February 22, 2002

Volume 30, Number 19

President of ACLU to speak at Calhoun College

Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), will be the guest at a master's tea on Tuesday, Feb. 26.

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

Strossen, professor of law at New York Law School, has written, lectured and practiced extensively in the areas of constitutional law, civil liberties and international human rights. She was elected president of the ACLU in 1991, becoming the first woman to head the nation's largest and oldest civil liberties organization.

Since becoming ACLU president, Strossen has made more than 200 public presentations a year before diverse audiences. She is a regular on ABC's "Politically Incorrect" and has been a monthly columnist for the online magazine Intellectual Capital and a weekly commentator on the Talk America Radio Network.

Strossen's book "Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights" was named a "notable book" of 1995 and was republished in 2000. "Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties," which she co-authored, was named an "outstanding book" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America.

The National Law Journal twice named Strossen one of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America." In 1996 she was listed among the "350 Women Who Changed the World 1976-1996" by Working Woman Magazine.

OMSC talk to explore challenges for pioneer missionaries

C. Douglas McConnell, international director of Pioneers, will present a lecture titled "From Balkan Mountains to Asian Valleys: Challenges for Pioneer Missionaries" on Tuesday, Feb. 26.

The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Overseas Ministries Study Center, 490 Prospect St. A discussion period with refreshments will follow the lecture. There is no admission charge and all are welcome. For more information, call (203) 624-6672 or visit www.omsc.org.

In 1998, McConnell was named the first international director of Pioneers, an Orlando-based mission agency that mobilizes mission teams to serve unreached people by initiating church planting. He served for 15 years with Asia Pacific Christian Mission, now known as Pioneers of Australia, as a teacher, pastor and church planter in Papua New Guinea and later as general director in Melbourne. From 1992 to 1998, McConnell taught missiology, leadership and urban missions and chaired the Department of Missions and Intercultural Studies at Wheaton College Graduate School in Illinois.

Measuring environmental justice is topic of F&ES lecture

Edwardo L. Rhodes, professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University, will present the seventh session in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies' (F&ES) Distinguished Lecture series, "The Restoration Agenda: Environmental Justice," on Wednesday, Feb. 27.

He will discuss "The Challenges of Measuring and Evaluating Environmental Justice" 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium in Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Those who attend are invited to bring a brown bag lunch. Refreshments will also be served.

Rhodes specializes in public policy analysis, particularly public sector applications of management science in the evaluation of the efficiency of public activities. These activities include environmental and natural resource policy implementation and university performance. His most recent research activities focused on the emerging issue of environmental justice or equity as it applies to the economic and social impacts of environmental activities.

In his research, Rhodes uses a relatively new management science estimation and evaluation methodology called data envelopment analysis (DEA), which he helped develop. He applies DEA to assess variations in relative environmental risk across demographic classifications within a community or region.

Rhodes has published articles in journals such as Management Science, The European Journal of Operational Research Journal of Economic Education and Applications of Management Science. He is the author of the book "Environmental Justice: A New Paradigm."

Members of the Yale and New Haven communities are welcome to attend. For more information, contact Gordon Geballe at (203) 432-5122 or C. Murphy-Dunning at (203) 432-6570.

Historian to discuss 'reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom'

Thomas E. Burman, associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee, will discuss "Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1540" on Wednesday, Feb. 27.

The lecture is part of the Whitney Humanities Center special program "The Virtues of Tolerance and the Crossing of Lines: Islam in the History of Western Culture," offered in conjunction with the Tanner Lectures on Human Values. The event will take place at 4 p.m. in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, corner of Wall and High streets, and a reception will immediately follow. The lecture is free and the public is welcome.

Burman is the author of "Religious Polemic and the Intellectual History of the Mozarabs, c. 1050-1200." The book is based on his doctoral dissertation, which studied the intellectual history of the Arabic speaking Christians of Spain, the Mozarabs, based on their religious-polemical literature in both Latin and Arabic. He has also published a series of articles on Latin-Christian Qur'an readers in the medieval and early-modern periods, and is currently writing a book on that topic.

Burman has held a Rockefeller Residential Research Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis and has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for the coming academic year. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue and serves as the journal's book review editor.

Former U.N. official to present Coca-Cola World Fund Lecture

Sadako Ogata, former United Nations (U.N.) High Commissioner for Refugees, will present the Ninth Coca-Cola World Fund Lecture at Yale on Wednesday, Feb. 27.

She will discuss "Human Security in the 21st Century" at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.; a reception will then follow. Sponsored by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the School of Management and the Law School, the lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-3413.

Ogata was elected high commissioner by the U.N. General Assembly for a three-year term beginning in 1991. She was reelected in 1993 for a five-year term, and again in 1998 for a further two-year term. She is currently a scholar in residence at The Ford Foundation, co-chair of the Commission on Human Security and the Japanese prime minister's special representative for Afghanistan assistance.

Prior to assuming the post of U.N. high commissioner, Ogata was dean of the Faculty of Foreign Studies and director of the Institute of International Relations at Sophia University in Tokyo. She served as the independent expert of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights on the human rights situation in Myanmar in 1990. From 1978 to 1979, Ogata was chair of the executive board of UNICEF.

Ogata has received 25 honorary degrees and a multitude of awards and decorations from countries around the world. She has published a number of books on diplomatic history and international relations, including "Defiance of Manchuria: The Making of Japanese Foreign Policy, 1931-1932."

Yale Anthropology Society to offer special event lecture

George Marcus, professor and chair of anthropology at Rice University, will speak at a Yale Anthropology Society event on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 6:30 p.m. in Rm. 119 of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St.

The event is free and open to the Yale and Connecticut communities.

Marcus' major interests are in ethnography, political economy and poetics, elites, Euro-American cultures and Oceania. His current research focuses on the ethnography of dynastic families, the relationship of politics and poetics in anthropological thought, and the remaking of civil societies in the wake of political trauma.

His publications include "Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth Century America," "Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Movement in the Human Sciences," "Writing Culture" and "Elites: Ehtnographic Issues.

For more information about the lecture, send e-mail to jennifer.staple@yale.edu or visit www.geocities.com/yaleanthro/index. html.

Venture capital markets is focus of Raben Lecture at Law School

Ronald J. Gilson, the Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School and the Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business at Columbia University, will present the John R. Raben Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 28.

Titled "Engineering Venture Capital Markets," the lecture will take place noon- 2 p.m. in the faculty lounge of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. Sponsored by the Law School, the event is free and open to the public.

A 1971 graduate of Yale Law School, Gilson joined the Stanford faculty in 1979 and the Columbia faculty in 1992. He has served as a visiting professor at Yale Law School, the University of Tokyo School of Law, Vietnam National University, Hebrew University and the University of Virginia Law School. He was also visiting scholar at The Hoover Institution and resident scholar at the Rockefeller Study Center in Italy.

The principal subjects of Gilson's interest are business associations, economic structure of transactions and contracting, securities regulation and corporate acquisitions. He is the co-author of "Cases and Materials on Corporations" and "The Law and Finance of Corporate Acquisitions."

Gilson is a member of the California State Senate Commission on Corporate Governance, Shareholder Rights and Securities Transactions; the editorial advisory board of Little, Brown & Co.; the editorial board of Mergers and Acquisitions Law Reporter; the American Law Institute; and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is associate editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance and a reporter for the American Law Institute Corporate Governance Project.

Personal finance writer to be guest of master's tea

Personal finance writer Juliette Fairley will speak at a master's tea on Thursday, Feb. 28.

The tea will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. There is no fee and the public is welcome.

Fairley is the author of four books. "Money Rules: Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s" was published in 2001 and "Cash in the City: Affording Manolos, Martinis and Manicures on a Working Girl's Salary" was published this month.

Also a professional speaker, Fairley has spoken on behalf of the Ford Motor Company, the American Council of Life Insurers and the Institute for International Research. She has been featured on CNBC, MSNBC, CNN-FN, the Ananda Lewis Show, Curtis Court, Good Day New York and Bloomberg Television. She has written articles on personal finance for Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg Wealth Manager, Bloomberg Personal Finance, USA Today, The New York Times and Financial Planning magazine.

Fairley is a member of the New York New Media Association, the Author's Guild, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the New York Financial Writers Association.

Director of Catholic charity to lecture at St. Thomas More

Father Robert J. Vitillo, executive director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) for the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, will speak at Saint Thomas More Chapel, 268 Park St., at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28.

Titled "Is Charity Just? Is Justice Charitable," the talk is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 777-5537.

A Roman Catholic priest of the diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, Vitillo was appointed executive director of the CCHD in 1997. The CCHD is the largest private funding source for organizations that empower the poor and work to eliminate poverty and injustice in the United States. Vitillo has worked with Catholic charities on both diocesan and national levels, as well as with Caritas Internationalis, the worldwide confederation of Catholic Church-sponsored social service and development organizations based in Vatican City.

Since 1987, Vitilla has been engaged in the education of church leaders and the development of church-based programs in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic around the world. He has served as consultant to UNICEF in Eastern and Central Europe on the development of family-centered programs to benefit children in need.

Vitillo serves as president of the board of directors of the National Catholic AIDS Network, co-chair of the HIV/AIDS task force of Caritas Internationalis, member of the HIV/AIDS strategy group for the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance and member of the board of directors of the Council on Accreditation for Services to Children and Families.

Architectural historian to speak at Whitney Humanities Center

Jerrilynn Dodds, professor of architectural history and theory at the School of Architecture of the City College of the City University of New York, will present a lecture on Thursday, Feb. 28, as part of "The Virtues of Tolerance and the Crossing of Lines: Islam in the History of Western Culture," a special Whitney Humanities Center program offered in conjunction with the Tanner Lectures on Human Values.

She will discuss "Imagined Borders in Cordoba and Queens" at 5 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The lecture is free and open to the public.

An author, curator and filmmaker, Dodds' work centers on issues of artistic interchange and identity, and the problems surrounding art and minorities in pluralistic societies. She has worked extensively in Spain, Bosnia and New York City.

Dodds is the author of "Architecture and Ideology of Early Medieval Spain" (1991), "Al Andalus: The Arts of Islamic Spain" (1992) and "New York Masjid: The Mosques of New York City" (to be published later this year). She also wrote books and articles on the reconstruction of the historical center of Mostar in Bosnia.

Dodds curated and co-curated exhibitions on the subject of cultural interchange as seen through art and architecture for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture and The Newark Museum. A prize-winning filmmaker, Dodds writes and directs films in conjunction with museum exhibitions and for public television. She previously taught at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute for Technology and at Columbia University.

Bush Center talk to focus on family-friendly workplaces

Martha Pitt-Catsouphes, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at Boston College, will speak in the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, March 1.

Titled "Family-friendly Societies or Family-friendly Workplaces: Does It Make a Difference?" the talk will be held at noon in Rm. 211 of Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. For more information about the free, public event, call (203) 432-9935.

Pitt-Catsoupes has been responsible for a range of research projects that have gathered information about work and family issues, corporate culture, and workplace policies and programs established by small- and medium-sized firms. She is currently co-principal investigator for a study titled "Nurturing Families."

Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the research examines the relationships between working families and their communities of residence, their workplace communities and the communities associated with their children's schools. She is also co-principal investigator for the Sloan Work and Family Research Electronic Network.

For 10 years Pitt-Catsouphes conducted research at the Center for Work and Family at Boston College, most recently as the center's director. She was a founding co-editor for the international journal Community, Work and Family and co-edited a special issue of the ANNALS of Political and Social Sciences: The Evolving World of Work and Family: New Stakeholders, New Voices. She has presented papers at meetings of the Family and Democracy Institute, the Council for Social Work Education, the Economic Policy Institute, the Seaside Institute and the Conference Board's Work-Family Annual Conference.

18th-century Britain is subject of Walpole Library Lecture

John Brewer, the John and Marion Sullivan University Professor in English and History at the University of Chicago, will present the Ninth Annual Lewis Walpole Library Lecture on Friday, March 1.

He will discuss "Love and Madness in 18th-Century Britain" at 4 p.m. in the McNeil Lecture Hall of the Yale University Art Gallery (corner of Chapel and High streets; enter on High Street). A reception will immediately follow the lecture at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. For more information about the lecture, contact the Lewis Walpole Library at (860) 677-2140 or walpole@yale.edu.

Brewer is the author or editor of 11 books. His most recent publications are "The Consumption of Culture: Word, Image, and Object in the 17th and 18th Centuries," "Rethinking Leviathan. The British and German States in Comparative Perspective" and "The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the 18th Century," which received the Wolfson Prize in History and was a National Book Critics Nominee in Criticism in 1998.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Chicago, Brewer taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Cambridge University, Yale, Harvard, the University of California at Los Angeles and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has also served as a consultant to the National Endowment of Humanities, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Gallery and the Bard Graduate Center in the Decorative Arts.

Brewer's awards include Guggenheim and J. Paul Getty fellowships. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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