"Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture," published by Yale University Press, was awarded the eighth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association of America. The book was written by Leonard Barkan '71 Ph.D., the Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities at New York University.
Gustav Ranis, the Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, was elected chair of the Board of Research Counsellors of the International Development Research Institute of Japan's Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID), which is attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On Dec. 8, Ranis, who is also the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics, presented a paper on "The East Asian Economic Crisis and its Aftermath" at a FASID symposium in Tokyo on "Challenges of Globalization for International Cooperation."
Nancy Cott, the Stanley Woodward Professor of History and American Studies, will discuss and sign copies of her book "Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation" on Thursday, Jan. 18, at 4:30 p.m. at the Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway.
Claude Ann Lopez, special consultant for The Papers of Benjamin Franklin and senior research scholar in the Department of History, will speak at the Cosmopolitan Club in Philadelphia on Thursday, Jan. 18. The title of the talk, "Was Franklin Too French?" is taken from a chapter in Lopez's book, "My Life with Benjamin Franklin" (Yale University Press, 2000), a collection of essays on little-known aspects of Franklin's life.
The Yale Guitar Ensemble will be featured in "On Stage at the Blackstone" on Saturday, Jan. 20, at 5 p.m. at the Blackstone Library Cultural Center in Branford. The ensemble, made up of young artists working with Benjamin Verdery, assistant professor (adjunct) at the School of Music, will perform a program of solo and ensemble works by Vivaldi, John Anthony Lennon, Leo Brower, Granados, Johann Mertz, Hindemith, Verdery, Dyens and Sting. Tickets are $15, $7 for students and seniors. For more information, call (203) 488-1441, ext. 20.
Recent paintings by Howard Fussiner, an associate fellow at Morse College, will be presented at the Art Gallery at the University of New Haven, Dodds Hall, 300 Orange Ave., West Haven. The exhibit will feature the artist's oils-on-canvas depicting the landscape and people of coastal Maine, and his acrylics, which reflect his travels in Europe and the United States. Visitors will have an opportunity to meet Fussiner at an opening reception, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2-4 p.m. Gallery hours are Sundays, 2-4 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; and Wednesdays, 3:30-7:30 p.m. The show will run through March 1.
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