March 16, 2001

Volume 29, Number 22

World Bank executive to present Okun lectures

Joseph E. Stiglitz, the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics at Stanford University, will deliver the Arthur M. Okun Lecture Series, "A Tale of Two Countries: Transition to a Market Economy in China and Russia," Monday-Wednesday, March 19-21.

The first lecture, "Whither Reform? The Great Experiments," will be presented on March 19 and will be introduced by President Richard C. Levin. The next two lectures, "Privatization and Corporate Governance: Wealth Creation or Asset Stripping?" and "Shock Therapy vs. Peaceful and Strategic Evolution: Speculations on Why China Succeeded and Russia Failed," will be presented on March 20 and 21, respectively.

The first two lectures will take place 4-6 p.m., Rm. 114, Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and Prospect streets. They will be followed by a reception in the common room of 28 Hillhouse Ave. The final lecture will take place 2:30-4 p.m., Rm. 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The series of three lectures is sponsored by the Department of Economics and Yale University Press.

Stiglitz is senior vice president, development economics, and chief economist of the World Bank. Previously, he was chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers and a professor of economics at Princeton, All Souls College in Oxford and Yale.

The Arthur M. Okun Lectures recognize and encourage professional economists to search for policies that will contribute to the betterment of life for all peoples.

American history expert to speak as Zucker Fellow

Richard White, the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University, will visit campus Wednesday, March 21, as the Zucker Environmental Fellow.

White will give a lecture, "Inside or Outside? The Current Implications of Locating the Cultural and the Natural," at 2:30 p.m. that day, in Rm. 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. He will then hold an informal discussion at a 4 p.m. tea in the Berkeley College master's house, 125 High St. Both events are sponsored by the Zucker Fellowship Fund and are free and open to the public.

White is the recipient of many honors, including MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. His book "The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received the Albert B. Corey Prize, the Rawley Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, among others. He has written extensively on American environmental history, addressing such topics as the American frontier, the American West, Native Americans, and social and environmental change within the history of the North American landscape.

The Zucker Fellowship was established by the Class of 1962 to inspire students to embark on careers in environmental fields by bringing a major scientist, public policy figure or author in the field of environmental studies to campus each year.

FES lecture series to feature Wetlands Initiative hydrologist

Donald Hey, a hydrologist with The Wetlands Initiative, will discuss "The South Fork: A Sow's Ear or a Silk Purse in the Stockyards" on Thursday, March 22.

The sixth session in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Distinguished Lecturer Series, "The Restoration Agenda: Urban Issues," the talk will take place 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Members of the public are welcome to attend. For more information, call (203) 432-3335 or email aimlee.laderman@yale.edu.

Hey is currently senior vice president of The Wetlands Initiative, Inc. and director of Wetlands Research, Inc., both in Chicago, Illinois. His research interests focus on the restoration of river and wetland systems and the development of low-cost management programs for sustaining natural aquatic ecosystems.

Hey has served on a number of committees and editorial boards, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Assessment Plan; Technical Proposal Evaluation Committee, Everglades National Park, National Park Service; and the National Research Council, Committee on Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems.

Co-author of "A Case for Wetland Restoration," Hey is a member of the American Geophysical Union, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Water Resources Association and Society of Wetland Scientists.

'Democracy and social justice' is focus of More House lecture

The Reverend J. Bryan Hehir, chair of the executive committee of Harvard Divinity School and member of the executive committee of the Harvard Center for International Affairs, will present the annual More House lecture in conjunction with Yale's Tercentennial on Thursday, March 22.

He will discuss "Democracy and Social Justice: International Perspectives" at 7:30 p.m. at Saint Thomas More, 268 Park St. Bruce Russett, the Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations of Yale, will respond. The event is free and open to the public.

Hehir currently serves as counselor to Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore, Maryland. He previously held a variety of posts, including counselor of Social Policy at the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops in Washington, D.C., and was the Joseph P. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics at Georgetown University.

In his writing and research, Hehir addresses issues of ethics, foreign policy and international relations, as well as Catholic social ethics and the role of religion in world politics. His publications include "Military Interventions and National Sovereignty," "Catholicism and Democracy: Conflict, Change and Collaboration" and "The Just-War Ethic Revisited."

Developmental psychologist to speak at Bush Center

Deborah Phillips, chair of the psychology department at Georgetown University, will speak in the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, March 23.

Titled "From Neurons to Neighborhoods," Phillips's talk will take place at noon in Rm. 211 of Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-9935.

Phillips was the first executive director of the Board on Children, Youth and Families of the National Research Council's Commission on Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. While in this position, she served as study director for "From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Child Development," the board's comprehensive report on early childhood development, which was released in October 2000.

Phillips serves on numerous task forces and advisory groups that address child and family policy issues, including the Task Force on Meeting the Needs of Young Children of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the research task force of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Head Start Quality and Expansion of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Brookings Institution's Roundtable on Children.

Phillips received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology at Yale in 1981 and was a mid-career fellow at the Bush Center.

Historian Simon Schama to give Finzi-Contini Lecture

Simon Schama, the social and cultural historian who wrote and narrated the BBC "History of Britain" series, will give the Finzi-Contini Lecture on March 22 at 4:30 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St.

A professor of history and art history at Columbia University, Schama's books include "The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age"'; "Citizens," a history of the French Revolution; "Landscape and Memory"; the historical novel "Dead Certainties"; and "Rembrandt's Eyes."

Schama's two-part "History of Britain," the first volume of which has been a bestseller in England, covers British nationhood from the Romans to the present. His Finzi-Contini lecture, titled "British History: In Defense of Epic," will present some of this new work.

The Finzi-Contini lectureship was endowed in 1990 by the Calabresi family, including Guido Calabresi, former dean of the Yale Law School, in memory of his mother, Bianca Maria Finzi-Contini Calabresi. The biannual lectureship sponsors a distinguished lecturer in the field of comparative literature, broadly defined.

Thailand deputy prime minister to discuss future of WTO

Supachai Pantichpakdi, deputy prime minister and minister of commerce of Thailand and director general designate of the World Trade Organization (WTO), will present the Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on Friday, March 23.

His talk, titled "The Past, Present and Future of the WTO," will take place at 4 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. A reception will follow. For more information, call (203) 432-3413 or email malini.saith@yale.edu.

A respected economist with extensive experience in trade negotiations, Supachai played a crucial role in leading Thailand out of its worst economic crisis in 50 years. A strong supporter of free trade, Supachai studied development economics under Nobel Prize winner Jan Tinbergen at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

In 1999, Supachai's candidacy to the WTO directorship was blocked by the United States, which favored Michael Moore, former premier of New Zealand. Supachai's campaign, however, won the support of Japan, half the members of the European Union and a large number of African nations. Representatives of developing nations believed Supachai would provide greater exposure to the plight of the world's poorer economies and give them a stronger voice in Geneva. As a consequence, WTO members agreed that Supachai would follow Moore's tenure as director.

The Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale was established in 1992 to support scholarly endeavors among specialists in the fields of international relations, international law, and the management of international enterprises and organizations. The annual lecture is sponsored by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management.

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Scientist Thomas Steitz honored with Sterling Professorship

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Joan Steitz cited as outstanding woman scientist

Student actors 'take flight' in comic version of 'The Birds'

Exhibition examines photographers' contrasting images of Saarinen designs

'Faces of Hope' offers portraits of people living with HIV

Model urges students to take pride in their bodies

'Cities and Buildings' pays tribute to urban works . . .

Forum to explore fate of U.S. 'melting pot'

Discovery boosts understanding of hereditary blindness

Grants will support Yale researcher's study on how to quell the 'voices' . . .

Women under 60 more likely to die after heart attack, says study

Renowned nuclear physicist to discuss 'Science, Technology and Politics'

'A Taste of Inequality' explores issues still on feminist frontline

Love songs will be dramatized in workshops

New fund will support activities for teachers of religious studies

New ways of funding environmental enterprises to be examined

Film series focus on the banned and Brazilian

Innovation is focus of this year's Spring Teaching Forum

Annual Pride Week celebration will feature talks, comedy night and film

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