate Student Conference

Ethics and Literature
Keynote speaker, William Calin,
University of Florida
"The Ethical Turn: The Moral Imagination? or Ideological Moralism?"
(Department of French, Dean's Fund for Student-Organized Symposia, and Whitney Humanities Center)
For more information see
http://yale.edu/french/
gradconference2012/index.html

Saturday, February 18
South Asian Film Festival

Delhi Belly
(India, 2011) 103 min. 35mm.
Director Abhinay Deo
(South Asian Film Society, South Asian Studies Council, Yale College Undergraduate Organizations
Funding Committee, Asian American Cultural Center, Yale Film Study Center, ITS Academic Technologies, and
Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information email shunori.ramanathan@yale.edu

Saturday, February 18

Bright Everything: new music by Gabriel Zucker '12
for jazz quartet and chamber ensemble (string quartet, wind quintet, percussion)
Conducted by Thomas Duffy
Violins - Jacob Joyce, Alex Vourtsanis; Viola - Jonathan MacMillan;
Cello - Georgia Lill
Oboe - Rachel Perfecto;
Clarinets - Will Benet; Emile Greer; Horn - Casey Rhyne
Bassoon - Nick Baskin;
Percussion - Zach Sima; and Chilled Water Supply
(Department of Music and
Music at the Whitney)
3:30 pm, Auditorium
For more information about Chilled Water Supply see http://chilledwatersupply.bandcamp.com/

Saturday, February 18

Natural Born Killers
(USA, 1994) 118 min.
Director Oliver Stone
(Yale Film Society and
Films at the Whitney)
10 pm, Auditorium

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Sunday, February 19
South Asian Film Festival

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
(India, 2011) 155 min. 35mm.
Director Zoya Akhtar
(South Asian Film Society, South Asian Studies Council, Yale College Undergraduate Organizations
Funding Committee, Asian American Cultural Center, Yale Film Study Center, ITS Academic Technologies, and
Films at the Whitney)
2pm, Auditorium
For more information email shunori.ramanathan@yale.edu

Tuesday, February 21
The Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities

Music and Human Evolution
Jamshed Bharucha,
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
"The Alignment and Synchronization of Brain States through Music"
5 pm, Room 208
For more information click here

Thursday, February 23
Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture

Roya Hakakian, poet, journalist
and writer
"9/17/1992: The Political Assassination, Stubborn Prosecutor,
and Historic Verdict That Shook Iran and Europe" 
(Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture Fund, Department of French; Women Faculty Forum; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Program; and
Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Room 208
For more information email agnes.bolton@yale.edu

Friday, February 24–Saturday, February 25
Film Studies Program Annual Conference

The Dialects and Dialectics of Subtitling: Graphing Language
Matters in Film
(Film Studies Program, Department of Comparative Literature, and
Whitney Humanities Center)
Friday, 5 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, 9 am, Room 208
For more information email katherine.germano@yale.edu

Monday, February 27
Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism

Meir Litvak, Tel Aviv University
"Anti-Semitism in the Muslim Middle East"
(Yale Program for the Study of
Anti-Semitism and
Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Room 208
For more information please see http://ypsa.yale.edu/

Monday, February 27
Music at the Whitney

Shakespeare in Song:
American vs. British
Featuring students from
Richard Lalli's Performance
of Vocal Music Seminar
4:30 pm, Auditorium
For more information click here

Tuesday, February 28

For the Record
A Conversation Reflecting on Thirty Years of the Whitney Humanities Center
with Peter Brooks, Founding Director
and Founding Fellows Kai Erikson, Geoffrey Hartman, and Robert Shulman
5 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, March 1
Shakespeare at the Whitney Film Series

Romeo and Juliet with Rudolph Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn
(UK, 1966) 124 min. 16mm.
Director Paul Czinner
(Film Study Center and
Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information click here

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Thursday, March 22

Great Expectations
(UK, 1946) 118 min.
Director David Lean
(Yale Center for British Art,
Film Study Center, and
Whitney Humanities Center)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, March 22
No Boundaries Lectures

Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Northwestern University
"Rehearsing Intimacy: Cuqui Jerez's
Do-overs"
In conjunction with The Rehearsal at Yale Repertory Theatre
(Yale Repertory Theatre, World Performance Project, Theater Studies, and
Whitney Humanities Center)
6 pm, Room 208
For more information see
http://wpp.research.yale.edu/
events_schedule.php?id=253&type=desc

Saturday, March 24

Ran (Japan, 1985) 162 min. 35mm.
Director Akira Kurosawa's classic retelling of King Lear
(Yale Film Society and
Films at the Whitney)
In conjunction with Shakespeare at Yale (link http://shakespeare.yale.edu/)
A semester of special events celebrating
the Bard
7 pm, Auditorium

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Tuesday, March 27
The Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities

Music and Human Evolution
Terrence William Deacon,
University of California Berkeley
"Adapted to a Symbolic Niche: How Less Became More in Human Evolution"
5 pm, Room 208

Press release

Thursday, March 29–Sunday, April 1
The 7th Annual Yale Festival of Italian Cinema

New Films with a Regional Accent
(Italian Language and Literature Department, Italian Study Center,
Film Study Center, and
Whitney Humanities Center)
Auditorium
For more information see http://italian.yale.edu/news-and-events

Tuesday, April 3
The Films of Charles Burnett

Killer of Sheep (1979, 35mm.) 6:45 pm
When It Rains (1995, 16mm.) 8:15 pm
To Sleep with Anger
(1990, 35mm.) 8:30 pm
Introduced by Elizabeth Alexander
(Department of African American Studies, The DeVane Lectures - Office of the President, Film Studies Program, Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programming, and Films at the Whitney)
6:30 pm, Auditorium

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Wednesday, April 4

Musical Chairs (USA, 2011)
Director Susan Seidelman
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director
(Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Film Study Center,
Film Studies Program, NEFIAC, and
Films at the Whitney)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, April 5
Shakespeare at the Whitney Film Series

Chimes at Midnight
(France, 1965) 113 min. 35mm.
Director Orson Welles
Dudley Andrew will introduce
the film and lead a short
post-screening discussion
(Film Study Center and
Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information click here

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Thursday, April 5

Age of Delirium (USA, 2011) 108 min.
Director David Satter (based on his book of the same title)
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director
(Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions
and Films at the Whitney)
3:30 pm, Auditorium

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Friday, April 6–Saturday, April 7
Auteurs in the 21st Century

A Yale Film Studies Graduate Conference
The Circle (Iran, 2000) 90 min. 35mm.
Director Jafar Panahi
Notre Musique
(France, 2004) 80 min. 35mm.
Director Jean-Luc Godard
(Film Studies Program, Dean's Fund, Media and Theory Colloquium, Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programming, Films at the Whitney, and
Jeremi Szaniawski)
7 pm, Auditorium
Conference continues Saturday, April 7, Room 208
For more information contact daniel.fairfax@yale.edu

Saturday, April 7

"Slamlet" featuring Kate Tempest and Yale's Teeth Slam Poets
(Shakespeare at Yale and
Whitney Humanities Center)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
For more information click here

For a video of Kate Tempest
click here

Sunday, April 8
Music at the Whitney

The Gundecha Brothers: An Evening of Dhrupad Vocal Music
Umakant Gundecha and Ramakant Gundecha, accompanied by Akhilesh, Shraddha, and Antoine Gundecha
(Yale Raga Society, South Asian Studies Council, and Music at the Whitney)
3 pm, Auditorium

Monday, April 9–Sunday, April 15
2012 Environmental Film Festival at Yale

(Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies and
Films at the Whitney)
Auditorium
For more information, complete program, and complete roster of sponsors see http://www.environment.yale.edu/film/films

Tuesday, April 10 (Cancelled)
The Inaugural Henry Louis Gates Jr. Lecture

"On Being Du Bois: Lessons in the Management of Identities"
Kwane Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
(African American Studies and
Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Auditorium
The Henry Louis Gates Jr. Lectureship is made possible through the generous support of Daniel and Joanna S. Rose.

Wednesday, April 11
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

The Two Cultures: Still Under Consideration
“The Sorcerer's Apprentice: C. P. Snow and J. Bronowski”
Lisa Jardine, Director, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London
5 pm, Auditorium
For more information click here

Wednesday, April 11

Sing Your Song
(USA, 2011) 103 min.
Director Susanne Rostock
Introduced by Maxim Thorne and followed by a discussion
with Hollywood and music legend Harry Belafonte and guests
(Philanthropy in Action, David and Goldie Blanksteen Lectures in Jewish Ethics,
and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Limited seating. First come, first seated. Doors open at 6:45 pm.

Thursday, April 12
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

The Two Cultures: Still Under Consideration
“Science and Government: C. P. Snow and the Corridors of Power”
Lisa Jardine, Director, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary,
University of London
5 pm, Auditorium
For more information click here

Friday, April 13
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

"Why Should Scientists and Humanists Talk to Each Other Anyway?"
A panel discussion featuring Lisa Jardine, Tamar Szabo Gendler, Daniel J. Kevles, Eric Dufresne, and David Marshall Miller
10:30 am, Auditorium
For more information click here

Monday, April 16

Herculean Tasks
Yale College pianists from Wei-Yi Yang's (Yale School of Music) studio conquering difficult and masterful pianistic studies
Featuring Christina Lee (CC '13), Mike Jin (ES '13), Mia Nishikawa (JE '14), Alex Shapiro (DC '14), Margret Erlendsdottir (DC '15), Frank Wu (SY '15),
Vivian Wang (JE '15)
(Music at the Whitney)
4 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, April 17

Cultures of the Classical Series
Elizabeth Sawyer, Oxford University
"Origins of the Great Books Courses"
(Department of Classics,
Humanities Program,
and Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Auditorium
For more information see link

Tuesday, April 17

Blue (USA, 1993) 79 min. 35mm.
Director Derek Jarman
In conjunction with the 2012 Reni Celeste Lecture given by Professor Akira Lippit, University of South Carolina
(Film Study Center, ITS Academic Technologies, Film Studies Program, and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information email patrick.reagan@yale.edu

Wednesday, April 18
"Cubist/Dada/Surrealist, Film as Art, 192–1928"

Wednesday, April 18
Music at the Whitney

Shakespeare Song in Translation
Featuring students from
Richard Lalli's Performance
of Vocal Music Seminar
4:30 pm, Auditorium
For more information click here

Wednesday, April 18
Film Studies Annual Award: Experimental Filmmaker Standish Lawder

Color Film (USA, 1972) 16mm.
Corridor (USA, 1970) 16mm.
Catfilm for Ursula (USA, 1969) 16mm.
Dangling Participle
(USA, 1970) 16mm.
Necrology (USA, 1970) 16mm.
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker
(Film Studies Program, Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programming,
and Films at the Whitney)
6 pm, Auditorium

Friday, April 20–Sunday, April 22

A Celebration of the Picture Book on the 40th Anniversary of the Edith B. Jackson Child Care Program
(Edith B. Jackson Children
Care Program and
Whitney Humanities Center)
Friday, 3:30 pm, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Friday, 5:15 pm,
Whitney Humanities Center
Saturday, 8 am,
Whitney Humanities Center
Sunday, 2 pm,
Wexler-Grant School
For more information or to register visit the EBJ web site: http://www.ebjchildcare.org/
fundraising.html

Saturday, April 21

Give Me a Shot of Anything:
House Calls to the Homeless
(USA, 2011) 81 min.
Director Jeff Schwartz
Followed by a panel discussion with the director, Yale faculty,
and medical professionals working with homeless populations
(Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project and Whitney Humanities Center)
7 pm, Auditorium
For more information email k.li@yale.edu

Trailer

Monday, April 23

Another Earth (USA, 2011) 92 min.
Director Mike Cahill
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director
(New Haven Economic Development Corporation and Films at the Whitney)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
7 pm, Auditorium

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

Wednesday, April 25
Music at the Whitney

Chamber Music of J. S. Bach
Performed by students of
Robert Mealy's Bach seminar
(Department of Music and
Whitney Humanities Center)
4:30 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, April 26

Living for 32 (USA, 2010) 40 min,
Director Kevin Breslin
Films screening and panel discussion with the Social Justice Network at Yale
and New Haven Alderman Doug Hausladen
(Social Justice Network at Yale and Whitney Humanities Center)
7 pm, Auditorium

Trailer

Friday, April 27

Oliver Twist
(UK, 1948) 116 min. 35mm.
Director David Lean
(Yale Center for British Art,
Film Study Center, and
Whitney Humanities Center)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, April 28

 
Goodfellas (USA, 1990) 146 min.
Director Martin Scorsese
(Yale Film Society and
Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

http://www.yale.edu/whcfilms/

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