The Week Ender: Happenings Nov. 21-23
The Week Ender appears every Thursday in Yale News and offers highlights of the many activities taking place at the university Friday-Sunday.
F R I D A Y
Browse the brains, view the videos, open the drawers, and light up the vitrines on a Guided tour of the Cushing Center. Dedicated to the work of Dr. Harvey Cushing, regarded as the father of modern neurosurgery, the center includes more than 400 specimen jars of patients’ brains and tumors, Cushing’s surgical illustrations and personal diaries, patient photographs, memorabilia, and historical anatomical and medical materials. Free. Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, 333 Cedar St. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Hear former Time magazine correspondent and Yale alumna Susan Jakes’ talk “Reporting on China, 2000-2014.” In 2003, Jakes broke the story of the Chinese government’s cover-up of the SARS epidemic in Beijing, for which she received a Henry Luce Public Service Award. Free. Berkeley College, Swiss Room, 205 Elm St. Noon.
Come to the Caribbean Collections Open House and browse through displays put together by librarians, archivists, and curators from around the Yale University Library system. The library staff members who selected the Caribbean items will be on hand to talk about their displays. Free. Beinecke Library, Rooms 38-39, 121 Wall St. 2:30-4 p.m., reception to follow 4-5 p.m.
F R I D A Y & S A T U R D A Y
See The Rules, a play that “examines the aftermath of a traumatic event from the perspective of its secondary victims.” Free, but register in advance. Iseman Theater, 1156 Chapel St. Friday, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Saturday, 4 p.m.
S A T U R D A Y
Take a docent-led Introductory Tour of the permanent collection of the Yale Center for British Art. Free. 1080 Chapel St. 11 a.m.
Take the Angles on Art Tour: Interpreting Absence in Art. Undergrad Rachel Packer will “discuss four objects that derive their significance, at least in part, from absence — of something that was once part of the object, of the object’s original function, or of something that defies concrete representation.” Free. Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. 3:30 p.m.
S U N D A Y
Listen to Great Organ Music at Yale featuring Jean-Baptiste Robin playing the French music of Rameau, Bizet, Debussy, Ravel, Widor, Dupré, and Robin. Free. Woolsey Hall, 500 College St. 7:30 p.m.
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