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Ongoing
History of Student Research |
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[Exhibits]
Through - October 2001
School of Medicine: History of the Student Thesis at Yale. Sterling Hall of Medicine. Free and open to the public.
Sterling Hall of Medicine, Medical Library, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT
Mon - Fri 8:30 a.m. - 12 noon, Sat 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., Sun 10 a.m. - noon
United Nations Oral History Collection at Yale |
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[Exhibits]
Through -- 2 November 2001
Yale Manuscript & Archives Library: Call 432-1735 for more information.
Sterling Memorial Library High Street
William C. DeVane Lectures - Ideals Without Ideologies: Yale's Contribution to Modern Architecture Robert A.M. Stern, Dean School of Architecture |
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[Lectures]
Through - 10 December 2001
DeVane Lectures/School of Architecture: This series of lectures, given by Robert A.M. Stern, Dean of the School of Architecture and six guest speakers, will examine post World War II architecture through the lens of the Yale School of Architecture, where key issues of architectural modernity, especially the conflicting relationship between European and American modalities of thought and practice, were vividly portrayed and debated in the classroom, studio and in the work of leading faculty and graduates. For more information, please call 203-432-2889 or email jennifer.castellon@yale.edu.
Yale Art Gallery Auditorium, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 7:30 p.m. Enter from High Street.
September 10 - Education for Architectural Practice: The Transfer of Modernism from Europe to America 1930-1948
September 17 - Modernism Historicized: Louis Kahn, Philip Johnson, and the Rediscovery of the Past, 1949-1956
September 24 - The History of the Future: Connections and Transformations - James Polshek M.Arch `55
October 1 - Architecture as Heroic Act: Eero Saarinen, Vincent Scully, Paul Rudolph, 1957-1965
October 8 - Exploring the City - Lord Norman Foster, M.Arch `62
October 22 - The Struggle Over the City idea - Alexander Tzonis, M.Arch `63
October 29 - Architecture & Revolution: From Project Argus to Panther Weekend, 1966-70
November 5 - Architecture as Culture & Counterculture - David Sellers, M.Arch `65
November 12 - Destruction & Reconstruction: The Post-Modernist Devolution, 1971-77
November 26 - The Recuperation of the Traditional Town - Andres Duany, M.Arch '74 & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, M.Arch `74
December 3 - The Continuity of the Art Idea, Maya Lin, M.Ach `86
December 10 - The Promise of the Recent Past, 1978 - 98
Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York |
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[Exhibits]
Through -- 1 December 2001
Yale University Art Gallery: This exhibition will use Myers's exceptional silver and gold objects to examine larger issues in 18th-century American history. Myer Myers (1723-1795), one of the most accompl8ished craftsmen working in pre-industrial America, made superb-and in some cases unique-examples of American silver. Myers was the most productive silversmith working in New York during the late Colonial period and his ritual and secular silver is the largest body of extant work by a Jewish silversmith from anywhere in Europe or America prior to the nineteenth century. His work ranges from a gold snuffbox, a pierced-work basket, coasters, and a dish ring made for a prominent Loyalist, to five pairs of Torah finials for the three largest Jewish congregations in Colonial America.
Yale Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 432-0600
Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney |
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[Exhibits]
Through -- 30 December 2001
Yale Center for British Art: This exhibition is the most comprehensive exhibition of masterpieces of British painting ever assembled in this country. It features over eighty paintings from both public and private collections, offering a fresh and beautiful account of the history of British painting from the sixteenth century to the 1990s. Lenders to the exhibition range from nationally famous museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, to smaller collections that might own a single great British painting. Americans have been the most avid collectors of British painting outside Britain.
Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street
`Wilde Americk': Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 |
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[Exhibits]
Through -- 30 December 2001
Yale Center for British Art: This exhibition features some of the great landmarks in the mapping and exploration of the New World, from the great Age of Discovery to the mid-nineteenth century. Along with printed maps, atlases, and illustrated travel accounts, some extraordinary manuscript material will be on view, including a spectacular hand-drawn terrestrial globe probably created around 1522 by the astronomer and mathematician Johannes Schoner - the third oldest world sphere to survive. Also on display will be John Barnwell's manuscript map of the southeastern part of North America, drawn in 1721, an important political document forming the basis of subsequent mapping of the area until the American Revolution. The exhibition will feature one of the Center's great treasures, the earliest surviving manuscript map showing the route of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of 1577-1580, produced for Queen Elizabeth I around 1587.
Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street
Peru: From Village to Empire |
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[Exhibits]
Through -- 3 January 2002
Peabody Museum of Natural History: The origin of empire in Peru, one of the few areas in the world where complex societies formed independently of outside influences, forms the subject of this new exhibition. The exhibition coincides with the events celebrating the University's Tercentennial. Drawing upon recent archaeological research, the exhibition traces the rise of complex society in Peru with particular attention placed on northern Peru.
Member's opening and reception Friday September 21 from 5:00 -7:00 p.m.
Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Avenue
Yale Physicians Building Art Place |
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[Exhibits]
Through -- March 2002
This exhibit features works by Yale University faculty and staff and local artists, including paintings, photographs, sculptures, pottery, quilts and weaving.
A reception and wine tasting sponsored by Mid-State Imports & Distributors on opening day from 5 - 7 p.m. For more information, call 203-785-5144 or visit www.info.med.yale.edu/yfp/artplace/Mainartplace.
Yale Physicians Building, 800 Howard Avenue, New Haven M-F 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Admission is free.
October '01
For the Love of God: 300 Years of Theological Education
[Convocation/Reunion]
1 October -- 4 October 2001
Divinity School: Every year during the fall semester reading week, Yale Divinity School and Berkley Divinity School at Yale, hold the Annual Convocation which combines and features endowed lectureships. In honor of Yale's Tercentennial, Convocation will be held one week earlier, present and former faculty at the School and University are the Convocation lecturers. For more information, call 203-432-5303.
For Liberal Learning: Yale Voices from 1828 |
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[Lectures]
3 October 2001
Trumbull Lecture: Yale's Reports on the Course of Instruction (1828) remains a classic treatise on the purposes of liberal education. It shaped the notion of a college education in our young nation for many decades. David B. Potts, a historian of American higher education, explores the origins and influence of this publication, including the continuing relevance of its ideas for liberal arts education in the 21st century.
Connecticut Hall, Faculty Room 4:00 PM
50 Years of Yale Art |
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[Exhibits]
4 October -- 6 October 2001
School of Art: Dean Richard Benson will host an exhibition of alumni works highlighting 50 years of Yale art. This exhibition will be mounted in the School's new home on Chapel Street.
Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Hall, 1156 Chapel Street
A Library for its Time: Collections Then and Now |
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[Exhibits]
4 October -- 21 December 2001
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Books known to have belonged to Yale in 1701 will be contrasted with the range of formats and subjects the Beinecke Library collects in 2001. Exhibition and accompanying publication prepared by Beinecke Library curatorial staff.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Training Leaders for Yale's Fourth Century |
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[Tercentennial Weekend]
4 October 2001
AYA: This AYA Assembly is part of the Tercentennial gala weekend events.
Democratic Vistas, Global Perspectives |
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[Symposium]
5 - 6 October 2001
A Tercentennial Symposium Click here for a schedule. "Democratic Vistas" was designed as the Tercentennial DeVane Lecture series for Spring 2001. The lectures borrowed their title from a classic essay by Walt Whitman, in which he suggested that the dignity and potential of the individual is well worth the sense of chaos at times associated with democracy. Six of the original fifteen lectures in this series will be presented again today for the Tercentennial weekend.*
The second part of this symposium, "Global Perspectives," draws on the September anniversary program organized by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. Ernesto Zedillo, '81 Ph.D., former President of Mexico, will initiate the discussions with a keynote lecture on "Envisioning the World in the Next Century: Challenges to a Global University." Participants have the opportunity to join some of our most prominent internationalist faculty in discussing the key challenges we face entering the next century.
The symposium concludes with "Yale, America and the World", sponsored by International Security Studies. Professor Gaddis Smith presents "Yale, America and the World in 2001," based on the history of Yale and the external world in the 20th Century, a book he is writing to mark the Tercentennial. Professor Robin Winks addresses "Yale, America and the World in 2101" with a humorous and thought-provoking prognosis for the future.
Remarks on global issues given by William Jefferson Clinton, former President of the United States, and a 1973 graduate of the Yale Law School. Admission is free, but tickets are required.
Friday, October 5 - Democratic Vistas: 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. - Woolsey Hall
Saturday, October 6 - Global Perspectives: 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
*Speakers to be confirmed.
These events are open to all Yale students, faculty, and staff. Admission is free, but tickets are required for Saturday, October 6th lecture by William Jefferson Clinton in Woolsey Hall from 3 - 4:00 p.m.
Tercentennial Convocation |
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[Convocation]
5 October 2001
Yale University: A formal ceremony, on Cross Campus, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the founding of Yale. A procession of Yale faculty, staff, students, and visiting university presidents opens the academic convocation. Seating will be limited to current Yale faculty, staff and students plus a limited number of invited guests.
Cross Campus, 1:00 p.m.
In case of inclement weather, the ceremony will be broadcast at locations around campus.
Tercentennial Show |
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[Tercentennial Weekend]
5 October 2001 (rain date October 6)
Yale University: Yale 300 Festival - 4:30 PM - Exhibits, performances and activities for all ages. Tercentennial Show - 7:00 PM. Admission is free, but each individual admitted must have a ticket. Individual and family tickets for University students, faculty and staff are being distributed on campus through various means.
Yale Bowl, New Haven, CT 4:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Yale-China Centennial Celebration in New Haven |
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[Anniversary Celebrations]
5 - 7 October 2001
Yale-China Association will host a 3-day event including alumni events, a children's fair, a Chinese musical performance and a benefit banquet.
Please call 203-432-0880 or email: yale-china@yale.edu for more information.
Edible Insects 2 |
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[Exhibits]
6 October 2001
Peabody Museum of Natural History: It's back! Explore the role of insects in our lives at this day-long family event that focuses on the cultural and social aspects of the consumption of insects around the world. Enjoy crafts, storytelling, lectures, and other activities held throughout the museum-including a cooking demonstration.
Tours of the Peabody's entomology collections are available to Museum members. Preregistration is required, as space is limited. Call for information (203) 432-3776 or visit our web site at http://www.peabody.yale.edu.
Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
A Yale Album, The Third Century |
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[Exhibits]
Through 21 October 2001
A Tercentennial Photo Exhibition: The Masters of Jonathan Edwards College invite you to a showing of "A Yale Album, The Third Century. " This exhibition is divided into three sections. The first is a selection from Richard Benson's A Yale Album: The Third Century. These prints show the Yale community in many lights and act as a survey of Yale's past century.
The second section represents newly unearthed documents and photographs important to Jonathan Edwards College.
The third section was planned as an expansion of Benson's book. These newly chosen images have been divided into People, Places and Things.
October 4 - Master's Tea, 4pm - "Issues: The Presentation and Representation of Yale in Photographs and Photobooks" Richard Benson, Dean, Yale School of Art and John Gambell, University Printer. Reception to follow 5 - 7 p.m.
October 6 open for viewing during the Tercentennial Weekend 1 - 3 p.m.
Jonathan Edwards College Master's House, 70 High Street, New Haven Regular Exhibition hours: most Thursdays from 4 - 6 p.m. or by appointment 203-432-0356
Tercentennial Worship Service/ The Tercentennial Preaching Series |
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[Faith]
7 October 2001
Chaplain's Office: There is a Tercentennial worship service Sunday morning at 11:00 a.m. in Battell Chapel. David Bartlett, Dean of Academic Affairs and Lantz Professor of Christian Communications, Yale Divinity School, Beecher Lecturer, 2001, Yale University gives today's sermon. The Yale Alumni Chorus takes part in the service.
Battell Chapel, Corner of Elm & College Streets, New Haven, CT 11:00 a.m.
Yale vs. Dartmouth
[Sports]
7 October 2001
Yale Football/Athletics: Yale vs. Dartmouth football game. Seating for the Dartmouth game in the General Admission area is Free. For more information, call the ticket office at 432-1400 or visit www.yale.edu/athletic.
Yale Bowl, New Haven, CT 1:00 p.m.
History of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library |
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[Exhibit]
7 October- 1 November 2001
School of Medicine: Visit this historical photo exhibit located in the Medical Library Rotunda.
School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, 1st floor
The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rev. Dr. Gardiner C. Taylor |
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14 October 2001
[Faith]
Chaplain's Office: Pastor Emeritus, Concord Baptist Church of Christ, Brooklyn, New York: 2000 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient gives today's sermon.
Battell Chapel, corner of College & Elm Streets, 11 am
From Brain Dynamics to Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination - Tetelman Lectures |
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[Lectures]
17 October -- 19 October 2001
Tetelman Lectures/Jonathan Edwards College: Prevalent views of higher brain functions are based on the notions of computation and information processing. These views suggest that the brain is a Turing machine. Various lines of evidence appear to be incompatible with this position and suggest instead that the brain operates according to a set of selectional principles. A theory addressing these principles, called Neural Darwinism, will be discussed in the Tetelman Lecture.
Dr. Edelman is the Director of Neurosciences Institute and President of Neurosciences Research Foundation, a publicly supported not-for-profit organization that is the Institute's parent. Separately, he is Professor at The Scripps Research Institute and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology at that Institution.
Becton Engineering Center Davies Auditorium, 15 Prospect Street 5:15 p.m.
18 October 2001
A Conversation with Gerald M. Edelman
Hope 216, 3 p.m.
19 October 2001
Synthetic Promoters & Ribosomal Filters: Uncovering New Means for Regulating Gene Expression
Hope, Hope, Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street 4 p.m.
The Tercentennial Preachers Series: The Rev. Dr. John Vannorsdall |
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21 October 2001
[Faith]
Chaplain's Office: Former Chaplain, Yale University gives today's sermon.
Battell Chapel, corner of College & Elm Streets, 11 am
The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rev. Dr. Peter J. Gomes |
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28 October 2001
[Faith]
Chaplain's Office: Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Puey Minister in the Memorial Church, Harvard University, Massachusetts gives today's sermon.
Battell Chapel, 11:00 am
November '01
Auction
[Student/Fundraisers]
1 November 2001
School of Medicine: Student-run auction to raise funds for the homeless. Free and open to the public.
Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar Street 12 noon
The Tercentennial Preaching Series: Rabbi Laura Geller |
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4 November 2001
[Faith]
Chaplain's Office: Rabbi Laura Geller, Senior Rabbi, Temple Emanuel, Beverly Hills, California.
Batell Chapel, corner of College & Elm Streets, 11 a.m.
Dwight Terry Lecture |
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[Lectures]
5 November 2001
Dwight Terry Lectureship: Professor Francisco Ayala, the Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California Irvine, will give the Terry Lecture. It will be in the area of evolutionary biology.
Dwight Terry Lecture |
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[Lectures]
12 November 2001
Dwight Terry Lectureship: Professor Francisco Ayala, the Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California Irvine, will give the Terry Lecture. It will be in the area of evolutionary biology.
Hume Lecture |
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[Lectures]
14 November 2001
Hume Lectureship: Professor Goran Malmqvist, member of the Swedish Academy and member of the Nobel Prize Committee, delivers a speech on Chinese literature entitled "Reflections of a retired European Sinologist." This lecture is free and open to the public.
Luce Hall Auditorium, Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 4:00 p.m.
Athletics Celebration Dinner
[Sports]
16 November 2001
Athletics: Athletics will bring together alumni and alumnae who competed in intercollegiate, club, and recreational sports at Yale to pay tribute and celebrate Yale's Tercentennial and the first 150 years of intercollegiate sports in America.
Some Magnetic Moments - Tetelman Lectures |
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[Lectures]
28 November -- 30 November 2001
Sciences & Engineering: The Tetelman Lectures, which bring distinguished scientists and engineers to campus, will feature Professor Alex Pines and Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry, University of Berkeley. Professor Gary Haller, Becton Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Master of Jonathan Edwards College, is organizing this series.
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Forestry & Environmental Studies Centennial |
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[Anniversary Celebrations]
5 October -- 8 October 2000
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: All F& ES School graduates, current students, former and current faculty and staff, as well as descendants of Gifford Pinchot, Aldo Leopold, and Teddy Roosevelt are being invited to attend this gala centennial weekend.
In the afternoon, Klaus Toepfer, UNEP Administrator and 2000 Timothy B. Atkeson Visiting Environmental Practitioner in Residence at Yale Law School will speak.
On October 6th, several outdoor field trips will kick off the alumni/ae reunion to celebrate the School's Centennial year!
The morning of October 7th opens with a plenary session featuring Professor Robin Winks speaking on F&ES history, followed by a panel of distinguished alumni/ae and friends reflecting on the future of environmental professions. In the afternoon, there will be a slate of concurrent panels on the U.S. Forest Service (featuring the current and former Chiefs of the Service); the Non-Governmental Sector in Conservation; and Trade, Environment, and Development. That evening, Dr. Stephan Schmidheiny, founder of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, will deliver the keynote address, "Forests and Globalization: A Business Perspective." This will be followed by a formal reception, banquet, and dance in Commons.
The morning of October 8th will begin with a hike up Aldo Leopold's Juniper Hill in East Rock Park, followed by a flapjack breakfast under the tent on Marsh Lawn. A ceremonial tree planting and readings from Aldo Leopold's works will take the gathering to its close at noon.
Trip to China |
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[Trips]
10 October -- 23 October 2000
Yale-China Association: Led by Yale-China's Director of Health Programs, Bill Watkins. The trip will include site visits to the medical institutions established by Yale-China 100 years ago, as well as visits to other top medical institutions and typical public health facilities in inland China. The trip will include talks by international and Chinese scholars and will allow participants to meet with experts in smaller groups based on area of professional expertise. Participants will include faculty and alumni of the Yale School of Medicine, the Yale School of Nursing, and Yale-China members and alumni.
Gordon Grand Lecture |
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[Lectures]
12 October 2000
Gordon Grand Fellowship: Kenneth Wolfe '61, CEO of the Hershey Company, will speak at the Saybrook College Master's Tea. The Gordon Grand Fellowship is devoted to bringing outstanding leaders in the world of business, industry, and finance to campus. This tea is free and open to the public.
Swing Dorm, 100 Tower Parkway | 4:00 PM
The American Constitutional System Viewed in a Democratic Perspective |
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[Lectures]
16 October 2000
Castle Lectures: The lecture series traditionally invites scholars to speak to moral and political questions of major public concern. Sterling Professor Emeritus Robert Dahl addresses the development, performance, and future of the U.S. Constitution in a series of four lectures. Today's lecture is entitled "Why does the American Constitution fail to meet Democratic Standards?"
Lindsley-Chittenden Hall, Room 102 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
C-E.A. Winslow Medal |
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[Award Ceremonies]
19 October 2000
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health: To commemorate Yale's Tercentennial, the first C-E.A. Winslow Medal is awarded to Sir Richard Doll, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford who speaks on --147;Causality in Medicine: Deduction from Epidemiological Evidence.--148; This award and lecture commemorates the outstanding contributions of Charles-Edward Amory Winslow to public health in America.
Harkness Auditorium | 3:00 PM
The American Constitutional System Viewed in a Democratic Perspective |
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[Lectures]
19 October 2000
Castle Lectures: Sterling Professor Emeritus Robert Dahl addresses is entitled "Why haven't other advanced democratic countries adopted a constitution like ours?" This is the second in a series of four lectures.
Harkness Hall, Room 119 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
New Haven Symphony Orchestra, featuring Dean Robert Blocker |
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19 October 2000
[Music]
School of Music/New Haven Symphony Orchestra: Introducing a yearlong celebration of music with an Opening Weekend Tercentennial Concert on October 19, 2000, is the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jung-Ho Pak, with School of Music Dean Robert Blocker performing Saint-Saens's Second Piano Concerto.
Woolsey Hall | 7:30 PM
Three Hundred Concerts at Yale |
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[Music]
19 October 2000 -- 7 October 2001
School of Music: The Yale School of Music will sponsor 300 musical performances on campus and throughout the world during the Tercentennial Year, featuring the Yale Philharmonia, the Chamber Music Society at Yale, Yale honorary degree recipients, and distinguished guest conductors. In addition, composers have been commissioned to create a series of fanfares for opening special Tercentennial events. Introducing this yearlong celebration of music with an Opening Weekend Tercentennial Concert on October 19, 2000, is the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, featuring the School of Music Dean Robert Blocker in Woolsey Hall.
Kurt Weill: A Centennial Celebration |
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[Exhibits]
20 October -- December 2000
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: An exhibition of musical manuscripts, biographical documents, and photographs documenting the life and career of the German-American composer, drawn from the Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya papers and prepared by Kendall Crilly, music librarian. In conjunction with the opening of this exhibition, the Yale College Opera Company will present three performances of Kurt Weill's short folk opera "Down in the Valley"; on October 20, 21, and 22.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street
A Celebration of Volunteerism |
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[Reception]
20 October 2000
School of Medicine: The School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, and Public Health kick off their Tercentennial Celebration with a reception saluting volunteers. This includes the opening of John Curtis's photography exhibition, a faculty art exhibition, and the premier of the exhibition Medicine at Yale 1701-1865. Greetings by Deans Kessler, Gilliss, and Merson will christen this event.
Sterling Hall of Medicine Lobby, 333 Cedar Street | 4:30 PM
School of Public Health Community Award Ceremony |
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[Ceremonies]
20 October 2000
School of Medicine: Mayor John DeStefano will receive the School of Public Health Community Award. This ceremony is part of the School of Medicine's Tercentennial "Celebration of New Haven and Yale"
New Haven City Hall, Office of the Mayor | 2:30 PM
Opening Yale 300 |
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[Ceremonies]
21 October 2000
Yale University: To begin a year of celebration, Yale invites the New Haven community, its host for almost three centuries, to a day of hands-on activities and exploration. Campus buildings, labs, libraries, and dorms will be open for free tours and workshops. Activities will take place between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Among the highlights: Stroll campus courtyards ringing with the sonorous music of the Harkness Tower carillon. Tour science labs and the student Art and Architecture studios. Participate in a virtual anatomy class at the Medical School or stop in for a free screening or tips on nutrition and cancer prevention. Take in a play rehearsal at the Drama School. Visit newly renovated Berkeley College, including student rooms. Get started with a college admissions workshop. Learn to juggle, fence, or joust. Pump iron at the remodeled Payne Whitney Gym. At midday, catch a bus to the Bowl for the Yale vs. Penn football game. Visit the coldest place in Connecticut. Tour Beinecke and get a close look at an original Gutenberg Bible. Join the Scavenger Hunt. View American miniatures at Yale Art Gallery, stroll through the Yale Center for British Art, or visit the renowned Peabody Museum. Walk the Hillhouse district, or step into the famous "house on the hill"--newly remodeled Davies Mansion. Yale welcomes its New Haven neighbors, Connecticut friends, and alumni to discover its many treasures during the Open House on Saturday, October 21. We hope you will join us for other Tercentennial events throughout the year.
Globalization and the Environment |
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[Lectures]
24 October 2000
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Throughout the Tercentennial, the School, plans a series of conversations among practitioners, students, and faculty. Jose Goldemberg, former President of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and former Minister of Science and Technology in Brazil, addresses "Who Creates the Problems and Who Can Solve Them?"
Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall 205 Prospect 4:45 pm
Seal of the City Award |
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[Ceremonies]
24 October 2000
New Haven Historical Society: In recognition of Yale University's Tercentennial and its three centuries as a major contributor to the improvement of the region, the NH Historical Society will present this award to the University.
Yale Commons | 5:30 PM
Castle Lectures: The American Constitutional System Viewed in a Democratic Perspective |
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[Lectures]
24 October 2000
Sterling Professor Emeritus Robert Dahl addresses "How well has the Constitution Performed?" This is the third in a series of four lectures.
Lindsley-Chittenden Hall, Room 102 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
A Poetry Reading by Seamus Heaney |
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[Seminars/Panels/Readings]
25 October 2000
English Department: Winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and Yale Honorary Degree recipient Seamus Heaney shares the beauty of his poetry in a reading at Battell Chapel. Drawing from the deep roots of his native soil, the lore and legends of the past, and the ";diamond absolutes "; of everyday life, Heaney creates a universal realm in which North and South give way to the stretching landscape of the human heart. Critic, translator, playwright, teacher, and above all, consummate practitioner of the art of poetry, his voice records the"music of what happens" Heaney is Ireland's poet, and the poet of all those who pay homage to the majesty of the English tongue.
BattellChapel | 8:00 PM
The American Constitutional System Viewed in a Democratic Perspective |
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[Lectures]
26 October 2000
Castle Lectures: Sterling Professor Emeritus Robert Dahl addresses "Isn't Democracy More Important than a Constitution?" This is the last lecture of this series.
Lindsley-Chittenden Hall, Room 102 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Performing Arts at Yale |
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[Alumni/AYA/Reunions]
26 --28 October 2000
AYA Assembly: Yale is unique among its peers for its long and rich history of a vibrant culture of performing arts on campus. From the Dramat, which this year celebrates its 100th anniversary, to the Yale Symphony, which in its formative years actually served as New Haven's symphony orchestra, Yale has always been a place where artistic expression has flourished. In addition to the many programmatic and extracurricular opportunities to experience the performing arts in Yale College, the University boasts two of the country's most outstanding professional schools dedicated to making music and creating theater. This Assembly will provide us an opportunity to look at the history of the performing arts at Yale; to explore the status of teaching and learning the performing arts in both Yale College and the professional schools; and to hear about the possible future for the performing arts at Yale. This is an Assembly that you will not want to miss!
NOVEMBER '00
Globalization and the Environment |
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[Lectures]
2 November 2000
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Maurice Strong, former secretary-general of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, addresses "The Rise of Global Environmental Governance."
25th Reunion |
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[Alumni/AYA/Reunions]
4 November 2000
School of Medicine: M.D./Ph.D. Program 25th Reunion.
The Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the New American Administration |
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[Lectures]
7 November 2000
International Security Studies: Charles Hill, Diplomat-in-Residence. Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.
Luce 103 | 4:30 PM
The Grand Strategy of Comprehensive Development |
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[Lectures]
8 November 2000
International Security Studies: James Gustave Speth, Dean School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University. Public reception to follow. Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.
Luce 103 | 12-2 pm
Women's Bathrooms and the Admission of Women to the Yale School of Medicine |
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[Lectures]
9 November 2000
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Susan J. Baserga, M.D., PhD. Associate Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Genetics. Yale School of Medicine.
Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street, 5 pm
The Grand Strategy of United Nations' Peace Operations |
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[Lectures]
13 November 2000
International Security Studies: William J. Durch, The Henry L. Stimson Center. Lunch provided. Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.
HGS 211 | 4:00 PM
Medicine in a Civic Society |
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[Theater]
13 November --17 November 2000
School of Medicine: The Department of Medicine at Yale University has invited Anna Deveare Smith to New Haven to address the topic of "Medicine in a Civic Society" Smith's previous work has successfully interpreted the struggle of individuals in the midst of crisis to make sense of the events that are shaping their lives. Here she will focus the attention of artists and physicians-in-training on a new civic dialogue that brings attention to the individual experiences of patients in crisis. She will interview three patients at Yale whose social status affects their health, the physicians caring for them, and selected family and friends. She will create a dramatic illness narrative of these patients and present her material to students, faculty, and residents at Yale. One of her performances, in addition to medical grand rounds, will be open to the public.
Nov 16th Grand Rounds: 8:30 am Fitkin Amphitheater
Nov 17th Public Presentation: Harkness Auditorium 1-2:30 pm
Stage Blue: 75th Anniversary Celebration |
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[Anniversary Celebrations]
13 November 2000
School of Drama: Join an evening of celebration for the 75th anniversary of the School of Drama, the 100th anniversary of the Dramat, and the Tercentennial of the University. A gala bi-coastal party and special performance "I get a kick out of blue " will feature illustrious alumni of the Drama School, the Dramat, and the University. Invitation only.
Gordon Grand Lecture |
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[Lectures]
14 November 2000
Gordon Grand Fellowship: Nina DiSesa, Chair and Chief Creative Director of McCann-Erickson, will speak at the Saybrook College Master's Tea. The Gordon Grand Fellowship is devoted to bringing outstanding leaders in the world of business, industry, and finance to campus.
Swing Dorm, 100 Tower Parkway | 4:00 PM
In The Company of Scholars |
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[Lectures]
15 November 2000
Graduate School: Edward Tufte (Ph.D. 1968), Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Computer Science and Statistics, speaks on "Visual Explanations."
Law School 4:00 pm
Globalization and the Environment |
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[Lectures]
16 November 2000
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Jane Lubchenco, former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, speaks on "The Environment Goes Global: Critical Issues for the 21st Century."
Luce Hall Auditorium 34 Hillhouse 4:45 pm
Medicine in a Civic Society |
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[Theater]
13 November --17 November 2000
School of Medicine: The Department of Medicine at Yale University has invited Anna Deveare Smith to New Haven to address the topic of "Medicine in a Civic Society" Smith's previous work has successfully interpreted the struggle of individuals in the midst of crisis to make sense of the events that are shaping their lives. Here she will focus the attention of artists and physicians-in-training on a new civic dialogue that brings attention to the individual experiences of patients in crisis. She will interview three patients at Yale whose social status affects their health, the physicians caring for them, and selected family and friends. She will create a dramatic illness narrative of these patients and present her material to students, faculty, and residents at Yale. One of her performances, in addition to medical grand rounds, will be open to the public.
Nov 16th Grand Rounds: 8:30 am Fitkin Amphitheater
Nov 17th Public Presentation: Harkness Auditorium 1-2:30 pm
Israel's Political Situation |
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[Lectures]
16 November 2000
International Security Studies: Hirsh Goodman, Senior Research Fellow, Jaffa Center Tel Aviv University. Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.
Slifka Center Chapel | 1:15 PM
Waterloo and Social Welfare in Nineteenth Century Britain |
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[Lectures]
28 November 2000
International Security Studies: Elisa Milkes, History Department, Yale University. Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.
Luce 103 | 4:30 PM
Tea with Sir Kieran Prendergast, Under-Secretary-General, DPA United Nations |
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[Lectures]
30 November 2000
International Security Studies: Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.
Luce 103 | 4:30 PM
DECEMBER '00
75th Anniversary of Mental Hygiene at Yale |
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[Anniversary Celebrations]
1 December 2000
School of Medicine: Yale's mental health program for students is among the oldest in the country. Clements Fry, director of Yale psychiatry from 1929 until his death in 1955, was unusual for his time because he did not limit psychiatry to the treatment of problems, but rather viewed it as a way to help young adults in their personal development, proposing that anxiety, fear, and depression were not unusual for young adults. The program celebrates its anniversary and the Tercentennial at Luce Hall.
Security and Defense: The EU Dimension |
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[Lectures]
6 December 2000
International Security Studies: Luncheon discussion with Lord Leon Brittan, Vice President, European Commission (1989-1999). Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.
Luce 103 | 12-2 PM
"And I Looked into the Future..." - The Challenge of Writing an Intellectual History of the United Nations |
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[Lectures]
6 December 2000
International Security Studies: Paul Kennedy, Director, International Security Studies, Yale University. Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.
Luce 103 | 4:30 PM
The Medical Institution of Yale College |
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[Lectures]
7 December 2000
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Gerard N. Burrow, M.D Special Advisor to the President of Health; Professor of Internal Medicine and Obstetrics/Gynecology Yale School of Medicine. Reception will follow.
Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street, 5 pm
Grand Strategy, American Democracy, and U.S. Military Policy |
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[Lectures]
12 December 2000
International Security Studies: Ashton Carter, John F. Kennedy School, Harvard University will conclude ISS's Grand Strategy Lecture Series with an address on "Grand Strategy, American Democracy, and US Military Policy. Ash Carter is Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs at Harvard and Co-Director, with William J. Perry, of the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project. From 1993-1996 Carter served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy.
He continues to serve in an official capacity as Senior Adviser to the North Korea Policy Review, chaired by William J. Perry. Carter received bachelor's degrees in physics and in medieval history from Yale University and a doctorate in theoretical physics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.
Luce 103 | 3:00 PM with public reception to follow in Prof. Carter's honor from 4:30 to 5:30 in the Luce Hall Common Room
Recent Work in International History |
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[Conference]
15-16 December 2000
International Security Studies: Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating. Program as follows:
December 15: Lunch: Friday, 11:45 - 12:30, Luce Hall 203
Opening Remarks: Paul Kennedy, Yale University
Panel 1: 12:30 - 2:30: Technology and International History:
Commentator: Jon Sumida, National War College, Washington DC Jeffrey Engel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Aviation Technology: The Precedent Setting Cold War Export"
Anne Reinhardt, Princeton University, "Steamships, Society, and Imperialism on the Yangzi River, 1860-1900"
Jonathan Winkler, Yale University, "The Great Telegraphic Espionage Crisis of 1920-1921"
Jeff Vanke, Guilford College, "Globalization, Trade Technologies, and Wealth Diffusion"
Panel 2: 3:00 - 5:00: Great Powers and the Internal Affairs of Third Countries
Commentator: Eileen Scully, Princeton University
James C. Van Hook, Trinity University, "The Limits of Power: America, Britain, and the Reshaping of German Industry, 1945-1952"
Mary Kathryn Barbier, International Security Studies, Yale University, "Allied Deception and the Invasion of Normandy"
Laurie West Van Hook, University of Virginia, "Tito, Ethnic Stability, and the Cold War"
Reception and Dinner: 6:00 - 9:00, Graduate Club
Keynote Speaker: Prof. David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Brock University
Respondent: Prof. Richard Drayton, University of Virginia
December 16:
Breakfast: Saturday, 8:00 - 9:00, Luce Hall 202
Panel 3: 9:00 - 10:45 am: Frontiers:
Mark Choate, Yale University, "Expanding the Cultural Frontiers of Irredentism: Language, Religion, and 'Unredeemed' Italians in the Americas, 1900-1910"
Jean-Pierre Sawaya, Universite Montreal, "The British Imperial Purposes of a Colonial Confederacy and Agreement: The Seven Nations of Canada and the Kahnawake Treaty of 1760"
Bernardo Michael, University of Hawaii at Manoa, "Mapping and Empire: Writing Spatial Histories of the Early Colonial State in South Asia"
Panel 4: 11:00 am - 12:45 pm: Colonial Political Cultures:
Erez Manela, Yale University, "The Wilsonian Moment, International Discourse, and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism: Framing a Comparative Investigation"
Lori Pucar, York University, " 'The Empire is Our Country': Defining the Ethnic Nation in Toronto's Empire Day Celebrations, 1899-1939"
Mark Power Robison, Brandeis University, "Colonial Ironies: French Activism, British Neglect, and Mikmaq Resistance on the Frontier Between Nova Scotia and Ile Royale"
Lunch: Saturday, 12:45
Closing Remarks: Paul Kennedy, Yale University
Luce 202 & 203 | & Common Room | Begins Friday 11:45 am
The Ankle Driver
[Theater]
15-17 December 2000
Digital Media Center for the Arts: 2000. Special Project Presentation. The Ankle-Diver, a multimedia dance-theater piece,composed by Matthew Suttor (YaleDept. of Music) and written by Tim Acito (MFA '02 Yale School of Drama),
December 15 and December 16 at 8pm
December 17 at 2pm.
Tickets: $12/$7 students & seniors. Call 436-4667 for reservations.
New Theater, GreenHall, 1156 Chapel St
JANUARY '01
The Democratic Soul |
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[Lectures]
9 & 11 January 2001
DeVane Lecture: Anthony Kronman, Dean of the Yale Law School. (Discussion on the 11th to be moderated by Cynthia Farrar, Adjunct Associate Professor, Political Science and Director of Urban Academic Initiatives.)
One of the wisest and most searching explorations of political order ever written, Plato's Republic, contains a harsh attack on democracy. This critique of democratic man and the regime he inhabits is not incidental to Plato's argument. For Plato as for us, democracy is characterized by the free pursuit of individual desires. But in Plato's view, the resulting society is simply chaotic. According to Plato, psychic and political order share the same structure and are mutually reinforcing. The possibility of order in both domains depends on the existence of an unchanging formal reality, ruled by and accessible to the exercise of reason. Democracy, by this standard, is no order at all, because it privileges the singular and self-inventing individual.
The modern appreciation of democracy is based on a very different understanding of political order - as a framework for human actions and individual fulfillment, not the cause and consequence of an ordered soul. Our defense of democracy starts from different premises: most importantly, the Judeo-Christian belief in creation from nothing, ex nihilo. In this tradition, the absolute distinctness of every individual is something real and valuable in its own right.
A comparison between the Republic and the American republic reveals many of the themes that will reverberate throughout this course. Plato's critique not only highlights the peculiarities of our beliefs, but also poses an instructive and compelling challenge. How is radical individualism compatible with the need to offer a reasoned judgment about the relative worth of different forms of life? And on what basis are we to forge an account of the relationship between individual fulfillment and the good of the community as a whole?
Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets 4:00 PM
Was Harvey Cushing William Osler's Protégé? |
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[Lectures]
11 January 2001
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Michael Bliss, PhD. Professor of History/History of Medicine University of Toronto. Reception will follow. Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street, 5 pm
Theater and Anti-Theater in the 18th Century |
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[Exhibits]
15 January --14 April 2001
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: An exhibition of books, manuscripts, broadsides, and engravings documenting 18th-century controversies about the theater at Yale, in England, and abroad. Exhibition and accompanying catalog prepared by Vincent Giroud, curator of modern books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Library, in consultation with Joseph Roach, professor of English and Theater Studies.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale-China Centennial Year Art Exhibitions |
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[Exhibits]
15 January --15 December 2001
Yale-China: Over the course of Yale-China's Centennial year, and Yale's Tercentennial year, Yale-China will host a series of art exhibitions featuring works related to China, by members of the Yale and Yale-China communities.
The exhibit is open Monday - Friday from 9 - 5. Admission is free. The Yale China Association can be contacted for further information at 203-432-0880.
Yale-China Association 442 Temple St. (the corner of Temple and Trumbull), New Haven, CT.
Abraham Lincoln & Walt Whitman as Representative Americans |
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[Lectures]
16 & 18 January 2001
DeVane Lecture: David Bromwich, Bird White Housum Professor of English
Lincoln and Whitman were contemporaries. The great articulations of their genius began almost at the same moment--Lincoln in 1854 in the Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Whitman in 1855 in the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Looked at from a distance, their materials are vastly different. Lincoln is concerned with the survival of the nation and its system of freedom, Whitman with the imaginative experience open to "oneself" and open uniquely in democratic America. Yet both the great poet and the great politician write also as moral psychologists. To a surprising extent they share a vision of the democratic character. It is something new in the world, they think, and in their writings we find beautifully adequate descriptions of that newness. The character sketched by Lincoln and by Whitman is rooted in an experience of labor whose tendency is to become progressively more free--both in the individual workplace and in the geography of the nation. It is endlessly modified and shaped by exposure to human and social influences, not all of them agreeable. "Oneself" is by definition not a slave and not a master.
Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets 4:00 PM
Gordon Grand Lecture |
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[Lectures]
17 January 2001
Gordon Grand Fellowship: Ambassador Walter J.P. Curley '44 will give a public lecture.
Saybrook College Swing Space. 4 p.m
Chariots of Steel: Yale & Rail |
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[Exhibits]
Through 28 January 2001
Eli Whitney Museum: Each year the Eli Whitney Museum constructs a holiday train layout. Sustaining a tradition that goes back to the triumphant years of A.C. Gilbert's American Flyer Trains, they let the trains explore the history and culture that rail has shaped. This year's exhibition visits New Haven in 1913 and the opening of the Yale Bowl, whose mass audiences were a product of passenger rail. It was the dawn of modern scholastic athletics in America and the advent of a new identity for Yale and other institutions of higher education. It is a lively stop in the 300-year history that Yale will begin to celebrate in 2000. Eli Whitney graduated from Yale University in 1792 and is credited with the invention of interchangeable parts. He lived in New Haven for many years and died there in 1825. He is buried in Grove Street Cemetery. The exhibit schedule is as follows:
Wed., Thurs., Fri. 12 to 5
Sat. 10 to 3
Sun. 12 to 5
Admission is $2.00 for children and $3.00 for adults. The Eli Whitney Museum can be contacted for further information at 203-777-1833.
Eli Whitney Museum 915 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT
Russian Revolution and its Consequences |
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[Lecture]
19 January 2001
Manuscripts and Archives/Sterling Memorial Library with the Slavic and East European Collection of the Yale University Library will host a lecture by Paul Bushkovitch, Yale Professor of History.
3:00 p.m. in the Sterling Lecture Hall. 120 High Street A reception will follow.
Up With A Shout: The Psalms In Jewish and Christian Worship |
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[Conferences]
20 January --23 January 2001
Yale Divinity School/Berkeley Divinity School/Institute of Sacred Music: Coinciding with Yale's Tercentennial, the conference will celebrate the University's long tradition of Biblical study, musical performance, and theological formation. For further information contact: Melissa Maier, Yale ISM, 203-432-5180 or email
Paradoxes of Mind and Society: The Bounded Nature of Cognition and the Unbounded Possibilities for American Democracy |
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[Lectures]
23 & 25January - 2001
DeVane Lecture: Mahzarin Banaji, Professor of Psychology
All human beings are prone to systematic errors of thinking and feeling. We will participate in demonstrations of such errors, especially as they occur when humans assess, evaluate, and judge the most important stimulus in their environment other humans. From first impressions to enduring ones, from decisions about the qualities a person or group possesses to decisions about the worth of a person or social group, unconscious constraints on thinking and feeling create parallel constraints on social justice.
How deep are the bounds on human thinking and feeling and how do they shape social judgment? The focus of my research has been on the mechanics of unconscious mental processes, with attention to those that operate without conscious awareness, intention, or control. On the basis of dozens of experiments we ask: How should we conceive of equality in light of evidence about unconscious preferences, desires, and beliefs among those who are consciously unprejudiced? How should the impact of unintended harm be determined? In the obvious absence of simple solutions, new approaches to ensuring equality can gain by looking to discoveries in the mind sciences about the bounds on social thought and feeling. Based on the evidence, we may enter into a discussion of new forms of justice within democratic societies. To do so will require coming face-to-face with the paradox of the ordinary yet powerful mental threats to fairness and equality on the one hand and the democratic ideal of a just society on the other.
Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets 4:00 PM
Tetelman Lectures - Chemicals and the Environment |
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[Lectures]
24 January --26 January 2001
Sciences & Engineering: The Tetelman Lectures, which bring distinguished scientists and engineers to campus, will feature Jane A. Plant, Chief Scientist, British Geological Survey, and will be hosted by Yale professors Catherine and Brian Skinner. Gary Haller, Becton Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Master of Jonathan Edwards College, is organizing this series. Jane Plant is Chief Scientist of the British Geological Survey (Natural Environment Research Council) and Visiting professor at the Universities of Liverpool and Nottingham. She has published widely on sustainable mineral development, and economic and environmental geochemistry in the UK and internationally.
Concern over chemicals in the environment has increased as evidence for adverse impacts on wildlife and ecosystems and the health of people has increased. This is reflected in the large numbers of national and international initiatives aimed at reducing exposure to potentially toxic chemicals. Many of the initiatives are based on the precautionary principle whereby action to reduce exposure is taken without waiting for definite proof of harm. It will be argued that greater transparency, openness, and public involvement is required in the discussion of the distribution and health aspects of chemicals in the environment and this discussion must use easily understood information. A new paradigm for the manufacture and use of chemicals is required if the environment and the chemicals industry are to be sustainable into the future.
5:15 p.m. Yale Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street
Jan 25 The Master's Tea "A Conversation with Jane Plant"
4:00 p.m., Jonathan Edwards College, The Masters House, 70 High Street.
January 26 Environmental Geochemistry at the Global Scale
The Department of Geology and Geophysics: (Info on Jane Plant)
2:00 p.m., Kline Geology Laboratory, Room 123, 210 Whitney Avenue.
Globalization and the Environment: The Rise of Environmental Governance |
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[Lectures]
25 January 2001
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Yolanda Kakabadse, president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, discusses "The Rise of Environmental Governance."
5:00pm Bowers Auditorium Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street
Readings from the Work of Richard Selzer |
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[Lectures]
25 January 2001
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Richard Selzer, M.D. Retired Professor of Surgery Yale School of Medicine. Writer. Reception will follow.
5:00pm, Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street
Medicine at Yale, 1901 - 1951 |
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[Exhibits]
Through March 2001
Yale School of Medicine: This photographic exhibit chronicles the history of the Yale Medical School.
Sterling Hall of Medicine, Medical Library Rotunda, 333 Cedar Street
Neighbors: Working Together for a Healthy New Haven |
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[Exhibits]
Through - March 2001
Yale School of Medicine: Tercentennial Photograph Exhibit.
Sterling Hall of Medicine, Medical Library Rotunda, 333 Cedar Street
Yale's Legacy of Inventors |
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[Exhibits]
Through - 6 May 2001
Eli Whitney Museum: In honor of Yale's 300th Birthday, we will celebrate Yale's legacy of inventors. Each month we'll look at an inventory, an epoch, and a challenge to be conquered . . . with a project you can take home. Appropriate for children 11 and above.
Pre-reservation is advised: the materials are unusual and limited.
All begin at 3pm
Fee: $18, $15 for members *add $5 for materials
February 11 - Whitney's Interchangeable Hearts: Produce multiple matching Valentines with Eli Whitney's system of jigs, with a project you can take home.
March 4 - Gibbs' Regulator: Construct a motor that thinks for itself about speed. Batteries included.
April 22 - MacCready's Gossamer Wings: Construct Ultra light flyers in the tradition of Paul MacCready's Gossamer Albatross.
May 6 - Bushnell's (submarine) Turtle: Construct a working replica (in a bottle) of the submarine which attacked the British Fleet.
Eli Whitney Museum 915 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT Call 203- 777-1833
Yale: Crossing International Boundaries - A Tercentennial Retrospective |
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[Exhibit]
January 19 - September 14, 2001
Manuscripts and Archives/Sterling Memorial Library: Drawing from the library's rich and diverse area studies and archival holdings, this exhibit explores the interconnections between international events and area studies scholarship at Yale. The evolving interests of faculty and students are reflected in the library's collections and provide the historical context for understanding how Yale has taught, studied, and influenced counties and cultures outside of the United States.
The first series focuses on Slavic & East European and Southeast Asian Studies; exhibitions on Judaica, Near Eastern, Africa, East Asia and Latin America will follow.
The final exhibit will explore Yale's connections with the world of international affairs and diplomacy and its opening coincides with the Yale Center for International & Area Studies symposia, "Envisioning the World in the Next Century: Challenges to Internationalizing Yale," September 14, 2001.
Yale's East European, Slavic & Southeast Asian Studies Collections: Archival Development and Collecting during Times of Turmoil, Transition & Peace
This exhibit will focus on the correlation between revolutionary and peace-time events which have occurred in two diverse geographic regions in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia during the past 100 years. This collection helps document Yale scholarship outside national borders and reveals the role of Yale faculty and students in international affairs.
Manuscripts and Archives, Wall Street, New Haven. Call 432-1735 for more information.
Was Harvey Cushing William Osler's Protégé? |
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[Lectures]
11 January 2001
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Michael Bliss, PhD. Professor of History/History of Medicine University of Toronto. Reception will follow. Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street, 5 pm
Theater and Anti-Theater in the 18th Century |
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[Exhibits]
15 January --14 April 2001
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: An exhibition of books, manuscripts, broadsides, and engravings documenting 18th-century controversies about the theater at Yale, in England, and abroad. Exhibition and accompanying catalog prepared by Vincent Giroud, curator of modern books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Library, in consultation with Joseph Roach, professor of English and Theater Studies.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale-China Centennial Year Art Exhibitions |
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[Exhibits]
15 January --15 December 2001
Yale-China: Over the course of Yale-China's Centennial year, and Yale's Tercentennial year, Yale-China will host a series of art exhibitions featuring works related to China, by members of the Yale and Yale-China communities.
The exhibit is open Monday - Friday from 9 - 5. Admission is free. The Yale China Association can be contacted for further information at 203-432-0880.
Yale-China Association 442 Temple St. (the corner of Temple and Trumbull), New Haven, CT.
Gordon Grand Lecture |
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[Lectures]
17 January 2001
Gordon Grand Fellowship: Ambassador Walter J.P. Curley '44 will give a public lecture.
Saybrook College Swing Space. 4 p.m
Justice and the Genome: Historical Reflections
[Lectures]
17 January 2001
ISPS Bioethics Lecture: Forum on Bioethical Issues in Society. Speaker: Daniel Kevles, professor of History of Science, California Institute of Technology and visiting Professor of History, Yale University. Reception to follow.
7:30 pm Joseph Slifka Center
Chariots of Steel: Yale & Rail |
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[Exhibits]
Through 28 January 2001
Eli Whitney Museum: Each year the Eli Whitney Museum constructs a holiday train layout. Sustaining a tradition that goes back to the triumphant years of A.C. Gilbert's American Flyer Trains, they let the trains explore the history and culture that rail has shaped. This year's exhibition visits New Haven in 1913 and the opening of the Yale Bowl, whose mass audiences were a product of passenger rail. It was the dawn of modern scholastic athletics in America and the advent of a new identity for Yale and other institutions of higher education. It is a lively stop in the 300-year history that Yale will begin to celebrate in 2000. Eli Whitney graduated from Yale University in 1792 and is credited with the invention of interchangeable parts. He lived in New Haven for many years and died there in 1825. He is buried in Grove Street Cemetery. The exhibit schedule is as follows:
Wed., Thurs., Fri. 12 to 5
Sat. 10 to 3
Sun. 12 to 5
Admission is $2.00 for children and $3.00 for adults. The Eli Whitney Museum can be contacted for further information at 203-777-1833.
Eli Whitney Museum 915 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT
Russian Revolution and its Consequences |
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[Lecture]
19 January 2001
Manuscripts and Archives/Sterling Memorial Library with the Slavic and East European Collection of the Yale University Library will host a lecture by Paul Bushkovitch, Yale Professor of History.
3:00 p.m. in the Sterling Lecture Hall. 120 High Street A reception will follow.
Up With A Shout: The Psalms In Jewish and Christian Worship |
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[Conferences]
20 January --23 January 2001
Yale Divinity School/Berkeley Divinity School/Institute of Sacred Music: Coinciding with Yale's Tercentennial, the conference will celebrate the University's long tradition of Biblical study, musical performance, and theological formation. For further information contact: Melissa Maier, Yale ISM, 203-432-5180 or email
Medicalization, the State, and Individual Rights: A Brief History
[Lectures]
23 January 2001
ISPS Lecture: Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine and Society. Robert Nye, Professor of History, Oregon State University
4:00 pm Room 401 HGS, 320 York Street
Tetelman Lectures - Chemicals and the Environment |
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[Lectures]
24 January --26 January 2001
Sciences & Engineering: The Tetelman Lectures, which bring distinguished scientists and engineers to campus, will feature Jane A. Plant, Chief Scientist, British Geological Survey, and will be hosted by Yale professors Catherine and Brian Skinner. Gary Haller, Becton Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Master of Jonathan Edwards College, is organizing this series. Jane Plant is Chief Scientist of the British Geological Survey (Natural Environment Research Council) and Visiting professor at the Universities of Liverpool and Nottingham. She has published widely on sustainable mineral development, and economic and environmental geochemistry in the UK and internationally.
Concern over chemicals in the environment has increased as evidence for adverse impacts on wildlife and ecosystems and the health of people has increased. This is reflected in the large numbers of national and international initiatives aimed at reducing exposure to potentially toxic chemicals. Many of the initiatives are based on the precautionary principle whereby action to reduce exposure is taken without waiting for definite proof of harm. It will be argued that greater transparency, openness, and public involvement is required in the discussion of the distribution and health aspects of chemicals in the environment and this discussion must use easily understood information. A new paradigm for the manufacture and use of chemicals is required if the environment and the chemicals industry are to be sustainable into the future.
5:15 p.m. Yale Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street
Jan 25 The Master's Tea "A Conversation with Jane Plant"
4:00 p.m., Jonathan Edwards College, The Masters House, 70 High Street.
January 26 Environmental Geochemistry at the Global Scale
The Department of Geology and Geophysics: (Info on Jane Plant)
2:00 p.m., Kline Geology Laboratory, Room 123, 210 Whitney Avenue.
Globalization and the Environment: The Rise of Environmental Governance |
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[Lectures]
25 January 2001
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Yolanda Kakabadse, president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, discusses "The Rise of Environmental Governance."
5:00pm Bowers Auditorium Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street
Readings from the Work of Richard Selzer |
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[Lectures]
25 January 2001
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Richard Selzer, M.D. Retired Professor of Surgery Yale School of Medicine. Writer. Reception will follow.
5:00pm, Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street
History of the Yale Law School |
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[Lectures]
29 January --23 April 2001
Yale Law School: This lecture series will explore the history of the Yale law school as it reflects and is reflected by the larger history of the legal profession and the nation. The lectures will explore the subject from a range of different points of view and examine the history of the Law School in from its formative period to the present day. On January 29, Robert Stevens discusses "History of the Yale Law School: Provenance and Perspective" These lectures are open all members of the university community and to the public.
4:30 pm Yale Law School, Room 127, 127 Wall Street
Democracy and Distribution |
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[Lectures]
30 January & 1 February 2001
DeVane Lecture: Ian Shapiro, Professor and Chairman, Political Science
My lecture addresses two questions: why has American democracy done so little to improve the condition of the poor and near poor, and what can be done about it? These questions are motivated by a practical concern and a theoretical conundrum. The practical concern is the persistence of comparatively high proportions of the population living in or close to poverty, and the widening income gap between them and better-off Americans. The theoretical conundrum is that this state of affairs is surprising, given standard expectations about the effects of democracy on distribution. Nineteenth century elites who resisted expansion of the franchise and socialists who endorsed the "parliamentary road to socialism" agreed that if majority rule is imposed on a massively unequal status quo, then most voters would favor taxing the rich and transferring the proceeds downward. This was formalized in political science via the median voter theorem. It predicts majority support for downward redistribution, given a distributive status-quo like that in the advanced capitalist democracies. In the lecture I explore a number of reasons why the theorem does not hold in practice, and discuss the implications for democratic reforms that might improve the absolute relative and absolute condition of those in the bottom quintile of the population.
4:00 pm Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets
FEBRUARY '01
Globalization and the Environment: Does Globalization Help or Hurt? |
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[Lectures]
1 February 2001
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Vandana Shiva, director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and ecology in New Delhi, speaks on "Does Globalization Help or Hurt?"
5:00 pm Bowers Auditorium Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street
In The Company of Scholars |
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[Lectures]
2 February 2001
Graduate School: David M. Kennedy (Ph.D. 1968), Pulitzer Prize winning author and history professor at Stanford speaks on "A Tale of Three Cities: How the United States Won World War II."
4pm Yale Law School Auditorium, 127 Wall Street
The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets |
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4 February 2001
[Faith]
Chaplain's Office: Reverend Frederick J. Streets, Yale University Chaplain and Pastor, Church of Christ in Yale, Assistant Professor (Adjunct) Yale Divinity School, Assistant Clinical Professor of Social Work, Child Study Center.
11:00 am Battell Chapel, Corner of College and Elm Streets
Blackstone, Litchfield, and Yale: The Founding of Yale Law School |
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[Lectures]
5 February 2001
Yale Law School: History of the Law School lecture series. John Langbein speaks on "Blackstone, Litchfield, and Yale: The Founding of Yale Law School."
4:30 pm Yale Law School, Room 127,127 Wall Street
The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies
[Lectures]
5 February 2001
Institution for Social & Policy Studies: Sponsored by the Program on Non-Profit Organizations at ISPS, with Robert Lane, Eugene Meyer Professor Emeritus Political Science, Yale University.
7:30 pm Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street
Democracy and the Market |
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[Lectures]
6 & 8 February 2001
DeVane Lecture: Richard C. Levin, President of Yale and Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics
4:00 pm Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets
American Democracy and Crisis Management: The Case of John F. Kennedy |
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[Lectures]
6 February 2001
International Security Studies: Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies, King's College London, speaks on his recent book "Kennedy Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam". Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director, ISS, if interested. Lunch will be provided.
ISS is a center for teaching and research in international, diplomatic and military history. Most ISS events are open to the entire Yale-New Haven community and other interested guests.
12 noon Hall of Graduate Studies 211, 320 York Street
When Cocaine and Heroin Were New: America's First Response |
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[Lectures]
8 February 2001
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: David F. Musto, M.D. Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Professor of Child Psychiatry. Reception will follow.
5 pm Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street
Journalism Unplugged: the Triumph of 24/7 Media
[Lectures]
8 February 2001
Poynter Fellowship Lecture: Frank Rich, columnist for The New York Times, delivers the Gary Fryer Memorial Lecture. This lecture is sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism and is free and open to the public. For more information, please call 436-2185.
4pm, Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street
The Way of the World |
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[Theater]
8 February --3 March 2001
Beinecke Library/Lewis Walpole Library/Yale School of Drama: This comedy by William Congreve is produced by the Yale School of Drama as part of Yale's Tercentennial celebration. Universally considered the finest comedy of manners ever written, this playful social satire skewers the courting rituals of the upper class. This opulent production promises a grand parade of schemers, fops, fools, and Brits behaving badly.
University Theatre , 222 York Street
Symposium on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
[Symposia]
9 -10 February 2001
Yale Law School/Yale School of Medicine/Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health/ Yale School of Nursing: The symposium is a kick-off event for Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics; a new publication jointly sponsored by the Yale Law School, Yale School of Medicine, Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health, and Yale School of Nursing. The Journal's first issue will be published in February 2001, and will concentrate on racial and ethnic disparities in health. Authors from the issue have agreed to share their papers at the symposium. Speakers will include:
David Satcher: M.D., Ph.D. U.S. Surgeon General
Marsha Lilli-Blanton: Vice President of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Director of Policy Research and Grantmaking on access to care for vulnerable populations. Former Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. Author of Achieving Equitable Access: Studies of Health Care Issues Affecting Hispanics and African Americans.
Barbara Koenig: R.N., Ph.D. Senior Research Scholar and Executive Director, Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics.
Gregg Bloche: M.D., J.D. Professor of Law at the Georgetown Law Center; Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
David Williams: Ph.D., M.PH. Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan.
Marian Gornick: Ph.D. Project Director, Consultant in Health Services Research, author of "Effects of Race and Income on Morality and Use of Services Among Medicare Beneficiaries" in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A Tribute to Sylvia Ardyn Boone, The New Haven Years: 1970 - 1993 |
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[Exhibit]
10 - 17 February 2001
The Prince Hall Masonic Lodge of New Haven is organizing a special tribute to the life and work of Professor Sylvia Ardyn Boone, a scholar of African and women's art, and the first African-American woman to receive tenure at Yale. The tribute will feature panel discussions on Boone's legacy at Yale and an exhibit chronicling her life and work.
Sylvia A. Boone graduated from Brooklyn College in 1960 and received a master's degree from Columbia in 1964. She then studied for a brief period at the University of Ghana, where she began lifelong friendships with such prominent African Americans as W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou.
Boone first came to Yale in the early seventies as a visiting lecturer in Afro-American Studies, and then went on to pursue her doctorate in art history. She joined the faculty in 1979 and received tenure in 1988. Professor Boone was a beloved and well-respected teacher, conducting classes on African art, aesthetics of female imagery in African art, masquerading and masks, and women's arts. She played a pivotal role in organizing the nationwide commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the 1839 "Amistad Affair," which is now an annual commemorative event in New Haven.
Alison Mackenzie Coordinator, Women Faculty Forum for the Tercentennial.
Tercentennial Office Telephone 203-432-8847 Fax 203-432-8828
Saturday, February 10
10am Sylvia A. Boone Exhibit opens to public, featuring photos, books, and memorabilia
11am-1pm PANEL: Sylvia Ardyn Boone: Her Legacy at Yale
Cheryl Finley, winner of the Boone Prize '98, Lyneise Williams winner of the Boone prize '00, Shirley Daniels '72, and Vera Wells '71
1pm-2pm Reception, Exhibit open to public
Sunday, February 11, 2001
11am Flowers at Battell Chapel in Honor of Boone
3pm-6pm PANEL: Beauty is a Duty: The Beauty Makers
Thursday, February 15, 2001
7pm Viewing of The Language You Cry In at the Afro-American Cultural Center or Luce Hall, Yale University
Saturday, February 17, 2001
10am Exhibit open to public
11am-1pm PANEL: Sylvia Ardyn Boone: Her Presence in New Haven
1pm-2pm Reception
All events will take place at the Little Red Schoolhouse,
Prince Hall Masons of New Haven, 106 Goffe St, New Haven CT 06511, 203-329-9957
Yale's Legacy of Inventors - Whitney's Interchangeable Hearts |
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[Exhibits]
11 February 2001
Eli Whitney Museum: In honor of Yale's 300th Birthday, we will celebrate Yale's legacy of inventors. This month we'll produce multiple matching Valentines with system of jigs, with a project you can take home. Appropriate for children 11 and above. Pre-reservation is advised: The materials are unusual and limited. Begins at 3 p.m.
Fee: $18, $15 for members *add $5 for materials
Eli Whitney Museum, 915 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT For information call 203- 777-1833
The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rev. Dr. Harry B. Adams |
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11 February 2001
[Faith]
Chaplain's Office: Horace Bushnell, Professor Emeritus of Christian Nurture Yale University.
11:00 am Battell Chapel, Corner College and Elm Streets
Law School in a University: Yale's Distinctive Path in the 19th Century |
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[Lectures]
12 February 2001
Yale Law School: History of the Law School series. John Lanbein speaks on "Law School in a University: Yale's Distinctive Path in the 19th Century.
4:30 pm Yale Law School, Room 127, 127 Wall Street
The Khmer Rough, Indonesia and East Timor, and Australia's Aborigines |
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[Lecture]
February 13 2001
Manuscripts and Archives/Sterling Memorial Library w/ Southeast Asia Collection of Yale University Library will host a lecture by Ben Kiernan, Yale Professor of History, on the Genocide topic.
3:00 pm Sterling Lecture Hall. 120 High Street. A reception will follow.
Neither Capitalist nor American: The Democracy as Social Movement |
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[Lectures]
13 & 15 February 2001
DeVane Lecture: Professor of American Studies and Chair of the Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration Michael Denning
In the decades when the modern social movements - the labor movement, the women's movement, the abolitionist movement, and the anti-colonial movement, were invented, a new definition of "the democracy" was recorded. "The portion of the people whose injury is the most manifest, have gotten or taken the title of the democracy." At a moment when historic breakthroughs to political democracy are accompanied by the wholesale destruction of social democracy, when the concept of "democracy" has been redefined by the opponents of the democracy, Professor Denning's lecture will return to the notion of "the democracy" as a social movement, reconsidering the democracy's relation to capitalism and to the American state, and taking up the lack of democracy in civil society - particularly in the workplace - by reflecting on the recently published Human Rights Watch report, Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards.
4:00 pm Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets
2001 The Space Odyssey - Tetelman Lectures |
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[Lectures]
14 February --16 February 2001
Sciences & Engineering: The Tetelman Lectures, which bring distinguished scientists and engineers to campus, features Roger Blandford, R.C. Tolman Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech. Gary Haller, Becton Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Master of Jonathan Edwards College, organized this series. Robert Blandford, Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology. He received his BA, MA and PhD degrees from Cambridge University. He joined the astronomy faculty of the CalTech in 1976. He is a recipient of the Helen B. Warner and Dannie Heineman prizes of the American Astronomical Society and of the Darwin Lectureship and Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The capability to operate telescopes from space has brought about a revolution in our view of the universe. The electromagnetic spectrum has been opened up, from long radio waves to high energy gamma rays, and atmospheric limitations on imaging have been removed. As a consequence, we have all been privileged to vicariously share in a thrilling voyage of discovery--a modern counterpart to the great sea-faring voyages of the past and the mythical adventures of Odysseus. As was the case with the Mediterranean and the Earth, the Universe has consequently become a smaller and more intimate place, replete with exotic environments that stretch our imagination. Many of the most surprising, recent discoveries made with space--and ground-based telescopes have involved black holes and neutron stars. These can efficiently transform gaseous fuel into explosive bursts of radiant energy and outflows moving almost as fast as light, and allow us to witness extreme physics experiments that are impossible in terrestrial laboratories.
5:15 p.m. Davies Auditorium, Becton Center, 15 Prospect Street
Feb 15 The Master's Tea "A Conversation with Robert Blandford"
4:00 p.m., Jonathan Edwards College, The Masters House, 70 High Street.
Feb 16 "New Horizons in Black Hole Astrophysics"
The Physics Club: Roger Blandford, R.C. Tolman Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech
4:00 pm, 57 Sloane Physics Lab, Preceded at 3:30 by coffee, Sloane Lounge 3rd Floor SPL, 217 Prospect Street.
Theatricality and Anti-theatricality in the Eighteenth Century
[Conferences/Concert]
16 February --18 February 2001
As part of a series of activities celebrating Yale's Tercentennial, the Lewis Walpole Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Yale Center for British Art - in cooperation with the Department of English, the Program in Theater Studies, and the School of Drama - are hosting an international conference on aspects of theater "and the anti-theater prejudice" in the eighteenth century. Fourteen scholars will share their perspectives on a wide-ranging paradox of eighteenth-century life (one that was locally manifest in the early history of Yale College): amid religious and moral attacks on the stage, and despite denunciations and persecutions, performances of all kinds not only endured but actually flourished.
The conference begins on Friday afternoon, February 16, with the Eighth Annual Lewis Walpole Library Lecture, entitled "Et in Arcadia ego: The Eighteenth Century of the 1920s," by Professor Terry Castle, Walter A. Haas, Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. It concludes on Sunday, February 18, with a concert of eighteenth-century theater music performed by Margaret van Dijk and other distinguished artists. It also features a special performance of William Congreve's The Way of the World (1700) by the Yale Repertory Theatre and a brief staging of selected scenes from other Restoration plays - in fact, the very ones denounced most vociferously by Jeremy Collier in A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698).
Two thematically related exhibitions are on view during the conference: The Spectacle of Painting: Theater and the Painted Image in Eighteenth-Century English Art, curated by Julia Mariari Alexander, Assistant Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, and Theater and Anti-Theater in the Eighteenth Century at Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, curated by Vincent Giroud, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at the Library, in consultation with Joseph R. Roach, Charles C. & Dorathea Professor of Theater at Yale.
The symposium is free and open to the public. Conference attendees may reserve complimentary tickets for the Saturday evening performance of The Way of the World. For Further information, call 860-677-2140 or e-mail walpole@yale.edu or view the web site.
February 16-18, 2001
Exhibit
Spectacle of Painting: Theater and the Painted Image in Eighteenth-Century English Art, curated by Julia Mariari Alexander, Assistant Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, and Theater and Anti-Theater in the Eighteenth Century at Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, curated by Vincent Giroud, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at the Library, in consultation with Joseph R. Roach, Charles C. & Dorathea Professor of Theater at Yale.
Yale University Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111Chapel Street
16 February 2001
Annual Lewis Walpole Library Lecture: "Et in Arcadia ego: The Eighteenth Century of the 1920s." Terry Castle, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University. Followed by a reception at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and "A Short, Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage," selected scenes from Restoration plays, directed by Joseph R. Roach, Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater, Yale University
4:00 p.m. Yale University Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111Chapel Street
17 February 2001
Conference Plenary Sessions
9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Lecture Hall, Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street
Special performance of William Congreve's The Way of the World (1700)
8:00 p.m. Yale Repertory Theatre, Corner Chapel & York Streets
18 February 2001
Conference Plenary Sessions
9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Lecture Hall, Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street
Et in Arcadia ego: The Eighteenth Century of the 1920s |
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[Lecture]
16 February 2001
The conference Theatricality and Anti-theatricality in the Eighteenth Century will begin on Friday afternoon, with this Eighth Annual Lewis Walpole Library Lecture by Professor Terry Castle, Walter A. Haas, Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University
9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Yale University Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street
Concert of Eighteenth-Century Music |
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[Concert]
18 February 2001
As part of a series of activities celebrating the Yale Tercentennial, the Lewis Walpole Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Yale Center for British Art - in cooperation with the Department of English, the Program in Theater Studies, and the School of Drama - are hosting an international conference on aspects of theater "and the anti-theater prejudice" in the eighteenth century.
2:30 p.m. Lecture Hall, Center for British Art,
The Death of Citizenship? |
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[Lectures]
20 & 22 February 2001
DeVane Lecture: Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science
While philosophers debate the nature of democratic citizenship, the practice of citizenship is disintegrating before our eyes. Vietnam killed the citizen army. Television killed the political party as a popular institution. The citizen jury is on the fringe of everyday life -- while jury duty has not yet completely disintegrated in manner of service in the citizen militia, it is nothing more than a momentary nuisance. The only significant institution that still invites involvement by ordinary people is the public school, and it too is under attack.
The rituals of citizenship have been stripped down to a precious few -- besides the formal act of voting, perhaps the most significant ordinary act of citizenship is to show one's passport at the border, and thereby gain admission to this land of peace and plenty. But it is quite possible to live life in America today without ever dealing with others as fellow citizens - fellow workers or professionals, yes; fellow religionists or union members, yes; but fellow citizens, focusing on our common predicament as Americans, no -- that's for TV pundits.
Within this setting, the disagreements between so-called communitarians like Mike Walzer and so-called liberals like myself pale into insignificance. For both of us, the foundation of legitimate politics is an ongoing conversation among citizens; and such a conversation presupposes that people recognize each other as the sorts of creatures who meaningfully engage in such conversations. This recognition does not emerge magically from a state of nature. While it might have evolved spontaneously under the conditions of the Greek polis or the Italian city-state, this is definitely not true today. It is perfectly possible for us to live in mass market society without ever taking citizenship seriously.
Rather than engaging in meta-speculation about the foundations of such a project, I will summarize three initiatives of mine that exemplify it. Each is a book I am writing in collaboration with a different co-author, and each gets on with the business of making a practical proposal which, if adopted, would create a new and meaningful context in which ordinary Americans would think of themselves as citizens, as opposed to mothers and fathers, workers or bosses, Catholics or Jews.
All three books adopt a stance that I will playfully call realistic utopian. Beginning with the realistic side of this oxymoron, each works out its particular proposal with all the tools of modern public policy analysis and aspires to the (undoubtedly unattainable) ideals of rigorous empirical demonstration prized in the Kennedy School and like institutions throughout the land. The task, in short, is to establish -- as well as such things can be established-- that the proposal will actually operate effectively as a functioning part of contemporary American society. But unlike most policy work, my focus is not on relatively minor modifications of the status quo, as defined by existing political forces and understandings. Instead, my aim is unabashedly driven by philosophical concerns: How might we change the world so as to create meaningful contexts for liberal citizenship? If something is doable, and pushes us in the right direction, then it should be added to the next liberal agenda. For God knows, we need a new liberal agenda, one more inspiring than subsidized prescriptions for the elderly and the elimination of the national debt by 2012.
I will end by taking a step back to the meta-level : suppose, heroically, that my three proposals seem both practical and desirable, what does that teach us about the daunting question I left dangling about the art of political invention: Is there anything generalizable to be learned from these three particular exercises in citizenship construction?
4:00pm, Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets
Discrete Mathematics: Methods and Challenges |
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[Lectures]
21 February 2001
Professor Noga Anon of Tel Aviv University will deliver the Tercentennial Lecture on Discrete Mathematics: Combinatorics is an essential component of many mathematical areas, and its study has experienced an impressive growth in recent years. I will discuss two of the main general techniques that played a crucial role in the development of modern combinatorics; algebraic methods and probabilistic methods. Both techniques will be illustrated by examples, where the emphasis is on the basic ideas, the connection to other areas, and the related open problems.
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm, Davies Auditorium, Dunham Lab, 15 Prospect Street
Globalization and the Environment: The Problem of Global Public Goods |
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[Lectures]
21 February 2001
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies: William Nordhaus, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics and former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, speaks on "The Problem of Global Public Goods."
Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY
The Bioethics of Children's Rights
[Seminar]
21 February 2001
ISPS Bioethics Seminar: Forum on Bioethical Issues in Society featuring Dr. Albert J. Solnit, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Former Director, Yale Child Study Center and former Commissioner, CT. State Department of Health Services
7:30 pm Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street
Reflections on International Security and Human Rights |
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[Lectures]
21 February 2001
International Security Studies: Harold H. Koh, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and Assistant Security of State of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US Department of State. Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.
4:30 pm Luce Hall Auditorium
Gordon Grand Lecture |
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[Lectures]
22 February 2001
Gordon Grand Fellowship: Paul Tagliabue, Commissioner of the National Football League (NFL), will speak on campus. He will deliver the Gordon Grand Lecture, "Pro Sports in the New Millennium."
4 pm President's House, 43 Hillhouse Avenue
Leadership in Religious Nonprofits
[Lectures]
22 February 2001
Institution for Social & Policy Studies: Sponsored by the Program on Non-Profit Organizations at ISPS, with William L. Sachs, Director of Research, Episcopal Church Foundation, Visiting Fellow, PONPO, Yale University
Basement of 77 Prospect Street
Struggling to Stay Human in Medicine: American Medical Students and Radical Health Movements in the 1960's |
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[Lectures]
22 February 2001
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Naomi Rogers, PhD. Director of Undergraduate Studies, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Yale University; Lecturer History of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine. Reception will follow.
5 pm, Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street
Theatrical Production |
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[Theater]
23 February - 24 February 2001
School of Medicine: Annual medical student show.
Harkness Hall
The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rev. Dr. Robert L. Johnson |
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25 February 2001
[Faith]
Chaplain's Office: Rev. Dr. Robert L. Johnson, Director Cornell United Religious Work, Cornell University, New York.
11:00 am Battell Chapel, Corner of Elm and College Streets
Professors and Policy Makers: Yale Law School in the New Deal and After |
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[Lectures]
26 February 2001
Law School: History of the Law School Series. Robert Gordon speaks on "Professors and Policy Makers: Yale Law School in the New Deal and After."
4:30 pm Yale Law School Room 127, 127 Wall Street
American Democracy and the Origins of the Biomedical Revolution |
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[Lectures]
27 February & 1 March 2001
DeVane Lecture: Joan A. Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
The biomedical revolution started in 1953 with the discovery of the structure of DNA, the genetic material, by Watson and Crick. This led to the growth of a new discipline called molecular biology. The resulting development in the mid-1970s of recombinant DNA spawned the biotechnology industry, advances in the prevention and treatment of disease (diagnostic tests, monitoring the blood supply), genetically modified foods and now the human genome. Why has this spectacular revolution in understanding and application occurred primarily in the US rather than in other nations equally competent in science?
We will discuss how diversity both in the structure of higher education in the US and in the funding of basic biomedical research has contributed. The decision of the American government after World War II to invest in basic research, leading to the founding of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and expansion of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was important. However, the non-hierarchical structure of faculties at research universities (both public and private) and the disproportionate representation of graduates of liberal arts colleges (which do not exist elsewhere in the world) in science are also major factors. Likewise, the plurality of funding sources that have supported pursuit-of-knowledge rather than strategic research goals has been critical. Both governmental agencies (NIH and NSF) and private foundations, such as the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), have relied on peer review, markedly increasing the probability of funding truly innovative ideas. Finally, the American scientist is not a passive recipient, but much more of an activist engaged in shaping research policy than scientists elsewhere.
4:00 pm Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets
MARCH '01
Medicine at Yale, 1901 - 1951 |
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[Exhibits]
Through March 2001
Yale School of Medicine: This photographic exhibit chronicles the history of the Yale Medical School. Free and open to the public.
Sterling Hall of Medicine, Medical Library Rotunda, 333 Cedar Street
Neighbors: Working Together for a Healthy New Haven |
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[Exhibits]
Through - March 2001
Yale School of Medicine: Tercentennial Photograph Exhibit. Free and open to the public.
Sterling Hall of Medicine, Medical Library Rotunda, 333 Cedar Street
Yale's Legacy of Inventors - Gibbs' Regulator |
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[Exhibits]
4 March 2001
Eli Whitney Museum: In honor of Yale's 300th Birthday, we will celebrate Yale's legacy of inventors. This month we'll construct a motor that thinks for itself about speed. Batteries included. Appropriate for children 11 and above.
Pre-reservation is advised: the materials are unusual and limited. All begin at 3 p.m.
Fee: $18, $15 for members *add $5 for materials
Eli Whitney Museum 915 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT Call 203- 777-1833
History of New Haven Medicine |
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[Lectures]
8 March 2001
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. Clinical Professor of Surgery and Gastroenterology Yale School of Medicine. Reception will follow.
5 pm, Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street
Democracy and Voluntarism
[Lectures]
8 March 2001
Yale Club/Dwight Hall: Robert Putnam, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and author, Bowling Alone; with a local panel.
1:00 pm
Creative Arts Workshop Celebrates Yale's Tercentennial: Yale School of Art Graduates at the Hilles Gallery |
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[Exhibits]
16 March - 22 April 2001
This exhibit features artwork by seventy-five graduates of the Yale School of Art. Free and open to the public.
Mon - Fri, 9 - 5, Sat 9 - noon
Hilles Gallery, Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT
History of Yale Law School |
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[Lectures]
19 March 2001
Yale Law School: Gaddis Smith, Larned Professor Emeritus History, speaks on" Law, Politics, and the University in the 20th Century." Free and open to the public.
4:30 pm Battell Chapel, Corner of Elm and College Streets
Private Foundations as a Federally Regulated Industry
[Lectures]
19 March 2001
Institution for Social & Policy Studies: John G. Simon, Augustus E. Lines Professor of Law, Yale Law School. For more information call 432-6297. Free and open to the public.
12 noon, Basement of 77 Prospect Street
New Research on the Vietnam War |
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[Lectures]
21 March 2001
International Security Studies: Lien-Hang Nguyen, History Department, Yale. Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security. For more information, visit www.yale.edu/iss/events_series_colloquium.htm.
4:30, Luce Hall, Room 103, Hillhouse Avenue
Boola, Boola . . . Yale Goes Coed
[Film]
20 & 22 March 2001
Women Faculty Forum sponsors a series of events to mark transformations that women at and from Yale have brought about.
This hour long documentary is about the early days of co-education at Yale. Filmmaker Julia Pimsleur made the film as an undergraduate in 1990, receiving the Sudler Prize for artistic achievement for her work.
Prior to each showing, faculty and administrators, who were involved in the beginnings of coeducation here at Yale, share brief personal recollections with the audience.
Confirmed speakers: Deans Richard Brodhead and Anthony Kronman, Professors Margaret Homans, Charles Musser, Cynthia Russett, and Gaddis Smith. Free and open to the public.
7 pm Yale University Art Gallery Lecture Hall (use High Street entrance)
Democracy and Computers -- Pitfalls, Possibilities |
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[Lectures]
20 & 22 March 2001
DeVane Lecture: David Gelernter, Professor of Computer Science. Are computers good or bad for democracy? (Or are they just irrelevant?) We need to ask first: what's good for democracy in general? Citizens who are well-informed, thoughtful, and feel responsible for the community. On that basis we might easily guess that computers are no good for democracy. They are said to make people well informed, but ARE Americans well informed? (About what? We aren't even well-informed about computers.) It seems unlikely that computers make us thoughtful. (The kind of thoughtfulness that is most useful to a democracy centers, presumably, on experience, knowledge -- especially of history -- and common sense. Computers haven't contributed much in any of these departments.) And it seems possible that, in the long run, computers and the internet diminish our sense of responsibility to the community, insofar as they tend to connect us directly to the things we want instead of requiring that we work through human intermediaries.
We might even guess that computers are not merely no good for democracy, that they are actively bad for it. Computers and the internet, we might guess, have become American society's Big Theme (having lucked into the role when the Cold War retired). This topic more than any other is covered relentlessly in the press, fretted-over in the schools and discussed endlessly by everyone everywhere.
American society shows alarming signs of being molded around computers like limp plastic around a metal form. And we might easily guess that, as Big Themes go, this is a bad one -- because it is morally, spiritually and intellectually empty. Not that computers are intrinsically a vacuous topic, not at all; it's just that we like to treat them as if they were.
But this story doesn't have to be wholly negative. There are many things computers might do for democracy, in principle. They might diminish our sense of responsibility to the community, but they might also reconnect the community. Eventually they might in fact make citizens better informed. They might help us recover from the plague of passive reliance on professionals and experts that has afflicted us for so long. They might improve our schools. We make such developments more likely when we refuse to take the goodness of computers for granted, and insist on approaching them with the critical skepticism for which we are so highly celebrated. Free and open to the public.
4:00 pm Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets
Science, Technology and Politics |
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[Lectures]
22 March 2001
Engineering Department: Dr. D. Allan Bromley, Sterling Professor of the Sciences and Former Dean of Engineering will be visiting the Faculty of Engineering as a Sheffield Fellow. His talk is entitled "Science, Technology and Politics."
D. Allan Bromley is the first Sterling professor of the Sciences at Yale University and from 1989 to 1993 was the Assistant to the President of the United States for Science and Technology; from 1994 to 2000 he was Dean of Engineering at Yale. A member of the Yale faculty since 1960, he is the founder of the Nuclear Structure Laboratory that from 1963 to 1989 graduated more nuclear scientists than any other institution world wide. He has served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and of the American Physical Society. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1988 was awarded the US National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, by President Regan. Free and open to the public.
4:00 pm Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, Room 114, Corner of Grove and College/Prospect
Globalization and the Environment: The Nexus and the Neem Tree |
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[Lectures]
22 March 2001
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Robert Kates, former Professor at Brown University, speaks on "The Nexus and the Neem Tree." Free and open to the public.
5:00 pm Bowers Auditorium, 205 Prospect Street
Democracy and Social Justice: International Perspectives
[Lectures]
22 March 2001
Democratic Vistas: Rev. Bryan J. Hehir, Chair of the Executive Committee of Harvard Divinity School and a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Center for International Affairs, presents the annual More House Lecture in conjunction with Yale's Tercentennial. He discusses issues of social justice from international vantage points. The event is part of the Democratic Vistas program.
Bruce Russett, Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations and Political Science Director of United National Studies, will respond.
Professor Hehir's writing and research address issues of ethics, foreign policy and international relations as well as Catholic social ethics and the role of religion in world politics.
The public is invited to attend this engaging and inspiring lecture to learn more about the important developments that continue to shape the foundations of Catholic social justice teaching and its impact on democracy in the modern world.
7:30 p.m. Saint Thomas More Chapel and Center, 268 Park Street, New Haven, CT
Yale Lesbian, Gay Bi & Trans Pride Week |
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[Theater]
23 March - 31 March 2001
Performance artists, playwrights, filmmakers, comedians and more. The LGBT Co-op plans a school-wide Pride Week inviting people throughout New Haven, Connecticut and the Yale community to attend. Events will be on campus and open to all. Please contact Laura Horak at laura.horak@yale.edu for more information and updates.
Reinventing the Melting Pot
[Conference/Symposium]
23 March 2001
Democratic Vistas Public Forum: Today, as at the turn of the twentieth century, few issues loom larger for the future of America than the influx of new immigrants arriving on its' shores. Counting both legal and illegal migrants, roughly a million people now enter the country each year, and by 2050, if today's projections are correct, a third of all Americans will be either Asian or Latino. Yet for a variety of reasons - both economic and cultural - many fear that the melting pot will not work for this great wave as it worked in the past for other newcomers. In the face of today's realities - everything from multiculturalism to cheap international air travel to deindustrialization, residential segregation, and the rise of the knowledge economy - scholars and social critics alike are rethinking the concept of immigrant absorption.
The first panel, from 1 to 3:30 pm, "Assimilation: Toward a New Definition," will consider ways to reframe the concept of assimilation to take account of today's realities. This session will be moderated by journalist Tamar Jacoby, Yale '76, a Senior Fellow at The Manhattan Institute. Guest participants will include David A. Hollinger, professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley; Michael Lind, senior fellow at the New America Foundation; Douglas S. Massey, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania; Orlando Patterson, professor of sociology at Harvard; and Alejandro Portes, professor of sociology at Princeton.
The second panel, from 3:45 to 6 p.m., "Immigration and the Urban Experience: New Haven and Elsewhere," will be moderated by Yale Professor of Political Science Rogers Smith, and will address the concrete implications of assimilation for cities like New Haven, comparing the experience of today's migrants with those, both black and white, who came in an earlier era. Professor Stephan Thernstrom of Harvard will offer a historical perspective, comparing conditions "then" and conditions "now," with some reference to the existing scholarship on the New Haven experience. Yale Professor of Management and Political Science Douglas Rae will discuss how the issues raised in the first panel are playing out in America's cities, including New Haven, in view of the altered economic and political conditions since the time of the first great wave of immigration. Local leaders Patricia McCann Vissepo (executive director of Casa Otonal, a senior citizens center, former President of the Board of Education, and a columnist for the New Haven Register) and Lyndon Pitter (executive director of Highville Mustardseed Community Development Corporation and founder of a charter school) will offer comments based on the New Haven experience. Professor Smith moderates. This event is free and open to the public.
1-6 p.m. Yale Law School Auditorium, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT.
American Society of Church Historians |
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[Alumni/AYA/Reunions]
23 March --24 March 2001
Divinity School: Meeting of the American Society of Church Historians, hosted by the Divinity School. The movie "Amistad" will be shown followed by a panel discussion.
The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rev. Dr. Jewelnel Davis |
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25 March 2001
[Faith]
Chaplain's Office: Rev. Dr. Jewelnel Davis, Chaplain, Columbia University, New York. Free and open to the public.
11:00 am, Battell Chapel, Corner of College and Elm Streets
Yale: Crossing International Boundaries - A Tercentennial Retrospective |
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26 March - 4 May 2001
[Exhibits/Lectures]
Sterling Memorial Library, Manuscripts and Archives: This retrospective entitled "The Near East, Africa and Yale: Archival Collection from Cairo to Cape Town," also includes two lectures:
March 26, Ben Foster, Professor of Assyriology lectures on "Yankees in Eden: Yale and the Beginnings of Arabic Study in the United States," 3 - 5 p.m. A reception follows.
March 28, David Apter, Professor Emeritus Sociology, lectures on "Perspectives on Africa," 3 - 5 p.m. A reception follows.
Exhibit: Manuscripts and Archives Memorabilia Room, Wall Street, 8:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Lectures: Take place in adjoining lecture hall in Sterling Memorial Library 3 - 5 p.m.
Democracy and Education |
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[Lectures]
27 & 29 March 2001
DeVane Lecture: Richard Brodhead, Dean of Yale College and A.Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English and Professor of American Studies
This lecture takes note of the fact that, while our political democracy has long looked to the schools as a training ground for citizens, the relation between democracy and schooling has been complex and tension-ridden throughout this country's history. In almost every generation, American schools have found inspiring new missions as they have been asked to make new dreams of democratic community come true. At the same time, in giving them institutionalized form, schools have also displayed the limitations of these visions and highlighted their unforeseen social implications-with the result that the school has also been a special site of controversy in America, the home at once of democracy's special hopes, fears, frustrations, and inner struggles. The lecture will explore the complexities of this relation by looking at three notable chapters in the history of American education: Thomas Jefferson's plan for schools for post-revolutionary Virginia; the movement, associated with Horace Mann, that pressed for compulsory universal public education in the antebellum era; and the democratization of college and university admissions-at Yale and elsewhere-in the century just closed. Free and open to the public.
4:00 pm Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets
A Hero for Daisy
[Film]
28 March 2001
Women Faculty Forum: This one-hour documentary is about two-time Olympian Chris Ernst, who galvanized her rowing team to storm the Yale Athletic Director's office in 1976 protesting the lack of proper locker room facilities for women. The incident did much to alert the nation about the inequities that persisted after the passage of Title IX legislation. Free and open to the public.
7pm Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102, High Street, New Haven, CT
Genes and Individuality - Tetelman Lectures |
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[Lectures]
28 March --30 March 2001
Sciences & Engineering: The Tetelman Lectures, which bring distinguished scientists and engineers to campus, will feature Sidney Brenner and will be hosted by Yale Professor Sydney Altman. Gary Haller, Becton Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Master of Jonathan Edwards College, is organizing this series. Free and open to the public.
March 28 - 5:15 p.m. Yale Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street
March 30 - 12:30 p.m. 226 Osborn Memorial Laboratory, 165 Prospect Street
Women at Yale and Beyond (WAY Beyond)
[Seminars/Panels]
29 March 2001
Women at Yale Series: This panel discussion invites distinguished alumnae of Yale College to reflect on their experiences at Yale and also on their lives since graduation. Each panelist shares with the audience (many of who will be current undergraduates) her views on how being a woman influenced her years at Yale and later career. Free and open to the public.
Confirmed speakers:
Professor Kathleen Cleaver, BA '84, JD '89, lawyer, author, and former Black Panther.
Laura Scher, BA '80, CEO Working Assets
Sandra Boynton, BA '74, DRA `79
7:00 pm, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102, High Street
U.S. Postal Card and U.N. Commemorative Cancellation Ceremony |
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[Ceremonies]
30 March 2001
Connecticut Hall: In honor of Yale's Tercentennial, the U.S. Postal Service will dedicate a postal card featuring Connecticut Hall, Yale's (and New Haven's) oldest building. Remarks by Douglas Lewis ('60 B.A., '63 M.A., '67 PhD), Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art and for over twenty years Vice Chair of the U.S. Postal Service's Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee. The United Nations Postal Administration will dedicate a commemorative cancellation featuring Harkness Tower and the Tercentennial logo. Remarks by Joseph Verner Reed ('61 B.A.), Under Secretary-General, United National.
11:30am Connecticut Hall, 344 College Street, Old Campus
Beginning with the Humanities
[Symposia]
30 March - 31 March 2001
Whitney Humanities Center: This symposium is devoted to examining the relations of humanistic thinking and methods of interpretation to the emergent research paradigms in the biological and physical sciences, in the social sciences, in law, architecture, theology, and other fields which, at Yale, have been and will continue to be important interlocutors in the definition of the university of the twenty-first century. Topics for panel discussion include Enlightenments: Moments of Renewal at Yale; Epistemology & Certainty in Sciences & the Humanities; and The Public Face of the Humanities.
30 March 2001
Enlightenments: Moments of Renewals at Yale
10 am - 12:15 pm 53 Wall Street
Defining Moments - Moderator: Margaret Homans
This panel will address three defining moments from Yale's past:
- the life and presidency of Ezra Stiles in the late 18th Century-the time when the intellectual adventurousness and critical spirit of the Enlightenment, well represented by this remarkable polymath, and author of a Plan of a University, truly became part of Yale, and new fields of knowledge entered the college
Speakers: Paul Fry, Edmund Morgan
- the 1828 Report on the Curriculum by the Yale College Faculty-an enormously influential and generally conservative, document that reaffirmed the importance of Classical Antiquity in the curriculum, and of the distinctive education provided by a college, as opposed, on the one hand, to an "academy," and, on the other hand, to a university on the German model-offers a way into discussion of the history and meaning of the Yale curriculum.
Speakers: W. Bliss Carnochan, John Demos
- Kingman Brewster's years-the 1960s and 1970s at Yale, and the changes brought in admissions, the composition of the student body (including the first women undergraduates); the emergence of the modern University in a role of national and international leadership; Yale's role in the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War resistance.
Speakers: Nicholas Lemann, Deborah Rhode, Kurt Schmoke, Daniel Yergin
Darkness & Truth: Enlightenment & Inequality in the Social Sciences and History - Moderator: David Apter
Often we presume that enlightenment and a heightened embrace of humane moral egalitarianism go hand-in-hand. But American intellectual history raises serious doubts about whether this has always been the case, to the point where we might ask whether we can really expect it to be so. Leading Yale figures have played an important role in that history. In the late 19th century, the rise of the social sciences represented simultaneously a break from Yale's humanistic and religious curriculum and an embrace of both racial and economic inegalitarianism. Yale's first professor of sociology and political science, William Graham Sumner, famously argued for public policies premised on the "survival of the fittest." An early Yale Ph.D. in economics, Thorstein Veblen, contended that modern capitalist societies made people obsessed with their relative economic statuses. The great Yale southern historian Ulrich Phillips contended that Reconstruction's presumptions of racial equality had led to grievous errors and injustices. In the second half of the 20th century, Yale social scientists such as V. O. Key, Jr., Robert Dahl, and James Tobin, and historians such as David Potter, C. Van Woodward, David Brion Davis and Glenda Gilmore charted very different intellectual courses. Yet at the dawn of the 21st century, as the modern welfare state and the policies of the "Second Reconstruction" are increasingly criticized, the question of the relationship of enlightenment to egalitarianism remains fundamental and unresolved.
Speakers: James Farr, Glenda Gilmore, Daniel Rodgers
Respondents: David Brion Davis, Rogers Smith
3:45-5:45pm: 53 Wall Street
31 March 2001
Epistemology and Certainty on Sciences and Humanities: 10 am - 12 noon
Public Face of the Humanities: 1:30 - 3:30
Concluding Remarks: 3:45 - 4:30
53 Wall Street
Yaledancers Spring Concert |
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[Music/Student]
30 March -- 31 March 2001
Yaledancers Spring Concert: Yaledancers, the University's oldest dance group founded in 1973, will honor dance at Yale with two performances at New Haven's Palace Theater. The company is dedicated to the choreography and performance of a wide variety of dance styles. Please contact Tara Sugiyama at (203) 436-4328 or email tara.sugiyama@yale.edu for more information. For tickets ($8 students, $15 for adults), call The Palace Theater box office at (203) 789-2120.
8 p.m., The Palace Theater, 246 College Street, New Haven
APRIL '01
Gordon Grand Lecture |
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[Lectures]
2 April 2001
Grand Fellowship and the School of Architecture: Richard Meier will give a public lecture co-sponsored by the Gordon Grand Fellowship and the School of Architecture.
Advocacy
[Lectures]
2 April 2001
ISPS Lecture: Elizabeth Boris, Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropy, and The Urban Institute.
Basement of 77 Prospect
Democracy and the Family |
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[Lectures]
3 & 5 April 2001
DeVane Lecture: Nancy F. Cott, Stanley Woodward Professor of History and American Studies
The lecture on Democracy and the Family will focus on the national public values associated with private families in the twentieth-century United States. This linkage rose to a new level of emphasis during World War II, when political discourse embraced liberty, privacy, and consent as hallmarks of American families. The U.S Supreme Court set these linkages into constitutional interpretation at mid-century, fusing the protection of marital intimacy to the political principles of American democracy, and thus underpinning contemporary constitutional doctrine on privacy rights. The emotional and material comforts of home have continued to be seen as personally-chosen private freedoms and at the same time as public emblems of the nation, essential to its existence and defense. My lecture will pursue the shifting but persistent invocation of these themes through the second half of the twentieth century, in which, it could be said, American political discourse invokes a particular family form as democracy,s most appealing common denominator. Free and open to the public.
Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets 4:00 PM
Yale, America, and the World, 1701
[Lectures]
4 April 2001
International Security Studies: John Demos, Knight Professor of History, Yale University gives this lecture. The first of five lectures in the ISS Tercentennial lecture Series on "Yale, America, and the World." Only the first two hundred arrivals can be seated in the auditorium. Followed by a public reception at the Center for British Art.
Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 4:00
In the Company of Scholars |
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[Lectures]
9 April 2001
Graduate School: Robert Birgeneau (Ph.D. 1966), president of the University of Toronto and former dean of science at MIT, speaks today.
4:00 pm, Davies Auditorium, Beckton Faculty Lounge, 15 Prospect Street
Globalization and the Environment: Globalization: Impacts on Environmental and Social Goals |
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[Lectures]
10 April 2001
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Jerry Mander speaks on "Globalization: Impacts on Environmental and Social Goals." Jerry Mander is a senior fellow at the non profit Public Center in San Francisco and is program director of the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is co-foundre and chair of the International Forum on Globalization, an international organization of activists opposed to the global economy. He is the author of Four arguments for the elimination of Television; In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian nations; and The Case Against the Global Economy and For a Turn Toward the Local.
Bowers Auditorium Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street 5:00 pm
Can Religion Tolerate Democracy (and Vice Versa)? |
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[Lectures]
10 & 12 April 2001
DeVane Lecture: Stephen L. Carter, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law
As we look toward the future of religion in America, we can note three intersecting trends. First, the American people are, and seem likely to remain, by far the most deeply religious people in the Western world, and religious people tend to see their world in religious terms. Second, both political philosophy and elite opinion insist on the view that religious sentiment is a contaminant in politics, and in the public conversation that should characterize liberal democracy. Third, the Supreme Court, often relied upon as the referee, has more or less quit the field.
This lecture will examine strong religious devotion from the point of view of liberal democracy, and liberal democracy from the point of view of strong religious devotion. Some of it will be history, some of it will be theory, and some of it will be constitutional law - but most of it will be practical reality, less what should be than what is, for accurately recognizing the features of the world we inhabit is necessarily prior to deciding whether to try to change them.
The basic thesis is this: As liberal democracy grows increasingly scientistic, its structures of authority will necessarily become less populist, as well as less attuned to modes of belief and of living that depart from scientistic norms. At the same time, religious will find themselves under pressure to accede to the norms of liberal culture. Each will struggle to change the other. But democracy without religion is empty of meaning, and religion without democracy is empty of faith. We fought those battles once already in America, at the dawn of the twentieth century. How appropriate to find ourselves revisiting them at the dawn of the twenty-first. Free and open to the public.
Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets 4:00 PM
Yale, America, and the World, 1801
[Lectures]
11 April 2001
International Security Studies: Linda Colley, Leverhulme Research Professor in History, London School of Economics and Political Science gives this lecture. The second of five lectures in the ISS Tercentennial Lecture Series on "Yale, America, and the World." Only the first two hundred arrivals can be seated in the Auditorium. Followed by a public reception at the Yale Center for British Art.
Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 4:00 p.m.
A Legacy of Medicine in Art: The Clements C. Fry Collection at Yale |
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[Lectures]
12 April 2001
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Susan Wheeler, Consultant, The Clements C. Fry Collection, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Yale School of Medicine. Reception will follow.
Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street, 5 pm
Seven Days in November: How the Events of November 18-24, 1963 Shaped the American Courses of Action in Vietnam |
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[Lectures]
12 April 2001
International Security Studies: Jon Persoff, History Department, Yale. part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.
TBD, Luce Hall Room 103, Hillhouse Avenue
Nonprofit Organizations and Democracy
[Lectures]
16 April 2001
ISPS Lecture: Mark Rosenman, Vice President for Social Responsibility, Union Institute& Jim Riker, Coordinator of the Nonprofit Leadership & Democracy Project at the Union Institute.
Basement of 77 Prospect
Measuring Community Benefit and the Role of Nonprofit Managed Care Organizations
[Lectures]
16 April 2001
ISPS Lecture: Mark Schlesinger, Associate Professor of Public Health & Division Head, Health Policy Administration, Yale University.
Basement of 77 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT
Let Justice Roll Down: Faith and Citizenship in New Haven
[Lectures]
16 April 2001
Democratic Vistas Public Forums: Featuring a national spokesperson on the role of religion in the pursuit of democratic values. Moderated by Rev. Bonita Grubbs, Director, Christian Community Action. With Rev. Dr. Harold Dean Trulear, and a panel of local activists including Dr. Jimmy Jones, Rev. Scott Marks, Pat Speer, Patricia Wallace.
First and Summerfield Methodist Church, On the New Haven Green at Elm & College Streets, 4:30 p.m.
Democracy and Foreign Policy |
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[Lectures]
17 & 19 April 2001
DeVane Lecture: John Lewis Gaddis, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History
This lecture will begin with a short history of American thinking on the issue of whether the United States should try to spread democracy elsewhere, focusing especially on the tension between the idea that people should determine their own forms of government, on the one hand, and belief in the superiority of American institutions, on the other. It will then examine the actual expansion of democracy throughout the world during the 20th century, with a view to determining the extent to which American actions - deliberate or otherwise - helped to bring about this result. The lecture will conclude with an assessment of prospects for this trend toward global democratisation in the 21st century, and with an evaluation of arguments for and against the proposition that sustaining it is or should be a vital national interest for the United States.
Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets 4:00 PM
Secret State Experiments on Humans
[Lectures]
18 April 2001
Lecture: John Moreno: Korfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics & Director of Center for Medical Ethics, University of Virgina, Charlottsville, Virgina
Slifka Center, Wall Street, New Haven, CT 7:30 p.m
Is the Press part of the Public? Local Media and Local Democracy
[Lectures]
18 April 2001
Poynter Fellowship/Democratic Vistas Public Forums: Featuring a national spokesperson for the "civic journalism" movement, Jay Rosen of NYU, author of "What are Journalists For?," with a panel including regional journalists Dan Barry of The New York Times and Duby McDowell (NBC 30-TV), Mary O'Leary of the New Haven Register, Paul Bass of The New Haven Advocate, and local public official Henry Fernandez, Economic Development administrator for the City of New Haven. Moderated by writer Lincoln Caplan, Knight Senior Journalist at the Yale Law School.
Yale Law School, Room 127, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 4:00 p.m.
Art For Yale: Defining Moments |
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[Exhibits]
20 April --31 August 2001
Yale University Art Gallery: This major exhibition traces the history of the Yale Art Gallery from its founding in 1832 to the end of the twentieth century. There will be a "Defining Moments " reception on April 20, 2001 at the Art Gallery.
YUAG, 1111 Chapel Street, Tues - Sat 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sun 1 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Royal Blue Yale University Tercentennial Concert |
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[Music]
19 April 2001
School of Music: John Mauceri, BA '67, M Phil '70, will lead members of the Yale Symphony, the Yale Philharmonia, the Yale Glee Club, and the Yale Camerata in a gala concert of works by Strauss, Ives, Hindemith, Walton, Thompson, Parry, and Verdi.
After leading the Yale Symphony from 1968-1973, John Mauceri built a distinguished career with engagements with the world's foremost opera companies and symphony orchestras and with his work for musical theater and film. Admission is free and open to the public. This concert is being sponsored by Fleet Bank. Tickets are available at Yale300 Office, 2 Whitney Avenue, 1st Floor or the School of Music, 432 College Street. For information, call 203-432-0300.
Woolsey Hall, Corner of Grove and College Streets, New Haven, CT 8:00 PM
Yale Chinese: Images from Home
[Exhibit/Student]
19 April 2001
Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale (ACSSY): The Chinese students and scholars community forms the largest foreign student body here at Yale. This exhibit is a celebration of diversity and individuality in the Chinese community, as well as a truthful visual representation of China and some of its everyday citizens. It provides the Yale community with a fuller picture of its Chinese colleagues and friends: where they came from, how they grew up, and what kind of lives they led at home. This photographic exhibit opens Thursday, April 19th. For more information about ACSSY and the exhibit, please visit www.yale.edu/acssy . Admission is free. Call the Yale-China Association for more information 203-432-0880. This exhibit can also be viewed by special appointment.
9:00 - 5:00 M-F Yale-China Association, 442 Temple Street, New Haven, CT
Alumni Leadership Reunion/300 Years of Creativity and Discovery |
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[Alumni/AYA/Reunions]
19 April -- 22 April 2001
Alumni/Yale Tercentennial: This weekend honors those who have given particular alumni leadership to the University and showcases the creativity of faculty, alumni, and students over the past three centuries. A Tercentennial Gala concert combines the forces of the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale, Yale Symphony, Yale Glee Club, Yale Alumni Chorus, and Yale Camerata on April 19. The Yale Concert Band offers a tribute to Yale music entitled "Light Blue" on April 20. The weekend closes with a worship service.
Many of these lectures and presentations will be available as streaming video starting Tuesday, April 24th. Please check back to view these events at that time."
Light Blue Concert: The Lighter Side of Yale |
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[Music]
20 April 2001
School of Music: Thomas C. Duffy directs the Yale Concert Band for an evening of musical entertainment. This event is for visiting alumni. Tickets are available for Yale students, staff and faculty. For further information, click here.
Woolsey Hall | 8 - 9:30 PM
Student Research Day
[Lectures]
20 April 2001
School of Medicine: Dr. Paul Greengard, 200 Nobel Laureate will deliver the Farr Lecture at the 15th Annual Student Research Day at 4:30 p.m. The activities begin at 12 noon with over 50 medical students presenting the results of their thesis research work at a scientific poster session. Also, five students whose research was selected for special honors will give oral presentations of their work. All presentations are in the Jane Ellen Hope Building.
12 noon - 4:30 pm, Jane Ellen Hope Building, 315 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT
Creative Arts Workshop Celebrates Yale's Tercentennial: Yale School of Art Graduates at the Hilles Gallery |
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[Exhibits]
Through - 22 April 2001
This exhibit features artwork by seventy-five graduates of the Yale School of Art. On display are works in a wide range of media and styles from minimalist sculpture to landscape painting. Participating artists include Rudolph F. Zallinger, Jean Day Zallinger, Erwin Hauer, Norman Ives, Sheila Levrant de Brettville and more than 30 others. For more information about this event please contact Hilary Sierpinski, 562-4927 ext 14. Free and open to the public.
Mon - Fri, 9 - 5, Sat 9 - noon
Hilles Gallery, Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT
Yale College Opera Company - "Die Verschworenen" and "Riders to the Sea" |
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[Music]
20 - 21 April 2001
Department of Music: The Yale College Opera Company, in collaboration with the Yale Bach Society Orchestra, presents a fully staged operatic double bill on April 20 and 21-Franz Schubert's entertaining and rarely heard "Die Verschworenen" and Ralph Vaughan-Williams' tragic "Riders to the Sea." The Yale College Opera Company is Yale's only undergraduate opera organization founded in 1998. For more information, call Evan Bialostozky at 203-436-1467.
Friday, April 20, African-American House, Park Street, New Haven, CT 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 21, African-American House, Park Street, New Haven, CT 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 22, 9:00 p.m.
Digital Art Exhibit
21 April - 23 May 2001
[Exhibits]
Digital Media Center for the Arts: Digital artwork by students, faculty and guest artists on exhibit through May. Please call DMCA at 432-8188 for more information.
DMCA Lobby, 149 York Street, New Haven, CT Mon- Fri 10 - 5, Sun 12 noon - 10 p.m.
Abstract Cisms
21 April 2001
[Concert]
Digital Media Center for the Arts: Kathryn Alexander presents an interactive concert. Continuous performances served "cybercafe style," in conjunction with the Digital artwork exhibit. For more information, call DMCA at 432-8188.
DMCA Lobby, 149 York Street, New Haven, CT
Yale's Legacy of Inventors - MacCready's Gossamer Wings |
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[Exhibits]
22 April 2001
In honor of Yale's 300th Birthday, we will celebrate Yale's legacy of inventors. This month we'll construct ultra light flyers in the tradition of Paul MacCready's Gossamer Albatross. Appropriate for children 11 and above.
Pre-reservation is advised: the materials are unusual and limited. All begin at 3 p.m.
Fee: $18, $15 for members *add $5 for materials
Eli Whitney Museum 915 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT Call 203- 777-1833
Worship Service |
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[Faith]
22 April 2001
AYA/Yale Tercentennial: Bishop Victoria Matthews preaching.
11 am, Battell Chapel, Corner of Elm and College Streets
The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rt. Rev. Victoria Matthews |
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22 April 2001
[Faith]
Chaplain's Office: Bishop, Diocese of Edmonton, Canada gives today's sermon.
11 am, Battell Chapel, Corner of Elm and College Streets
From Legal Process to Law and Economics Without Stopping at Critical Legal Studies: Yale Law School in the 1960s and 1970s |
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[Lectures]
23 April 2001
Yale Law School: History of the Law School series. Laura Kalman speaks on "From Legal Process to Law and Economics Without Stopping at Critical Legal Studies: Yale Law School in the 1960s and 1970s.
Microscopy: Tools of the Biochemical Sciences |
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[Exhibits]
April 2001
School of Medicine: Martin E. Gordon, M.D. Free and open to the public.
Sterling Hall of Medicine, Medical Library, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT
Mon - Fri 8:30 a.m. - 12 noon, Sat 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., Sun 10 a.m. - noon,
4:30 pm, Battell Chapel, Corner of Elm and College Streets
Meritocracy and Democracy: The Temptations of Mechanical, "Objective," and Impersonal Measures of Quality |
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[Lectures]
24 & 26 April 2001
DeVane Lecture: James C. Scott, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology
"Why are nearly all modern democracies, as well as large bureaucracies, inclined to devise impersonal, mechanical, 'objective' measures for what most of us would agree are qualitative judgments? Thus, although we now understand that there are many kinds of intelligence (analytical, aesthetic, imaginative, mechanical, spatial, etc), intelligence is, for the purpose of college admissions, gauged by the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Many of the benefits and burdens of large projects (dams, agricultural colonization, roads) defy measurement. And yet, a single metric called 'cost-benefit analysis' which assumes that all outcomes are commensurable, is typically used to evaluate them, whether by the World Bank, Ministries of Public Works, or development consultants. Why are professors increasingly evaluated by the number of articles, books, and their "social science citation index' scores? Why are school teachers judges by the mean scores of their pupils? What are the consequences of judging the quality of people and their work in this fashion? Why, in other words, do political systems designed to peaceably resolve differences in values actually end up removing so much of the stuff of politics to the realm of technical calculation? Free and open to the public.
Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets 4:00 PM
Evolution of Infectious Disease 53rd Annual Keynote Address presented by the Associates of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library |
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[Lectures]
25 April 2001
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Joshua Lederberg, M.D., PhD. Emeritus President, Nobel Laureate, Rockefeller University. Reception will follow.
Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street, 5 pm
Gloria
[Exhibits]
26 April 2001
Digital Media Center for the Arts: Special Project Presentation.Jack Vees and Libby van Cleve present Gloria. Times may change and new events are scheduled periodically; check this space or look for posters around campus. For more information about these eventsemail Laraine Sammler laraine.sammler@yale.edu). Directionsto the DMCA's 149 York Street facility are available online.
Sprague Hall at 8pm
Dissolving Boundaries: Law, Law Jobs, and the Role of Law Schools in the New Century |
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[Conferences]
27 April -- 29 April 2001
Yale Law School: A Tercentennial conference on legal education examines the changing boundaries of legal teaching, scholarship, and practice as Yale enters its fourth century. Internally, legal scholars and teachers are drawing methods, materials, and styles of argument from other disciplines. Externally, lawyers are joining investment bakers, business consultants, and other professionals in multidisciplinary practices. Yale's Tercentennial provides an occasion to take stock of the ways in which the traditional boundaries that defined the teaching, study, and practice of law have dissolved or been redrawn, and to inquire how law schools may best to - and actively try to shape - these changes. For more information, call 203-432-1660.
The Paul Mellon Bequest: Treasures of a Lifetime |
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[Exhibits]
Through --29 April 2001
Yale Center for British Art: To honor its founder and patron, Paul Mellon, the Yale Center for British Art exhibits publicly for the first time works from Mr. Mellon's final gift to the museum. The exhibition includes eleven paintings by his favorite artist, George Stubbs, and eighteen oil sketches by John Constable. For more information on BAC exhibitions throughout the Tercentennial year, see www.yale.edu/ycba. Free and open to the public.
Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street
MAY '01
Pictures of the People: Visual Multiples and their Role as Supporting Tools for the Democratic Process |
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[Lectures]
1 & 3 May 2001
DeVane Lecture: Richard Benson, Dean of the School of Art, Professor of Photography
The question underlying the lecture will be of the chicken and egg variety did technological innovation precede social developments, and make them possible, or did desire and need drive the development of technology.
This point can be nicely illustrated by examining the origin of printing from moveable type. The development of this invention had nothing to do with a philosophical ideal, such as disseminating knowledge broadly to a previously un-empowered audience; rather printing was invented simply to make cheaper books. Only after its establishment did the possibility of widespread education, through the production of identical multiple copies, become a possibility. Free and open to the public.
I will show pictures that illuminate 5 major technical aspects of pictures:
1 The nature of pictures as representational, symbolic or decorative.
2 The development of pictures that can move (not moving pictures, but rather ones that can travel to widespread audiences)
3 The revolutionary possibilities of identical multiple images.
4 The invention and implications of photography.
5 The steadily decreasing mass of printing matrices and multiple picture forms.
All of this is about the dissemination of knowledge through the power of pictures, and the manner in which systems such as democracy can grow to previously unheard of scales through the efficient spread of identical blocks of information through visual forms that exist in multiple copies. Free and open to the public.
Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets 4:00 PM
Yale 300 In Asia |
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[Alumni/AYA/Reunions]
4 May -- 5 May 2001
Yale 300 in Asia: Yale University hosts a celebration of Yale's 300th in Hong Kong, to which alumni from all over Asia are invited. The event features a day-long symposium of distinguished faculty and international guests discussing political and economic issues where East and West meet; a luncheon at which Yale's new Center of Globalization is officially launched; a gala black-tie ball that promises to be the birthday party of the century; and more. Click here for details and registration information.
Protein Structure, Function and Folding |
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[Symposia]
4-5 May 2001
The Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry is sponsoring a symposium honoring the life and work of the late Professor Paul B. Sigler, The program includes three scientific sessions and two major social occasions, with an internationally distinguished list of speakers. Details are available at the symposium website, http://www.csb.yale.edu/PBSSymposium.
Yale's Legacy of Inventors - Bushnell's (submarine) Turtle |
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[Exhibits]
6 May 2001
In honor of Yale's 300th Birthday, we will celebrate Yale's legacy of inventors. This month we'll construct a working replica (in a bottle) of the submarine that attacked the British Fleet. Appropriate for children 11 and above.
Pre-reservation is advised: the materials are unusual and limited. All begin at 3 p.m.
Fee: $18, $15 for members *add $5 for materials
Eli Whitney Museum 915 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT Call 203- 777-1833
Yale-China Centennial Celebration |
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[Ceremonies]
10 May 2001
Yale-China Association: The Tercentennial coincides with Yale-China's centennial. A featured program is the celebration on May 10 in Changsha, where Yale-China's work abroad began and where the middle school, hospital, and medical college established by Yale-China are still thriving. For more information, visit www.yale.edu/yalechina.
Yale Club of New Haven awards Inaugural Prize |
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[Ceremonies]
11 May 2001
Gabrielle Brainard, Class of 2001, will receive the Inaugural Richard Hegal Prize for her essay "Party Walls: Understanding Urban Change through a Block of New Haven Row Houses, 1870 1979." The Yale Club of New Haven thought it a fitting way to celebrate the bond between New Haven and Yale by setting up the annual award in Yale's Tercentennial Year.
The contest, which is open only to Yale students, is named after Richard Hegal, Class of 1950, the municipal historian for the city of New Haven. Along with the publication of her essay, Ms. Brainard will receive a monetary award of $500.
Yale-China Centennial Tour of Program Sites |
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[Trips]
2 May -- 19 May 2001
Yale-China Association: This trip will include major Yale-China Centennial events in China, Yale University's Tercentennial celebration in Hong Kong and, of course, some sightseeing. The main focus will be on Yale-China's teaching sites in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Changsha and Ningbo. The trip will provide an unusual opportunity to see China through its educational institutions, as well as our young teachers, their students, and our Chinese partners in Yale-China's work.
For more information, please call 203-432-0880 or email: yale-china@yale.edu
The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rev. Dr. Eileen Lindner |
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13 May 2001
[Faith]
Chaplain's Office: Deputy General Secretary for Research and Planning, National Council of Churches, New York Acting Director, Children's Defense Fund Religious Affairs gives today's sermon. Free and open to the public.
Battell Chapel, 11:00 am
New Haven & Yale - Tercentennial Art Exhibition |
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[Exhibit]
Through June 2001
Throughout the years, Yale University has been involved in many projects with New Haven Public Schools; many high school students take courses here, hundreds of students take part in Yale's National Youth Sports Program, and thousands of students visit the campus to attend concerts and athletics events and tour our museums and libraries.
Yale continues this tradition with the Tercentennial Art Exhibition, which features the art and photography of students from; Beecher School, Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School, Clinton Avenue School, Conte/West Hills Magnet School, Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School, East Rock Magnet School, Vincent Mauro School, Helene Grant School, Strong Magnet Academy, Troup Magnet Academy of Science.
Exhibition will be on display through June 1st, at the Yale University Visitor Information Center.
Yale University Visitor Information Center, 149 Elm Street, t, New Haven, CT Hours are, Monday through Friday, 9 4:45 & 10 4:00 on the weekend.
Yale Physicians Building New Haven Art Place |
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[Exhibits]
Through June 30, 2001
Works by Yale University faculty and staff. Also featuring the Art Place Quilters at Yale, presenting "The Fabric of our Lives". Free Admission, for information call 203 785-5144. Free and open to the public.
Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm, Yale Physicians Building, 800 Howard Avenue, New Haven
JUNE '01
Yale Athletics Tercentennial Golf Classic
[Sports]
7 June -- 8 June 2001
Athletics: This golf tournament will be held at the Yale Golf Course. The tournament's Honoree will be William Beinecke '36. This is also the 75th anniversary of the Yale Golf Course.
Yale, America, and the World, 1901 |
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[Lectures]
14 June 2001
International Security Studies: Paul Kennedy, Dilworth Professor of History, Yale University, gives this speech. The third of five lectures in the ISS Tercentennial Lecture Series on "Yale, America, and the World." This lecture will be delivered in association with the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.
Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 5:00 p.m.
Kiss Me Kate |
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[Music]
19 June -- 1 July 2001
Shubert Theater: Cole Porter's remarkable association with New Haven began during his years at Yale. He Chose New Haven's Shubert Theater to open eight of his shows. To celebrate the Tercentennial, the national tour of Kiss Me Kate opens at the Shubert. Written by Cole Porter ('13) with the revival produced by Roger Horchow ('50), the current production won five 2000 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival. Call the Shubert Theater box office at 203-562-5666 for more information.
JULY '01
Tercentennial Tour |
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[Music]
4 July 2001
Yale Alumni Chorus: A memorial service and concert will be held at St. Giles Church, Wrexham near the site of Elihu Yale's gravesite. Also a Dependence Day picnic is planned for the townspeople of Wrexham, Wales.
Tercentennial Tour |
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[Music]
6 July 2001
Yale Alumni Chorus: The Chorus will give a concert celebrating the Tercentennial with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, England.
Health of China Workshop at Yale |
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[Conferences]
6 - 7 July 2001
Yale-China Association: Yale-China will hold workshop on specific health issues in China. These workshops focus on developing a scholarly book on the subject. Participants will be leading scholars from both China and the U.S., including members of the Yale community.
Medicine at Yale 1951 - 2001 |
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[Exhibits]
Through - July 2001
School of Medicine: This visual exhibit is free and open to the public.
Sterling Hall of Medicine, Medical Library, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT
Mon - Fri 8:30 a.m. - 12 noon, Sat 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., Sun 10 a.m. - noon
Manuscript Commonplace Books |
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[Exhibits]
23 July -- 29 September 2001
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: An exhibition of British commonplace books of the 16th to the 19th century, drawn from the James M. and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection at the Beinecke Library. Exhibition and accompanying guide prepared by Earle Havens, graduate student in Renaissance Studies.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Heinrich Schütz to Henry Miller: Selections from the Frederick R. Koch Collection |
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[Exhibits]
Through --14 July 2001
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Musical, literary, and historical manuscripts from the Frederick R. Koch Collection. Exhibition and accompanying catalog prepared by Vincent Giroud, curator of modern books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Library. Free and open to the public.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street, New Haven, CT Mon - Fri 8:30 - 5:00, Sat 10:00 - 5:00
AUGUST '01
Tercentennial Ascent of Mount Yale |
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[Trips]
18 August 2001
Celebrate the pinnacle of Yale's Tercentennial by climbing our namesake mountain. The Colorado Yale Association will be leading the climb to the peak 14,196 feet above sea level. This is an arduous day hike but not a technical assault. The trail is seven miles long, round trip. It ascends 4300 vertical feet, for a cumulative 8600 vertical feet for the day.
The climb will be lead by John Boak, '70. For more information you may contact him at (303)777-6226 or by e-mail at johnboak@boakart.com.
A Gallery of Poems |
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[Exhibit]
21 August - 4 November 2001
Yale University Art Gallery: This exhibition celebrating the publication of this book. Poetry readings at 3pm on September 6, October 4, and November 1. Visit www.yale.edu/artgallery for more information.
Yale Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT
EPH and the Yale School of Nursing |
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[Exhibits]
August to September 2001
School of Medicine: Medical Library Rotunda
The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the 18th Century |
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[Exhibits]
Through -- 2 September 2001
Yale Center for British Art: This exhibition draws from the Yale Center for British Art's collection and includes works by William Blake, Thomas Gainsborough, and others. Free and open to the public.
SEPTEMBER '01
Yale: Crossing International Boundaries - A Tercentennial Retrospective |
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[Exhibit]
Through - September 14, 2001
Manuscripts and Archives/Sterling Memorial Library: Drawing from the library's rich and diverse area studies and archival holdings, this exhibit explores the interconnections between international events and area studies scholarship at Yale. The evolving interests of faculty and students are reflected in the library's collections and provide the historical context for understanding how Yale has taught, studied, and influenced counties and cultures outside of the United States.
The first series focuses on Slavic & East European and Southeast Asian Studies; exhibitions on Judaica, Near Eastern, Africa, East Asia and Latin America will follow.
The final exhibit will explore Yale's connections with the world of international affairs and diplomacy and its opening coincides with the Yale Center for International & Area Studies symposia, "Envisioning the World in the Next Century: Challenges to Internationalizing Yale," September 14, 2001.
Yale's East European, Slavic & Southeast Asian Studies Collections: Archival Development and Collecting during Times of Turmoil, Transition & Peace
This exhibit will focus on the correlation between revolutionary and peace-time events which have occurred in two diverse geographic regions in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia during the past 100 years. This collection helps document Yale scholarship outside national borders and reveals the role of Yale faculty and students in international affairs. Call 432-1735 for more information. Free and open to the public.
Mon - Fri 8:30 - 4:45 Manuscripts and Archives, Wall Street, New Haven, CT
The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rev. Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor |
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[Faith]
9 September 2001
Chaplain's Office: Harry R. Butman Chair in Religion and Philosophy, Piedmont College, Georgia gives today's sermon.
Battell Chapel, corner of College & Elm Streets, 11 am
Access Yale! An Assistive Technology Exposition |
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[Conference/Seminar/Symposium]
11 September 2001
Provost's Office: As part of the Tercentennial, the Provost's Advisory Committee on Resources for Students and Employees with Disabilities hosts an exposition of various technologies designed to support students and employees with disabilities. Demonstrations and hands-on use of the technologies will be offered to increase general awareness of resources available. Visitors will be eligible for raffle prizes and name tags produced in Braille. Everyone is welcome!
Cross Campus Courtyard, College Street 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Connecticut Freedom Trail Dedication |
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[Exhibits]
13 September -- 15 September 2001
Gilder Lehrman Center, co-sponsors with the Amistad Committee, Hillhouse High School, and the New Haven Public Schools, dedicates the grave of James Hillhouse as a site on the Connecticut Freedom Trail. The event takes place at Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven at 10:00 a.m. The ceremony is followed by a reception and a movable exhibit of Hillhouse memorabilia, to open at the main branch of the New Haven Free Public Library on Thursday, September 13, and a forum at Hillhoue High School on Friday evening, September 14 on "James Hillhouse and His World."
Grove Street Cemetery, Grove Street, New Haven 10am
New Haven Free Public Library, College Street, New Haven immediately following Hillhouse High School, 480 Sherman Parkway, New Haven
Envisioning the World in the Next Century: Challenges to Internationalizing Yale
[Symposia]
13 September -- 14 September 2001
Yale Center for International and Area Studies: Internationalizing the University is one of the major themes identified by President Levin in "Preparing for Yale's Fourth Century." This Tercentennial symposium brings together leading Yale faculty and distinguished graduates who are directly involved in studying and shaping U.S. and world policies to reflect on major global challenges. The symposium gives attention to the way Yale should train the next generation of U.S. and world leaders. Portions of the program repeat for the October 5 - 6 Tercentennial weekend. For additional information, contact YCIAS at 203-432-3410 or visit the web at www.yale.edu/ycias.
Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT
African American Studies 30th Reunion/Anniversary
[Reunion/Anniversary Celebrations]
14 September -- 16 September 2001
African American Studies: Yale's Department of African American Studies is among the first and certainly one of the most influential departments in the country. To celebrate its anniversary and the University's Tercentennial, the African American Studies Department will host an alumni reunion in celebration of its founding 33 years ago and its gaining of departmental status in July, 2000. The keynote speaker will be Kurt Schmoke, Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation and a 1971 graduate of Yale College.
The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rev. Dr. William H. Willimon |
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16 September 2001
[Faith]
Chaplain's Office: Dean, Duke Chapel and Professor of Christian Ministry, Duke University, North Carolina gives today's sermon.
Battell Chapel, corner of College & Elm Streets, 11 am
Gender Matters: Women and Yale
[Conference]
20 - 21 September 2001
Women Faculty Forum: The 300th anniversary of Yale University offers an opportunity to reflect on the roles women have played in the university and beyond it over the past three centuries. During the last 100 years, women gained admission to Yale as students and now constitute 49.24% of its student body as well as serve on its faculty and in its administration. This conference examines contributions that women have made and how gender affects the subjects women study, the ideas and art women appreciate, the political, social and economic structures that shape women's lives.
Confirmed Speakers:
Frances Beinecke, '71 BA, '74 MFS, Executive Director, Natural Resources Defense Council
Seyla Benhabib, '77 PhD, Professor of Political Theory, Harvard University
Mishka Brown, '97 BA, co-founder and CEO of Aerolith Inc.
Dr. Johnnetta Cole, '91 LHDH, President Emerita of Spelman College, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Emory University
Marian Wright Edelman,'63 LLB, '71 MAH, '75 LLDH, President, Children's Defense Fund
Heidi Hartmann, '74 PhD, Founder, Institute for Women's Policy Research
Nannerl O. Keohane, '67 PhD, President of Duke University
Maya Y. Lin, '81 BA, '86 MArch, '87 DFAH, architect and sculptor
Linda Mason, '80 MPPM, Chairwoman and Co-founder, Bright Horizons Family Solutions
Gloria Naylor, '83 MA, novelist
Sarah Pillsbury, '74 BA, owner, Sanford Pillsbury Productions
Maxine Singer, '57 PhD., President of the Carnegie Institution
Dr. Sally Stansfield, '77 Residency Internship, Senior Global Health Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Brenda Stevenson, '84 MA, '90 PhD, Professor of History, UCLA
Shelley E. Taylor, '72 PhD, Professor of Psychology, UCLA
Nancy J. Vickers, '71 MA, '76 PhD, President of Bryn Mawr College
Hon. Patricia M. Wald, '51 LLB, American Judicial Representative, The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague
For more information, please call Alison Mackenzie at 203-432-8847.
The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rev. Dr. William Sloane Coffin |
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23 September 2001
[Faith]
Chaplain's Office: Former Chaplain, Yale University gives today's sermon.
Battell Chapel, corner of College & Elm Streets, 11 am
20/21 Vision: Educating Global Leaders for Business and Society in the 21st Century
[Anniversaries]
14 September -- 15 September 2001 This Event has been postponed
Yale School of Management: The youngest of Yale's schools, SOM invites its 4,000 alumni to celebrate its 25th anniversary and the Tercentennial with a program that includes workshops with faculty on the future of finance, strategic and global competition, and investment management. Visit www.yalesomtwentyfifth.com for more information.
A Remembrance of Times Past: The Development of Earth and Its Life |
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[Symposia]
28 September -- 29 September 2001
Silliman Lectureship: This symposium covers such topics as the origin of Earth and the solar system and the evolution of the brain. Lecturers include G.J. Wasserburg, Professor of Geology & Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology, Thomas R. Cech, President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Lugi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Professor Emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine, William Schopf, Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Evolution and the origin of Life at the University of California., Los Angeles, Meave Leakey, Head of the Division of Paleontology of the National Museum of Kenya, and John Allman, Professor of Neurobiology at the California Institute of Technology. Click here for schedule.
Free and open to the public. 15 Prospect Street Davies Auditorium.
Sept 28 - 2 - 6 p.m. Sept 29 - 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Yung-Wing and the Chinese Educational Mission - 1872-1881 |
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[Conference/Site Tour]
28 September -- 29 September 2001
Sponsored by the Yale Council on East Asian Studies, Yale Department of History, Yale-China Association, and the Chinese Students Memorial Society. At Yale University on Friday, Hartford and environs on Saturday. For more information, please call 203-432-3426.
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse 8:30 a.m. registration
The Yale Entrepreneurial Society's - Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Revolution Within
[Student/Panel]
28 September 2001
The Yale Entrepreneurial Society: This panel, moderated by and comprised of successful business people and "change agents," focuses on three subject areas:
1. How Can I be a Change Agent? What Does It Means to Create Change?
2. How the Best Leaders Deal With Disruptive Change.
3. How to Create Change in a Company that Fears it?
For information email, evan.lepatner@yale.edu
