Artist Renee Cox to be guest of Calhoun College master's tea
Photographer Renee Cox will be the guest of a master's tea on Monday, Feb. 11.
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.
Jamaican-born Cox was raised in Scarsdale, New York, and began her career as a fashion photographer. She received her M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1992.
Without abandoning the issues and look of fashion, Cox uses "art" to subvert tradition by turning her critical eye on the visual and art culture around her. She negotiates boundaries between fashion, historical icons, and her personal experiences and sensibilities as a black woman.
Frances G. Beinecke, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), will discuss "Global Challenges: Global Warming and the Plight of the Oceans" as a Gordon Grand Fellow on Tuesday, Feb. 12.
The informal discussion will take place during a master's tea at 4 p.m. in the Saybrook College master's house, 90 High St. The public is invited to this free event.
The NRDC is one of the nation's leading environmental organizations. As executive director, Beinecke leads the NRDC's strategic direction. The group's initiatives include climate change, biodiversity protection, ocean protection, the reduction of human exposure to toxic chemicals and the upholding of the framework of environmental laws in the United States.
Over the past year, Beinecke has spoken at many forums, including the annual conference of the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, the World Economic Forum's annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, and Yale's "Gender Matters" conference. She serves on many boards and has served as board chair of the Wilderness Society and the Adirondack Council.
Beinecke received B.A. and M.F.S. degrees from Yale in 1971 and 1974, respectively. She was an alumni fellow of the Yale Corporation from 1995 to 2001, serving as chair of the Development and Alumni Affairs Committee, and is the co-chair of the Leadership Council of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Beinecke's honors include the Annual Conservation Award from the Adirondack Council, the Robert Marshall Award from the Wilderness Society and the Wave Hill Annual Award.
James A. Thomson, president and chief executive officer of RAND, will speak at a master's tea on Tuesday, Feb. 12.
The tea will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.
RAND is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution that seeks to improve public policy through research and analysis. A member of the RAND staff since 1981, Thomson has served as director of RAND's research program in national security, foreign policy, defense policy and arms control; vice president in charge of the Project Air Force division, which performs studies and analyses on a range of issues important to the future of the U.S. Air Force; and executive vice president. He became president and CEO of RAND in 1989.
From 1977 to 1981, Thomson was a member of the National Security Council staff at the White House, where he was primarily responsible for defense and arms control matters related to Europe. From 1974 to 1977, he was an analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Thomson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and the Board of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. He is a director of AK Steel Corporation and Texas Biotechnology Corporation, and chair of the board of directors of Entrust Technologies, Inc.
Melanie DiPietro and Gregg Behr of the law firm Buchanan Ingersoll will speak at two campus events on Tuesday, Feb. 12.
They will first discuss "Constitutional or Religious Conflict: Real or Imaginary?" noon1:30 p.m. in the basement of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), 77 Prospect St. (the basement is not handicapped-accessible). For more information about this talk, which is sponsored by the Program on Non-Profit Organizations, call (203) 432-6297.
DiPietro and Behr will then speak at a chaplain's tea on the topic "One Among the Crowd: The Gap Between Faith Professed and Faith in Action" at 4:30 p.m. at Saint Thomas More Chapel, 268 Park St. For information on this second talk, call (203) 777-5537.
Both talks are free and open to the public.
DiPietro, a member of the Health Law Group, is a founder and co-chair of Buchanon Ingersoll's CARTA Group, which concentrates on religiously affiliated corporations. She is a Seton Hill sister of charity and a canon lawyer. Her practice area includes tax-exempt health, social service and education corporations.
Behr is an associate member of Buchanon Ingersoll's litigation group. He focuses his practice on a variety of commercial litigation matters, including breach of contract, patent infringement and product liability. He also works extensively with the firm's nonprofit group.
Actress Fiona Shaw will give the 12th annual Maynard Mack Lecture, titled "Shakespeare and Friends, Hedda and Enemies," on Tuesday, Feb. 12.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 5:15 p.m. in the McNeil Lecture Hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. (enter on High Street).
Schooled both at University College in Cork and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Shaw has divided her career between Ireland and Great Britain. She has appeared with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, where in 1995 she aroused critical and popular interest in Shakespeare's "Richard II." Her one-person performance of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" traveled to New York the following year.
Shaw's many roles include Euripides' Medea, Shakespeare's Shrew and Ibsen's Hedda Gabbler. She has won Britain's Evening Standard Award for best actress and twice won the Olivier Award, the London equivalent of New York's Tony Award. Her films include "My Left Foot" in 1988 and "The Butcher Boy" in 1996.
The Mack Lectureship, endowed through Yale's Elizabethan Club, honors a former chair of the Department of English and a notable scholar and teacher of Shakespeare and Pope, who died last March at the age of 91. The lectureship brings to Yale a distinguished practitioner of theater.
Alexander Vershbow '74, U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation, will present the next lecture in the International Security Studies' Grand Strategy Lecture Series on Wednesday, Feb. 13.
Vershbow will discuss "The Challenge of NATO and Europe" with Strobe Talbott, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, at 4 p.m. in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. A reception will follow the free, public lecture.
Since joining the foreign service in 1988, Vershbow has held a series of assignments, including postings to the U.S. embassies in Moscow and London. He served as adviser to the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva and was director of the State Department's Office of Soviet Union Affairs during the last nation's final years. A career minister, Vershbow was appointed U.S. ambassador in 2001.
From 1994 to 1997, Vershbow served as special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council. From 1998 until 2001, he was the U.S. ambassador to NATO. Last year, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell awarded Vershbow the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for his work with NATO.
Wilhelm Hammer, managing director of BioDiesel International (BDI), will present a lecture at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES) on Thursday, Feb. 14.
Titled "From the Fryer to the Freeway: Making BioDiesel from Waste," the talk inaugurates the Industrial Environmental Management (IEM) program's 2002 spring lecture series on the topic "The Business of Sustainable Energy." Hammer will speak at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. A reception will follow the presentation, which is free and open to the public.
BDI is an Austrian company that develops facilities for the production of diesel fuel from plant and animal fats and oils. Commonly called biodiesel, this form of diesel fuel is made from renewable sources such as waste cooking and agricultural oil and is less polluting than conventional diesel fuel. BDI has built industrial-scale facilities in Austria, the Czech Republic and the United States.
The IEM spring lecture series is supported by the Joel Omura Kurihara Fund. Kurihara, a member of the F&ES Class of 1992, was committed to improving business and environmental relations. For more information about the series, call (203) 432-6953 or send e-mail to iem@yale.edu.
William "Billy" Grassie, founder and executive director of Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science, will present a talk titled "Biocultural Evolution in the 21st Century: The Evolutionary Role of Religion" on Thursday, Feb. 14.
Part of a chaplain's tea, his presentation will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Saint Thomas More Chapel, 268 Park St. Members of the Yale and New Haven communities are welcome to attend. For further information, call (203) 777-5537.
As executive director of Metanexus, Grassie serves as editor of the institute's online magazine and discussion forum, which has over 10,000 weekly page views and over 5,000 regular subscribers in 57 countries. He has taught in a variety of positions at Temple University, Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania, and has worked in religion-based social service organizations in Washington, Berlin, Jerusalem and Philadelphia.
Grassie is the recipient of a number of academic awards and grants from the American Friends Service Committee, the Roothbert Fellowship and the John Templeton Foundation. He is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Howard Gardner, the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will deliver the Keren Alexander Memorial Lecture as part of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Feb. 15.
His talk, titled "Choice in Education: A Psychologist's Perspective," will be held 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.
The author of 19 books translated into 21 languages and several hundred articles, Gardner is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments. During the past 15 years, he and colleagues at Project Zero have been working on the design of performance-based assessments, education for understanding and the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction and assessment.
Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990 he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000.
Keren Alexander, a former postdoctoral fellow at the Bush Center, was a noted forensic and child psychologist who devoted her professional and personal life to improving the lives of children.
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