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The Henry Louis Gates Jr. Annual Lecture
David Scott, Columbia University
(African American Studies and Whitney Humanities Center)
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Poster
5:00pm, Auditorium
(European Studies Council, MacMillan Center, Economic History, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and Whitney Humanities Center)
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Event Poster
Room 208
(Mali, Burkina Faso, France; 1985) 106 min. 35mm. print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with Dudley Andrew
(Yale Film Society; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00pm, Auditorium
Classical works by female and minority composers, including Joseph Boulogne, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, William Grant Still, Pauline Viardot, Ulysses Kay, Yuko Uebayashi, and others
(School of Music and Music at the Whitney)
3:00pm, Auditorium
Monsters in Motion: Spring Film Series on Animated Monsters and/in East Asia
(China, 2015) 118 min, DCP
Introduced by Jinying Li, University of Pittsburgh
(Council on East Asian Studies, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00pm, Auditorium
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Film and Media Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00pm, Auditorium
Music at the Whitney
Performed by students from Richard Lalli’s Vocal Music seminar
with pianist Sara Kohane
(Department of Music and Music at the Whitney)
4:30pm, Auditorium
A spring showcase of Yale graduate student research in the environmental humanities
(Environmental Humanities; 320 York Humanities; School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Franke Program in Science and the Humanities; Program in Agrarian Studies; Departments of Anthropology, English, and History; and Whitney Humanities Center)
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10:15am, Room 208
(Hong Kong, 2008) 94 min. 35mm, print from Yale Film Archive
Introduction by Pierre Folliet, Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies
(Council on East Asian Studies; Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Yale Graduate Film Colloquium; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00pm, Auditorium
School of Rock, Director Richard Linklater
(USA, 2003) 108 min. 35mm.
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00pm, Auditorium
