Spring 2008
Ilya Kaminsky, poet (January 29)
Readings from recent works.
Co-sponsored with the Graduate Poets' Reading Series.
Mr. Kaminsky is the co-founder of Poets for Peace.
Nick Antosca, poet (January 29)
Readings from recent works.
Mr. Antosca is the author of Fires (2007) and is a Pushcart Prize nominee.
Music Series (Spring 2007)
Organized by Saint Anthony Education Foundation (SAEF) Grant Recipient Eli Luberoff Y'09.
Tao Lin, poet and novelist (March 5)
Readings from recent works.
Mr. Lin is the author of Eeeee Eee Eeee, Bed, you are a little bit happier than I am, cognitive behavioral therapy, this emotions was a little e-book, and Today the Sky is Blue and White with Bright Blue Spots and a Small Pale Moon.
Tom Perotta, novelist and Rosanna Warren, poet
Co-sponsored with the Department of English.
Mr. Perotta is the bestselling author of Election, Little Children, and The Abstinence Teacher.
Fall 2007
Prof. William Deresiewicz, Professor of English, Yale University (September 24)
Topic: "The Disadvantages of a Yale Education"
Jonathan Safran Foer, author (September 25)
Co-sponsored with the Yale Review.
Mr. Foer is the acclaimed and controversial author of the novel Everything Is Illuminated.
Prof. Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, Yale University (September 25)
Topic: "How the Second World War Was Won or Why Writers Choose to Write What They Write"
Professor Kennedy is the bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.
Prof. J.M. McBride, Richard M. Colgate Professor of Organic Chemistry, Yale University (October 1)
Topic: "Molecular Distribution and the Bush Administration"
Dana Goodyear, poet (October 5)
Readings from recent works.
Co-sponsored with the Graduate Poets' Reading Series and the Yale Review.
Ms. Goodyear is a Senior Editor and contributor to the New Yorker Magazine.
Thomas E. Weil, Jr. Campus Writing Prize (Fall 2007)
Public reading by prize winners.
Topic: "Does Yale Fulfill a Call for Political Neutrality in Education or Does the Question Matter?
Prof. Robert James "Bob" Shiller, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, Yale University (October 29)
Topic: "Hedging Fundamental Risk."
Mr. Shiller serves as Fellow at the Yale International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management, and is the New York Times bestselling author of Irrational Exuberance (2000).
David Muenzer, (YC '09) (October 24)
Exhibition: "Oil Paintings of Wyoming"
Sponsored by Morse College Fellows Lounge.
Mr. Muenzer's work was created through a Chase Coggins Memorial Fellowship.
Richard Wilbur, poet (December 3)
Reading from recent works.
Mr. Wilbur is a former Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate of the United States.
Spring 2007
Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence(January 25)
Topic: "National Security Policy in the Global Age"
Co-sponsored by Yale Grand Strategy Seminar/International Security Studies.
Susan Yolen, Vice President, Planned Parenthood Connecticut(January 26)
Topic: "One Nation Without Sex"
Prof. Walter Dobrogosz, Professor of Microbiology, North Carolina State University (February 13)
Topic: "Helpful Germs: A New Paradigm in Human Health"
Dave Eggers, author (February 27)
Reading from "WHAT IS THE WHAT?"
Mr. Eggers is the bestselling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
Carlos Eire, Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies(February 27)
Topic: "The Good, the Bad, and the Airborne: is writing a history of the impossible possible?"
Prof. Donald Green. A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science, Yale University (March 7)
Topic: "Board Game Creation & the Razzle Dazzle Championship"
Professor Green is the Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University.
Roddy Lumsden, poet (April 10)
Readings from recent works.
Mr. Lumsden is the former Vice Chairman of the Poetry Society of Great Britain and a 1991 Eric Gregory Award winner.
Elizabeth Bear, author (April 10)
Readings from recent works.
Ms. Bear is the winner of the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Vona Groarke and Conor O'Callaghan, poets; co-chairs, Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies, Villanova University (April 16)
Readings from recent works.
Ms. Groarke has been prizewinner of The Brendan Behan Memorial Award, the Hennessy Award, the Strokestown International Poetry Award.
Mr. O'Callaghan has received the Patrick Kavanagh award.
John Guare, playwright, Claire Messud, author, and Elizabeth Alexander, poet (April 16)
Panel sponsored by the Yale Review
Charles Hill, Diplomat-in-Residence, Yale University (April 17)
Ambassador Hill was a career minister in the U.S. Foreign Service and a senior adviser to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Yale Classical Music Society (May 4)
Concert featuring 3 chamber groups and two soloists.
Malibu 5 Quintet, classical ensemble (May 4)
Concert featuring performance of Shostakovich's piano quintet.
Undergraduate New Music
Concert featuring compositions by a variety of undergraduates.
Premiere: Senior Project of Andrew Ly (YC '07); 3 acts of 11-act opera.