American civil rights leader to present Gandhi Lecture
American civil rights leader Andrew Jackson Young Jr. will present the Gandhi Lecture on Thursday, Jan. 11.
The talk will begin at 2 p.m. in Dwight Chapel, 67 High St., and is free and open to the public.
A top aide to Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, Young was vice president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and is on the board of the King Center for Non-Violent Social Change.
Young became the first African American to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1977. During his tenure until 1979, he strongly supported black majority rule in Africa. He was mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, from 1981 to 1989.
In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Young chair of the Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund, a $100 million privately managed fund providing equity to businesses in 11 countries in southern Africa.
Young is the chair of Good Works International, an Atlanta-based specialty-consulting group that provides strategic services to corporations and governments in the global economy, and is professor of public policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He serves as a member of the boards of directors of Delta Airlines, Argus Newspapers, Archer Daniels Midland Company, Cox Communications and Thomas Nelson Publishing.
Young is the author of two books, "A Way Out of No Way" and "An Easy Burden." His awards include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legion d'Honneur and over 45 honorary degrees from various universities, including Yale.
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Committee, the Gandhi Lecture provides an opportunity each year to examine ideas or social actions inspired by the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi, such as tolerance, nonviolence, truth, constructive social programs, education and politics. For more information, call (203) 432-3413 or email malini.saith@yale.edu.
Poet and scholar Susan Stewart, the Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, will present the second Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture on Friday, Dec. 15.
Stewart's talk, which is offered in conjunction with the current exhibition "Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures," is titled "The Eidos in the Hand: Facing and Touch in the Miniature." It will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the McNeil Lecture Hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. Following the talk there will be a reception and sneak previews of two new exhibitions, "Call and Response: Journeys of African Art" and "Circa 1701: Printed Portraits from the Time of Elihu Yale." The program is free and the public is welcome.
Stewart is the author of several scholarly books, including "On Longing, Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection," and three books of poetry. She has contributed essays on a range of subjects to books and catalogues, and her poems have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies.
A 1997 MacArthur Fellow, Stewart has received many other prestigious awards and honors, including an honorary doctor of letters from her alma mater, Dickinson College, in 1998. Before assuming her current position, Stewart was professor of English at Temple University.
The Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lectures were endowed by Jane Ritchie in memory of her husband, who was director of the Yale University Art Gallery from 1957 to 1971. The lectures are presented annually by the Yale Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art.
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