March 30, 2001

Volume 29, Number 24

'Beyond reparations' is focus of Law School Thomas Lecture

Natsu Taylor Saito, associate professor at Georgia State University College of Law, will present the 2000-2001 James A. Thomas Lecture, "Beyond Reparations," on Monday, April 2.

Saito will speak at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. A reception will follow in the Alumni Reading Room. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Law School.

After graduating from Yale Law School in 1987, Saito practiced law at the firms Arnall Golden & Gregory, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, and Troutman Sanders in Atlanta, Georgia. She joined the Georgia State University College of Law faculty in 1994 and went on to teach courses on public international law, international human rights, criminal procedure and immigration law.

Saito is the founding officer of the southeastern chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League and the founding president of the Georgia chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. She serves as codirector of the Human Rights Research Fund and is a member of the board of directors of the Society of American Law Teachers and the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless. She also serves on the legal committee of the American Civil Liberties of Georgia.

Saito's honors include the Trailblazer Award for the Southeast Region from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, a Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Grant for study of Japanese and Latin American internment, and Wardlaw Foundation grants to establish a Human Rights Research Fund and to study international human rights and multinational corporations.

Artist Jorge Pardo to discuss his work

Artist Jorge Pardo will speak about his work in a lecture sponsored by the School of Art on Monday, April 2.

The talk will begin at 7 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale University Art Gallery (entrance on High Street). For more information, call (203) 432-2606.

Born in Havana, Cuba, Pardo currently lives and works in Los Angeles. In his work, he incorporates design and architecture to create a form of functional sculpture that takes the shape of furniture and accessories within architectural spaces. Space and object are treated as a functional, harmonious whole.

For a project with The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles titled "Jorge Pardo, 4166 Sea View Lane," Pardo conceived and built a house and studio in the Mount Washington neighborhood of the city. Described by the artist as "a sculpture that is also a house," the house and studio were built between 1994 and 1998 and then opened to the public as an exhibition. The project addresses definitions of public and private space by dissolving the boundaries between them.

Pardo has exhibited his work in numerous international exhibitions, including "Skulptur Projekte," Münster, Germany; "Assuming Positions," Institute of Contemporary Art, London; "Defining the 90's," Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida; and "Traffic," CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France. He has had several solo exhibitions at museums and alternative spaces, including at The Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Holland.

Functional imaging expert to present Rogowski Lecture

Richard Frackowiak, an international authority on functional imaging and cognitive science, will present the annual Rogowski Lecture on Tuesday, April 3.

The lecture, which will begin at 4:45 p.m. in the Fitkin Amphitheatre, Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St., is presented in conjunction with the symposium "In Vivo Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Two Decades of Progress at Yale." The symposium honors Dr. James Prichard, who retired this year after 20 years of service in the Department of Neurology.

Frackowiak is dean of the Institute of Neurology at University College, London, and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow. His work focuses on investigating mechanisms of reorganization within the human brain through the use of noninvasive neuroimaging techniques such as position emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In his lecture, Frackowiak will discuss investigations on the structure and function in the human brain through the use of neuroimaging technology.

The Rogowski Lecture is hosted by the Department of Neurology and recognizes Dr. Bernhard Rogowski, one of the first neurologists in New Haven. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call Lakshmi Bangalore at (203) 932-5711, ext. 3640.

Documentary filmmaker to discuss work at two events

Award-winning writer and filmmaker Peter Davis will participate in two campus events on Wednesday, April 4.

Davis will be the guest of a tea at 4:30 p.m. at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. Later that evening there will be two screenings of a newly restored print of Davis's 1974 documentary "Hearts and Minds." The screenings will begin at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. A question-and-answer session with Davis will take place between screenings at 9 p.m.

Davis, an associate fellow of Calhoun College, has written, produced and directed numerous documentaries. In 1964, he researched and wrote a 26-part series for ABC titled "FDR." In 1971 Davis won Peabody, Emmy, Polk, Ohio State, Saturday Review and Writers Guild awards for "The Selling of the Pentagon." He received an Academy Award and Prix Sadoul for "Hearts and Minds," a documentary about the Vietnam War and its aftermath.

Davis's other documentaries include "Middletown," which received two Emmy Awards and first prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1982; "The Best Hotel on Skid Row"; "Age 7 in America"; and "JACK," a film biography of John F. Kennedy.

Davis is the author of the books "Hometown," "Where is Nicaragua?" and "If You Came This Way," which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1995. He has also written articles for The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Esquire, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times.

Architect Richard Meier is next Gordon Grand Fellow

Architect Richard Meier will visit campus as a Gordon Grand Fellow on Monday and Tuesday, April 2 and 3.

He will deliver the Gordon Grand Lecture, "Skateboard Angels on the Plaza," on April 2 at 6:30 p.m. in Hastings Hall at the School of Architecture, 180 York St. On April 3, he will be the guest at a Saybrook College master's tea, speaking on "The Building of the Getty." The tea will be held in the multi-purpose room in the Swing Space, 100 Tower Pkwy. Both events are free and open to the public.

Since establishing his offices in New York in 1963, Meier's practice has included major civic commissions, museums, corporate headquarters, housing and private residences. Among his most well-known projects are the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the High Museum in Atlanta, the Frankfurt Museum for Decorative Arts, Canal Plus Television Headquarters in Paris, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Atheneum in New Harmony, Indiana. His firm is currently designing Yale's Arts Library.

In 1984 Meier was awarded the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, considered the field's highest honor. In 1997 he received the AIA Gold Medal, the highest award from the American Institute of Architects. He is a fellow of the AIA and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently the Frank T. Rhodes Class of 1956 University Professor at Cornell University.

The Gordon Grand Fellowship was established in 1973 to honor Gordon Grand, a graduate of the Yale College Class of 1938, and president and chief executive officer of the Olin Corporation.

Inspiration for 'Men of Honor' will be guest at master's tea

Carl Brashear, the first African American master diver of the U.S. Navy, will be the guest of a tea on Tuesday, April 3.

The tea will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The event is free and open to the public.

Born in 1931 to a sharecropper family in Sonora, Kentucky, Brashear joined the Navy in 1948 at the age of 17. Although President Truman desegregated the U.S. military that same year, Brashear was confined to the galley, like all blacks of that era.

Despite only a seventh-grade education, Brashear enrolled in the Navy Dive School in Bayonne, New Jersey, and went on to have a notable career as a navy diver. In 1966 Brashear lost half his left leg during the recovery of a nuclear warhead in the Mediterranean. Even as an amputee, he continued to perform in active duty and went on to earn master diver certification. In 1998 he became one of seven enlisted men enshrined in the naval archives, with a 164-page volume transcription of an oral history of his life and career.

Brashear's life story inspired Bill Cosby to produce the film "Men of Honor," which starred Robert DeNiro and Cuba Gooding Jr. as Brashear.

Head of Health Effects Institute to speak at ISPS

Dan Greenbaum, president and chief executive officer of the Health Effects Institute (HEI), will be the next speaker in the Interdisciplinary Risk Assessment Forum on Wednesday, April 4.

Greenbaum will discuss "Credible Science to Inform Risk and Policy Decisions: The Health Effects Institute and Particulate Matter Air Pollution" at noon at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. Lunch will be provided at the talk, which is free and open to the public. For lunch reservations or more information, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.

HEI is funded jointly and equally by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and by industry. As president and CEO, Greenbaum leads HEI's efforts to provide public and private decision makers with high quality, impartial, relevant and credible science about the health effects of air pollution.

Greenbaum recently chaired the EPA Blue Ribbon Panel on Oxygenates in Gasoline, which issued its report "Achieving Clean Air and Clean Water" in July 1999. Greenbaum also serves on the National Research Council Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology and Committee for Research Priorities on Airborne Particulate Matter, as well as on the U.S. EPA Clean Air Act Advisory Committee. He regularly presents the results of HEI's scientific work to American and international audiences, including the U.S. Congress and the European Parliament.

Greenbaum has nearly three decades of governmental and non-governmental experience in environmental health. Prior to joining HEI, he served as commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

Dell chair and CEO to speak in Yale SOM Leaders Forum

Michael Dell, chair and chief executive officer of the Dell Computer Corporation, will participate in the Yale School of Management Leaders Forum on Friday, April 6.

"A Conversation with Michael Dell" will take place 1011:15 a.m. in Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is free and open to the public.

Dell Computer Corporation is the leading direct computer company in the world. Dell founded the company in 1984 with a thousand dollars and an idea unprecedented in the personal computer industry: to bypass the middleman and sell custom-built personal computers directly to end-users. In 16 years, the company's sales have grown from $6 million to $32 billion, with sales offices in 34 countries employing about 40,000 people.

The company's corporate customers include most of the companies in the Fortune 500 list of the largest American companies. Because of the success of the company, Dell has been honored many times for his leadership, earning titles such as "Entrepreneur of the Year" from Inc. magazine, "Man of the Year" from PC Magazine and "CEO of the Year" from Financial World and Industry Week magazines. In 1997, 1998 and 1999, Dell was included in Business Week's list of the "Top 25 Managers of the Year."

Dell is a member of the World Economic Forum, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Awards, The Business Council and the Computer Systems Policy Project, an affiliation of chief executive officers of the top computer companies that advocates public policy positions on trade and technology. He also serves on the nominating committee for the National Technology Medal of Honor.

Health psychologist will review role of stress on health

Health psychologist Richard M. Suinn will discuss "What Psychologists Contribute to Health: Psychological Hazards to Health and Interventions for Physical Disease Treatment" on Wednesday, April 4, in conjunction with a Department of Psychology colloquium.

Suinn, the 1999 president of the American Psychological Association and professor emeritus of Colorado State University, will speak at 4 p.m. in Rm. 220, Dunham Laboratory, 10 Hillhouse Ave. A reception will follow in Kirtland Hall, 2 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to th epublic.

Suinn has been invited to give addresses nationally and internationally, including in Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Venezuela. He has served as sports psychologist for U.S. Olympic teams. In his talk, Suinn will review the role of stress and anger on health, and outline existing psychological programs for various physical diseases.

F&ES lecture will focus on 'flow regime in urban streams'

Lorraine M. Herson-Jones, assistant attorney general for the State of Maryland Department of the Environment, is the next speaker in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Distinguished Lecturer series, "The Restoration Agenda: Urban Issues."

Herson-Jones will discuss "Flow Regime in Urban Streams: An Evaluation of Existing Tools for Protecting Streams from Impacts of High Flow Events" on Thursday, April 5, 11:30 a.m.1 p.m., in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Brown-bag lunches are welcome and refreshments will be served. The public is invited to attend. For more information, contact Aimlee Laderman at (203) 432-3335 or aimlee.laderman@yale.edu.

With over 15 years of experience in government and private environmental engineering and law, Herson-Jones has provided legal, technical and policy support to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on storm water regulations, watershed management, agricultural pollution and land planning. In the Advisory Committee on Urban Wet Weather Flows, she helped develop tightened controls of animal feeding operations and arsenic content in drinking water.

Herson-Jones has also worked for the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and the Northern Virginia Planning Commission, dealing with problems ranging from water quality of the Anacostia River, the Chesapeake Bay Program and the Forest Conservation Act through storm water facility design and hydrologic modeling of the Occoquan Basin and Four Mile Run.

As assistant attorney general, Herson-Jones serves as prosecutor in civil violation cases and advises on proposed EPA policy and legislation. She also provides pro bono legal counsel at the Baltimore Community Law Center.

Former Clinton aide to discuss 'compassionate conservatism'

Peter Edelman, professor of law at Georgetown University, will discuss "Poverty and Welfare: Does Compassionate Conservatism Have a Heart?" on Thursday, April 5, at 7 p.m. in Rm. 129 of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St.

The talk, sponsored by the Law School and the Student Public Interest Network, is free and open to the public.

Edelman served as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation in the Department of Health and Human Services during President Bill Clinton's administration. He resigned in protest when Clinton signed the historic 1996 bill ending "welfare as we know it." Edelman voiced his protest in an article titled "The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done" in the March 1997 issue of The Atlantic Monthly.

Edelman was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg before taking a job working with Robert Kennedy in the Justice Department during John F. Kennedy's administration. After Robert Kennedy's death, Edelman held a variety of public service positions before joining the faculty at Georgetown University Law Center.

Edelman has been vice president of the University of Massachusetts and the director of the New York State Division for Youth. He has written many articles and op-ed columns on public policy issues ranging from poverty to privacy, including a 1987 article in the Hastings Law Journal subtitled "Rethinking Our Duty to the Poor."

Sex therapist to recount her 25-year career

Wendy Maltz, a therapist and expert on healthy sexuality and sexual healing, will speak at two campus events on Friday, April 6.

She will first speak to clinicians and professionals at noon at University Health Services, 17 Hillhouse Ave. In a lecture titled "Recognizing and Treating the Repercussions of Sexual Abuse," Maltz will present effective therapeutic styles and strategies for helping survivors heal sexual problems related to abuse.

At 4 p.m., Maltz will speak at a tea in the Saybrook College master's house, 90 High St. She will present a humorous and informative talk titled "Intimate Relationships: What I Learned in 25 Years as a Sex Therapist." The master's tea is free and open to the public.

A frequent lecturer, Maltz is the author of "The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse" and co-author of "Incest and Sexuality: A Guide to Understanding and Healing" and "Private Thoughts: Exploring the Power of Women's Sexual Fantasies." She also edited two anthologies, "Passionate Hearts: The Poetry of Sexual Love" and "Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure."

A licensed clinical social worker, licensed marriage and family therapist, and certified sex therapist, Maltz has more than 25 years of clinical experience treating sex, intimacy and relationship concerns. She has written and narrated two acclaimed video productions for couples, "Partners in Healing" and "Relearning Touch."

For more information, contact the Office of Health Promotion, Student Health Education, at (203) 432-1892.

Early childhood development is focus of Bush Center lecture

Jack P. Shonkoff, dean of the Heller Graduate School and the Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Brandeis University, will speak in the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, April 6.

His talk, titled "From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development," 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.

Shonkoff served as chair of the Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, and co-edited its final report, "From Neurons to Neighborhoods." This report states that given the dramatic increase in scientific knowledge about early childhood development and the vast social and economic changes in recent decades, the United States should re-examine social policies that affect young children, as well as bolster its investments in the well-being of children.

Shonkoff has received multiple professional honors and served on numerous professional and public interest advisory boards. He has authored more than 90 publications, co-edited two editions of the much lauded "Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention," served on the editorial boards of a number of scholarly journals and served as principal investigator of the Early Intervention Collaborative Study, a longitudinal investigation of developmentally vulnerable children and their families.

Theater director Ann Bogart to speak at two campus events

Ann Bogart, artistic director of the SITI company, will receive the 2000-2001 Monty Wooly Memorial Award for Excellence in American Theatre from the Yale Dramatic Association on Friday, April 6.

In addition to attending the annual membership dinner of the Yale Dramat at which she will receive the award, Bogart will speak at two public events. She will be the guest of a tea at 2 p.m. in the Pierson College master's house, 231 Park St. She will also deliver a lecture at 4 p.m. in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.

Bogart cofounded the SITI company in 1992 with director Tadashi Suzuki. She previously served as artistic director of the Trinity Repertory Theater and has taught at the University of California at San Diego, New York University, Williams College and the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

Recent productions directed by Bogart include "Gertrude and Alice"; "Short Stories"; "Songs and Stories from Moby Dick" (co-directed with Laurie Anderson), which opened the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) 1999-2000 season and toured nationally and internationally; "Cabin Pressure," which opened at the 1999 Humana Festival of New American Plays and toured nationally; and a play about the life of Orson Welles, "War of the Worlds," which premiered at the 2000 Humana Festival and opened the BAM Next Wave Festival.

Bogart is the recipient of two Obie Awards, a Bessie Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a former president of the Theatre Communications Group and was designated a modern master at the 1995 Modern Masters Festival by the Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Conference to feature the work of filmmaker Rainer Simon

Rainer Simon, a filmmaker who worked in the DEFA studios of the former East Germany, will visit campus on Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7, as part of the conference "The Visual Turn."

Simon will open the conference with a master's tea on April 6 at 4:30 p.m. in the Ezra Stiles College master's house, 9 Tower Pkwy. He will present clips from his films and talk about his work. On April 7, Simon will be present at a screening of his 1983 film "The Airship" in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. A talk by DEFA scholar Barton Byg will precede the screening at 6:15 p.m.

"The Airship" tells the story of an inventor during the Third Reich who tries to pursue his own ambitions, but at the same time unwittingly serves the regime's militaristic aims. The film can be seen as a parable of the artist's position in a totalitarian society.

Simon's 1981 film "Jadup and Boel" caused controversy with its critical look at the reality of contemporary life in East Germany. In 1985, Simon won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale Film Festival for "The Woman and the Stranger." His most recent film, "Distant Land Pa-Isch," deals with the feeling of cultural displacement experienced by many Eastern Germans after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Both events are sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and are free and open to the public. For more information, email conference organizers at visual.turn@yale.edu or visit www.yale.edu/german/gradconf.htm.

Environmentalist will be final speaker in F&ES series

Jerry Mander, president of the California-based International Forum on Globalization, will be the final speaker in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies centennial series, "Globalization and the Environment," on Tuesday, April 10.

He will discuss "The Environmental Consequences of Economic Globalization" at 5 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. The talk is free and open to the public.

Mander, who is also program director of the Foundation for Deep Ecology, will talk about the ways in which economic globalization and free trade are environmentally destructive. He believes that global trade bodies, including the World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund and World Bank, are all adding to the problems of pollution, resource depletion, biodiversity loss and social dislocation by rules strongly favoring a corporate-oriented export model and by preventing regulation.

Mander is a senior fellow at the nonprofit Public Media Center in San Francisco. He is the author of "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television," "In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations" and "The Case Against the Global Economy and for a Turn Toward the Local."

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