Class of 2002 20th Reunion - Program & Schedule - 2002

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.

  Add to Calendar 2022-05-27T10:30:00 2022-05-27T11:30:00 America/New_York America's Constitution: How It Arose and How to Preserve It

  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.

  Add to Calendar 2022-05-27T10:30:00 2022-05-27T11:30:00 America/New_York Constance Baker Motley, Lady of the Law

  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

• 0Y2 Class Panel: Yalies in Journalism

  May 27

  4:15PM – 5:15PM

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

  Our class has several stars leading and shaping the course of modern day journalism and making waves on the domestic and international stage via print, tv, and digital media platforms. Join us for a lively conversation about their journey and their perspective on current affairs. Included below are the bios for each speaker:

  Perry Bacon Jr.

  Perry Bacon Jr. is a Washington Post columnist. He focuses on two major themes: the growing radicalism of the Republican Party and the right; and the efforts, mostly on the left and among Democrats, to create a more just, equitable society. Before joining The Post in May 2021, Perry had stints as a government and elections writer for Time magazine, The Post's politics desk, theGrio and FiveThirtyEight. He has also been been an on-air analyst at MSNBC and a fellow at New America. He grew up in Louisville and lives there now.

  Michael Barbaro (Moderator)

  Michael Barbaro is a staff writer at The New York Times, where he has extensively covered national and state politics. He currently hosts one of the most popular podcasts, “The Daily,” which recaps key events covered by The New York Times. In 2018, Barbaro won a Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, one of the most prestigious awards in journalism, for his work on The Daily. Before joining The Times in 2005, Barbaro worked at the Washington Post, NBC News, and The Miami Herald. He majored in History at Yale and was a reporter and editor in chief of the Yale Daily News.

  Ben Reiter

  Ben Reiter is the author of Astroball: The New Way to Win It All, a New York Times bestseller, and the host and producer of The Edge, a documentary series which was named one of the top podcasts of 2020 by The Atlantic, Podcast Review, and Spotify. As a longtime senior writer for Sports Illustrated, his feature 'The Seeker: The Complicated Life and Death of Hideki Irabu' won the 2018 Deadline Award for Magazine Profile, and his pieces have four times been honored as notable selections in the annual The Best American Sportswriting series. He holds a BA in History from Yale and an MPhil in International Relations from Cambridge, and is a member of the board of directors of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the criminal justice system. He lives in New York City.

  Clarissa Ward

  Clarissa Ward is CNN’s chief international correspondent. She has spent nearly two decades reporting from front lines in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt and Ukraine for ABC, CBS and Fox News. A recipient of multiple journalism recognitions including nine Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards and one George Polk Award, Ward is the author of ‘On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist’ (Penguin Press), which details her singular career as a conflict reporter and how she has documented the violent remaking of the world from close range.

  Add to Calendar 2022-05-27T16:15:00 2022-05-27T17:15:00 America/New_York 0Y2 Class Panel: Yalies in Journalism

  Our class has several stars leading and shaping the course of modern day journalism and making waves on the domestic and international stage via print, tv, and digital media platforms. Join us for a lively conversation about their journey and their perspective on current affairs. Included below are the bios for each speaker:

  Perry Bacon Jr.

  Perry Bacon Jr. is a Washington Post columnist. He focuses on two major themes: the growing radicalism of the Republican Party and the right; and the efforts, mostly on the left and among Democrats, to create a more just, equitable society. Before joining The Post in May 2021, Perry had stints as a government and elections writer for Time magazine, The Post's politics desk, theGrio and FiveThirtyEight. He has also been been an on-air analyst at MSNBC and a fellow at New America. He grew up in Louisville and lives there now.

  Michael Barbaro (Moderator)

  Michael Barbaro is a staff writer at The New York Times, where he has extensively covered national and state politics. He currently hosts one of the most popular podcasts, “The Daily,” which recaps key events covered by The New York Times. In 2018, Barbaro won a Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, one of the most prestigious awards in journalism, for his work on The Daily. Before joining The Times in 2005, Barbaro worked at the Washington Post, NBC News, and The Miami Herald. He majored in History at Yale and was a reporter and editor in chief of the Yale Daily News.

  Ben Reiter

  Ben Reiter is the author of Astroball: The New Way to Win It All, a New York Times bestseller, and the host and producer of The Edge, a documentary series which was named one of the top podcasts of 2020 by The Atlantic, Podcast Review, and Spotify. As a longtime senior writer for Sports Illustrated, his feature 'The Seeker: The Complicated Life and Death of Hideki Irabu' won the 2018 Deadline Award for Magazine Profile, and his pieces have four times been honored as notable selections in the annual The Best American Sportswriting series. He holds a BA in History from Yale and an MPhil in International Relations from Cambridge, and is a member of the board of directors of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the criminal justice system. He lives in New York City.

  Clarissa Ward

  Clarissa Ward is CNN’s chief international correspondent. She has spent nearly two decades reporting from front lines in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt and Ukraine for ABC, CBS and Fox News. A recipient of multiple journalism recognitions including nine Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards and one George Polk Award, Ward is the author of ‘On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist’ (Penguin Press), which details her singular career as a conflict reporter and how she has documented the violent remaking of the world from close range.

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

• 0Y2 Friday Cocktail Hour & Kids Table

  May 27

  6:00PM – 7:00PM

  Silliman College | Room: Courtyard — 505 College St.

  Let the good times roll! Raise a glass, as we toast our class and times together, both present and past. During cocktail hour, there will be a complimentary kid's table offering a kid-friendly meal for our future Yalies!

  Add to Calendar 2022-05-27T18:00:00 2022-05-27T19:00:00 America/New_York 0Y2 Friday Cocktail Hour & Kids Table

  Let the good times roll! Raise a glass, as we toast our class and times together, both present and past. During cocktail hour, there will be a complimentary kid's table offering a kid-friendly meal for our future Yalies!

  Silliman College | Room: Courtyard — 505 College St.

• 0Y2 Friday Dinner

  May 27

  7:00PM – 9:00PM

  Silliman College | Room: Courtyard — 505 College St.

  Savor all the flavors of a delicious American Picnic buffet under the Tent in Silliman Courtyard. 

  Add to Calendar 2022-05-27T19:00:00 2022-05-27T21:00:00 America/New_York 0Y2 Friday Dinner

  Savor all the flavors of a delicious American Picnic buffet under the Tent in Silliman Courtyard. 

  Silliman College | Room: Courtyard — 505 College St.

• 0Y2 Friday Night Trivia & Ice Cream Social

  May 27

  9:00PM – 11:30PM

  Silliman College | Room: Courtyard — 505 College St.

  The festivities continue in Silliman Courtyard, with the bar open until 11:30pm. Join us for Trivia with Captain Jim and an Ice Cream Social under the tent, courtesy of classmate Rachel Kamins of Bartleby's Ice Cream Cakes!

  Add to Calendar 2022-05-27T21:00:00 2022-05-27T23:30:00 America/New_York 0Y2 Friday Night Trivia & Ice Cream Social

  The festivities continue in Silliman Courtyard, with the bar open until 11:30pm. Join us for Trivia with Captain Jim and an Ice Cream Social under the tent, courtesy of classmate Rachel Kamins of Bartleby's Ice Cream Cakes!

  Silliman College | Room: Courtyard — 505 College St.