Nadine Strossen, professor of law at New York Law School, will be the guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. on Monday, April 10, at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.
The talk is free and open to the public.
In 1991, Strossen was elected president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), becoming the first woman to head the nation's largest and oldest civil liberties organization. Since accepting this non-paid position, Strossen has made more than 200 public presentations a year on college campuses and in foreign countries. She comments frequently on legal issues in the national media and writes monthly columns for the web-based magazine Intellectual Capital.
Strossen has written, lectured and practiced extensively in the areas of constitutional law, civil liberties and international human rights. Her more than 150 works have been published in both scholarly and general interest publications. Her books include "Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex and the Fight for Women's Rights," which was named a notable book by The New York Times, and "Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties," which was named an outstanding book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America.
In 1986, Strossen became one of the first three women to receive the U.S. Jaycees' 10 Outstanding Young Americans Award and the first American woman to win The Outstanding Young Persons of the World Award from Jaycees International. She has twice been named one of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" by the National Law Journal and was included in a Vanity Fair report on "America: 200 Most Influential Women."
Jeff Taylor, the chief executive officer of Monster.com, will speak at a master's tea on Monday, April 10.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. in the Saybrook College master's house, 90 High St. The event is co-sponsored by Saybrook College and the Yale College Entrepreneurial Society.
Monster.com is a global online network connecting career-minded individuals with companies that are recruiting employees. It was formed when The Monster Board, which Taylor founded in 1994, and Online Career Center merged in January 1999.
Taylor is also the chief executive officer of TMP Interactive, a unit of TMP Worldwide. TMP Worldwide is one of the world's largest recruitment advertising agency networks, the world's largest yellow page advertising agency and a provider of direct marketing services. Taylor is responsible for the growth and direction of all TMP Worldwide properties and developments relating to the Internet.
Taylor joined TMP Worldwide in 1995, upon the acquisition of his specialized recruitment advertising agency, Adion, Inc. In an effort to offer Adion's clients a more sophisticated recruiting tool, Taylor created The Monster Board.
Taylor is a frequent speaker at technology, advertising and recruitment conferences. He has spoken at events hosted by such organizations as Forrester Research, Giga Information Group, The Kelsey Group and The Society for Human Resource Management. Taylor serves as a member of the board of directors for the Massachussetts Junior Achievement and Computer.com.
Jeffrey D. Sachs, the director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University, will deliver the Arthur M. Okun Lecture Series, "The Poorest of the Poor: The Unmet Challenge of Global Development."
Sachs's first lecture, titled "Globalization and the Poorest of the Poor: The Limits of Convergence," will be held on Monday, April 10, and will be introduced by President Richard Levin. His second lecture, "The Health-Nutrition-Population Nexus: The Scope for Public Action," will follow on Tuesday, April 11. The final lecture, "The Role of International Assistance: A Redesign of International Strategies," will be presented on Wednesday, April 12. Sachs will be joined by Galen L. Stone, professor of international trade at Harvard University.
All lectures will be held 45:30 p.m. in Davies Auditorium, 15 Prospect St. A reception will follow the lectures on Monday and Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the common room of 28 Hillhouse Ave. The lecture series, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Department of Economics and Yale University Press.
Sachs serves as an economic adviser to governments around the world. He has been a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program. He was cited in The New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world" and in Time magazine as "the world's best-known economist."
The Arthur M. Okun Lectures seek to recognize and encourage professional economists to search for policies that will contribute to the betterment of life for all peoples.
Photographer Mark Klett and digital imaging artist Byron Wolfe will present their work on "Third View Project: A Rephotographic Survey of the American West" on Tuesday, April 11.
The presentation will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. The public is invited to this free event.
"Third View Project" documents and visualizes physical and cultural perceptions of the Western landscape. It begins with 19th-century photographs from which specific vantage points are drawn, and revisits these points periodically, adding new photography, techniques and cultural documentation such as oral histories and artifacts. The resulting work is combined in a multimedia format linking the past to the present.
Klett and Wolfe are joint artists-in-residence sponsored by the Yale University Art Gallery, the School of Art and the Digital Media Center for the Arts (DMCA). They will be on campus MondayThursday, April 1013, and will conduct a master class for photography majors at the School of Art and a series of multi-media authoring workshops at the DMCA for students and faculty in various art disciplines.
Dennis Martinez, an ecologist with the Indigenous Peoples' Restoration Network in Glendale, Oregon, will present the final lecture in the lunchtime series "The Restoration Agenda: Blueprint 2000."
Martinez's talk, titled "Back to the Future: Indian Land Management as a Modern Model," will take place on Wednesday, April 12, 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. The event is free and open to the public.
Martinez will discuss whether restoring ecosystems and natural communities to their baseline conditions should be done using indigenous tradition ecological knowledge (TEK) and how this can be integrated with Western ecological science (WES). According to the Society for Ecological Restoration's mission statement and current definition of "ecological restoration," human cultural influences are given less importance than purely ecological criteria in analyzing ecosystem integrity and function.
Martinez will present an overview of Native American land practices and discuss how these ecosystem management activities, especially intentional fire, can be used in modeling reference ecosystems.
A slide presentation of restoration work in the Klamath Mountains of southwestern Oregon (Takilma Inter-Tribal Project/Mount Grove Center) will illustrate some examples in which the Native American model can be applied to forest ecosystems.
Samuel Gorovitz, professor of philosophy and public administration at Syracuse University, will discuss "Some New Ethical Angles on Research with Human Subjects" on Wednesday, April 12, as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) and Yale Hillel seminar series, "Bioethics and Public Policy."
The presentation 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. Gorovitz will be joined in the discussion by Dr. Thomas Duffy, professor of internal medicine and hematology at the School of Medicine.
Among the questions that will be examined in the presentation are: Should human beings be used as subjects to determine the toxicity of pesticides? If so, under what conditions? If not, why not, given that human subject testing is common in determining the safety of drugs? Should the Environmental Protection Agency seek or accept the results of such research in making decisions about pesticide registration?
Gorovitz will illuminate the process by which these questions are being addressed and offer some suggestions about how other such questions might be better addressed in the future.
Gorovitz has led seminars for the National Endowment for the Humanities on medical ethics. His most recent books are "Doctors' Dilemmas: Moral Conflict and Medical Care" and "Drawing the Line: Life, Death and Ethical Choices in an American Hospital."
Poet Rosanna Warren will be featured in two events on campus on Wednesday and Thursday, April 12 and 13.
On Wednesday at 8 p.m., Warren will read from her poetry in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The reading will be followed by a reception in the Saybrook College master's house, 90 High St. On Thursday, Warren will be the guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. in the Branford College common room, 100 Tower Pkwy. Both events, which are free and open to the public, are sponsored by the John Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund and the Department of English.
A 1976 graduate of Yale College, Warren is the author of two books of poems, "Each Leaf Shines Separate" and "Stained Glass." She also published with Stephen Scully a verse translation of Euripides' "Suppliant Women."
Warren's awards for her poetry and translation include the National Discovery Award in 1980, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 19851986, the Lamont Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets in 1993, a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award in 1994 and the Witter Bynner Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994.
Warren is currently the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of Humanities in the Boston University's Department of English.
Alaoui Mdaghri, former minister in the Moroccan Cabinet, will discuss "Managing Ethnic Diversity and Economic Development: Insights from Morocco" on Wednesday, April 12.
Mdaghri's lecture will be held at 4 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. This free public lecture is sponsored by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and the councils of Middle East Studies, African Studies and International Affairs.
Mdaghri spent a decade in the Moroccan Cabinet, where he was involved in the general process of political, social and economic change in Morocco during the 1990s. This included constitutional reform, electoral process and the revamping of legislation linked to the media and the restructuring of the economy.
As minister of communications and government spokesman, Mdaghri was responsible for developing the growing film industry and promoting Moroccan culture internationally. He negotiated the state acquisition of the majority of shares of the private television network 2M. As minister of energy and mines, he reformed national electricity policy, organized the launch of the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline and presided over the restructuring of the Moroccan mining industry.
Mdaghri also served as minister of youth and sports, secretary of state of foreign affairs, director general of the Islamic Center for Development of Trade, director-general of the Higher Institute of Commerce and Administration, and special adviser to King Hassan II.
Mdaghri is currently a professor at the Moroccan National School of Public Management (ISCAE). He was one of the founding fathers of the university and was the director from 1976 to 1981.
Donnie Simpson, host of "Video Soul" on Black Entertainment Television (BET), will be the guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 14, in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.
The event is free and open to the public.
Simpson began his broadcasting career in radio at the age of 15. In 1981, he moved to television as George Michael's back-up weekend sports anchor for NBC's Washington, D.C. affiliate. Two years later, he joined BET as host of "Video Soul," a music video program featuring videos and live interviews with such artists as Janet Jackson, Phil Collins, Mariah Carey, Barry White, Eric Clapton, Tupac, James Brown, Madonna, Puff Daddy and Babyface.
Simpson has also appeared in motion pictures, including "Krush Groove" with Blair Underwood and Sheila E., "Disorderlies" with The Fat Boys and "The Five Heartbeats," which was produced by and starred Robert Townsend. He has been a guest on "The Jenny Jones Show" and "The Arsenio Hall Show," and has had recurring roles on the television shows "Martin" and "The Jamie Foxx Show."
An active community volunteer, Simpson has served as honorary chair of the National Black Family Reunion and assisted in fundraising efforts for The United Negro College Fund. His honors include selection as "Program Director of the Year" and "1998 Air Personality of the Year" by Billboard, and the Black Radio Exclusives Drummer Award.
Iliana Semmler, lecturer emerita of English at the State University of New York, will discuss "A Private Practice: Diaries of Physicians/Authors" on Thursday, April 13.
The talk will take place at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The event is free and open to the public.
According to Semmler, the keeping of a diary confirms the continuity of one's life. She believes that it provides a framework for holding together assorted observations about life, shards of memory and stray bits of philosophical speculation. For the writing physician, the blank page of the diary is the locus where the two professions may meet on equal footing.
In her lecture, Semmler will explore the journal-keeping of Dannie Abse, Richard Selzer and William Carlos Williams.
Edwin Sherin, executive producer of the NBC television show "Law & Order," is rescheduled to speak at a master's tea at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12, in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. Sherin was previously scheduled to speak on March 2. The event is free and open to the public.
Executive producer of "Law & Order" since 1994, Sherin began his career as a stage actor in 1958. Since then, he has acted and directed for television, motion pictures and the stage. In addition to "Law & Order," Sherin has directed for such television series as "LA Law," "Moonlighting" and "Hill Street Blues."
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