Joshua Bekenstein, managing director of Bain Capital, will present the Gordon Grand Lecture on Tuesday, Dec. 4.
Titled "Is There a Conflict Between Capitalism and a Social Conscience?" the lecture will be given during a tea at 4 p.m. in the Saybrook College master's house, 90 High St. The event is free and open to the public.
Bain Capital, a leading global private investment firm based in Boston, was started in 1984 by Bekenstein and others from the management consulting firm Bain & Company. Since then, Bain Capital has made private equity investments and add-ons in over 225 companies across a variety of industries. The firm currently has more than $12 billion in assets under management.
A 1980 graduate of Yale College, Bekenstein serves as a board member of several corporations, including Shoppers Drug Mart, Waters Corporation, Sealy, Bright Horizons Family Solutions and KB Toys. He is also active on the boards of community and educational organizations, such as the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, the Horizons Initiative (an organization serving homeless children), the United Way of Mass Bay, Yale University President's Council and the Yale Corporation Investment Committee.
Poet Paul Muldoon will speak at two campus events on Thursday, Dec. 6.
He will first be the guest at a tea at 4 p.m. in the Berkeley College master's house, 125 High St. He will then present a public reading of his work at 8 p.m. in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The public is invited to both events.
A native of County Armagh, Northern Ireland, Muldoon worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation from 1973 to 1986. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is now the Howard G.B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities and director of the creative writing program at Princeton University. In 1999 he was elected professor of poetry at the University of Oxford.
Muldoon's main collections of poetry are "New Weather" (1973), "Mules" (1977), "Why Brownlee Left" (1980), "Quoof" (1983), "Meeting the British" (1987), "Madoc: A Mystery" (1990), "The Annals of Chile" (1994), "Hay" (1998) and "Poems 19681998" (2001).
A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature in 1996. His other awards include the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize and the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize. He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War."
Hilton Als, staff writer at The New Yorker, will be the guest at a master's tea on Thursday, Dec. 6.
The tea will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the
Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The public is invited to the event, which is also sponsored by the Department of English, the Department of African American Studies and the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies.
A frequent contributor to The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section since 1989, Als was named a staff writer for the magazine in 1996. He is a former staff writer for the Village Voice and editor-at-large of Vibe magazine. His work has also appeared in The Nation.
Als edited the catalogue for the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art," which ran 19941995. He is the author of "The Women" and of several screenplays.
In 1997, Als won first place in two categories of the New York Association of Black Journalists Awards: magazine critique/ review and magazine arts and entertainment. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 for creative writing. He is currently a senior fellow in the Columbia Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University.
Lawrence Lessig, one of the nation's top experts on constitutional law and cyberspace, will present the 20012002 Ralph Gregory Elliot Lecture on Thursday,
Dec. 6, 4:306:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St.
In his lecture, titled "Free Labor, Free Culture," Lessig will link the values of the First and Thirteenth Amendment to the struggles over ideas and creativity that mark our present time. The talk is free and open to the public.
A 1989 graduate of Yale Law School, Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford University. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, comparative constitutional law and cyberspace, with a particular emphasis on the First Amendment and free speech, and copyright law. His "Law of Cyberspace" class, taught while he was a visiting professor at Yale in 1995, was one of the first of its kind offered at a law school.
In his book "Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace," Lessig explores intellectual property rights, free speech and privacy on the Web. His latest book, "The Future of Ideas," was published this year.
Lessig has consulted extensively with policy makers about the regulation of cyberspace and has testified before Congress regarding "anti-paparazzi" legislation and the Child Online Protection Act. He has been active in a number of high-profile Internet-related lawsuits, including the Napster case, the Microsoft antitrust case and the merger of AT&T and MediaOne.
Martin S. Indyk, the immediate past U.S. ambassador to Israel, will present his observations and analysis of the conflict in the Middle East in a talk titled "Israel and the Intifadah After September 11" on Thursday, Dec. 6, at 8 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St.
Indyk was a key Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiator for the past 10 years. Appointed by President Clinton as National Security Council senior director for Near East and South Asia, he was intimately involved in negotiations with five Israeli prime ministers (Rabin, Peres, Netanyahu, Barak and Sharon) and leading Palestinian officials, including Yasser Arafat.
During the 1990s, Indyk was responsible for U.S. policy in the entire Middle East. He helped negotiate the Wye River Agreement and the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty and led the effort to bring the Lockerbie bombing suspects to justice. He is currently developing Middle East policy as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C.
Indyk's appearance at Yale inaugurates the Jeffrey and Susan Stern Lectureship for Middle East and Israeli Affairs, established to help students gain a deeper understanding of the complex issues in the Middle East.
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