January 2018 Archives

A trial for a Chinese language database, Li dai bie ji ku 歷代別集庫, has been set up for Yale University users from now to February 21, 2018.

Li dai bie ji ku 歷代別集庫 is a newly available database from Erudition 愛如生. The two collections for the trial are Pre-Ming 明前 and Early Qing 清前期. Each collection consists of 2000 titles of poetry writings of individuals. Please follow the steps listed below to get access to this database:

1.            Access link: http://small.wenzibase.com

2.            Click “Ancient Classics” and then “Login”

3.            You have to select either “明前” or “清前期” in order to access individually

The function of downloading text has been disabled during the trial period. Only one user allows to access each session. Since the access is controlled by Yale IP ranges, you have to login Yale VPN first to get access from off-campus locations.

Please feel free to contact Michael Meng, Librarian for Chinese Studies, if you have any questions about the trial.

The Yale Film Study celebrates the 50th anniversary of the acquisition of the Yale Collection of Classic Films, formerly the John Griggs Collection of Classic Films, with a special Treasures from the Yale Film Archive event. This collection of more than 200 prints was the nucleus of the University's nascent film archive, and it has supported and inspired generations of Yale film scholars in their teaching, learning, and research.

The night will feature 16mm selections from Yale's first motion picture collection, including THE MARK OF ZORRO with Douglas Fairbanks and THE BALLOONATIC with Buster Keaton, presented with live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin.

“Yale Collection of Classic Films: 50th Anniversary Screening” is the first of seven Treasures screenings in January and February, with additional events to be announced throughout 2018. The series, which features 35mm and 16mm prints from Yale’s collection, is presented by the Yale Film Study Center and Films at the Whitney with support from Paul L. Joskow ‘70 M.Phil., ‘72 Ph.D. All Treasures screenings are free and open to the public. library.yale.edu/film/treasures

The screenings will be augmented by a website highlighting the past, present, and future of film collecting at Yale, with new material added to the site throughout the year. For more information about upcoming events go to: library.yale.edu/film/50

Can other people notice our affects more easily than we do? In Spaces of Feeling, Marta Figlerowicz examines modernist novels and poems that treat this possibility as electrifying, but also deeply disturbing. Their characters and lyric speakers are undone, Figlerowicz posits, by the realization that they depend on others to solve their inward affective conundrums. Feelings once believed to be private turn out to be not so mysterious after all. Come hear Figlerowicz speak on February 5th at 4:30 - 5:30PM in the International Room at Sterling Memorial Library.

Praised as an “utterly original, riveting book,” Spaces of Feeling features close readings of works by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, John Ashbery, Ralph Ellison, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, and Wallace Stevens. Figlerowicz points out that these poets and novelists often place their protagonists in domestic spaces—such as bedrooms, living rooms, and basements—in which their cognitive dependence on other characters inhabiting these spaces becomes clear. Figlerowicz highlights the diversity of aesthetic and sociopolitical contexts in which these affective dependencies become central to these authors’ representations of selfhood. By setting these novels and poems in conversation with the work of contemporary theorists, she illuminates pressing and unanswered questions about subjectivity.

When the United States entered World War I, the call of mass mobilization permeated every aspect of American life. Americans answered this call—for service and sacrifice, money and time, life and loyalty—with deep ambivalence; an ambivalence reflecting the divisive and singular nature of the conflict, but reflecting too the conflicting interests of emerging populations in a rapidly changing nation. 

The war raised new issues and exacerbated old ones already cleaving the country, adding strain to the question of national ideals and national identity—of what it meant to be an American. Military and civilian campaigns alike relied on oppressive and exclusionary tactics to uphold these urgent patriotic projects. As President Woodrow Wilson vowed to make the world safe for democracy, home-front battles for basic rights and liberties belied the integrity of that pledge. 

An American and Nothing Else: The Great War and the Battle for National Belonging explores this moment of paradox at its centennial, as reflected in speeches, pamphlets, photographs, posters, popular songs, and other examples of propaganda and protest from the period. “100% Americanism” marginalized innumerable civilians and soldiers, even while soliciting their uncritical support. Their manifold response of dedication and dissent cast criticism on American hypocrisy and energized debates about belonging and inclusion. This intense period of cohesion and tension fundamentally shaped American society in the century that followed. 

Tuesday, February 13, 4–6 pm 
Opening reception and discussion with exhibition curator Anna Duensing, Graduate Student.

Thursday, February, 15, 4–6 pm 
Keynote address by historian Adriane Lentz-Smith, reception to follow

Join us for a 35mm screening of M, Fritz Lang's first sound film, starring Peter Lorre in his greatest performance. Post-screening discussion with DEEP FOCUS host Tom Breen. 7:00pm Wednesday, January 31, in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street in New Haven. "Treasures from the Yale Film Archive" screenings are always free and open to everyone. Learn more.

WebGL Meeup: Call for Interest

Spring semester

The Digital Humanities Lab invites expressions of interest in a Web Graphics Library (WebGL) meetup this semester. WebGL is an increasingly popular JavaScript API for building 3D environments. If you work with WebGL or have a strong interest in using it and are looking for others on campus you can informally build or talk with, email the DHLab by Friday, January 26. We will coordinate a February meetup in the lab. 

Concepts such as location, scale, and representation play particularly important roles in knowledge-building, and this contributes to the appeal of GIS as a tool to enhance learning. How institutions provide training, professional development, and academic support varies considerably. In this presentation, we will consider decisions that lead to opportunities and challenges for GIS in higher education. 

About the Speaker:

Diana Stuart Sinton is a geographer interested in spatial literacy, teaching and learning GIS, and applying the tools of spatial thinking to address issues and ideas around the world. Check out her book, The People’s Guide to Spatial Thinking. Since 2013, Diana has been the Executive Director of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). She also teaches GIS at Cornell University and writes about geospatial education and research topics for Directions Magazine.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evolving-roles-for-gis-in-higher-education-...

Sponsored by Women in Tech @Yale

January 15th at the Beinecke a Temporary Display "Dr. King and the Long Civil Rights Movement" has been created from 12 NOON - 4 PM. Select highlights of the Beinecke Library’s collections related to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to the African American freedom movement across the 20th century will be on view in a temporary display for the holiday.