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Modern Europe Colloquium
Lunch talk with guest speaker Andreas Killen, City College of New York
(European Studies Council/MacMillan Center, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and Whitney Humanities Center)
12:00pm, Room 208
The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
Caroline Weber, Barnard College
In conversation with Maurice Samuels
(Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and Whitney Humanities Center)
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4:00pm, Room 208
Philip Ball, Science Writer
(Franke Program in Science and the Humanities and Poynter Fellowship in Journalism)
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7:30pm, Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE ), 101 (Auditorium)
Inaugural Lecture of the Franke Program Mapping as Knowing Series
Matthew Edney, University of Southern Maine
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4:00pm, Auditorium
Democracy in America Film Series
(USA, 1957) 126 min.
Talk back with Michael Denning, American Studies
(320 York Humanities and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
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7:30pm, Auditorium
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive and Democracy in America Film Series
(USA, 1969) 111 min. 35mm, print courtesy of Yale Film Archive
Talk back with Beverly Gage, History
(320 York Humanities; Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
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7:00pm, Auditorium
Jean-Michel Frodon, Film Critic and Journalist
(Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, Film and Media Studies Program, and Whitney Humanities Center)
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5:00pm, Room 208
(Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; Poynter Fellowship in Journalism; Film and Media Studies Program; Comparative Literature; Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale; and Whitney Humanities Center)
Room 208
(Taiwan, 2001) 116 min. 35mm.
Presented by the Graduate Film Colloquium
Introduction by Jean Ma, Stanford University
(Reni Celeste Memorial Fund; Council on East Asian Studies; Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; 35mm print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
8:00pm, Auditorium
The 2018 Reni Celeste Memorial Lecture
Jean Ma, Stanford University
(Yale Film and Media Studies Program, Reni Celeste Memorial Fund, Council on East Asian Studies, and Whitney Humanities Center)
4:00pm, Room 208
Wilber Cross Medal Lecture
Marianne Mithun, UC Santa Barbara
(Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Whitney Humanities Center)
10:00am, Room 208
Omer Bartov, Brown University
(Yale University Library, Fortunoff Holocaust Video Archive, and Program in Judaic Studies, Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism, and Whitney Humanities Center)
5:00pm, Sterling Memorial Library (SML ), Lecture Hall
Poynter Fellowship in Journalism
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania
(Yale Office of Public Affairs, Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, and Whitney Humanities Center)
12:00pm, Room 208
The Long Farewell: the Films of Kira Muratova
(Soviet Union, 1990) 153 min. DCP
Introduction by Matthew McWilliams
(Russian Studies, European Studies Council, Film and Media Studies, MacMillan Center, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00pm, Auditorium
35mm prints from the Yale Film Archive
The Seventh Seal (Sweden, 1957) 96 min.
The Magician (Sweden, 1958) 101 min.
(Film and Media Studies; Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney)
7:00pm, Auditorium
(USA, 2018) 103 min.
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director
(Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00pm, Auditorium
(USA, 2018) 100 min.
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with Cyrus Duff (YC ‘18) and writer/actor/producer Edward Columbia (YC ‘18)
(Yale Film Alliance, Yale Film Society, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
3:00pm, Auditorium
Democracy in America Film Series
(USA, 1962) 126 min.
Talk back with Katie Trumpener, Comparative Literature
(320 York Humanities and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
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7:30pm, Auditorium
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
(USA, 2006) 123 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)
2:00pm, Auditorium
Chewing the Fat
(USA, 2017) 94 min.
Follow by a conversation with the director
(Yale Sustainable Food Program and Whitney Humanities Center)
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6:30pm, Room 208
The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
Alexandra Garbarini, Williams College
(Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and Whitney Humanities Center)
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4:00pm, Room 208
Keynote Lecture on November 1
Martin Jay, University of California Berkeley
Keynote Book Panel on November 2
with Seyla Benhabib, Yale University
(Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund)
Auditorium
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3:00pm to 4:00pm, Auditorium
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
(India, 2011) 80 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)
2:00pm, Auditorium
5:00pm, Room 208
(Spain, Morocco, 2016) 96 min.
In Arabic with English subtitles
In conjunction with David Shulman’s Finzi-Contini Lectures “Caught in the Cogs of Time” part 1 of which follows at 5pm.
(Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
3:00pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, November 7
“The City of Copper” from the Thousand and One Nights “
Thursday, November 8
“From Arabic to Tamil to “Mimosas” of Oliver Laxe”
5:00pm, Auditorium
5:00pm, Room 208
5:00pm, Room 208
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
(South Korea, 2003) 103 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)
2:00pm, Auditorium
5:00pm, Room 208
