"Messiah Sing-In"
2:30 p.m. Battell Chapel. Fenno Heath and Marguerite Brooks, conductors; Kendall Crilly, organist; Judith Caldwell, soprano; Kyle Pruett, tenor; Howard Sprout, bass. Participants may bring their own score or purchase one at the door. A $5 donation is requested at the door. Info.: (203) 432-4136.
"Tydings Trew: Feasts of Christmas
in Medieval England"
3 p.m. BAC. Lionheart, an a capella vocal ensemble, will perform music from medieval England. Info.: (203) 432-2800.
Chamber Music Showcase
4 p.m. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church. Graduate students from the Sch. of Music will perform works for small ensembles. Info.: (203) 432-4158; www.yale.edu/music.
"Great Organ Music at Yale"
8 p.m. Woolsey Hall. Thomas Murray, University organist, will perform works by Bach, Reger, Schmidt, Howells and Franck on the Newberry Memorial Organ. A $5 donation is suggested. Info.: (203) 432-4158; www.yale.edu/music.
Tuesday, Dec. 17
Group 435 String Orchestra
8 p.m. Battell Chapel. The concert will feature Tchaikovsky's "String Serenade," Ziporyn's "Be-In," and Haydn's "Cello Concerto in C." Cellist Inbal Megiddo, soloist. A $10 donation is requested at the door. Info.: (203) 887-8975; www.group435.org.
Wednesday, Dec. 18
Concert by Daniel Corr
12:30 p.m. BAC. Daniel Corr, guitarist, will perform works by Bach and Walton. Info.: (203) 432-2800.
Sunday, Jan. 12
So Percussion Group
2 p.m. BAC. A performance of new percussion music featuring Timothy Feeney, Todd Meehan, Douglas Perkins and Jason Treuting. Info.: (203) 432-2800.
Theater
Friday & Saturday,
Dec. 13 & 14
"The Santaland Diaries"
8:30 p.m. & 11 p.m. 217 Park St. A play by David Sedaris, directed by James Reynolds. Doors open at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. for food and drink. Tickets: $10; $8 for students; memberships available. Info.: (203) 432-1566; www.yalecabaret.org.
Friday & Saturday,
Dec. 13 & 14
Tuesday-Saturday,
Dec. 17-21
"Fighting Words"
Tuesday-Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. New Theater. Performances of Sunil Thomas Kuruvilla's play, which traces the lives of the people in the town of Merthyr as they await news of Welsh boxer Johnny Owen, who leaves to compete for a championship in Los Angeles. 2 p.m. matinee
Dec. 18; final performance Dec. 21. Tickets: $20-$40; subscription packages available. Info.: (203) 432-1234 or www.yalerep.org.
Talks
Friday, Dec. 13
"A Discussion with Daniel Fung"
2-3:30 p.m. SLB. (Asia Law Forum)
"The Body as History in Recent
Irish Poetry"
4 p.m. Rm. 319, LC. Guinn Batten, Washington Univ. in St. Louis. Open to members of the Yale community. Info.: www.yale.edu/Colloquia/20th-century.htm. (Twentieth-Century Colloquium)
Pre-Concert Lecture
7 p.m. Rm. 116, WLH. A pre-concert conversation with Edward Cumming, guest conductor. Concert will follow at 8 p.m. in Woolsey Hall. Info.: (203) 432-4158; www.yale.edu/music.
Saturday, Dec. 14
"Romantic Watercolor:
The Hickman Bacon Collection"
Noon. BAC. A Gallery Talk tour. Info.: (203)
432-2800.
Monday, Dec. 16
Law and Tech Speaker Series
3-4:30 p.m. SLB. C. Edwin Baker. (Law Sch./Tech Society)
"The Problem of a Hyperpoliticized Education: South Carolina College
and the Origins of Secession"
4-6 p.m. Rm. 103, Luce Hall. Michael Sugrue, Princeton Univ.
Wednesday, Dec. 18
"Should Bioethics Be Global?"
Noon. ISPS. Louis P. Pojman, United States Military Academy. Part of the Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series. Info.: Carol Pollard, (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
"The Intellectuals and Slavery"
Noon-1:30 p.m. Rm. 102, Luce Hall. A brown-bag lunch with Peter Field, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand. Drinks and snacks will be provided. Registration is required. To register, call (203) 432-3339 by Dec. 17.
"Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism"
7:30 p.m. Joseph Slifka Center. Louis P. Pojman, United States Military Academy. Part of the Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series. Info.: Carol Pollard, (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Thursday, Dec. 19
"The Rest is Silence? Medicine
and Mortality"
5 p.m. Beaumont Rm., SHM. Michael Rowe. Part of the Program for Humanities in Medicine.
"Early Adolescence"
5:30-7:15 p.m. Library, ISPS. Mary Schwab-Stone. Part of the working research group "Children Under Stress." Info.: Carol Pollard, (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
"Making Space"
8 p.m. Rm. 208, WHC. Jessica Stockholder. Part of the Muriel Gardiner Program for Psychoanalysis and the Humanities. A reception will be held prior to the lecture in Rm. 108, WHC. Info.: Alicia Grendziszewski, (203) 785-7205.
Thursday, Jan. 9
"In Lieu of Flowers; A Conversation
for the Living"
5 p.m. Beaumont Rm., SHM. Nancy H. Cobb, author, "In Lieu of Flowers." Part of the Program for the Humanities in Medicine.
Tuesday, Jan. 14
"The British Art Center:
Architecture as the Picturesque"
12:30 p.m. BAC. Art in Context talk by Marisa Angell. Info.: (203) 432-2800.
"Caravan City? New Perspectives
on Dura-Europos"
2 p.m. YUAG. A Gallery talk by Susan B. Matheson. Info.: (203) 432-0600.
"Membrane Protein Challenges for Structural Biology by Solid State NMR"
4:30 p.m. Rm. 253, Sterling Chemistry Laboratory. Timothy A. Cross, Florida State Univ. (Dept. of Chemistry)
Wednesday, Jan. 15
"One Day at a Time: Ordinary
People's Struggles"
Noon-1 p.m. Rm. 211, HGS. A brown-bag lunch series in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Speakers TBA. Open to members of the Yale community. Info.: (203) 432-0763; e-mail grad.diversity@yale.edu. (Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity/Office of Multicultural Affairs/EPH Minority Affairs Committee)
"Cézanne's Bathers: Between
Memory and Imagination"
12:20 p.m. YUAG. Art à la carte with Aruna D'Souza, State Univ. of New York, Purchase. Info.: (203) 432-0600.
"One Thing God Has Spoken, Two Things
I Have Heard (Ps. 62:12): Dialogical Reading in the Rabbinic Exegetical Narrative"
4 p.m. 3rd floor, Romance Languages Lounge,
82-90 Wall St. Joshua Levinson, Hebrew Univ. (Program in Judaic Studies)
"The Flight of Form: Auden, Bruegel and the Turn to Abstraction in the 1940s"
5:30 p.m. BAC. Alexander Nemerov will discuss Auden's poem, "Musee des Beaux Arts," and will interpret Bruegel's "Fall of Icarus," the painting associated with this poem.
Thursday, Jan. 16
"Caravan City? New Perspectives
on Dura-Europos"
Noon. YUAG. A Gallery Talk by Susan B. Matheson. Info.: (203) 432-0600.
"Locking Up the Vote: Felon Disfranchisement and American Democracy"
4-5:30 p.m. Rm. 107, Williams Hall. Jeff Manza, Northwestern Univ. Part of the Center for Comparative Research Colloquia Series. Info.: www.yale.edu/ccr.
Master's Tea
4 p.m. Jonathan Edwards College master's house. Walter Liedtke, curator of European paintings at the New York Metropolitan Museum. Reception will follow at 5 p.m.
"Degas and Picasso"
5 p.m. YUAG. Richard Kendall, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Info.: (203) 432-0600.
Friday, Jan. 17
"Between North and South: The Alternative Borderlands of William H. Ellis and the African-American Colony of 1895"
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Seminar rm., ISPS. Karl Jacoby, Brown Univ. Part of the Program in Agrarian Studies Colloquium series.
"The Years of Hating Proust"
4 p.m. Rm. 319, LC. Aaron Matz. Open to members of the Yale community. Part of the English Dept.'s 20th-Century Colloquium.
"Martin Luther King: A Prophetic Christian Vision of the Gospel and Social Justice"
7-9:30 p.m. Location TBA. Theologians and community leaders of faith will lead a discussion with worship and panel presentations. Info.: (203) 432-2420; www.yale.edu/salt; email salt@yale.edu.
Films
Saturday, Dec. 14
"Persuasion"
2 p.m. BAC. Directed by Roger Michell. Info.: (203) 432-2800.
Saturday, Dec. 21
"Wuthering Heights"
2 p.m. BAC. Directed by William Wyler. Info.: (203) 432-2800.
Sunday, Dec. 22
"A Christmas Carol"
2 p.m. BAC. Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Info.: (203) 432-2800.
Thursday, Jan. 9
"Facilities: 'This Decade At Yale, ca. 1957' and 'Renewal and Renaissance, 1998'"
Noon-1 p.m. Lecture hall, SML. Films from Manuscripts and Archives' collections featuring changes to the campus from the 1950s through the 1990s.
Thursday, Jan. 16
"College Life: 'Small College, ca. 1952'
and 'To Be a Man, ca. 1966'"
Noon-1 p.m. Lecture hall, SML. Open screening of films from Manuscripts and Archives' collections featuring changes to the campus from the 1950s through the 1990s.
Conferences/Symposia
Biomedical
Sciences
Monday, Dec. 16
"Novel Chemical Mediators of Resolution"
4 pm. Peter B. Gordon Memorial Library, JPL. Charles Serhan, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical Sch. Refreshments will be served prior to the lecture at 3:45 p.m. Info.: (203) 562-9901 ext. 227. (John B. Pierce Laboratory)
Tuesday, Dec. 17
"Activated EGFR-TK Is a Pivotal Signaling Pathway in Most Common Solid Tumors"
8:30 a.m. Fitkin Amph. Paul H. Gummerlock, Univ. of California, Davis Cancer Center.
"Recent Duplication, Disease and the Evolution of the Human Genome"
4 p.m. Rm. I-304, SHM. Evan Eichler, Case Western Reserve Univ. Part of the Genetics Seminar Program.
Wednesday, Dec. 18
"Why Shouldn't We Pay for Organs?"
and "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Recent Advances in Plastic Surgery"
7-8 a.m. Rm. 216, JEH. Dept. of Surgery Grand Rounds lecture by Dr. Amy Friedman and Dr. Joseph Shin.
"Development of a Microarray-Based Diagnostic Tool for Lymphoma"
4-5 p.m. Rm. 401, Clinic Bldg. Dr. Daniel E. Sabath, Univ. of Washington, Seattle. (Dept. of Laboratory Medicine)
Friday, Dec. 20
"Molecular Analysis of Presenilin Function"
10-11 a.m. Rm. I-304, SHM. Sangram S. Sisodia, The Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Univ. of Chicago. Part of the Neurobiology Seminar Series.
Monday, Jan. 6
"Repressive Chromatin:
Theme and Variations"
4 p.m. Rm. 110, JEH. Laura Rusche, Univ. of California, Berkeley. (Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry)
Wednesday, Jan. 8
"Adrenal Masses" and "The Yale Experience with Esophageal Atresia"
7-8 a.m. Rm. 216, JEH. Dept. of Surgery Grand Rounds lecture by Dr. Robert Udelsman and Dr. Robert Toloukian.
Friday, Jan. 10
"Sex, Drugs and Dopamine: A New Look
at How Estrogen Influences Behavior"
10:15 a.m. Aud., CHMC. Dept. of Psychiatry Grand Rounds lecture by Jill B. Becker, Univ. of Michigan. Refreshments will be served. Info.: Georgia Miller, (203) 974-7723; georgia.miller@yale.edu.
Wednesday, Jan. 15
"Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer"
and "Surgical Revascularization of
the Failing Heart"
7-8 a.m. Rm. 216, JEH. Dept. of Surgery Grand Rounds lecture by Dr. Barbara Kinder and Dr. George Tellides.
"Biology of Stem and Progenitor Cells"
Noon-1 p.m. Brady Aud. Irving L. Weissman, Stanford Univ. Sch. of Medicine. (Dept. of Cell Biology)
Thursday, Jan. 16
"State of the School"
Noon-1 p.m. Beaumont Rm., SHM. Medical Sch. Council/Medical Students' Council Meeting with Dr. David A. Kessler. Lunch will be provided. Info.: (203) 785-4683.
"Formation of Lamina-Specific Synaptic Connections in the Visual System"
Noon-1 p.m. Rm. I-304, SHM. Joshua R. Sanes, Washington Univ. in St. Louis Sch. of Medicine. Part of the Neurobiology Seminar Series.
"Yeast As Metaphor"
4:30 p.m. Rm. 110, JEH. Dr. Margaret Hostetter. (Deputy Dean for Education/Office of Student Research)
Friday, Jan. 17
"Neuroimaging of Affective
Disorders in Elderly Populations"
10:15 a.m. Aud., CMHC. Dept. of Psychiatry Grand Rounds lecture by Dr. Carolyn Meltzer, Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Refreshments will be served. Info.: Georgia Miller, (203) 974-7723; georgia.miller@yale.edu.
"What More Can Be Said? Re-examining
the Tuskegee Syphilis Study"
5 p.m. Historical Library, SHM. Susan M. Reverby. (The Beaumont Medical Club)
For Students Only
Thursday, Dec. 12
International Coffee Hour
4-5:30 p.m. Common rm., McDougal Graduate Student Center. An opportunity for graduate students to enjoy food, music, refreshments and a crafts sale. (Office of International Students and Scholars/McDougal Graduate Student Center/
International Spouses & Partners)
Thursday, Jan. 16
International Coffee Hour
4-5:30 p.m. Common rm., McDougal Graduate Student Center. An opportunity for graduate students to enjoy South Asian food and music. (Office of International Students and Scholars/McDougal Graduate Student Center/South Asian Graduate Students Association)
Sports
Dates and times of athletic events are subject to change. For the most timely information about sporting events visit the website at www.yale.edu/athletic or call (203) 432-1435.
Thursday, Jan. 2
Men's Hockey
7 p.m. Ingalls Rink. Yale vs. Univ. of New Hampshire. Tickets: Tickets: $7 general admission; $3 for children 14 and under; $8-$10 reserved seating.
Wednesday, Jan. 8
Men's Basketball
7 p.m. PWG. Yale vs. Rhode Island. Tickets: $7 reserved seating; $5 general admission; $3 non-Yale students over 15 and seniors; $1 for children 14 and under.
Friday, Jan. 10
Women's Hockey
7 p.m. Ingalls Rink. Yale vs. Harvard. Tickets: $3 general admission; $1 non-Yale students over 15; free for Yale students and children 15 and under.
Saturday, Jan. 11
Men's Indoor Track
Time TBA. Coxe Cage. Yale Invitational.
Women's Indoor Track
Time TBA. Coxe Cage. Yale Invitational.
Men's Basketball
3 p.m. PWG. Yale vs. RPI. Tickets: $7 reserved seating; $5 general admission; $3 non-Yale students over 15 and seniors; $1 for children 14 and under.
Women's Hockey
4 p.m. Ingalls Rink. Yale vs. Brown. Tickets: $3 general admission; $1 non-Yale students over 15; free for Yale students and children 15 and under.
Women's Basketball
7 p.m. PWG. Yale vs. Sacred Heart. Tickets: $7 reserved seating; $5 general admission; $3 non-Yale students over 15 and seniors; $1 for children 14 and under.
Tuesday, Jan. 14
Women's Squash
4 p.m. PWG. Yale vs. Trinity.
Wednesday, Jan. 15
Women's Hockey
7 p.m. Ingalls Rink. Yale vs. Quinnipiac. Tickets: $3 general admission; $1 non-Yale students over 15; free for Yale students and children 15 and under.
Friday, Jan. 17
Men's Swimming
5 p.m. PWG. Yale vs. Fordham. Tickets: $3 general admission; $1 non-Yale students over 15; free for Yale students and children 15 and under.
Women's Swimming
5 p.m. PWG. Yale vs. Fordham. Tickets: $3 general admission; $1 non-Yale students over 15; free for Yale students and children 15 and under.
Men's Basketball
7 p.m. PWG. Yale vs. Brown. Tickets: $7 reserved seating; $5 general admission; $3 non-Yale students over 15 and seniors; $1 for children 14 and under.
Saturday, Jan. 18
Women's Basketball
3 p.m. PWG. Yale vs. Brown. Tickets: $7 reserved seating; $5 general admission; $3 non-Yale students over 15 and seniors; $1 for children 14 and under.
Sunday, Jan. 19
Women's Hockey
2 p.m. Ingalls Rink. Yale vs. Providence College. Tickets: $3 general admission; $1 non-Yale students over 15; free for Yale students and children 15
and under.
And...
Friday & Saturday,
Dec. 13 & 14
Christmas Tree Sale
Friday, 5-8 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Marsh Lawn, 360 Prospect St. A selection of white and blue spruce trees from the Yale-Myers Forest will be on sale. Trees are $6 per foot; white pine boughs are $5 per bundle. (F&ES/Student Chapter of the Society of American Foresters)
Saturday, Dec. 14
Introductory Tour
11 a.m. BAC. A tour and survey of British painting. Info.: (203) 432-2800.
Monday & Tuesday,
Dec. 16 & 17
Auditions to Sing the Mozart Mass
in C Minor
4-6 p.m. Rm. 201, Hendrie Hall. Auditions will be held to sing with the Yale Symphony Orchestra and the Yale Camerata. Info.: Institute of Sacred Music, (203) 432-5184.
Monday & Wednesday,
Dec. 16 & 18
"Power Point 97/2000: Level 2"
9-11:30 a.m. Rm. LL3, 221 Whitney Ave. 2-day course. Fee: $130. Registration: www.yale.edu/learningcenter.
Tuesday, Dec. 17
"Creating a Career Plan Part II"
9 a.m.-noon. Rm. LL1, 221 Whitney Ave. Fee: $65; $50 for members of the Yale community. Registration: www.yale.edu/learningcenter.
Tuesday & Thursday,
Dec. 17 & 19
"Excel 97/2000: Level 1"
9-11:30 a.m. Rm. LL3, 221 Whitney Ave. 2-day course. Fee: $130. Registration: www.yale.edu/learningcenter.
Wednesday & Thursday,
Dec. 18 & 19
"Access 2000: Level 3"
9 a.m.-noon. Rm. LL4, 221 Whitney Ave. 2-day course. Fee: $195. Registration: www.yale.edu/learningcenter.
Thursday, Dec. 19
"What Would You Do? Workplace Ethics"
9 a.m.-noon. Rm. LL1, 221 Whitney Ave. Fee: $65; $50 for members of the Yale community. Registration: www.yale.edu/learningcenter.
Friday, Dec. 20
Luncheon Meditation
Noon-1 p.m. Rm. 109, Suite 107, lower level, 100 CSS. Registration: www.yale.edu/learningcenter.
Tuesday & Thursday,
Jan. 7 & 9
"Excel 2000: Level 1"
9 a.m.-noon. Rm. LL3, 221 Whitney Ave. 2-day course. Fee: $175; $150 for members of the Yale community. Registration: www.yale.edu/learningcenter.
"Power Point 2000: Level 1"
9 a.m.-noon. Rm. LL4, 221 Whitney Ave. 2-day course. Fee: $175; $150 for members of the Yale community. Registration: www.yale.edu/learningcenter.
Wednesday, Jan. 8
"Getting Started on the PC"
9 a.m.-noon. Rm. LL3, 221 Whitney Ave. Fee: $105; $85 for members of the Yale community. Registration: www.yale.edu/learningcenter.
"Talking With Parents of Young Children (Ages Birth-5 Years)"
Noon-1 p.m. Rm. 119, HGS. Lola Nash will discuss developmental growth, age appropriate expectations, day care, skills, play, social and cognitive development and emotional support. Attendance is limited. Info. and registration: (203) 785-2512; e-mail susan.abramson@yale.edu. (Office of the Provost/CSC/Office of Women in Medicine/
McDougal Center/Early Childhood Education Program)
Thursday, Jan. 9
Play Reading
5:30 p.m. YUAG. Play reading based on Edwin Austin Abbey's painting "Richard, Duke of Gloucester and the Lady Anne." Info.: (203) 432-0600.
Monday, Jan. 13
"Database Design"
1:30-4:30 p.m. Rm. LL4, 221 Whitney Ave. Fee: $135; $120 for members of the Yale community. Registration: www.yale.edu/learningcenter.
Tuesday, Jan 14