Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 26-May 3, 1999

Volume 27, Number 30

Noted legal scholar to discuss religious roots of equality

George Fletcher, the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at the Columbia University School of Law, will deliver the 1999 Robert M. Litowitz Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy on Monday, April 26. (This event has been rescheduled from its original date of April 12.)

His lecture, titled "In God's Image: The Religious Roots of Equality Under Law," will be given at 4 p.m. in the faculty lounge of the Law School, 127 Wall St. A reception will follow in Rm. 104 of the Law School. The public is welcome to attend, free of charge.

Fletcher writes primarily about criminal law, torts and legal philosophy. His published writings include "Rethinking Criminal Law," which received an honorable mention from the Order of the Coif as the best law book published in the period 1976-78; "A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial," which received the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association; "With Justice for Some: Victims' Rights in Criminal Trials"; "Basic Concepts of Criminal Law"; and "Basic Concepts of Legal Thought." He has taught at numerous universities, including Yale, and appears regularly in the media as a commentator on legal affairs and as a professional moderator of Socratic dialogs.

Fletcher's experience includes prosecuting cases in Los Angeles, running workshops for Eastern European lawyers in Budapest, and founding and editing a magazine on Jewish philosophy. He lectures regularly in German, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Russian and English.

The Litowitz Lecture is sponsored by the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics.

Panelists will discuss their work with digital media

Four artists will talk about their future projects and their strategies using digital media in a panel discussion on Tuesday, April 27.

The discussion, titled "From Here On...," will take place at 6:30 p.m. in Hastings Hall of the Art & Architecture Building, 180 York St. The event, part of a lecture series sponsored by the Digital Media Center for the Arts, is free and open to the public.

The panelists are Neil Seiling, creator of Mod TV and a former executive producer of ALIVE TV; Barbara London, a curator for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York; Tim Druckrey, editor of the MIT Press Electronic Culture Series; and Aaron Betsky, curator of architecture and design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA).

In his talk, titled "Building a Sustainable New Public Media Culture," Seiling will draw from his experience leading a major national consortium on developing new public media opportunities in web/TV hybrids and other digital forms. He created Mod TV in 1997 and is currently developing a multilateral international television/Internet series, titled Teleglobo, with Sunshine Amalgamedia.

London will discuss her work at MoMA, where she curates web shows for the MoMA site. Her most recent show, "NYET," surveys new media practice in Eastern Europe, and she is currently designing exhibition space for web projects and new media in the new MoMA building.

Druckrey will speak about the work collected at MIT Press for his forthcoming books. Betsky, who earned both his B.A. and M.Arch. degrees from Yale, will discuss his multifaceted projects. At the SFMoMA, Betsky is responsible for exhibiting and collecting designed artifacts and spaces, including those in the fields of architecture, urban design, landscape design, interior design, industrial design, furniture and graphic design. He is the author of eight books on architecture, including "Building Sex: Men, Women, Architecture and the Construction of Sexuality," and "Queer Space: The Spaces of Same Sex Desire."

Following their talks, the speakers will address questions from the audience.

Noted Russian poet/novelist to give reading

Sergei Gandlevsky, who is considered one of the most accomplished contemporary Russian poets, will read from and discuss his work on Wednesday, April 28, as a Woodward Lecturer.

The reading, sponsored by the department of Slavic languages and literatures, will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 401 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. It is free and open to the public.

A graduate of Moscow State University, Gandlevsky began writing poetry at the age of 18 and has since published two volumes of his works, "The Tale," and "Celebration." The latter volume won the newly founded Russian Anti-Booker Prize. Gandlevsky is also an essayist and prose writer whose latest novel, "The Trepanation of the Skull," was awarded the Russian Booker Prize as well as the Znamia Award. A book of his essays, "The Poetical Cuisine," was published last year.

Gandlevsky's poems have been translated into French, English, Italian, German, Polish and Finnish. In 1992, he created a series of programs devoted to contemporary Russian poetry on Russian National Radio. A member of the Union of Russian Writers, he currently serves as an editor of Foreign Literature Magazine.

Stroke is topic of lecture by NIH physician

Dr. Michael D. Walker, director of the division of stroke, trauma and neurodegenerative disorders for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health, will deliver the 1999 Gaylord Rehabilitation Research Institute Annual Lecture on Wednesday, April 29.

His lecture, which is free and open to the public, is titled "Stroke at the End of 'The Decade of the Brain.'" It will begin at 4 p.m. in Rm. 110 of the Jane Ellen Hope Building, 315 Cedar St.

Walker, an alumnus of Yale College, oversees extensive research in the areas of stroke, brain tumors, trauma and neurodegenerative disorders, including clinical trials using drugs and surgical procedures to treat these disorders.

Before joining the NINDS, he was director of the National Cancer Institute's Baltimore Cancer Research Center and the head of the section of neurological surgery. He has held academic appointments at Harvard Medical School, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Walker has served on a number of federal task forces and is the recipient of several prestigious awards from the U.S. government for his work. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Neuro-Oncology and has written over 100 scientific papers

Talk to explore South Africa's future

"South Africa after Mandela" is the topic of a talk being given on Friday, April 30, by Thami Ngwevala, consul-general of South Africa to New York.

She will discuss her country's future at a tea at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The event, sponsored by the Yale African Students Association and the African studies department, is free and open to the public.

Ngwevala has had a long career in political activism and public service. During apartheid, she spent several years in exile working for the African National Congress' (ANC) department of international affairs and its women's executive committee. For the ANC, she helped develop liaisons in the global anti-apartheid movement. Upon her return from exile, she worked with housing and urban development in Cape Town, where she helped plan and raise funds to upgrade former migrant labor hostels into suitable accommodations. She later served as the coordinator for the Local Government Transition Policy Project before joining the Foreign Service of the Republic of South Africa, where she worked in the Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and headed the Foreign Service Institute.

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