Marc Matsil, chief of the Natural Resources Group (NRG) of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, will present the fifth lecture in the lunchtime series "The Restoration Agenda: Blueprint 2000."
Matsil's talk, titled "A Bite of the Apple: Science and Politics of Urban Restoration," will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium at Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Participants are welcome to bring a brown-bag lunch for the discussion following the talk.
As chief of the NRG, Matsil develops and implements conservation, restoration and management programs for New York City's natural resources; publishes guides for the protection of 28,000 acres of parkland; and designs grants, natural resources damages claims and public works mitigations, which exceeded $60 million at last count, to support NRG's wetland and woodland acquisition and restoration programs.
Before joining the parks department, Matsil was a natural resources specialist with the U.S. National Parks service conducting wetland and meadow restorations and wildlife and vegetation surveys for the Alaska national parks, Mt. Rainier and Mesa Verde. Matsil currently chairs the New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program's Habitat Workgroup. He has received several awards, including the Society for Ecological Restoration International Sperry Award, The Nature Conservancy Oak Leaf Award, the National Wetlands Award and the Chevron-Times Mirror North America Conservation Prize.
Sponsored by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the "Restoration Agenda" series is open to Yale faculty and students free of charge. Members of the general public may attend the lectures for a small fee. For registration information, call (203) 432-3335.
Larry Rogero, environmental manager of Kinko's Inc., will present the inaugural lecture in the Industrial Environmental Management (IEM) Program's series, "Forging a Green Chain: Adding Environment to the Supplier-Buyer Relationship."
In his talk, titled "Kinko's Environmental Program: Working with Suppliers in the Real World," Rogero will discuss the efforts of the world's largest retail provider of document copying and production services to stimulate the environmental progress of its suppliers of paper, equipment and energy. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 8, in Bowers Auditorium in Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. A reception will follow in the Sage Hall lounge.
As environmental manager, Rogero is responsible for establishing Kinko's Environmental Vision Statement and ensuring continuous improvement of the corporation's environmental performance. On a day-to-day basis he is responsible for managing and executing programs pertaining to natural resource use, waste management, energy management and conservation, and regulatory compliance. A graduate of the master's program in environmental studies at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Rogero previously worked for Metcalf & Eddy Inc., an environmental engineering and consulting firm.
In its 10th year, the IEM lecture series is supported by the Joel Omura Kurihara Fund. A 1992 graduate of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Kurihara was committed to improving business and environmental relations. For more information about the series, call (203) 432-6197 or email iem@yale.edu.
American artist Alex Katz will discuss "The Impossibility of Realistic Painting" at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 9, in the lecture hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St.
Katz studied at The Cooper Union School of Art in New York and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. He is best known for his cropped, flatly colored realist portraits, especially of his wife, Ada, his son, Vincent, and a circle of friends. He has also painted hundreds of landscapes since the beginning of his career, from urban night scenes in New York City where he lives to the woodlands and water views of Maine where he spends his summers.
Katz had his first one-man show at the Roko Gallery in New York in 1954. He earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting in 1972. Since then he has had exhibitions at various museums and galleries including The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, P.S. 1 Museum in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt.
Sponsored by the School of Art, the lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-2606.
Architect Sir Colin St. John Wilson will deliver four lectures in a series titled "The Uncompleted Project of Modern Architecture and the Other Tradition" as part of "Blast! A Celebration of British Modernism," a program being sponsored this spring by the Yale Center for British Art.
Wilson's first lecture, titled "Broken Promises," will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 9, and will cover the breakdown in the mid-1950s of the Modern Movement orthodoxy established at the foundation of the International Congress of Modern Architects in 1928. His second lecture, "Roots," will follow on Thursday, Feb. 10, and will trace the source of the movement to the organic theories of William Morris and John Ruskin. Wilson's last two lectures, "The Other Tradition" and "Current Practice," will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 15, and Wednesday, Feb. 16, respectively. These presentations will follow the "Other Tradition" from its beginnings out of the practice and theory of the organic school to the development and promise for the future exemplified in current work.
Wilson is the William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the School of Architecture. He has won international fame as the architect of the new British Library at St. Pancras and as a commentator on modern architecture. Wilson has been a practicing architect for over 40 years and has contributed substantially to the work and theory of modernism.
The series of lectures, which are free and open to the public, will be held at 5:30 p.m. at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. For more information, call (203) 432-2800 or visit www.yale.edu/ycba.
"LatCrit Theory: Its Purposes, Perspectives, Historical Origins and Future Trajectories" is the title of the James A. Thomas Lecture, which will be given on Thursday, Feb. 10, by University of Miami School of Law professor Elizabeth M. Iglesias.
Iglesias, a 1988 graduate of the Yale Law School, will discuss the rapid growth and development of LatCrit -- Latina and Latino critical legal theory -- scholarship in the past five years. Her talk, 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. A reception will follow in the school's Alumni Reading Room.
Iglesias is co-founder and co-director of the Center for Hispanic and Caribbean Legal Studies at the University of Miami. Her publications include "LatCrit Theory and International Law," "Confronting Racial Inequality: LatCrit Reflections on Law, Class and the Anti-Political Economy" and "Out of the Shadow: Marking Intersections In/Between Emerging Asian Critical Legal Scholarship and LatCrit Theory."
Iglesias co-chairs Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory Inc. and sits on the board of governors for the Society of American Law Teachers and the advisory board of the Inter-American Center for Human Rights in Miami. In 1998 she was appointed commissioner of the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust.
Her honors include a Most Outstanding Faculty Award from the University of Miami School of Law Public Interest Law Group, a Women Who Make a Difference Award from Miami Law Women and an Award in Appreciation for Outstanding Service, Loyalty and Guidance from the Association of Latin American Law Students at Rutgers University School of Law.
Judy Primavera, associate professor of psychology at Fairfield University in Connecticut, will discuss "Family Literacy and Head Start: Lessons Learned, Challenges Ahead" on Friday, Feb. 11, as part of the Bush Center and Child Development lecture series.
Her talk will begin at noon in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The event is free and open to the public. For information about the talk, call (203) 432-9935.
Primavera, a graduate of the Ph.D. program in psychology at Yale, is currently the project director for the Adrienne Kirby Family Literacy Project. This intergenerational intervention program is designed to increase low-income children's language skills by directly tutoring the children and also by training their parents to be more effective "first teachers" of reading skills.
A collaborative effort between Fairfield University and Action for Bridgeport Community Development, the Family Literacy Project was named a model program for university-community partnership by the Corporation for National Service in 1995. In 1998, the project was cited by the U.S. Department of Education as a model example of community educational programs involving federal work-study university students. The project is currently expanding to include a focus on computer literacy skills.
Primavera is the author of numerous articles covering such topics as school readiness, volunteerism and university-community partnerships. In 1996 she was named Teacher of the Year at Fairfield University.
Father Robert Nugent, co-founder of New Ways Ministry, will be joined by Yale religious studies professor Dale Martin in a discussion titled "Faith in Practice: Historical and Contemporary Trends Within Christianity" on Friday, Feb. 11.
The lecture, part of the month-long symposium "Opening Doors: Entering a Conversation on Sexual Orientation and Christianity," will take place at 3 p.m. in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. Discussion groups will follow the presentation, which is free and open to the public.
Nugent, a 1984 graduate of the Yale Divinity School, is a member of the Society of the Divine Savior and a facilitator for the Catholic Parents Network. He has spoken and written extensively on homosexuality and religion. His articles have appeared in numerous popular and academic Catholic journals. He co-authored "Building Bridges: Gay & Lesbian Reality and the Catholic Church" and served as consultant for a committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops which drafted a pastoral statement for Catholic parents of gay and lesbian children.
For more information about the symposium, call (203) 436-8018 or visit www.yale.edu/openingdoors.
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Urban restoration in the 'Big Apple' is topic of talk
Kinko's executive to discuss "greening" of the supply chain
Impossibility of realistic painting is topic of artist's lecture
Wilson to explore breakdown of modern architecture
LatCrit theory is topic of James A. Thomas Lecture
Bush Center lecture to focus on Head Start and literacy
"Opening Doors" lecture to explore "Faith in Practice"
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