Prize-winning Irish poet will read from his works
Ciaran Carson, a prize-winning poet who was raised in Belfast as a native Irish speaker, will read from his poetry on Tuesday, Oct. 26, at 4 p.m. at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St. A reception will follow the event, which is free and open to the public.
Carson's poetry collections include "The Irish for No," which won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award for the best second book of poetry published in England in 1987; "Belfast Confetti," which won the prestigious Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize for Poetry in 1990 and was shortlisted the same year for the Irish Book Award for Literature and The Whitbread Poetry Award; and "First Language," which won the T.S. Eliot Prize for the outstanding book of poetry published in Great Britain in 1993. His more recent works include the poetry collection "Opera Et Cetera" and the prose work "The Star Factory," a reminiscence about Belfast, time, place and memory.
A traditional musician and scholar of the Irish oral tradition, Carson served as the Traditional Arts Officer of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and is a flutist, tinwhistler and singer. He is also the author of the "Pocket Guide to Irish Traditional Music," "Last Night's Fun" and of the introduction for "Rachel Giese: The Donegal Pictures."
Carson's reading is sponsored by the Beinecke Library and the English department.
Darla Moore, president of Rainwater, Inc., one of the largest private investment firms in America, will give a talk on "The Changing American Investment Climate" on Wednesday, Oct. 27, at the School of Management (SOM).
Moore's talk, part of the SOM Leader's Forum series, will take place 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. It is free and open to the public.
Moore joined Rainwater Inc. in 1994. The company has primarily engaged in the founding and building of major companies in the health care service, oil service, and natural gas, insurance and real estate industries. Moore is also a general partner in Goff Moore Strategic Partners, also a private investment firm.
Moore is widely recognized for her success in finance. Prior to joining Rainwater, Inc., she was managing director of Chase Bank, where she pioneered "debtor in possession" financing to companies filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy. She has received numerous awards in banking and finance, and her career has been the subject of many articles in business and women's publications, including Fortune, Forbes, Working Woman and The Wall Street Journal. She was recently the subject of a CNN profile. The University of South Carolina recently honored Moore by naming its business school The Darla Moore School of Business.
Moore serves on the boards of numerous corporations and organizations, including Magellan Health Services, Inc., the country's largest provider of mental and behavior healthcare. She is also a trustee of the University of South Carolina.
Hugh Patrick, a Columbia University professor who is recognized as a leading specialist on the Japanese economy and on Pacific Basin economic relations, will deliver the inaugural John W. Hall Lecture in Japanese Studies on Wednesday, Oct. 27.
His lecture, titled "Major Japanese Economic Transformations, 1950-2000," will take place at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. A reception will follow the talk in the Luce Hall common room. The events are free and open to the public.
Patrick, who earned his B.A. and two M.A. degrees from Yale and formerly taught at the University, is the R.D. Calkins Professor of International Business and director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia University. He's also been a visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University, the University of Tokyo and the University of Bombay.
Patrick was a close friend of John W. Hall, the historian whom the lectureship honors. Hall held the A. Whitney Griswold Professorship of History from 1961 until his retirement in 1983. He wrote and/or edited influential volumes on Japanese history and served as chair or president of a variety of local and national committees focused on Japanese or Asian studies.
The lectureship in Hall's honor was established by the Council on East Asian Studies with the support of Mrs. Robin Hall.
Paul Auster, whose numerous works include three novels that comprise "The New York Trilogy" and who wrote the Miramax films "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face," will be the guest at a tea on Wednesday, Oct. 27. The tea, sponsored by the Branford College master's office, will begin at 4 p.m. in the Common Room of the Swing Space, 100 Tower Pkwy. It is free and open to the public.
Auster's three novels of "The New York Trilogy," which were published in the mid- and late-1980s, are "City of Glass," "Ghosts" and "The Locked Room." Since then, he has published five other novels: "In the Country of Last Things"; "Moon Palace," which was named the best book of 1990 in the French literary journal Lire; "The Music of Chance," which was nominated for the Pen/Faulkner Award for fiction; "Leviathan," which won the Prix Medici Etranger, given for the best novel by a foreign author published in France; and "Mr. Vertigo." "The Music of Chance" was made into a movie starring Joel Grey and Mandy Patinkin; three of his other novels have also been optioned by film companies.
The movie "Smoke," starring Harvey Keitel and William Hurt, was an original screenplay based on Auster's short story "Adogie Wren's Christmas Story," which was commissioned by The New York Times. "Blue in the Face" was a spontaneous "Smoke" spin-off set in the same Brooklyn smoke shop with actors Keitel, Michael J. Fox, Roseanne, Lou Reed and Lily Tomlin.
Auster has also written books of poetry and a collection of essays titled "The Art of Hunger." Also a translator of works into English from French, he was editor of "The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry."
"The Marriage of Art and Science in Health Care" is the title of a talk being given on Thursday, Oct. 28, by John Graham-Pole, professor of pediatrics/hematology and oncology at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville. Sponsored by the Program for Humanities in Medicine, his talk will begin at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The event is free and open to the public.
In his talk, Graham-Pole will discuss the ways art and health have overlapped from prehistory to the present day. He also will explore art's role in today's care, its place in caregiver education and how to run hospital programs that incorporate art as a healing tool.
Graham-Pole has written over 120 scientific articles and chapters and over 60 poems and essays on the art of health care. Listed in the 1998-99 edition of "The Best Doctors in America," he has received numerous grants for arts-in-medicine programs. He has explored the body-mind-spirit connection in lectures throughout the United States.
Graham-Pole is a member of the Society for Health and Human Values, the International Arts-Medicine Association, Arts in Medicine, the Society for the Arts in Healthcare and the National Association for Poetry Therapy, among other organizations.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow, founder and director of the Shalom Center, will discuss "Jonah, Babel, Y2K and Shabbat" in a talk on Thursday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m. in the chapel of the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St. The event is free, and the public is invited.
The Shalom Center is a division of ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal that focuses on Jewish thought and practice to protect and heal the earth. Since 1969, Waskow has been one of the leading creators of theory, practice and institutions for the movement of Jewish renewal. He is a "Pathfinder" of ALEPH. Several years ago, he was named by the United Nations as a "Wisdom Keeper" among 40 religious and intellectual leaders who met in connection with the Habitat II conference in Istanbul.
Waskow founded and edits the journal New Menorah and is coeditor of "Trees, Earth & Torah: A Tu B'Shvat Anthology," published this month. He cowrote with his brother Howard Waskow a book about their process of conflict and reconciliation titled "Becoming Brothers."
Waskow has taught at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, at Swarthmore and Vassar colleges, and at Temple and Drew universities.
Frank Savage, chair of Alliance Capital Management International and member of the board of directors of Alliance Capital Management Corporation, will discuss the topic "Culture and Global Business" as part of the School of Management's "Perspectives on Leadership" series. His talk, on Friday, Oct. 29, will take place 10-11:30 a.m. in Rm. 114 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and Prospect streets. The event is free and open to the public.
Savage has had a 30-year career in international banking, corporate finance and global investment management. He was formerly senior vice president of The Equitable Life Assurance Society and chair of Equitable Capital Management Corporation, a $35 billion Equitable Life investment management subsidiary, which was merged with Alliance Capital in 1993. Alliance Capital is a $173 billion investment subsidiary of The Equitable Companies Incorporated.
Savage spent the early part of his career with the international division of Citicorp, serving in the Middle East and Africa. After a brief period as a principal in an international leasing company, he spent several years as an investment officer with Equitable Life, lending directly to U.S. and foreign companies, and later rose to the position of chair of the company.
Savage serves on the boards of several corporations and not-for-profit organizations, including Lockheed Martin Corporation, ARCO Chemical Company, the Council on Foreign Relations, Johns Hopkins University, Howard University and the New York Philharmonic. He is a former presidential appointee to the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation.
Dr. M. Alex Geertsma, chair of the department of pediatrics at Saint Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, Connecticut, will speak as part of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Oct. 29, at noon. His talk, titled "Mental Health Services for Children in a Managed Care Era," will be held in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The event is free and open to the public.
As director of the Children's Health Center at St. Mary's Hospital, Geertsma has worked extensively on quality and efficiency aspects of managed care for children, particularly Medicaid Managed Care. He has been actively involved in advocacy for children's behavioral health services through work with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. He has conducted research and published in the areas of infancy and early childhood development, the nature of infant crying and colic, and early childhood feeding disorders. He also provides consultation to various local, state and national child and family support and advocacy programs, including Connecticut Family Resource Centers/Schools of the 21st Century, Health Families Connecticut and school-based health centers.
Geertsma, an alumnus of Yale College, was a fellow in child development at Boston Children's Hospital and at Harvard Medical School, where he was trained by noted pediatrician Dr. T. Berry Brazelton.
For further information, call 432-9935.
Robert Repetto, senior fellow at the World Resources Institute (WRI), will give a lecture titled "Estimating the Impact of Environmental Performance on Shareholder Value: A Case Study of the Pulp and Paper Industry" on Monday, Nov. 1. His talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 5 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall. A reception will follow in the student lounge.
The event will be hosted by J. Gustave Speth, dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Daniel C. Esty, director of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy.
Repetto is the author of numerous publications on the environment and economics, including "World Enough and Time." Among his other writings are "U.S. Competitiveness Is Not at Risk in the Climate Negotiations," "The Costs of Climate Protection: A Guide for the Perplexed," "Has Environmental Regulation Really Reduced Productivity Growth? We Need Unbiased Measures" and "Pesticides and the Immune System: The Public Health Risks."
Before joining the WRI in 1983, Repetto taught environmental, resource and population economics at Harvard University and worked with the World Bank Resident Mission in Indonesia. He served as an adviser to the Economic Planning Board of East Pakistan. He edited the conference papers from the 1985 Global Possible Conference and was a contributor to the economics work of the World Commission on Environment, as well as to the group's report "Our Common Future."
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