Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 1-8, 1999

Volume 28, Number 11

State Department official will be guest at master's tea

Martin S. Indyk, assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs at the U.S. Department of State and former U.S. ambassador to Israel, will be the guest at a tea on Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 4:30 p.m. at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.

His talk is free and open to the public.

As assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs, Indyk assists the Secretary of State in providing overall direction, coordination and supervision of U.S. policy in the Middle East and North Africa.

Prior to taking on that assignment in 1997, Indyk served as U.S. ambassador to Israel for two years. During this period, he helped strengthen U.S.-Israeli relations, reinforce the U.S. commitment to advance the peace process and increase the level of mutual trade and investment.

Indyk was formerly special assistant to the President and senior director of Near East and South Asian affairs at the National Security Council (NSC). While at the NSC, he also served as principal adviser to the President and national security adviser on Arab/Israeli issues, Iraq, Iran and South Asia. He was a senior member of Secretary of State Warren Christopher's Middle East Peace team and served as the White House representative on the U.S./Israel Science and Technology Commission.

Before entering government service, Indyk served for eight years as executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a research institute specializing in Arab-Israeli relations. He has published widely on U.S. policy towards the Arab/Israeli peace process, on U.S./Israel relations and on the threats of Middle East stability posed by Iraq and Iran.

School readiness is topic of Bush Center lecture

Chaya Piotrkowski, a professor in the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University, will speak in the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Nov. 5, at noon.

Her talk, titled "School Readiness and Project Success: Parent, Preschool and Kindergarten Teacher Perspectives in a Low-Income Community," will be held in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The event is free and open to the public.

Piotrkowski's research focuses on the prevention of school failure among children living in poverty, as well as Head Start, work and family issues, welfare and work, and child labor. Her most recent publications include an evaluation of the HIPPY program for low-income children and a study of teachers' knowledge of parent involvement. She is principal investigator of a study, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, which examines the effects of discrepancies in school readiness expectations on the school readiness of children living in poverty. She is also currently an associate editor of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and serves on the Universal Prekindergarten Advisory Board in East Harlem, New York.

Piotrkowski was an assistant professor in Yale's psychology department from 1979 to 1984. From 1989 to 1994, she served as director of the NCJW Center for the Child, a research institute that promoted the well-being of children and families through policy-related applied research.

For further information, call (203) 432-9935.

Stanford professor to discuss legal ethics in Law School lecture

"Moral Pluck: Legal Ethics in Popular Culture" is the title of the 1999 Robert P. Anderson Fellowship Lecture, which will be given on Monday, Nov. 8, by Stanford University law professor William H. Simon.

Simon's talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St.

Simon, the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law at Stanford, specializes in legal ethics and public interest lawyering issues, as well as legal issues related to poverty and employment. He has taught at Stanford since 1981. He is the author of the 1998 book "The Practice of Justice: A Theory of Legal Ethics," as well as of numerous articles dealing with topics ranging from the ethics of criminal defense to welfare rights.

Simon is a consultant to various nonprofit groups and others on legal ethics and the delivery of legal services. He serves on the boards of the Palo Alto Area Bar Association and the East Palo Alto Community Law Project. He previously was a staff attorney at the Legal Services Center and an associate of the law firm Foley, Hoag & Eliot. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and was a visiting staff member at the National Economic Development and Law Center.

Simon's honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994 and an Olin Fellowship in 1991.

Noted immunologist to deliver annual Gershon Lecture

Dr. Max D. Cooper, who is credited with discovering the distinction of T cells and B cells, the two major divisions of lymphocytes, will deliver the 13^th annual Richard K. Gershon Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 10.

His lecture, titled "An Extrathymic T Cell Pathway?", will begin at 5 p.m. in Harkness Auditorium of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. A reception outside the auditorium will follow. Both events are free and open to the public.

Cooper identified B cells and T cells in 1965 after studying the bursal and thymic lymphoid systems in chickens at the University of Minnesota, where he was a medical fellow specialist and assistant professor of pediatrics. He has since been involved in many areas of immunology research. His basic research with birds and clinical research with patients has advanced knowledge about the different aspects of B and T cell development and immunodeficiency diseases. Throughout his career, he has combined cutting-edge research with caring for patients.

Cooper earned his medical degree at Tulane University and trained there and at the Hospital for Sick Children in London and the University of California in San Francisco.

Cooper is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He served as president of the American Association of Immunologists in 1988-89.

The Richard K. Gershon Memorial Lecture is named in memory of a Yale physician who was a pioneer in the field of regulation of immune responses by T lymphocytes. Dr. Gershon died in 1983.

Filmmaker/curator to introduce film at Yale Center for British Art

Experimental filmmaker, artist and curator Jane Gang will introduce the film "'Half a Lager and a Packet of Crisps': British Underground Film of the Late Nineties," which will be presented by the Yale Center for British Art on Wednesday, Nov. 10.

The film showing will take place at 5:15 p.m. in the museum's lecture hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Gang initiated and ran bi-monthly screenings of film and video at the Pink Pony on the lower east side of Manhattan in 1996. She has curated shows for Anthology Film Archives, The Knitting Factory, The London Underground Film Festival and Toronto's First S8 Film Festival. She curated and presented "Turf UK," a program of current British low-budget films, for the New York Underground Film Festival. She has also held cross-cultural film festivals of American- and United Kingdom-based filmmakers in the U.S. and in London.

Gang has actively participated in low- and no-budget film distribution across the globe. She was a board member, then secretary, of the New York Film Maker's Cooperative (1996-98) and she has been on the selection committee for the Mix Film Festival (1998).

Noted authority on British art, gardens to deliver series of lectures

Sir Roy Strong, who formerly served as director of the England's National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, will deliver the 1999 Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Memorial Lectures on the topic "The Artist and the Garden: Picturing the English Garden, 1540-1740."

The four-part lecture series, which is free and open to the public, will begin on Tuesday, Nov. 9, with a talk on "A Paradise of Dainty Devices: The Emblematic Garden." On Thursday, Nov. 11, he will discuss "Pride of Possession: Gardens in Portraits." The series will continue on Tuesday, Nov. 16, with a lecture on "Portrait of a Place: The Garden Picture." The final lecture, on Thursday, Nov. 18, is titled "Every Prospect Pleases: Garden Panoramas."

During his visit to Yale, Strong, who is also a garden designer, will discuss the formal garden on four acres he created with his wife, the internationally known designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, at The Laskett, their house in Herefordshire. This special lecture, titled "The Laskett: The Creation of a Garden," will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 17.

All of the lectures will take place at 5:15 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St.

Strong, who is an internationally recognized authority on Tudor and Jacobean art, became director of the National Portrait Gallery when he was only 32. From 1974 to 1987, he was director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he staged some of the museum's most successful exhibitions. He also made a number of notable acquisitions for the museum, including Donatello's Chellini Madonna and the Duke of Wellington's Egyptian service. A prolific author, his most recent publications are "The Story of Britain" and his "Diaries, 1967-1987."

Strong's garden at The Laskett is believed to be the largest formal garden created in Britain since 1945. It has also been listed as one of the most innovative of the last 50 years. The garden, begun in 1973, comprises some 30 different "rooms," including a lime avenue, a knot garden, two parterre gardens, and orchard and flower borders. Strong has also designed highly acclaimed gardens for Elton John and the late Gianni Versace.

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