November 9, 2001

Volume 30, Number 10

Storrs Lectures to address 'problem of collective guilt'

George P. Fletcher, the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, will present the 2001-2002 Storrs Lecture Series on the topic "Liberals and Romantics at War: The Problem of Collective Guilt" at the Law School.

The first lecture in the series, "Romantic Virtues," will be given on Monday, Nov. 12. Fletcher will discuss "Romantic Excesses" on Tuesday, Nov. 13, and "Guilt by Analogy" on Thursday, Nov. 15. The talks will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. A reception will follow the Monday lecture. All events are free and open to the public.

Fletcher writes and lectures in the fields of constitutional law, criminal law and jurisprudence. His approach stresses philosophical and comparative analysis, with particular attention to Continental European sources. He has published seven books, including the first systematic study of European and Anglo-American criminal law, "Rethinking Criminal Law," which received the Order-of-Coif award as one of the best books published on law in the late 1970s.

His second book on criminal justice, "A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial," received the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association. It has been translated and published in Japanese, German, Italian and Spanish. Fletcher's other books include "With Justice for Some: Victims' Rights in Criminal Trials," "Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships," "Basic Concepts of Legal Thought" and, most recently, "Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy."

Yale SOM Leaders Forum to feature head of Booz-Allen

Ralph Shrader, chair and chief executive officer of Booz-Allen & Hamilton, will speak in the Yale School of Management Leaders Forum Program on Tuesday, Nov. 13.

His talk, titled "Embracing Change: Lessons on Leadership and Advancing Diversity in Corporate America," will be held 11:45 a.m.1 p.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The public is invited to this free event.

Shrader was elected chair and chief executive officer of Booz-Allen & Hamilton, a global management and technology consulting firm with $1.8 billion in sales and 10,000 employees, in 1999. The seventh chair since the firm's founding in 1914, Shrader also serves as president of Booz-Allen's Worldwide Technology Business, one of the firm's two major business units. With a personal consulting practice centered on the global communications industry, he has led major assignments for telecommunications companies in the United States, Europe and Latin America, and was involved in Booz-Allen's landmark work for AT&T at the time of divestiture.

Past chair of the board of the 40,000-member Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, Shrader currently serves on the boards of the Wolf Trap Foundation, the National Park for the Performing Arts and Abilities, Inc., an organization dedicated to career opportunities for individuals with disabilities. He is also a member of the Character Education Partnership Advisory Council.

Author of 'Stuffed' to be guest at master's tea

Patricia Volk, author of "Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family," will be the guest at a tea on Thursday, Nov. 15, at 5 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.

The public is invited to this free event.

A former weekly columnist for New York Newsday, Volk has published articles in The New Yorker, New York, Cosmopolitan, The New York Times Magazine, Family Circle, Mirabella, Ladies Home Journal, Allure, Redbook, Good Housekeeping and O, The Oprah Magazine. She is a two-time Yaddo Fellow, MacDowell Fellow and Pushcart Prize nominee. She received the Word Beat Press Fiction Book Award in 1985 and various other awards for her work in advertising.

In her memoir, "Stuffed," Volk portrays her father's father, the inventor of the wrecking ball; her mother's father, who owned 14 restaurants in New York City; and her assorted other relatives. She is a member of P.E.N., The Author's Guild and Juliana Berners' Anglers.

Sociologist is next ISPS Bioethics Seminar speaker

Renée C. Fox, the Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania, will present two lectures on Wednesday, Nov. 14, as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Bioethics Seminar series.

In her first talk, "A Sociological Perspective on the Genesis, Evolution and Significance of American Bioethics," which will take place at noon in the lower level conference room of ISPS, 77 Prospect St., Fox will examine the origins of U.S. bioethics. She will explore its intellectual attributes, biomedical foci and moral concerns, and offer an interpretation of the cultural meaning and social import of this multidisciplinary field and its role in the public domain.

At 7:30 p.m. in the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St., Fox will discuss "Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders): A Study of Medical Humanitarianism and Human Rights Witnessing in Action." She will describe her first-hand study of Médecins Sans Frontières, identify the principles on which the social movement and organization is based, and discuss the practical and moral challenges that it faces in its medical humanitarian and witnessing/ advocacy missions.

Both lectures are free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided at the noon meeting for those who contact Carol Pollard in advance at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.

Fox's major teaching and research interests -- sociology of medicine, medical research, medical education and medical ethics -- have involved her first-hand, participant observation-based studies in Europe, Africa and the People's Republic of China, as well as in the United States. She is the author of seven books and numerous articles.

Expert on traditional medicine to be guest speaker at EPH

Dr. Xiaorui Zhang, director of the World Health Organization's program on traditional medicine, will be a guest speaker of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) at the School of Medicine on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 46 p.m. in Rm. 608 of the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College St.

Sponsored by the Global Health Division of EPH, her talk is titled "The World Health Organization and Traditional Medicine, A Global Perspective." It is free and open to the public.

Zhang is a key figure in research and policy development on the integration of traditional medicine and modern Western biomedical systems. A native of China, Zhang began her medical career as a "barefoot doctor," or practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine. After five years of service in rural areas, she entered the Beijing University of Traditional Medicine and received a degree in traditional medicine and biomedicine.

In 1992 Zhang joined the WHO as the medical officer in charge of the traditional medicine program. She is now acting team coordinator for traditional medicine within the Department of Essential Drugs and Medicine Policy.

New lecture series to honor Roland W. Betts II

Patricia Nelson Limerick, professor of history and chair of the Center for the New West at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will deliver the first annual Betts Lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 5 p.m. in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.

In a summary of her lecture, titled "The Nature of Justice: Reconfiguring the Ethnic Boundaries of the Environmental Movement," Limerick noted that "despite the seemingly persistent racial exclusiveness of the mainstream environmental movement, a rich, if under-acknowledged, literary heritage records the attention that people of color have paid to nature and landscape. In the same spirit, tracking the so-called 'mainstream' movement to its origins reveals that the cause of nature-loving was deeply entwined with the cause of slavery-hating. Social justice and environmental well-being prove to be goals with a common history."

Limerick (Yale Ph.D. 1980) is the author of "A Legacy of Conquest," "Desert Passages" and "Something in the Soil: Field-Testing the New Western History."

This new lecture series honors Roland W. Betts II, an alumni fellow of the Yale Corporation, for his support of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University. It will be given by the current or immediate past president of the Western History Association, an organization founded in 1961 "to promote the study of the American West in all its varied aspects."

'British paintings in America' is focus of talk by art historian

Robyn Asleson, research associate of the Huntington Art Collections, will give a lecture titled "Atlantic Crossings: Patterns in the Acquisitions and Admiration of British Paintings in America" on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 5:15 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-2800 or visit the museum's website at www. yale.edu/ycba.

In 1993 Asleson was appointed research associate of the London-based Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. In 1999 she organized an interdisciplinary tribute to the 18th-century actress Sarah Siddons, which featured two exhibitions of theatrical portraiture at the Huntington and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Yale University Press recently published her comprehensive catalogue of the Huntington collection.

Asleson received her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in art history from Yale, where her studies focused on British art and literature. She recently published a monograph on the Victorian classicist Albert Moore, the first full-length study of the artist to appear since 1893.

Head of KPMG to explore 'globalization journey' of firm

Stephen G. Butler, chair of KPMG International, will discuss "KPMG's Globalization Journey" as part of the Yale School of Management's Leaders Forum on Thursday, Nov. 15.

His talk will take place 11:45 a.m.1 p.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave., and is free and open to the public.

In addition to being chair of KPMG International, an international network of professional services firms, Butler is chair and chief executive officer of KPMG LLP, the U.S. member firm of KPMG International. He was elected to the U.S. position in 1996 and became international chair in 1999.

Butler joined KPMG in 1969. He went on to serve as a partner specializing in financial services in the firm's Kansas City, Missouri, office; managing partner in the Memphis, Tennessee, office; managing partner of KPMG's international headquarters in Amsterdam; and managing partner of the firm's largest office worldwide, Metro New York, and partner-in-charge of KPMG's financial services practice in New York.

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