Actress Anne Pascale will present "Liberty Belles," a one-woman show in celebration of Women in the Arts Month, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 26, in the McNeil Lecture Hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St.
According to Pascale, her show is based on "the stories of women who made us Americans." The characters she portrays include Harriet Tubman, the former slave who led some 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad, and Clara Mott, a fictional character drawn from the lives of Quaker women who devoted themselves to the education of African-Americans before and during the Civil War.
Pascale's inspiration for the program were the stories told to her by her grandmother, Theresa Vanelli, whom she also portrays in the show. Vanelli journeyed alone from Italy to America in 1902 and entered into a pre-arranged marriage which lasted for 75 years.
This special program, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by Connecticut Young Audiences.
Political commentator Ariana Huffington will be the guest at a tea at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 27, in the President's house, 43 Hillhouse Ave.
This event is open to members of the Yale community.
A nationally syndicated columnist and contributor to Talk Magazine, Huffington is the author of seven books, including "The Female Woman," which was translated into 11 languages, "Picasso: Creator and De-stroyer," an international bestseller which was translated into 16 languages, and the political satire "Greetings from the Lincoln Bedroom." In her most recent book, "How to Overthrow the Government," Huffington describes the corruption of the United States' political system and the need for reform.
Huffington has made guest appearances on numerous television shows, including "Larry King," "Oprah," "Nightline," "Charlie Rose" and "Roseanne." During the 1996 presidential campaign, Huffington teamed up with Al Franken to provide political coverage for Comedy Central during the Republican and Democratic conventions, as well as on election night. She and Franken also appeared in a point-counterpoint segment titled "Strange Bedfellows" for "Politically Incorrect."
Huffington serves on several boards that promote community solutions to social problems. She chairs the communications committee of the Points of Light Foundation and serves on the boards of the Do Something organization, which challenges young people to get involved in bringing about social change, and A Place Called Home, which works with at-risk children in South Central Los Angeles. Huffington also serves on the advisory board of the graduate school of political management at George Washington University.
Dr. Marcia Angell, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, and Dr. Robert J. Levine, chair of the Human Investigation Committee at the School of Medicine, will lead a panel discussion on Wednesday, March 29, as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) and Yale Hillel seminar series, "Bioethics and Public Policy."
The discussion, on the topic "Cross-cultural Considerations in Medical Ethics," will first take place at noon at ISPS, 111 Prospect St., for the Yale community. For luncheon reservations, call Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or email carol.pollard@yale.edu. The program will then be repeated for the general public at 7:30 p.m. in the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St.
Angell, who is also a lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, writes frequently for the New England Journal of Medicine and other publications on a wide range of topics, particularly medical ethics, health policy, the nature of medical evidence and care at the end of life. Her publications include "Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case," "Basic Pathology" and "Ethics and Policy in Scientific Publication."
Angell is a member of the Association of American Physicians, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of the Sciences and the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society, and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. In 1997, Time magazine named her one of the 25 most influential Americans.
Levine, who is also a professor in internal medicine and a lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology, began his career in bioethics in 1974 as special consultant to the newly established National Commission for the Protection of Human Research Subjects. He is the founding editor of the journal IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research and the author of "Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research."
Levine is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Hastings Center and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was president of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, and chair of the Connecticut Humanities Council. He is currently director of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research.
Philip B. Kunhardt III, the producer of several pictorial biographies, will be the guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29, in the swing dorm of Branford College, 100 Tower Parkway.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Kunhardt's most recent book, "The American President," profiles America's chief executives in thematic rather than chronological order. He co-authored the book with his father, Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., a former managing editor of Life magazine, and his brother, Peter Kunhardt, the founder of Kunhardt Productions and producer of television documentaries.
"The American President" is the companion volume to the documentary television series of the same name, which will premiere on PBS on Sunday, April 9. The 10-hour series, the first ever to profile all 41 presidents, was produced by the Kunhardts and will air nightly in two-hour blocks.
Kunhardt also co-authored with his father and brother the books "Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography" and "P.T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman." The former was a companion volume to a four-hour documentary mini-series, "Lincoln," which was produced and directed by Peter Kunhardt and aired on ABC in 1992. The latter accompanied a three-hour television special for the Discovery Channel.
James Mosley, the librarian of the St. Bride Printing Library in London, will discuss "A Hobble to Genius? The Design and Making of Type in France from Grandjean to Fournier" on Wednesday, March 29.
The lecture will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St., and will be followed by a reception in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, corner of Wall and High streets. The event is free and the public is welcome.
The clash of cultures represented in the development of modern letterforms and type design will be the subject of Mosley's illustrated lecture. The title of the lecture, "A Hobble to Genius?" refers to Fournier le jeune's scornful characterization of the French Academy's mathematically-based system of type design, which first introduced the point system still used today.
Mosley has written extensively on the history of letterforms and printing types. In 1999 he curated an exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum in London on the origins of sanserif type, considered a symbol of 20th-century modernism. He has just published a facsimile edition of the first German handbook of wood-engraving, punchcutting and stereotyping, and completed a
Mosley's visit to Yale is sponsored by the School of Art, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and The Papers of Benjamin Franklin.
Techno-art critic and writer Rachel Greene will present an on-line art show and critique on Wednesday, March 29.
The show, titled "Web 101," will begin at 6 p.m. at the Digital Media Center for the Arts (DMCA), 149 York St., and will be followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public.
Greene is a critical fellow of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Her current project involves researching internet-based art and art communities. She is a board member and former editor of the on-line new media art resource, RHIZOME.org, and a contributor to New York Magazine, Nerve.com and Artforum Magazine. She has served on the juries evaluating net art for the Museum Casas Das Rosas in Brazil and the Canadian Art Festival.
This program is one of several DMCA-sponsored events, which has included project grant presentations, program demonstrations and workshops, and lectures by guest artists.
African-American poet Yusef Komunyakaa will be featured in two events on campus on Wednesday and Thursday, March 29 and 30.
On Wednesday at 4:30 p.m., Komunyakaa will be the guest at a tea in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The following day at 4 p.m. in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, corner of Wall and High streets, he will give a reading from his latest book of poetry, "Thieves of Paradise," which was a finalist for the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award, and his forthcoming "Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems, 19751999." A reception will follow the reading. Both events are free and open to the public.
Komunyakaa has published 11 books of poems, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems 19771989." He has also authored essays, opera librettos and song lyrics, and edited two anthologies of jazz poetry. His forthcoming works include "Talking Dirty to the Gods" and "Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews & Commentaries," which was edited by Radiclani Clytus, a Yale doctoral candidate in African American Studies and American Studies.
Komunyakaa's honors include two National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowships, the San Francisco Poetry Award, the Dark Room Poetry Prize and an award for literary excellence from the Kenyon Review.
Komunyakaa's visit is sponsored by the Yale Americanist Colloquium, Department of English, Department of American Studies, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Calhoun College and the James Humphrey Hoyt Memorial Fellowship Fund.
Journalist Jyoti Thottam will discuss "The Future of South Asian Political Participation" on Thursday, March 30, as part of the South Asian Studies Committee Spring lecture series.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.
Thottam, a 1993 graduate of Yale College, is a senior reporter at the Times/ Ledger Newspapers, a chain of weekly papers covering the two million people living in the borough of Queens, New York. Covering crime, schools and New York City politics, she has a special interest in immigration and education. She has written on these topics extensively since joining the paper in 1998, and was honored by the New York Press Association for her work.
Thottam's interest in the political economy and religions of South Asia started while at Yale, where she was the executive editor of The Yale Herald. She has covered manufacturing and the regional economy as a reporter for American City Business Journals in northern Florida, and worked as a freelance writer while traveling through India, Thailand and Nepal.
Thottam's work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, Christian Science Monitor and Himal magazine, among others. She organized the New York screening of Himal's South Asia documentary film festival in 1998 and plans to bring the festival back to New York in 2000. She serves on the executive board of the South Asian Journalists Association.
John L. Carr, director of the Department of Social Development and World Peace for the United States Catholic Conference (USCC) in Washington, D.C., will present the Annual More House Lecture on Thursday, March 30.
The lecture, titled "Faithful Citizenship: Catholic Messages in Public Life," will take place at 4 p.m. in Saint Thomas More, the Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale, 268 Park St. The public is invited to attend this free event.
In this Jubilee Holy Year 2000, Carr will discuss the current state of Catholic social teaching in the United States and the ways in which the population can use that context to consider the moral dimensions of key domestic and international issues. Paul M. Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and director of International Security Studies, will respond.
Carr is a key adviser to the United States Catholic Bishops on social advocacy issues and oversees the USCC's efforts dealing with such issues as poverty, human rights and religious freedom. He has assisted in the development of important statements of the USCC, including "Communities of Salt and Light," "Sharing Catholic Teaching" and "Called to Global Solidarity."
Carr is a frequent author and speaker on Catholic social teaching. He is the editor of "Full Employment and Economic Justice" and co-author of "Housing and Mediating Structures." He has represented the USCC at the Vatican and during visits to the Middle East, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Russia, Central America and Vietnam.
Frank I. Michelman, the Robert Walmsley University Professor of Harvard University, will present the three lectures in the 2000 Storrs Lecture series, "The Essential Constitution (On the Idea of the Consti-tution in the Liberal Justification of
Michelman's first lecture, titled "Constitutional Containment and Democracy," will be held on Thursday, March 30. His second lecture, "Constitutional Containment and Legitimacy," will take place on April 6. The series will conclude on April 13 with his final lecture, "The Conservation of Rightness."
All the talks, which are free and open to the public, will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. The series is sponsored by the Law School.
Michelman, a 1957 graduate of Yale College, teaches and writes in the fields of constitutional law, property law and democratic theory. Representative publications include the book "Brennan and Democracy," "Thirteen Easy Pieces" for the Michigan Law Review, "Foreword: Traces of Self-Government" for the Harvard Law Review and "Ethics, Economics, and the Law of Property" for Ethics, Economics, and the Law.
In 1961, Michelman served as law clerk to the late Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court. Over the past few years, he has participated in discussions among lawyers and judges in South Africa concerning the country's newly established constitutional order. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.
Menswear designer Sandy Dalal will be the guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. on Friday, March 31, in the Davenport College master's house, 271 Park St.
The talk, co-sponsored by Davenport College and the Asian American Cultural Center, is part of the celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
Dalal creates clothes that have a classic tailored shape but with a twist, designed to attract members of both the younger and older generations. He is known for using new colors and fabrics in innovative ways, and for using the highest grades of wool, cashmere, silk and cotton in his bold print and plaid designs.
In 1998, a year after his debut, the 21-year-old Dalal became the youngest designer to receive the Council of Fashion Designers of America Perry Ellis Award for Menswear. Past recipients of this award have included Richard Edwards, Gene Meyer and John Bartlett.
Dalal's spring and fall 1999 clothing lines were described as having a "youthful innocence" by The New York Times and "young modern and fun" by the New York Post. The Washington Post stated, "Dalal is living up to his honors." His collection is found in such upscale retailers as Barneys, Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue and Louis of Boston.
Dalal credits his success not only to recognition in the fashion industry. His collection has been discovered by such artists in the world of music as Beck, Wyclef Jean and Kenny Lattimore, and the members of Third Eye Blind, The Foo Fighters and No Doubt.
Sociologist Eric Markusen and attorney Noah Novogrodsky will discuss "War in the Horn of Africa: Reports from Ethiopia and Eritrea" on Friday, March 31.
The lecture will begin at 11 a.m. in Rm. 203 of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., and is free and open to the public. The event is sponsored by the Genocide Studies Program and the African Studies Council at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.
Markusen, professor of sociology and social work at Southwest State University in Minnesota, has studied child victims of war in northern Ethiopia. His publications on genocide include the article "Understanding Genocidal Killing in the Former Yugoslavia: Preliminary Observations" and the books "The Genocidal Mentality" and "The Holocaust and Strategic Bombing: Genocide and Total War in the Twentieth Century."
Novogrodsky, a 1997 graduate of the Law School, is an associate at the San Francisco law firm of Howard, Rice, Nemer-ovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin. From 1998 to 1999, he was a Robert L. Bernstein Fellow in International Human Rights and spent time in South Africa and the Horn of Africa. At the Law School, Novogrodsky co-chaired the Cambodia Genocide Justice Project. As a 1996 Coca-Cola World Fund Fellow, he developed accounting mechanisms for international crimes committed in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.
Novogrodsky is the author of a series of articles on the civilian consequences of the conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia, including a piece in the summer 1999 Yale Law Report and an essay titled "Identity Politics."
Carolyn J. Weekley, director of museums at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, will discuss the work of American artist Edward Hicks on Saturday, April 1.
The talk, titled "The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks," is the ninth in the annual Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Lectures in American Art and will begin at 11 a.m. in the McNeil Lecture Hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. The event is free and the public is welcome.
Weekley is the curator of the exhibition "The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks," which is currently traveling nationwide. She is also the author of the accompanying catalogue.
An authority on American folk art, Weekley has published and lectured extensively on painting in the South and early American decorative arts. She has served on the curatorial staff of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Weekley was named curator of the Folk Art Center at Williamsburg in 1979. In 1997 she became director of the Williamsburg Foundation's four museum sites: the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Art Center, Bassett Hall, Carter's Grove and the DeWitt Wallace Gallery.
This annual lectureship was established through a gift from the Chipstone Foundation and contributions by family, friends and colleagues in memory of Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque '72 B.A., '75 M.A., who was a scholar in the field of American painting and decorative arts.
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Actress will portray American heroines in one-woman show
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Bioethicists will be featured in panel discussion
Biographer of American presidents to speak at tea
Expert on printing history to lecture on modern type design
handlist of Italian type specimens to 1860. He is currently working on an edition of the unpublished account of punchcutting and typefounding written by Jacques Jaugeon in 1704.
Techno-art critic will present on-line art show at DMCA
Award-winning poet to read at campus events
Journalist to discuss South Asian political participation
Catholic social advocate to present More House Lecture
Law scholar to discuss 'The Essential Constitution'
Democracy)."
Menswear designer to speak at master's tea
Speakers will report on war between Ethiopia and Eritrea
Art expert to discuss 'The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks'
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Student and Alumni receive noted awards
YSN scientist still uncovering Agent Orange's harmful effects
Book traces 'unsteady march' to racial equality
Endowed Professorships
Mullinix will take on new challenges as V.P. of the University of California
Grant to expand nurse's program for diabetic teens
Professors' model helps predict March Madness victors
Most Vietnam veterans were exposed to toxic Agent Orange, Yale scientist testifies
Joseph Goldstein, noted for his work in family law, dies
Exhibit celebrates 30 years of women artists at Yale
'Father and Sons' exhibit features works by three family members
Visual Journals' on view in Medical Library
CONFERENCES ON CAMPUS
Census count will be held on campus April 3-6
Faculty share 'experience' with students at teas
EPH seminar to examine impact of domestic violence on individuals, community
Labor conditions in developing nations will be focus of YCIAS roundtable
Yale researchers find no relation between PCBs, breast cancer
Liman Fellow Sager to discuss her work with 'All Our Kin'
Ovarian cancer is topic of forums
Yale authors will talk about their books
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