Yale Bulletin and Calendar

December 6-13, 1999

Volume 28, Number 15

Princeton sociologist to deliver annual Leff Lecture

"The Purchase of Intimacy" is the title of the Law School's annual Arthur Leff Lecture, which will be delivered by Princeton sociologist Viviana A. Zelizer on Tuesday, Dec. 7.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St.

Zelizer, who focuses on economic sociology, is the author of three award-winning books. These are "Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States," which won the 1985 Elizur Wright Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association; "Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children," which received the C.W. Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems; and "The Social Meaning of Money," which won the 1996 Culture Section Book Award from the American Sociological Association.

In her numerous articles and essays, Zelizer has explored such topics as child labor and children's economic roles, surrogate motherhood, the role of money in the family, the morality of spending and the social meaning of money, among others. She has lectured extensively on sociological issues throughout the United States and in Europe.

Zelizer is coeditor of the Princeton Series in Cultural Sociology and serves on the editorial boards of several sociological journals. She is also a member of the Yale sociology department's advisory committee.

Promoting health is the topic of medical school lecture

Fred Smith, assistant director for the Violence and Substance Abuse Initiative of the Interfaith Health Program at the Carter Center, will discuss "Promoting Health: Challenges for Faith Organizations" on Tuesday, Dec. 7.

His lecture, which is sponsored by the Yale Urban Health Program of the department of epidemiology and public health, will take place noon-1 p.m. in Rm. 608 of the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College St. The event is free and open to the public. Those interested in having lunch at the event should call (203) 785-5911 in advance.

Smith has been in his current position since 1993. He is responsible for program development related to violence and substance abuse initiatives. The Substance Abuse and Violence Program is developing a national database of exceptional interfaith congregational and community-based models of health ministries. Smith also oversaw the development of the Not Even One program, a collaborative community research and activism program aimed at preventing firearm deaths among young people.

Prior to his association with the Carter Center, Smith directed the 12-city Weed and Seed program and directed a number of other alcohol- and drug-abuse prevention programs in congregations and in the community. His research interests include school programs concerned with character and moral education, and the relationship between a congregation's faith and its public witness, among other topics.

Activist and Sixties radical to speak at two events

Bernardine Dohrn, an activist and lawyer who was once on the FBI's "10 Most Wanted List," will speak at two campus events on Thursday, Dec. 9.

Dohrn will discuss the topic "Student Activism in the 1960s and the 1990s" during a tea at 4 p.m. in the Trumbull College master's house, 100 High St. At 7 p.m., she will discuss the changes in state punishment since the 1980s and in juvenile justice in a talk titled "Children of the Prison State." This talk will take place in Levinson Auditorium of the Law School, 127 Wall St. Both events, which are sponsored by the Student Legal Action Movement (SLAM), are free and open to the public.

Dohrn is director of the Children and Family Justice Center (CFJC) of the Northwestern University School of Law Legal Clinic. CFJC is a national policy center providing critical analysis about youth law and practice, matters associated with the administration of justice and the preparation of professionals who advocate for children. It also provides legal representation on a spectrum of children's needs, including education, health and safety issues, as well as criminal defense.

Dohrn catapulted to national fame through her involvement with Students for a Democratic Society in the late 1960s, and she was one of the most controversial figures of the anti-Vietnam War movement. During the 1970s, she was an early member of the radical Weather Underground, and was for a short time one of the FBI's most sought-after suspects.

SLAM is a coalition of undergraduate, graduate and law students at Yale working for criminal justice reform.

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