Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 5, 2001Volume 30, Number 5



The Reverend David L. Bartlett



Faculty to be featured speakers at campus events

Benjamin Harshav and The Reverend David L. Bartlett will present talks on campus this week.


Benjamin Harshav

Benjamin Harshav, professor of comparative literature, the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, and professor of Slavic languages and literatures, will present a lecture titled "Complexity: A Constructivist Theory of the Literary Text (with Special Attention to Joyce's 'The Dead')," on Wednesday, Oct. 10.

The lecture is part of the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) Former Fellows Lecture series. It will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 108, WHC, 53 Wall St. A reception will follow immediately in Rm. 208. The event is free and open to the public.

Harshav has published widely, mainly in Hebrew and English, on literary theory and Hebrew and comparative literature. He translated several books of modern poetry into Hebrew and (with Barbara Harshav) into English, including "A Life of Poetry: 1948­1994" by Yehuda Amichai.

His books in English include "Language in Time of Revolution"; "The Meaning of Yiddish"; "American Yiddish Poetry," with Barbara Harshav; "The Rift in Time: Time in the Art of Space," about the Israeli abstract painter Moshe Kupferman; and the forthcoming "The Lives of Marc Chagall: A Documentary Narrative."

A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harshav received the Uri-Zvi Grinberg Jerusalem Prize for Poetry and the Study of Poetry in 2000.


The Reverend David L. Bartlett

The Reverend David L. Bartlett, dean of academic affairs and the J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz Professor of Christian Communication at the Divinity School, will preach as part of "Preaching in the New Millennium: The Tercentennial Preaching Event" on Sunday, Oct. 7.

Bartlett's sermon will begin at 11 a.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. Sponsored by the Chaplain's Office, the event is free and open to the public.

Before joining the Divinity School faculty in 1990, Bartlett taught at the American Baptist Seminary of the West (Graduate Theological Union), the University of Chicago and Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. He is an ordained American Baptist minister and has served churches in Minneapolis, Chicago and Oakland.

Bartlett received B.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale. He wrote the study of I Peter for the New Interpreter's Bible. "Between the Bible and the Church" is his most recent book.


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