The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences will host a lecture titled "Computer Technology: An Invitation to Neo-Totalitarianism" on Wednesday, Jan. 16. Krystyna Gorniak, associate professor of philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), will present the lecture at 8 p.m. in Connecticut Hall on the SCSU campus, 500 Crescent St. For more information, call (203) 432-3113, ext. 2.
Richard Benson, dean of the School of Art, will present a critique of "IMAGES," an exhibition of photographs, on Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m. The exhibition will be on view Feb. 10March 2 at the Guilford Handcraft Center, 411 Church St., open daily noon4 p.m. Reservations for Benson's critique are required and can be made by calling the Shoreline Arts Alliance at (203) 453-3890.
Paul Jacobs, a graduate student in the School of Music, will perform a series of nine-hour concerts in six cities across the United States from January through June. The performances honor the 10th anniversary of the death of French composer Olivier Messiaen (19081992). Each concert will feature Messiaen's complete organ works.
John G. Ryden, director of the Yale University Press, has announced the promotion of Jonathan Brent and John Rollins to associate directors of the press. Brent will retain his title as editorial director and Rollins will assume the new title of deputy director for finance and operations. They join publishing director/associate director Tina C. Weiner, managing director John Nicoll and Ryden as the Yale University Press' executive committee.
Laura Wexler, associate professor of women's and gender studies and American studies, was honored by the American Historical Association with the prestigious Joan Kelly Award for the best book in women's history in 2001. Wexler received the award at a ceremony and reception at the association's annual convention in San Francisco on Jan. 4.
The New Haven Public School Citywide Science Fair, sponsored in part by Yale University, received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring on Dec. 12 in Washington, D.C. The award is given to those programs in which "individual mentors demonstrate outstanding and sustained mentoring and effective guidance to a significant number of students at the K12, undergraduate or graduate education levels," according to a release from the National Science Foundation. Yale hosts the science fair annually in March and contributes student and faculty mentors from Yale College, the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the School of Medicine, and the biology and physics departments.
Wendell Bell, professor emeritus and senior research scientist of sociology, was appointed to the board of directors of the Institute for Global Ethics in Camden, Maine. The institute's mission is to promote ethical behavior in individuals, institutions and nations through research, public discourse and practical action. Bell has also been appointed to the scholar advisory board for a new television series, "The Next Thousand Years," being produced by the Foundation for the Future.
Gustav Ranis, the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics and the Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, was the keynote speaker at the Asian Development Bank Institute's Fourth Anniversary Conference on Dec. 7 in Tokyo. Ranis' paper, co-authored with Tavneet Suri, a graduate student in the Department of Economics, was titled "Growth, Poverty and Human Development," concentrating on countries in East, Southeast and South Asia.
The producers of a television documentary on Benjamin Franklin, whose papers are housed at Yale's Benjamin Franklin Papers, will present a preview of their series on Saturday, Jan. 19, Franklin's 296th birthday. The event, sponsored by the Friends of the Franklin Papers, will take place at noon at the New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Ave. Members of the production team will show clips from the film and answer questions about the process of making it. The Franklin project, which is being produced by Twin Cities Public Television and Middlemarch Films, will be aired nationally on PBS.
A memorial service for Charles L. Black Jr., Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law, will be held on Sunday, Jan. 27, at 2 p.m. in St. Paul's Chapel on the Columbia University campus, corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 117th Street, in New York City.
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