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Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band: Celebrating Max Roach and Championing Equality and Social Justice Through Music

Wayne Escoffery, Music Director. Celebrating American drummer and composer Max Roach (1924-2007) and his commitment to championing equality and social justice through music.

The program will feature two movements of his avant-garde jazz album and vocal-instrumental suite “We Insist!” (subtitled Max Roach’s “Freedom Now Suite”) on themes related to the Civil Rights Movement. Both movements were orchestrated and arranged specifically for the YJE Big Band by Michael Philip Mossman.

Yale Concert Band Winter Concert - "The Firebird," "Cave of the Winds," Bernstein, more

The Yale Concert Band, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director, presents an eclectic and exciting program:

• Igor Stravinsky’s 1910 debut of “The Firebird” launched him to the forefront of contemporary composers. The ballet, about a beautiful bird-woman who is captured by and later rescues a young prince, is widely praised for its symbiosis between décor, choreography, and music.

Yale Library Book Talk: Jill Newmark, "From Ivy League to US Navy: Richard Henry Greene, Black Civil War Surgeon"

Historian Jill Newmark will discuss her research on Richard Henry Greene, the first African American to graduate from Yale University and a key figure in her new book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons.

Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band Celebrates the Legacy of Wayne Shorter

Wayne Escoffery, Music Director. Celebrating the legacy of Wayne Shorter (1933-2023), the legendary American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Shorter came to mainstream prominence in 1959 upon joining Art Blakey’s “Jazz Messengers,” for whom he eventually became the primary composer. In 1964 he joined Miles Davis’ “Second Great Quintet,” and then co-founded the jazz fusion band “Weather Report” in 1970. He recorded more than 20 albums as a bandleader.

Playing With Fire: Incandescent Pedagogies and Critical Politics (Mexico City, 2016-22)

This conference focuses on the ways in which the protest- in particular young feminist and student protest in México City- can be visualized, translated, most of all read and theorized as crucially pedagogical and critically political. Much of what is expressed, drawn, painted during the protest (graffiti, murals, pintas) fades or vanishes below the surface. My aim is to stay with what vanishes and fades, with what is incommensurable or difficult to be narrated or placed together, and may be constitutive of a political discourse or a pedagogical intervention.

Sesión 3 del Seminario Abierto de Género & Derechos Humanos de LAIGN

“Las estrategias y acciones de las Transnational Advocacy Networks en defensa de las mujeres en situación de violencia aplicadas a los casos de Brasil y México” Expone: Eduarda Lattanzi.

Los Seminarios Abiertos del Grupo de Género & Derechos Humanos de la Red Latinoamericana de Estudios Interdisciplinarios de Género (LAIGN) tienen como objetivo propiciar un espacio de intercambio interdisciplinario sobre experiencias concretas que vinculan trabajos en diversos territorios con una reflexión desde los estudios de género y la perspectiva de los derechos humanos.

Sesión 4 del Seminario Abierto de Género & Derechos Humanos de LAIGN

“Derechos políticos de las mujeres” Expone: Arianne León.

Los Seminarios Abiertos del Grupo de Género & Derechos Humanos de la Red Latinoamericana de Estudios Interdisciplinarios de Género (LAIGN) tienen como objetivo propiciar un espacio de intercambio interdisciplinario sobre experiencias concretas que vinculan trabajos en diversos territorios con una reflexión desde los estudios de género y la perspectiva de los derechos humanos.

The seminars will be entirely conducted in Spanish.

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