The Young Academic Alumni Lecture Series (YAALS) presents lectures by alumuni who have chosen careers in academia and are in the final stages of writing their dissertation, are doing post-doctoral work, or are in their first few years of academic employment. Lectures are sponsored and coordinated by the Library. The Library partners on individual lectures with the corresponding academic department, the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Center for Global Peace and Citizenship, Athletics, the Office of Alumni Relations or other administrative units as the lecture topic suggests.
For more information, please contact Terry Snyder.
2012–2013
 | On Kafka’s Things: Between Animation and Reification - Young Academic Alumni Lecture by Brook Henkel '05 Magill Philips Wing Wed, Sep 19 at 4:30pm |
 | "Black Market City: Street Vendors, Elites, and the State in Mexico City, 1700-1900" Young Academic Alumni Lecture Series - Talk by Drew Konove '04 Magill Philips Wing Thu, Nov 1 at 4:30pm |
 | Convergent Paths: The Correspondence Between Early Quakers and Late Medieval Heretics Magill Philips Wing Wed, Feb 6 at 4:30pm |
 | Math Colloquium: "Finding surface maps with linear programming" KINSC E309 Mon, Apr 15 at 4:00pm |
 | An Introduction to Progressive Property Magill Philips Wing Thu, Apr 18 at 7:30pm |
Past Lectures
2011–2012
Jack Schneider '02
"What Reformers Talk About When They Talk about Fixing Schools"
Nicholas Popper '99
"The Problem with Tutilimundi or, Re-viewing Nineteenth-Century Argentina"
Matthew Sazinsky '99
"Iron Wars: A Ferrous Hope"
Nicole Myers Turner '97
"'Becoming Free': Black Churches, Black Freedom and Black Sexuality in Postemancipation Virginia"
2008–2009
Paul Reitter '90
"The Birth of Modern Media Criticism out of the Spirit of Jewish Self-Hatred? Karl Kraus and his Jewish Question"
Brent S. Sirota '98
"The Foundations of the Age of Benevolence in Britain, 1690-1740"
2007–2008
Stephon Alexander '93
"Some Common Elements in Doing Music and Physics"
Kevin Crisp '98
"The Cellular and Molecular Basis of a Simple Form of Learning in the Leech"
Shamus Khan '00
"The Production of Privilege: Life at an Elite Boarding School"
Aaron Ritzenberg '98
"A Touch of Miss Lonelyhearts"
2006–2007
Craig B. Arnold '94
"Laser Processing and Transport in Materials from Photonics to Bioengineering"
Tara Brendle '95
"Mapping Class Groups: Progress and Problems"
2005–2006
Kate Carte Engel '94
"The Terrible Obscurity of Being Quaint: What Bethlehem's Moravians Can Tell Us about Religion and Economic Life in Early America"
Ranjan Kaparti '93
"The Two Sphere Universe"
Sonam Singh '95
"Democracy versus Bohemia: The Sex Life of 1930s Political Literature"
Noel Watson '97
"Human Behavioral Dynamics in Supply Chain Management"
2004–2005
Jessica Piombo '95
"Terrorist Financing and Government Response in East Africa"
Lynne Raschke '98
"A Sharper View of Nearby Galaxy Cores: Results from Adaptive Optics and the Hubble Space Telescope"
Jason Stevens '97
"The Bible and the Gun: Robert Penn Warren's Suspicion of Prophesy"
Jeremy Wallach '92
"Vampires and Mosh Pits in the Global Village: Producing an Indonesian Rock Music Video"
Amanda Irwin Wilkins '95
"Surviving 1918: The Ghost of War in Mrs. Dalloway"
2003–2004
Matt Hedstrom '92
"Rufus Jones and Mysticism for the Masses"
Cara Hersh '97
"Trwe mon trwe restore: Restitution, Reconciliation, and the Carnivalesque in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
David Lippel '94
"The Model Theoretica Perspective"
2002–2003
Jonathan Burton '89
"Before Orientalism, after Orientalism: Approaching Islam in the Renaissance"
Adinah S. Miller '91
"Sex and the Città: Jews and Prostitution in Early Modern Venice"
Leon Sachs '89
"Experimental Psychology and Experimental Theater in Fin-de-Siècle France: The Case of François de Curel's ‘La Nouvelle Idole'"
2001–2002
Gwendolyn Alker '92
"Quaker Silence and Performing Postmodernity"