Class of 1964 55th Reunion - 1964 Schedule

Saturday 6/1/19

• The Future of Knowledge

  Jun 1

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Linsly-Chittenden Hall | Room: 101 — 63 High Street

  Jeffrey Brock '92, Professor of Mathematics; Dean of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  
  In the age of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science, we see all around us the impact of powerful tools to extract knowledge from data. Whether in advertising, political campaigns, real-time translation tools, or in hard sciences like radiology, genetics, or particle physics, the face of the knowledge frontier has a new complexion. Many of these tools, such as neural networks and deep learning, work alarmingly and uncannily well, and yet we do not fully understand why. Vital questions confront those of us in the academy: how do these tools change the way we understand knowledge acquisition? How do they change how we read texts or analyze political discourse? How do they force us to rethink the scientific method, and how do they allow us to search for new models, theories, and equations that govern the universe? In this talk, I'll discuss Yale's unique position to lead in defining this future of knowledge.

  Add to Calendar 2019-06-01T09:00:00 2019-06-01T10:00:00 America/New_York The Future of Knowledge

  Jeffrey Brock '92, Professor of Mathematics; Dean of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  
  In the age of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science, we see all around us the impact of powerful tools to extract knowledge from data. Whether in advertising, political campaigns, real-time translation tools, or in hard sciences like radiology, genetics, or particle physics, the face of the knowledge frontier has a new complexion. Many of these tools, such as neural networks and deep learning, work alarmingly and uncannily well, and yet we do not fully understand why. Vital questions confront those of us in the academy: how do these tools change the way we understand knowledge acquisition? How do they change how we read texts or analyze political discourse? How do they force us to rethink the scientific method, and how do they allow us to search for new models, theories, and equations that govern the universe? In this talk, I'll discuss Yale's unique position to lead in defining this future of knowledge.

  Linsly-Chittenden Hall | Room: 101 — 63 High Street

  

• The Racial Imagery in the Arts

  Jun 1

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Loria Center | Room: 351 — 190 York St.

  Claudia Rankine, Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry

  Given that the concept of racial hierarchy is a strategy employed to support white dominance, whiteness is an important aspect of any conversation about race. This talk will attempt to make visible narratives that have been intentionally presented as inevitable so that we can move forward into more revelatory conversations about race. The artists discussed all question what can be made when we investigate, evade, beset and call out bloc-whiteness.

  Add to Calendar 2019-06-01T09:00:00 2019-06-01T10:00:00 America/New_York The Racial Imagery in the Arts

  Claudia Rankine, Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry

  Given that the concept of racial hierarchy is a strategy employed to support white dominance, whiteness is an important aspect of any conversation about race. This talk will attempt to make visible narratives that have been intentionally presented as inevitable so that we can move forward into more revelatory conversations about race. The artists discussed all question what can be made when we investigate, evade, beset and call out bloc-whiteness.

  Loria Center | Room: 351 — 190 York St.

  

• Tour of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

  Jun 1

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library — 121 Wall St.

  The Beinecke Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books. It both houses public exhibitions and serves as a center for teaching and for research by students, faculty, and scholars at Yale and from around the world. On this tour you can learn how students and many others engage the past in the present for the future ... and enjoy the library's current special exhibition of photographer Jerome Zerbe, a 1928 Yale College graduate who found his métier as the first paparazzo, and of celebrated contemporary photo portraitist Michael Childers, plus permanent exhibitions, including the Gutenberg Bible, Audubon's Birds of America, and the 1742 Yale Library. Meet at the south side door to the library, 121 Wall Street. Limited to first 60 participants.

  Add to Calendar 2019-06-01T09:00:00 2019-06-01T10:00:00 America/New_York Tour of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

  The Beinecke Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books. It both houses public exhibitions and serves as a center for teaching and for research by students, faculty, and scholars at Yale and from around the world. On this tour you can learn how students and many others engage the past in the present for the future ... and enjoy the library's current special exhibition of photographer Jerome Zerbe, a 1928 Yale College graduate who found his métier as the first paparazzo, and of celebrated contemporary photo portraitist Michael Childers, plus permanent exhibitions, including the Gutenberg Bible, Audubon's Birds of America, and the 1742 Yale Library. Meet at the south side door to the library, 121 Wall Street. Limited to first 60 participants.

  Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library — 121 Wall St.

  

• Tour of Marsh Botanical Garden

  Jun 1

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Marsh Botanical Garden | Room: Garden Tour — 227 Mansfield St.

  Marsh Botanical Garden is eight acres of plantings on Science Hill with six greenhouses for teaching and research. Enjoy a stroll with Associate Director Kunso Kim through the naturalistically designed beds, full of rare plants and plants of historical interest, and explore the glass houses with their special collections of desert plants, carnivorous plants, and edible tropical plants like chocolate, coffee and cinnamon. Please note: This tour is limited to 20 participants.

  Add to Calendar 2019-06-01T09:00:00 2019-06-01T10:00:00 America/New_York Tour of Marsh Botanical Garden

  Marsh Botanical Garden is eight acres of plantings on Science Hill with six greenhouses for teaching and research. Enjoy a stroll with Associate Director Kunso Kim through the naturalistically designed beds, full of rare plants and plants of historical interest, and explore the glass houses with their special collections of desert plants, carnivorous plants, and edible tropical plants like chocolate, coffee and cinnamon. Please note: This tour is limited to 20 participants.

  Marsh Botanical Garden | Room: Garden Tour — 227 Mansfield St.

  

• Tour of Wright Laboratory - A Portal to the Universe

  Jun 1

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Wright Laboratory | Room: lab — 272 Whitney Ave.

  For years the Wright Laboratory housed a landmark nuclear accelerator. In recent years, Wright Lab was transformed into a state-of-the-art technical facility and research center to study neutrinos, dark matter, and the invisible Universe. Come for a tour led by Wright Lab Director and Professor of Physics, Karsten Heeger and his colleagues to learn about how Wright Lab is leading the development of novel instrumentation for the exploration of the Universe and advancing the frontiers of fundamental physics.

  Note: Walk through Lot 22 behind the Peabody Museum; look for the big blue "Portal" sculpture in front of the lab on your right. Bus transportation provided in front of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect St., across from Woolsey Hall.

  Add to Calendar 2019-06-01T09:00:00 2019-06-01T10:00:00 America/New_York Tour of Wright Laboratory - A Portal to the Universe

  For years the Wright Laboratory housed a landmark nuclear accelerator. In recent years, Wright Lab was transformed into a state-of-the-art technical facility and research center to study neutrinos, dark matter, and the invisible Universe. Come for a tour led by Wright Lab Director and Professor of Physics, Karsten Heeger and his colleagues to learn about how Wright Lab is leading the development of novel instrumentation for the exploration of the Universe and advancing the frontiers of fundamental physics.

  Note: Walk through Lot 22 behind the Peabody Museum; look for the big blue "Portal" sculpture in front of the lab on your right. Bus transportation provided in front of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect St., across from Woolsey Hall.

  Wright Laboratory | Room: lab — 272 Whitney Ave.

  

• Why Do the Liberal Arts Still Matter?

  Jun 1

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Yale Center for British Art | Room: Auditorium — 1080 Chapel Street

  Tamar Gendler '87,  Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Psychology

  In many arenas, the importance of a liberal arts education has come under attack. Yet Yale and its peer institutions remain committed to this form of undergraduate learning. What do we learn about the value of the liberal arts from the perspective of some its disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences and sciences?

  Add to Calendar 2019-06-01T09:00:00 2019-06-01T10:00:00 America/New_York Why Do the Liberal Arts Still Matter?

  Tamar Gendler '87,  Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Psychology

  In many arenas, the importance of a liberal arts education has come under attack. Yet Yale and its peer institutions remain committed to this form of undergraduate learning. What do we learn about the value of the liberal arts from the perspective of some its disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences and sciences?

  Yale Center for British Art | Room: Auditorium — 1080 Chapel Street

• Why Song? Words, Music, and the Practice of Empathy

  Jun 1

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  William L. Harkness Hall | Room: 201/Sudler — 100 Wall Street

  Paul Berry '99, '07 PhD, Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Music, Yale School of Music

  In the early decades of the nineteenth century, before broadly marketed popular music diverged irrevocably from what we now call classical music, Franz Schubert composed songs that still define the genre today. For everyone from Brahms and Ravel to Aretha Franklin and Kendrick Lamar, song remains as Schubert conceived of it: poetry and music fused into emotional landscapes more distinctive and compelling than either words or tones could create alone. An essential component of these emotional landscapes is their empathetic effect on the audiences and musicians who hear and perform them. Often without realizing it, one is drawn outside one's lived experience and encouraged to inhabit perspectives foreign to one's own. This lecture uses several of Schubert's greatest songs as starting points from which to consider the varieties of empathetic experience that music offers to listeners and performers alike.

  Add to Calendar 2019-06-01T09:00:00 2019-06-01T10:00:00 America/New_York Why Song? Words, Music, and the Practice of Empathy

  Paul Berry '99, '07 PhD, Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Music, Yale School of Music

  In the early decades of the nineteenth century, before broadly marketed popular music diverged irrevocably from what we now call classical music, Franz Schubert composed songs that still define the genre today. For everyone from Brahms and Ravel to Aretha Franklin and Kendrick Lamar, song remains as Schubert conceived of it: poetry and music fused into emotional landscapes more distinctive and compelling than either words or tones could create alone. An essential component of these emotional landscapes is their empathetic effect on the audiences and musicians who hear and perform them. Often without realizing it, one is drawn outside one's lived experience and encouraged to inhabit perspectives foreign to one's own. This lecture uses several of Schubert's greatest songs as starting points from which to consider the varieties of empathetic experience that music offers to listeners and performers alike.

  William L. Harkness Hall | Room: 201/Sudler — 100 Wall Street

  

• Tour of the New Residential Colleges

  Jun 1

  9:00AM – 11:15AM

  Current Yale students stand ready to guide you through the two new residential colleges – Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray – with their spectacular towers, elegant dining halls and fine stone carvings and gates. Tours run continually to 11:15 am.

  Add to Calendar 2019-06-01T09:00:00 2019-06-01T11:15:00 America/New_York Tour of the New Residential Colleges

  Current Yale students stand ready to guide you through the two new residential colleges – Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray – with their spectacular towers, elegant dining halls and fine stone carvings and gates. Tours run continually to 11:15 am.

  

• Morning at Yale

  Jun 1

  9:00AM – 11:30AM

  Reunion attendees from all classes will have their choice of a number of stimulating faculty lectures; tours of the gym and the Newberry organ; a singing workshop; and children's activities at Yale's museums.

  Add to Calendar 2019-06-01T09:00:00 2019-06-01T11:30:00 America/New_York Morning at Yale

  Reunion attendees from all classes will have their choice of a number of stimulating faculty lectures; tours of the gym and the Newberry organ; a singing workshop; and children's activities at Yale's museums.