Month: March 2011

The Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, Jack M. Balkin, will speak on “The First Amendment is an Information Policy,” during the 20^th Annual Hugo L. Black Lecture on Freedom of Expression. The event will be held at 8 p.m., March 23, in Memorial Chapel.

Professor Balkin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and writes political and legal commentary at the weblog Balkinization. Professor Balkin is the founder and director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, an interdisciplinary center that studies law and the new information technologies.  He is also the director of Yale’s Knight Law and Media Program.

Professor Kari Weil will speak in COL’s Works in Progress series on Wednesday, March 23 at 4:15 PM in the COL Lounge.  Her talk is entitled,

Civilization and the Dog’s Discontents, or Desperate Housepets, A Reading of Virginia Woolf’s “Flush.“

Kari Weil received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and has published widely on 19th and 20th century literature, feminist theory, literary representations of gender (especially in France) and more recently on theories and representation of animal otherness.  Her course, “Animal Subjects,” which she taught at the California College of the Arts, won the United States Humane Society’s “Best Course Award” in 2006.  Her talk will be taken from her book, “Thinking Animals,” which is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.