Trumbull College is the setting this year for a new series of master's teas in which noteworthy members of the Yale community share their life experiences in order to help prepare undergraduates for their plunge into the "real world."
Titled "Experience and Choice," the series was organized by Joshua Kleinfeld '01. "One impetus for the series," he says, "was the anxiety my classmates and I felt as graduation approached and we began to negotiate a baffling array of professional and personal choices. What it seemed we needed -- experience -- was precisely what we lacked, and I thought advice from people who had led interesting, diverse and reflective lives might help."
At each "Experience and Choice" tea, speakers reflect on their "defining choices and [try] to extract from those choices principles which might generally instruct decision-making," explains Kleinfeld.
The series has already featured Charles Hill, visiting lecturer in the Department of Political Science and in the International Affairs Council of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, who discussed his career in the U.S. State Department and the United Nations; Glenda Gilmore, professor of history, who reflected on her switch from a successful career in business to the world of academia; Toni Dorfman, lecturer in theater studies, who recalled her career as a director and actress in the off-Broadway world; and William Eskridge, the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at the Law School, who described his efforts to legalize gay marriage.
"Since students have wanted advice on matters of feeling as well as thought, and on relationships as well as careers, these speakers have offered quite personal narratives and analyses of their lives and choices," explains Kleinfeld. "Most interesting to me, I think, has been each speaker's report of the experience of choice: how one makes and how it feels to make good choices."
Yale College Dean Richard H. Brodhead will be the featured guest at the next tea, which will be held at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 27, in the Trumbull College master's house, 100 High St.
Future speakers will include Divinity School professor Nicholas Wolterstorff, historian Robin Winks and Law School professor Akhil Amar.
All the teas are free and open to the public.
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