Documentary filmmaker to screen and discuss work
Filmmaker William Greaves will be a guest at a tea and three of his documentaries will be screened on Sunday and Monday, Jan. 14 and 15.
On Sunday, Greaves's documentaries on black life and culture, "First World Festival of Negro Arts" (1965) and "Still a Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class" (1968), will be shown at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. respectively.
On Monday, Greaves will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. A screening of "Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey," a two-hour documentary on the life and times of the U.N. statesman narrated by Sidney Poitier, will take place at 7 p.m. The film will be introduced and followed by a question-and-answer session with Greaves.
All three films will be screened in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The events are free and open to the public.
An independent filmmaker, Greaves has produced more than 200 documentaries, including "Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice," "In the Company of Men" and "From These Roots." His films have earned more than 70 international film festival awards, an Emmy and four Emmy nominations. For two years he was executive producer and co-host of the network television series "Black Journal."
In 1980 Greaves was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and was the recipient of a special "homage" at the first Black American Independent Film Festival in Paris. He is also the recipient of an "Indy," the Special Life Achievement Award of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers.
Walter J.P. Curley '44, former U.S. ambassador to Ireland and France, will visit campus on Wednesday, Jan. 17, as a Gordon Grand Fellow.
Curley will meet with faculty and students during the day and be the guest at a Saybrook College master's tea at 4 p.m. in the lounge of the Swing Space, 100 Tower Pkwy. The tea is free and open to the public.
During World War II, Curley served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guam and North China campaigns. He holds decorations from the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and The Republic of China. He was given the General John Russell Leadership Award by the Marine Corps Command & Staff College Foundation in 1993.
Curley was an executive with the Caltex Oil Company before becoming a partner in J.H. Whitney & Company, a venture capital investment firm. He was commissioner of public events and chief of protocol of New York City during Mayor John Lindsay's administration.
Gerald Ford appointed Curley ambassador to Ireland in 1975. Curley returned to the private sector to establish his own venture capital investment firm, W.J.P. Curley, in 1978.
From 1989 to 1993, Curley served as ambassador to France. During his tenure, he participated in the conferences and negotiations relating to French-American relations during the era of German reunification, the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. and the Gulf War.
Paul Steinberg, professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, will discuss "Biodiversity and the Politics of Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries: Lessons from Costa Rica and Bolivia" on Thursday, Jan. 18.
Steinberg's lecture will take place at
4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the talk is free and open to the public.
Steinberg studies the political dynamics of environmental policymaking in developing countries, particularly with respect to issues of global concern. His topical interests include biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, transnational social movements, social science research methods and the role of developing countries in international environmental affairs.
Steinberg's most recent book, "Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries," will be published by MIT Press this fall. As a senior associate at Conservation International, Steinberg is helping to develop the concept of conservation concessions. He has served as an adviser to the World Conservation Union and worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Pesticide Action Network International, Bendix Environmental Research and the U.S. Peace Corps in Liberia.
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Oscar Arias Sanchez will present a free, public lecture on Thursday, Jan. 18, at 5 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., as the 2000-01 Downey Fellow.
Arias won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for serving as the main architect of a plan that settled a long-term conflict among the nations of Central America. He used the monetary award from the prize to establish the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, which runs programs that promote gender equality, strengthen civil society in Central America, and work toward demilitarization and conflict resolution in the developing world.
Arias launched his political career in 1970 as assistant to José Figueres. When Figueres was elected president of Costa Rica in 1972, Arias was named to the cabinet as minister of national planning and political economy.
Elected president in 1986, Arias brought together the leaders of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua to adopt a peace plan that he had drafted, ending years of war in the region. During his term as president until 1990, Costa Rica maintained its position as the richest country in the region with the healthiest economy, the highest standard of living and the lowest unemployment rate in the hemisphere.
Kenneth Koch, professor of English at Columbia University, will conduct a poetry reading on Thursday, Jan. 18, at 8:30 p.m. in the Ezra Stiles College master's house,
9 Tower Pkwy.
The event is free and open to the public.
As a young poet, Koch was associated with the New York School of poetry. Originating at Harvard, where Koch met fellow students Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, the New York School derived much of its inspiration from the works of action painters Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Larry Rivers. The first major collection of New York School poetry, "An Anthology of New York Poets," published in 1970, included seven poems by Koch.
Koch's collections of poetry include "The Art of Love"; "New Addresses," a finalist for the National Book Award; and "One Train" and "On the Great Atlantic Rainway, Selected Poems 1950-1988," which together earned him the Bollingen Prize in 1995.
Koch is also the author of a collection of short plays, a novel, a collection of stories, several books on teaching children to write poetry and "Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry." Koch wrote the libretto for composer Marcello Panni's "The Banquet," which premiered in Bremen in 1998.
Koch's honors include the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, awarded by the Library of Congress in 1998, as well as awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Fulbright, Guggenheim and Ingram-Merrill foundations. In 1996 he was inducted as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Dr. Hugh McKinnon, a senior official of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will discuss "Risk Assessment and Risk Management Research: Improving Environmental Decisions" on Wednesday, Jan. 24, as part of the Interdisciplinary Risk Assessment Forum.
McKinnon will lead a noon luncheon meeting at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St., then present a more formal lecture at 4 p.m. in the third floor offices of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, 135 College St. Both events are free and open to the public. For more information or to reserve a lunch, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
McKinnon is a senior executive medical officer at the EPA and the associate director for health in EPA's National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL). The NRMRL supports EPA's mission to protect public health and the environment by developing and evaluating innovative and cost-effective approaches to prevent and control risks from environmental pollution.
From 1989 to 1995, McKinnon was director of EPA's Human Health Assessment Group. The group produced EPA's January 1993 report on respiratory effects, including lung cancer, associated with exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.
McKinnon is a member of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the Federal Physicians Association. He also serves as the EPA representative to the National Cancer Advisory Board of the National Cancer Institute.
Lesley Doyal, professor of health and social care at the University of Bristol, will present a talk titled "Mapping Gender, Health and Globalization" on Wednesday, Jan. 24.
Doyal will speak at the meeting of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Bioethics Project working research group on "Globalization and Health: The Gender Challenge."
Currently a visiting fellow at the University of Cape Town, Doyal has published widely in the field of international health policy with a particular interest in gender issues. Her recent publications include "What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health," "Women and Health Services: Setting a New Agenda" and "Health and Work: Critical Perspectives."
Doyal has worked as a consultant on gender and health to a range of organizations including the World Health Organization, the U.N. Division for the Advancement of Women, the Global Forum for Health Research and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
The free, public seminar will take place at 3 p.m. in the lower level conference room of the ISPS, 77 Prospect St. For further information or reservations, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@ yale.edu.
Steve Barnett, an economist at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, will speak in the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Jan. 26, at noon.
His talk, titled "Economic Benefits of Early Education for Children in Poverty," will take place in Rm. 211, Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
Barnett directs the Center for Early Education Research, which conducts research and provides technical assistance to improve the effectiveness of early childhood education policy and practice. He has written or edited seven books, including "Early Care and Education for Children in Poverty" with Dr. Sarane Spence Boocock, and has written over 50 journal articles and book chapters. He conducted a comprehensive benefit-cost analysis of the long-term effects of early childhood education, based on the High/Scope Perry Preschool study.
Barnett is a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Early Childhood Pedagogy and served on the National Research Council's Roundtable on Head Start Research.
Nobel laureate Dudley Herschbach, the Baird Professor of Science at Harvard University, will discuss "Franklin's Scientific Amusements" on Saturday, Jan. 27
Herschbach's talk will be presented in conjunction with the Friends of the Franklin Paper's annual celebration of the anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, and will follow a noon lunch at the New Haven Lawn Club. Reservations are required and must be made in advance by contacting Kate Ohno at (203) 432-1813 or kate.ohno@yale.edu. The event is sponsored by the Department of English and The Papers of Benjamin Franklin.
Herschbach received his doctorate in chemical physics from Harvard in 1958 and joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley before returning to teach at Harvard in 1963.
The author of over 400 articles, Herschbach is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Royal Chemical Society of Great Britain. His numerous awards include the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 and most recently the Council of Scientific Society President's Award for the Support of Science in 1999.
His project to produce videos demonstrating Franklin's electrical experiments using 18th-century scientific apparatus reflects not only Herschbach's own scientific interests but his commitment to enhancing public understanding of science.
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