Eldest shaman of Incan
descendants to visit campus
Don Manuel Quispé, the eldest of the shamans of the Q'ero, the direct descendants of the Inca, will speak at the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St., 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 1.
Despite the risk to his personal health -- he is 97 years old and suffers from emphysema -- Quispé is traveling to meet with the medicine people of his lineage who are living in the United States. In addition to New Haven, he will visit Providence, New York City, Chicago and Seattle. He will be accompanied by his apprentice and translator, Porfilio Sequeiros.
Quispé's visit to the Yale campus is sponsored by the Vanishing Cultures Foundation, Inc. (VCF), a U.S. nonprofit organization supporting the indigenous people of Peru in the preservation of their spiritual lineage and economic development. Denise Kinch, founder and president of the VCF, will narrate a slide presentation of VCF's work in the Andes.
For more information about this event, contact Cynthia R. Savo of the VCF at cynsavo@ix.netcom.com or visit the organization's website at www.vanishingcultures.com.
Thu En Yu, principal of Sabah Theological Seminary in Malaysia, will discuss "Christian Theological Training in a Muslim Context: The Case of Sabah Seminary in Malaysia" at the Overseas Ministries Study Center, 490 Prospect St., on Tuesday,
April 2.
In his discussion, Thu, an advocate of contexualized theological education, will pay particular attention to the implementation of a "theology of neighborhood" in the multi-religious, multi-ethnic Southeast Asian region. The talk will begin at
7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a discussion period with refreshments. The event is free and open to the public.
Thu is the author of "The Experience of Violence and the Call to Mission: An Asian Perspective," a report of the Lutheran World Federation, Department for Mission and Development, and "Christian Reflections Within an Emerging Industrialized Society."
For more information, call (203) 624-6672 or visit www.omsc.org.
Gary Machlis, visiting chief social scientist for the U.S. National Park Service, will present the seventh lecture in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Distinguished Lecture series, "The Restoration Agenda: Environmental Justice," on Wednesday, April 3.
Titled "Land Matters: Wilderness in Modern America," the talk will take place 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Those who attend are invited to bring a brown bag lunch; refreshments will be served.
Machlis is also professor of forest resources and sociology at the University of Idaho and adjunct professor of public policy and urban affairs at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His research interests center on the integration of biological and social sciences, the anthropogenic factors influencing biodiversity loss, and social change in western resource-dependent communities. He received his Ph.D. in human ecology from Yale in 1979.
Machlis has conducted sociological studies in over 120 U.S. national parks. In 1996 his research program received a Hammer Award from Vice President Gore for its role in improving efficiency in government. Also active in international conservation, Machlis is a member of the IUCN's Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. He was recently elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to serve as member-at-large for the Section on Social, Economic and Political Sciences.
The public is welcome to attend the lecture. For more information, contact Gordon Geballe at (203) 432-5122 or Colleen Murphy-Dunning at (203) 432-6570.
William H. Farland, acting deputy assistant administrator for science of the Office of Research and Development of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., will speak at two events on Wednesday, April 3, as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies' (ISPS) Interdisciplinary Risk Assessment Forum.
He will first lead a forum on the topic "Risk Assessment: The Regulatory Perspectives of the Environmental Protection Agency" at noon at ISPS, 77 Prospect St. He will then present a formal public lecture at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. 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.
Farland is also director of the EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment, which has major responsibility for the conduct of chemical specific risk assessments in support of EPA regulatory programs, the development of agency-wide guidance on risk assessment and the conduct of research to improve risk assessment. He previously served as director of the Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, director of the Carcinogen Assessment Group, acting director of the Reproductive Effects Assessment Group and health scientist in the EPA's office of Toxic Substances.
Throughout his career, Farland has been committed to the development of national and international approaches to the testing and assessment of the fate and effects of environmental agents. He currently leads the agency's multi-year effort to reassess dioxin and related compounds.
Andrea Alstrup, corporate vice president of advertising for Johnson & Johnson, will speak at a master's tea as a Gordon Grand Fellow on Thursday, April 4.
She will present a talk on the topic "The Johnson & Johnson Trustmark" at 4 p.m. in the Saybrook College master's house, 90 High St. The event is free and open to the public.
Alstrup began her career at Johnson & Johnson in 1964 as a secretary. She has been vice president of advertising since 1994 and became corporate vice president in 2000 when she was elected to the board of officers. She is responsible for the management of the corporation's School of Advertising and Worldwide Advertising Group, and oversees the Global Advertising Alliance Team. She is also the president of Raritan Advertising, Inc., the in-house advertising agency.
Alstrup serves on the board of directors of the American Advertising Federation and as vice chair on the executive committee for the Ad Council. She was re-elected to the board of directors of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) in 2000. She also led the formation of the Forum for Family Friendly Programming and co-chairs that initiative through the auspices of the ANA.
A member of Advertising Women of New York, Alstrup was named 1998 Advertising Woman of the Year. Her other awards include the Tribute to Women and Industry Award, Maxwell Dane Award for Humanitarian Excellence, Ann Vanderbilt Award for Achievement and the Matrix Award. Within Johnson & Johnson, Alstrup is a member of the Corporate Philanthropy and Women's Leadership Initiative Committees.
Shanny Peer, director of education programs at the French-American Foundation (FAF) in New York City, will speak in the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday,
April 5.
Her talk was originally scheduled to take place on Sept. 28.
Titled "Ecole maternelle: French Pre-kindergarten Offers Lessons for the U.S.," the lecture will begin 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.
Over the past 12 years, the FAF has sent teams of Americans to France to look at the French systems of child care, maternal and child health, and preschool. In 1999, the foundation sent 15 Americans on a study tour of the French pre-kindergarten system. Afterwards, a report was published with the title "A Welcome for Every Child III: Ready to Learn: The French System of Early Education and Care Offers Lessons for the United States."
Jennifer Ferenstein, president of the Sierra Club, will address the Yale Political Union on Tuesday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Davies Auditorium, 15 Prospect St.
Ferenstein will speak on the topic "Resolved: National Security Depends on Reducing Reliance on Fossil Fuels." A debate on the resolution will follow.
The Sierra Club is America's oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization, and Ferenstein is the youngest woman to be elected its president since it was founded in 1892. Her goal is to define the Sierra Club as a proactive, solution-oriented organization.
A biologist by training, Ferenstein has considerable experience on western issues. She has focused her efforts on saving the last wild forests, protecting human health and the environment from factory farm pollution, and passing the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act. She is working to promote the Sierra Club's priorities of environmental justice, fair trade and energy issues.
For more information about this event, send e-mail to steven.prohaska@yale.edu or visit www.yale.edu/ypu. To speak on one side of the resolution during the debate, send e-mail to lauren.mutti@yale.edu.
David A. Kerr, director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, will speak on "Contemporary British Discussion of Christian-Muslim Relations" at the Overseas Ministries Study Center (OMSC), 490 Prospect St., on Friday, April 5.
The talk will begin at 12:30 p.m. Those who attend are invited to bring a light lunch at 12:15 p.m.; coffee will be served. There is no admission charge and the public is welcome. For information about OMSC-sponsored events, call (203) 664-6672 or visit www.omsc.org.
Kerr previously served as director of the Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut, and of the Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Selly Oak Colleges in Birmingham, England. A contributing editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research, he will review aspects of the public debate about Islam and Christian-Muslim relations since Sept. 11 with reference to a seminar convened in Lambeth Palace by the prime minister and archbishop of Canterbury.
Jamie Williams, the state director of the Nature Conservancy of Montana, will discuss "Conserving Nature at Scale: A Montana Perspective" on Monday, April 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St.
The talk is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the Western Resources Student Interest Group at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES) and the Office of Alumni/ae Affairs. A reception will follow the talk in Sage Lounge.
Williams is responsible for overseeing all of the Nature Conservancy's conservation, fundraising, communication and administrative activity in Montana. He is leading a $32 million campaign that has resulted in the decentralization of the chapter into six community-based programs to protect Montana's largest, most intact landscapes. So far, 104,000 acres of habitat have been preserved.
Prior to joining the Montana program, Williams was the northwest Colorado program manager 1992-1998 for the Nature Conservancy. Under his leadership, the program acquired the Carpenter Ranch and developed a valley-wide collaborative conservation project resulting in a $6 million state grant for conservation of the Yampa River.
Williams received his master's degree in environmental studies and his bachelor's degree from Yale, where he co-founded the Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trips program in 1985. He also is a former wilderness instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School in Landers, Wyoming.
For more information, contact Kath Schomaker at (203) 432-5108 or alumni.fes@yale.edu.
Dr. John M. Neff, professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, will present the 11th annual Dorothy M. Horstmann Lecture, "Smallpox: An Old Rogue Here Again?" on Wednesday, April 3.
The lecture is presented as part of the Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds series and is co-sponsored by the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the School of Medicine. It will take place at noon in Fitkin Amphitheatre at the School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The event is free and open to the public.
In addition to being professor of pediatrics, Neff is an adjunct professor of health services at the University of Washington's School of Public Health. He is also the director of the Center on Children with Special Needs at the Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle.
Neff's recent research has focused on the care of children with chronic health conditions. He has also authored numerous articles on smallpox and smallpox vaccination. In 1999 he received the Special Achievement Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics "for his efforts to improve the care and services to children with special health care needs in the state of Washington and the nation."
Dr. Dorothy Horstmann (1911-2001) was the first woman appointed as a professor at the School of Medicine. She was a researcher who made significant contributions to science, education and public health, particularly regarding polio and rubella.
Jocelyn Dow, a member of the United Nations Secretary-General's Panel of Eminent Persons for the World Summit on Sustainable Development taking place in Johannesburg this coming September, will discuss "Rio to Johannesburg: The Path to a Fairer World?" on Wednesday, April 3.
Her talk, sponsored by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, will begin at 3 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St.
Dow is a well-known non-governmental organization leader and activist and is president of the Women's Environment and Development Organization, a multinational advocacy organization that seeks to increase the power of women as policymakers worldwide. She is a founding member of Red Thread, a women's sustainable development collective in Guyana. She has served as a board member of the Caribbean Conservation Association and as a member of the Guyana Elections Commission and of the External Gender Consultative Group of the World Bank.
As a businesswoman, Dow is committed to environmentally and socially sound development. Her furniture company, Liana Cane Interiors, is based on the sustainable use of non-timber forest products.
For more information about this talk, contact Kathleen McAfee at (203) 432-3736.
Laura M. Cha, vice chair of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), will lead an informal discussion on "Current Capital Market Reform in China" on Wednesday, April 3.
The talk will take place at 3:15 p.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave., and is sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, the School of Management and the Asia Law Forum. Refreshments will be served at the event.
Cha was appointed to her post by the State Council of the Peoples' Republic of China in February 2001, becoming the first person outside mainland China to join the Chinese government at the vice-ministerial level. Educated in the United States, Cha previously practiced as an attorney in San Francisco and in Hong Kong. As an attorney, she advised many multinational corporations on their investment in China, including the earliest joint ventures of Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Proctor & Gamble, among others.
Cha joined the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong in 1991 as an assistant director of corporate finance. She became executive director in 1994 and headed the corporate finance division for five years before being appointed deputy chair in 1998.
At the CSRC, Cha is in charge of the public offers, listed companies and fund management departments. She is a council member of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is a former member of the Committee of 100 in the United States.
For more information, call (203) 432-3426.
Humorist David Sedaris will launch his spring reading tour in Woolsey Hall, corner of College and Grove streets, on Tuesday, April 2, at 8 p.m. as part of the Yale Repertory Theatre's Special Events Series.
Sedaris is the author of the bestsellers "Barrel Fever," "Holidays on Ice," "Naked" and most recently "Me Talk Pretty One Day," which is on The New York Times list for best-selling paperback nonfiction. In addition to sharing his stories, Sedaris will answer questions from the audience and sign copies of his books.
Famous for his commentaries on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition," Sedaris has been described as "hilarious and insightful" by The Wall Street Journal and "one of America's finest humorists" by The Boston Post. The New York Times wrote, "[Sedaris is] a writer who is capable not only of being funny, but touching, even tender, too."
In September 2001, Sedaris became the third recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. "Me Talk Pretty One Day" has recently been optioned for production by film director Wayne Wang.
Single tickets for the event are on sale and range in price from $15 to $25, with discounts for students, seniors and Yale Rep subscribers. To order tickets or for more information, visit www.yalerep.org or call the Yale Repertory Theatre box office at (203) 432-1234, 10 a.m.-
5 p.m., Monday-Saturday.
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