Gabriele Leidloff, a German-Jewish video and digital media artist, will be featured in two events on campus.
Leidloff, the Woodward Lecturer, will be the guest at a tea at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 21, in the Ezra Stiles College master's house, 9 Tower Pkwy. She will present work titled "log-in/locked out" that examines the body by means of video, installation and radiograph images. The following day, Tuesday, Feb. 22, Leidloff will repeat her presentation at 6 p.m. at the Digital Media Center for the Arts, 149 York St. There will be a reception following this presentation.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Ezra Stiles College and the Digital Media Center for the Arts, the event is free and open to the public.
Leidloff's work has been described as addressing "the complimentary and occasionally antagonistic relationship between art and science." Her work has been funded by groups such as the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne. She exhibits at the new Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin, among other venues.
Eric Higgs, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta in Canada, will present the seventh lecture in the lunchtime series "The Restoration Agenda: Blueprint 2000."
Higgs' talk, titled "Two Wildernesses: Jasper National Park, Meet Disney World," will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 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. For information, call (203) 432-3335.
Higgs will discuss how ecological restoration rests on the foundation of history. Designing a successful restoration project depends on knowing what processes produced present conditions and discerning appropriate reference information within the range of historical variability.
For the most part, this information can be derived from the natural sciences, but any good restoration plan must arbitrate complicated and ever-changing economic, political, aesthetic, moral and social conditions. Our cultural viewpoints entwined with ecological reference conditions frame our restorative ambitions. The catch is to ensure equipoise and awareness. Higgs' talk will journey between Jasper National Park, one of Canada's premier wilderness parks, and Disney's Wilderness Lodge in Florida to show how cultural beliefs render restoration.
Higgs is trained in ecology, environmental planning, philosophy, and science and technology studies. As secretary of the Society for Ecological Restoration and through his writings, Higgs focuses on ecological restoration in Jasper National Park. He is co-editor of the forthcoming "Technology and the Good Life?" and "Nature by Design: Natural Process, Human Agency, and Ecological Restoration."
Julia V. Taft, assistant secretary of state of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, will be the guest at a tea at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23, in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.
A leading authority on refugee and humanitarian affairs, Taft's first exposure to refugee issues came in 1975 with the collapse of Vietnam, when President Ford named her director of the interagency task force for Indochina refugees. The refugee resettlement program directed by Taft brought more than 130,000 Indochinese into the United States.
From 1992 to 1993, Taft was a consultant with the State Department's Office of Coordinator/CIS Affairs, where she was responsible for developing projects to assist families of Russian military personnel. From 1986 to 1989, she was director of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance at the Agency for International Development, where she managed all U.S. relief responses to foreign disasters. In 1997, President Clinton nominated Taft to serve in her current position.
Taft's awards include the Presidential End Hunger Award, the AID Distinguished Service Award, the USSR Supreme Soviet Award for Personal Courage and the Flemming Award as "one of the ten outstanding men and women in federal service."
The talk is free and open to the public.
Peter R. Kann, chairman and chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Company, will give the R. Peter Straus '44 Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 24, as part of the Yale School of Management's Leaders Forum series.
Titled "A Conversation with the Chairman & CEO of Dow Jones," the talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 11:45 a.m. in the General Motors Room at 55 Hillhouse Ave.
Kann began his newspaper career in high school as a copy boy for the Princeton Packet. He joined Dow Jones in 1963 as a Newspaper Fund intern at The Wall Street Journal. He became a staff reporter in 1964, and became the first resident reporter in Vietnam in 1967. In 1972, Kann was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished reporting on international affairs for his coverage of the 1971 India-Pakistan war. In 1976 he became the first publisher and editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal.
Kann returned to the United States in 1979. After holding a number of posts, Kann was appointed publisher of The Wall Street Journal and editorial director of Dow Jones' publications in 1989, posts that he continues to hold today. He was named chief executive officer of Dow Jones in 1991, then chairman later that year.
Kann is a member of the board of trustees of The Asia Society, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Spelman College in Atlanta and The Aspen Institute. He is a former chairman of the Pulitzer Prize board.
Celebrated civil rights activist Edwin King will discuss "Organized Churches, Individual Faith and the Civil Rights Crisis in 1960s Mississippi" on Thursday, Feb. 24.
His talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. in the lecture hall of Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St.
A native of Mississippi, King is one of the most prominent white Southerners associated with the civil rights struggle of the 1960s. He joined the burgeoning movement as a young seminarian and was arrested in the protests of Montgomery, Alabama in 1960.
As an ordained minister, King served as chaplain in Jackson, Mississippi's predominantly black Tougaloo College and teamed with John Salter and Medgar Evers in what has come to be known as the Jackson, Mississippi Movement. He was the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party candidate for lieutenant governor and was among the delegates to the 1964 Democratic National Convention who sought to break the all-white hold on the Mississippi representation to the Convention.
King has contributed to many books and periodicals on the civil rights movement and has lectured frequently on the subject. In 1964, he officiated at the funeral of James Cheney, who had been slain by white supremacists along with two other civil rights workers.
King is currently on the faculty of the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He continues to devote much of his time to such causes as improving race relations and protecting the rights of individuals to privacy.
Hansel Tookes, president and chief operating officer of Raytheon Aircraft Company, will be the guest at a tea at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 24, in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.
The event is free and open to the public.
Tookes joined Raytheon Aircraft in 1999. Under the company's succession plan, Tookes will become chief executive officer in the spring of 2000, then become chairman approximately six months later when the current chairman retires. Prior to joining Raytheon Aircraft, Tookes held various executive positions at United Technologies Corp. and Pratt & Whitney's Large Military Engines group. He formerly was a naval aviator flying P3-C Orions and a pilot for United Airlines.
Raytheon Aircraft is the world's leading company in business and special mission aviation, with annual sales of more than $2.6 billion. The company manufactures, markets and supports jet, turboprop and piston-powered aircraft for the world's business, military and regional airline markets. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Raytheon Aircraft has approximately 17,000 employees worldwide.
Laurie Nikolski, associate editor of The Journal News in White Plains, New York, will discuss "Effecting Change Through Opinion Writing: A Case Study" on Friday, Feb. 25, as part of the Bush Center and Child Development lecture series.
Nikolski's 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.
In 1999, Nikolski won a medal from the Casey Journalism Center for Children and Families for her editorial series "Domestic Violence/Justice." This six-week examination of domestic violence and the courts was triggered by the murder of a 19 year old mother of three by her husband. She was killed less than a week after she had unsuccessfully sought an emergency order of protection from family court. Nikolski will discuss this work as an example of how opinion writing can serve as a catalyst for policy change.
For more information, call (203) 432-9935.
Himanshu Prabha Ray, professor at the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, will present the Woodward Lecture on Friday, Feb. 25.
She will discuss "India and the Silk Road of the Sea: Of Empires, Luxuries and Religious Functionaries" at 3 p.m. in Rm. 102 of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is free and open to the public.
Ray, who is also the Fulbright Visiting Lecturer at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, specializes in Sanskrit and archaeology. Her publications include "Monastery & Guild: Commerce Under the Satavahanas" and "The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South Asia." Ray has also edited "Archaeology of Seafaring, Indian Council for Historical Research Monograph Series I" and co-edited "Tradition and Archaeology: Early Maritime Contacts in the Indian Ocean."
For more information, call (203) 432-0480.
Jeffrey Hamburger, an art historian at the University of Toronto, will present the second Kavanagh Lecture in Liturgy and the Liturgical Arts at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 28, in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.
His talk, titled "'Seal of Resemblance, Full of Wisdom': John the Evangelist in the Gradual of St. Katharinenthal," is free and open to the public. Hamburger will explore the illuminations found in a Mass book prepared for a community of Dominican nuns in the early 14th century. His analysis will demonstrate the ways in which the Fourth Gospel and the liturgical embodiment of the text were manifested in the visual arts, but in ways to emphasize the spiritual needs of a particular community.
Hamburger received his B.A. in 1979, his M.A. in 1982 and his Ph.D. in 1987 from Yale. He works closely with the subject of female piety, especially as it has left its marks in illuminated manuscripts.
His first book, "The Rothchild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300," won the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America. His "Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent" won the Otto Gründler Prize of the International Congress of Medieval Studies, and "The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Medieval Germany" won the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in Art and Music.
The Kavanagh Lectures were established by the Institute of Sacred Music to commemorate liturgical scholar Professor Emeritus Aidan Kavanagh, who taught at the Divinity School from 1974 to 1994.
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