Historian of Polynesia to address Anthropology Society
Marshall Sahlins, the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, will address the Yale Anthropology Society on Monday, April 29.
He will present a talk titled "Culture and Agency in History" at 7:30 p.m. in Rm. 119 of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. Rebecca Hardin, a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, will deliver closing remarks. The event is free and open to the public.
Sahlins has written extensively as an ethnographer and historian of Polynesia. His theories about the history of European contact in Polynesia have sparked major anthropological debates. His numerous books include "How 'Natives' Think: About Captain Cook, For Example," "Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Vols. I and II," "Islands of History," "Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom," "Culture and Practical Reason" and "Stone Age Economics."
Sahlins is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the British Academy, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. He is presently conducting research on the intersection of culture and history, especially in early-modern Pacific society.
For more information about the event, send e-mail to jennifer.staple@yale.edu or visit the group's website at www.geocities.com/yaleanthro/index.html.
Coralie Bryant, professor and director of the Economic and Political Development Program at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, will discuss "Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs" on Tuesday, April 30.
Sponsored by the Program on Non-Profit Organizations and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), the talk will take place noon1:30 p.m. in the basement of ISPS, 77 Prospect St. For more information or to reserve a lunch, call (203) 432-6297 or e-mail ponpo@yale.edu.
In her talk, Bryant will discuss the process and content of the book "Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs." She will summarize some of the salient points made in the book, especially in regard to poverty reduction and relief and emergency work, then talk about a recent meeting of NGO leaders. At the meeting, the leaders reflected upon their work in Afghanistan and voiced their opinion that longer-term commitment to global poverty reduction needed to be placed back on the public agenda.
Before joining Columbia, Bryant was a senior institutional specialist at the World Bank, where she worked in Latin American operations, Africa operations and the strategic planning department. Prior to that, she was a senior fellow at the Overseas Development Council, where she worked on Southern African issues and published the book "Poverty, Policy and Food Security in Southern Africa." Her research and consulting work focuses on institutional assessment, facilitating participatory processes in development programs, and poverty reduction and its relationship to peace building.
Scott D. Ballin, a tobacco and health policy consultant based in Washington, D.C., will present a talk titled "Tobacco: Abolition vs. Reduced Risk" on Wednesday, May 1.
He will speak at noon at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St., and again at 4 p.m. at a location to be announced. For more information or to reserve a lunch for the noon meeting, call Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or send e-mail to carol.pollard@yale.edu. The public is invited to both lectures.
In his talk, Ballin will propose that instead of attacking the tobacco industry, the public health community should focus on what its original goals were: reducing disease and death from tobacco use. Some of the questions he will raise include: If the premise that tobacco is to remain legal is accepted, how can risk reduction concepts be applied? How can adequate warnings and controls be provided while at the same time differentiating the relative risks of products on the markets?
Ballin has 25 years of experience in legislative and regulatory affairs related primarily to health. From 1983 to 1997 he was vice president and legislative counsel of the American Heart Association's Office of Public Affairs/Public Advocacy. In this role, he chaired the steering committee of the Coalition on Smoking OR Health, provided testimony to Congressional committees as well as to federal regulatory agencies, and represented the association on the CBS, NBC and ABC morning and evening news shows.
Claire Van Vliet, printmaker and publisher of limited edition artist's books, will present a slide lecture, "My Life in Letterpress," followed by a show-and-tell at
8 p.m. on Thursday, May 2, in Rose Alumni House, 232 York St.
The public is invited to this free event.
Van Vliet is the proprietor of the Janus Press in Newark, Vermont. Founded in 1955, Janus' publications number approximately 100. Many have been designed, illustrated, typeset, printed (sometimes on paper made by the artist) and bound by Van Vliet herself.
Van Vliet served printing apprenticeships at a newspaper in Oberursel/Taunus, Germany, and the Pickering Press in Maple Shade, New Jersey. She has been an artist in residence and lecturer throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain and New Zealand. Primarily a publisher of first edition poetry, she illustrated several Franz Kafka texts in the 1960s. In the 1970s she pioneered the use of colored paper pulps for book illustration, and more recently she developed a variety of distinctive non-adhesive book structures.
Van Vliet has created a significant body of watercolors, drawings, etchings, lithographs, woodcuts and paperworks. Her primary subject in these works on paper has been the Vermont landscape. However, her landscape interest expanded to include the American Southwest after receiving the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship Award in 1969. Her work has been the subject of about 40 solo exhibitions in the United States, Canada and Scandinavia.
Adriaan Bax, chief of the Section on Biophysical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will receive the John Gamble Kirkwood Medal for 2002 and present the Kirkwood Lecture on Friday, May 3.
The lecture, "Liquid Crystalline Media Offer New Opportunities in NMR Structure Determination," will be given at 4 p.m. in Rm. 110 of Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, 225 Prospect St. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m.
Bax received his Ph.D. from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. After post-doctoral work in solid-state NMR at Colorado State University, Bax joined the NIH, where he has since been working on the development and application of NMR techniques to biochemical problems.
His numerous awards include the Gold Medal of the Dutch Chemical Society, and the E. Bright Wilson, Hillebrand and Remsen awards from the American Chemical Society. In 1992 Bax was named the "World's Most Cited Chemist" by the Institute for Scientific Information, based on the number of citations made to his papers published between 1984 and 1991.
The Kirkwood Medal, jointly supported by the New Haven section of the American Chemical Society and Yale's Department of Chemistry, is conferred for "outstanding research contributions, theoretical or experimental, in the physical sciences."
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