Class of 1992 30th Reunion - Program & Schedule - 1992

Friday 5/27/22

• America's Constitution: How It Arose and How to Preserve It

  May 27

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

  Sterling Law Buildings | Room: Levinson Auditorium — 127 Wall Street

  Akhil Reed Amar '80, '84 JD, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science

  In this lecture, based on his most recent book, The Words That Made Us: American's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840, Professor Amar will offer his audience an overview of the grand project of American constitutionalism, past, present, and future, with particular emphasis on the importance of free expression and on America's special place in the world.

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  Akhil Reed Amar '80, '84 JD, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science

  In this lecture, based on his most recent book, The Words That Made Us: American's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840, Professor Amar will offer his audience an overview of the grand project of American constitutionalism, past, present, and future, with particular emphasis on the importance of free expression and on America's special place in the world.

  Sterling Law Buildings | Room: Levinson Auditorium — 127 Wall Street

• Brava! Women Make American Theater

  May 27

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

  William L. Harkness Hall | Room: 119 — 100 Wall Street

  Melissa Barton '02, Curator of Prose and Drama for the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  
  “Brava! Women Make American Theater" showcases, through archival materials, the ways in which women in the United States engaged in the production and reception of stage performance over its long history. Brava! highlights how stage performance often mirrored, but also frequently challenged and changed, understandings of women’s roles and of women’s rights in larger U.S. society. Drawing principally on materials in the Yale Collection of American Literature and the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, the exhibit explores how theater served as a site of women’s entry into public audiences, an entrée into the arts as professions, and a locus of calls for diversity in the arts.

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  Melissa Barton '02, Curator of Prose and Drama for the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  
  “Brava! Women Make American Theater" showcases, through archival materials, the ways in which women in the United States engaged in the production and reception of stage performance over its long history. Brava! highlights how stage performance often mirrored, but also frequently challenged and changed, understandings of women’s roles and of women’s rights in larger U.S. society. Drawing principally on materials in the Yale Collection of American Literature and the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, the exhibit explores how theater served as a site of women’s entry into public audiences, an entrée into the arts as professions, and a locus of calls for diversity in the arts.

  William L. Harkness Hall | Room: 119 — 100 Wall Street

• Constance Baker Motley, Lady of the Law

  May 27

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

  Sterling Law Buildings | Room: Lillian Goldman Law Library — 127 Wall Street

  Join the Lillian Goldman Law Library staff for a guided tour of the “Constance Baker Motley: Lady of the Law” exhibit. Drawing on images and personal items from the collection of her family, and from her own words in her autobiography, the exhibition offers a glimpse of Motley, brilliantly at work, from her childhood in New Haven through her career as a Civil Rights attorney, New York Senator, and federal judge. Meet at the front entrance to the Law School. This tour is limited to 25 people.

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  Join the Lillian Goldman Law Library staff for a guided tour of the “Constance Baker Motley: Lady of the Law” exhibit. Drawing on images and personal items from the collection of her family, and from her own words in her autobiography, the exhibition offers a glimpse of Motley, brilliantly at work, from her childhood in New Haven through her career as a Civil Rights attorney, New York Senator, and federal judge. Meet at the front entrance to the Law School. This tour is limited to 25 people.

  Sterling Law Buildings | Room: Lillian Goldman Law Library — 127 Wall Street

• Mapping the Invisible Universe

  May 27

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

  Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall | Room: 114 — 1 Prospect Street

  Priyamvada Natarajan, Professor of Astronomy and Physics

  In this talk, Professor Natarajan will discuss two radical ideas in cosmology that involve invisible entities – dark matter and black holes. The history of the discovery of dark matter and black holes, as well as their current status – including recent leaps in understanding of the nature of dark matter obtained from mapping it via light bending; the discovery of gravitational waves from colliding black holes and peering close to the event horizon of supermassive black holes  – will be presented.

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  Priyamvada Natarajan, Professor of Astronomy and Physics

  In this talk, Professor Natarajan will discuss two radical ideas in cosmology that involve invisible entities – dark matter and black holes. The history of the discovery of dark matter and black holes, as well as their current status – including recent leaps in understanding of the nature of dark matter obtained from mapping it via light bending; the discovery of gravitational waves from colliding black holes and peering close to the event horizon of supermassive black holes  – will be presented.

  Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall | Room: 114 — 1 Prospect Street

• Yale and America

  May 27

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

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

  Jay Gitlin, ’71, ’74 MusM, ’02 PhD, Lecturer in History; Associate Director, Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers & Borders

  Professor Gitlin will give a brief description of his popular seminar, "Yale and America," and will then be joined by three students giving short talks based on their research.

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  Jay Gitlin, ’71, ’74 MusM, ’02 PhD, Lecturer in History; Associate Director, Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers & Borders

  Professor Gitlin will give a brief description of his popular seminar, "Yale and America," and will then be joined by three students giving short talks based on their research.

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

• American Picnic Lunch

  May 27

  12:00PM – 1:30PM

  Branford College — 74 High Street

  Buffet picnic lunch featuring chicken, burgers (beef or veggie), salads, sides and dessert.  Plus wine, beer, soda, coffee and teas.

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  Buffet picnic lunch featuring chicken, burgers (beef or veggie), salads, sides and dessert.  Plus wine, beer, soda, coffee and teas.

  Branford College — 74 High Street

• 1992 | What's Worth Wanting?

  May 27

  1:30PM – 2:45PM

  Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall | Room: 114 — 1 Prospect Street

  Is what you want really worth wanting?  We often settle for procedural and productivity thinking — life hacks, listicles and tips and tricks that offer the life of your dreams.  We max out our search in the shallow water, asking simply: “What do I want, and how can I get it?”  Dr. Matthew Croasmun '01, '06 M.A.R., '14 Ph.D., Director of the Life Worth Living Program in Yale College, suggests that if we want to live lives worthy of our humanity, we need to ask the deepest question possible and let it shape our thinking: What is truly worth wanting?

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  Is what you want really worth wanting?  We often settle for procedural and productivity thinking — life hacks, listicles and tips and tricks that offer the life of your dreams.  We max out our search in the shallow water, asking simply: “What do I want, and how can I get it?”  Dr. Matthew Croasmun '01, '06 M.A.R., '14 Ph.D., Director of the Life Worth Living Program in Yale College, suggests that if we want to live lives worthy of our humanity, we need to ask the deepest question possible and let it shape our thinking: What is truly worth wanting?

  Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall | Room: 114 — 1 Prospect Street

• Career and Life Vision: Define Your Legacy

  May 27

  3:00PM – 4:00PM

  Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall | Room: 114 — 1 Prospect Street

  Join classmate Pulin Sanghvi (PC) who led reimaginings of the career centers at Princeton and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, for a meaningful afternoon of reflection and conversation on finding inspiration in the next phase of life.  Pulin will offer frameshifting concepts drawing from the Career and Life Vision program that he has taught to thousands of students and alumni at Princeton, Stanford and Yale.  You can learn more about Pulin's work at: Choosing a Career Based on Passion | Curious.com.

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  Join classmate Pulin Sanghvi (PC) who led reimaginings of the career centers at Princeton and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, for a meaningful afternoon of reflection and conversation on finding inspiration in the next phase of life.  Pulin will offer frameshifting concepts drawing from the Career and Life Vision program that he has taught to thousands of students and alumni at Princeton, Stanford and Yale.  You can learn more about Pulin's work at: Choosing a Career Based on Passion | Curious.com.

  Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall | Room: 114 — 1 Prospect Street

• A Fireside Chat with Ivy Taylor (DC), President of Rust College

  May 27

  4:15PM – 5:00PM

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

  Careers can follow many paths, and one never knows exactly what will happen next.  Please join Leslie Wims Morris (BR) as she interviews Ivy Taylor (DC), President of Rust College (an HBCU), on her career, which includes government service as well as higher education, and how it all started after Yale.

  Add to Calendar 2022-05-27T16:15:00 2022-05-27T17:00:00 America/New_York A Fireside Chat with Ivy Taylor (DC), President of Rust College

  Careers can follow many paths, and one never knows exactly what will happen next.  Please join Leslie Wims Morris (BR) as she interviews Ivy Taylor (DC), President of Rust College (an HBCU), on her career, which includes government service as well as higher education, and how it all started after Yale.

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