The Reverend Peter Gomes to preach in Tercentennial event
The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and the Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University, will speak at two campus events on Sunday, Oct. 28.
He will first preach during University public worship at 11 a.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets, as part of "Preaching in the New Millennium: The Tercentennial Preaching Event." He will then be the guest at a master's tea at 1 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The public is invited to both events.
Widely regarded as one of America's most distinguished preachers, Gomes has preached and lectured throughout this country and the British Isles. In 2000 he delivered the University Sermon before the University of Cambridge in England and preached the Millennial Sermon in Canterbury Cathedral. In 1998 he presented the Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching at the Yale Divinity School. He is the author of the best-selling books "The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart" and "Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living."
The Reverend J. Bryan Hehir, chair of the executive committee of Harvard Divinity School, will present the second lecture in the series "Democracy, Security and Justice" on Sunday, Oct. 28.
He will discuss "Order, War and Terror: Establishing Moral Relationships" at 7 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets. The talk is free and open to the public.
Hehir has been head of Harvard Divinity School since 1999 and joined the faculty in 1992. He previously served in Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops and at Georgetown University. At the Conference of Bishops, he was director of the Office of International Affairs, secretary of the Department to Social Development and World Peace and counselor for social policy. At Georgetown he was the Joseph P. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics in the School of Foreign Service at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and associate vice president for church and university issues.
Norman Myers, a well-known independent scientist from England who works in the area of environment and development, will be in residence at Yale the week beginning Monday, Oct. 29.
His visit is co-sponsored by Silliman College, the Yale College Dean's Office, the Society for Conservation Biology and the Tropical Resources Institute at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES).
In addition to individual meetings with faculty and students, Myers will speak at a number of free public events. On Monday at 4 p.m. he will participate in a "Debate on Biodiversity Hotspots" with F&ES lecturer Daniel Nepstad in the rotunda of Marsh Hall, 360 Prospect St. On Wednesday at
3 p.m., Myers will present a lecture titled "Our Environmental Prospect: Time of Breakdown or Breakthrough?" in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. On Thursday at 4 p.m., Myers will be the guest of a tea in the Silliman College master's house, 41 Wall St.
Myers has worked on projects for research organizations and development agencies in more than 40 countries on a wide range of topics, including biodiversity, mass extinctions, ecosystem management, population, environmental security and new-growth economics. He has published 600 articles and 17 books.
Joel Mokyr, the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, will present the 15th annual Simon Kuznets Memorial Lectures, "The Industrial Revolution: The Continuing Paradox," on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 29 and 30.
Mokyr, who is also a professor of economics and history, will discuss "Growth and Technology in the Industrial Revolution" on Monday and "The Factory System: A Suggested Interpretation" on Tuesday. The lectures will take place 45:30 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Sponsored by the Economic Growth Center, both events are free and open to the public.
A specialist in economic history and the economics of technological and population change, Mokyr has been a member of the Northwestern faculty since 1974. He is currently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former vice president of the Economic History Association.
Elizabeth L. Anderson, president and chief executive officer of Sciences International, Inc., will discuss "The Challenge of Risk Assessment" on Tuesday, Oct. 30.
Part of the Interdisciplinary Risk Assessment Forum, Anderson will first speak at noon at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. Lunch will be provided at this meeting for those who contact Carol Pollard in advance at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu. Anderson will also present a more formal lecture at
4:30 p.m. in Rm. 608 in the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College St. The public is invited to both events.
A fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, Anderson has over 20 years of government and corporate experience in health and the environmental sciences. At the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, she established and directed the central risk assessment program for 10 years. She is currently serving a five-year term as editor-in-chief of Risk Analysis: An International Journal.
Andrew J. Hoffman, assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Boston University School of Management, will discuss "Institutional Evolution and the Diffusion of Corporate Practice: Competitive Environmental Strategy" on Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St.
The talk, sponsored by the Industrial Environmental Management program of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, is free and open to the public.
Hoffman's research deals with the nature and dynamics of change within institutional and cultural systems. He applies that research towards understanding the cultural and managerial implications of environmental protection for industry. He is the author of "Competitive Environmental Strategy: A Guide to the Changing Landscape" and "From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism," which was awarded the 2001 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science.
Louis Menand, contributing editor at The New York Review of Books and staff writer for The New Yorker, will present the Richard W. Goldman Lecture, "Pragmatism and War," on Tuesday, Oct. 30.
Sponsored by Branford College, the talk will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The public is invited to this free event.
Menand is distinguished professor of literature at City University of New York. He is the author of a number of books, including this year's "The Metaphysical Club," which charts the transformation of American intellectual thought from 1865 to 1919 and traces the emergence of "pragmatism," a distinctly American philosophy based on experience and experiment rather than fixed principles.
Samuel Sachs II, director of The Frick Collection in New York City, will present the Gordon Grand Fellowship Lecture, "The Frick That Might Have Been" on Thursday, Nov. 1.
The talk will begin at 4 p.m. in the Saybrook College master's house, 90 High St. The event is free and open to the public.
Sachs is the former director of the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Active in many other cultural and educational institutions, he is a long-time member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, of which he is past president, and chair of the Art Museum Image Consortium and UNESCO's International Committee on Fine Arts. He is a member of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Visiting Committee to the Department of Paintings Conservation.
Vincent Ilardi, professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, will speak at a Unite for Sight event on Tuesday, Oct. 30.
He will discuss "Eyeglasses in Renaissance Art" at 7 p.m. in Rm. 119 of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the community. For more information about the event or the Unite for Sight organization, send e-mail to jennifer.staple@yale.edu or visit www.uniteforsight.org.
Ilardi was a research scholar, visiting professor and adjunct professor on the Yale faculty from 1990 to 2000. Since 1976, he has collected archival documents on the history of eyeglasses from around the world and helped to prove that concave lenses for nearsightedness were in use much earlier than previously believed. He also traced the history of the telescope, which uses a combination of convex and concave lenses.
David J. Luban, the Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy at the Georgetown University Law Center, will present the 2001-2002 Irving S. Ribicoff Lecture on Professionalism and Professional Responsibility on Tuesday, Oct. 30.
His talk, "Taking out the Adversary: The Assault on Progressive Public Interest Lawyers," will begin at 7 p.m. in Levinson Auditorium in the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. Sponsored by the Law School, the lecture is free and open to the public.
A specialist in legal ethics, Luban has written or edited six books, including the casebook "Legal Ethics." He has published over 100 articles on legal and philosophical topics and delivered more than 150 talks and lectures. He previously taught at the University of Maryland, Harvard University, Dartmouth College, Kent State University, the University of Melbourne and Yale, where he was on the faculty of the School of Law and the Department of
Philosophy.
Gordon Wood, professor of history at Brown University, will deliver the fourth annual Bosworth Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 4 p.m. in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.
He will discuss the political philosophy of James Madison in a lecture titled "Is There a James Madison Problem?" Refreshments will be provided following the lecture. The event is free and open to the public.
Wood's book, "The Radicalism of the American Revolution," won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991. An earlier book, "The Creation of the American Republic 17761787," was nominated for the National Book Award. He was involved in Ken Burns' PBS documentary production on Thomas Jefferson and regularly devotes a portion of his time to teach history to high school students around the country.
Cynthia Garcia-Coll, director of the Center for the Study of Human Development and professor of education, psychology and pediatrics at Brown University, will speak in the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Nov. 2.
Her talk, titled "Parents' Involvement with Their Children's Education: Lessons from Three Immigrant Groups," will be held at noon in Rm. 211 of Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. For more information about this free public event, call (203) 432-9935.
Garcia-Coll has published over 80 articles and chapters on the socio-cultural and biological influences on early childhood development and teenage pregnancy. She has co-edited several books and has been on the editorial boards of many prestigious academic journals. She is currently a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network's "Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood" and the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Issues for the Society for Research on Child Development.
Charles Whitebread, the George T. Pfelger Professor of Law at the University of Southern California (USC), will present the Law School Dean's Lecture, "The Criminalization of the Non-Medical Use of Drugs," on Friday, Nov. 2.
The talk will take place 23:30 p.m. in Rm. 129 in the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. The public is invited to this free event.
A 1968 graduate of the Yale Law School, Whitebread is the author of "Criminal Procedure," "Children in the Legal System" and "Recent Decisions of the United States Supreme Court." In addition to his position at USC, he is a faculty member at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and a lecturer for BAR/BRI and the American Academy of Judicial Education. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 1986 and twice received the FBI's Edwin E. Erickson Award.
Dikko Faust and Esther K. Smith, owners of the Purgatory Pie Press in New York City, will discuss the craft of hand book production on Friday, Nov. 2.
Hosted by the Arts of the Book Collection at Sterling Memorial Library (SML), the talk will take place at 3:30 p.m. in SML, 120 High St. In conjunction with the lecture, on Nov. 2 there will be an exhibition of Faust and Smith's work at the Photo Art Book Art Gallery at 1044 Chapel St. For more information about these free events, contact Jae Williams at jennifer.williams@yale.edu.
In their talk, Faust and Smith will discuss their collaborative work making artists' books. Their work has been exhibited at London's Victoria Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harvard University, among other venues. Faust and Smith also teach book arts, design and letterpress at various places in New York.
Dorothy E. Smith, professor emerita in the Department of Sociology in Education at the University of Toronto, will present the Hollingshead Lecture on Friday, Nov. 2.
Titled "The Everyday, the Text and the Institution: The Feminist Groundwork of Institutional Ethnography," her lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in Rm. 119 in the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the event is free of charge and open to the public.
Considered one of the leading Marxist feminist theorists, Smith has published five books, including "Feminism and Marxism," "The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology," "Texts, Facts, and Femininity" and "Writing the Social Critique, Theory and Investigation." She previously taught at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Essex and the University of British Columbia. She is the recipient of the 1999 Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award of the American Sociological Association.
Social psychologist Joan Chittister will lead a day of prayer and reflection on "Spirituality and Prayer: Wisdom for the Rule of St. Benedict" at Saint Thomas More, 268 Park St., on Saturday, Nov. 3, 10 a.m.4 p.m.
The day will consist of two presentations by Chittister, periods of reflection and two question-and-answer sessions. All are welcome to attend, however pre-registration is required. The event is free for individuals with a valid Yale I.D.; there is a fee for others. For more information or to register, call (203) 777-5537.
A member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Chittister is the executive director of Benetvision: A Research Center for Contemporary Spirituality. She is past president of the Conference of American Benedictine Prioresses and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and is an active member of the International Committee of the Peace Council.
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Head of Harvard Divinity School to discuss 'Order, War and Terror'
Independent scientist Norman Myers to be in residence at Yale
Specialist in economic history
to present Kuznets Lectures
Former EPA executive to speak in Risk Assessment Forum
F&ES lecture to feature
organizational behavior expert
'The Metaphysical Club' author to present Goldman Lecture
Director of the Frick Collection is next Gordon Grand lecturer
History of eyeglasses is theme of Unite for Sight event
Legal ethicist to present
Ribicoff Lecture at Law School
Leading historian to discuss
philosophy of James Madison
Children's education is topic of Bush Center lecture
Non-medical drug use is topic
of Law School lecture
Library lecture to celebrate book as object of art
Institutional ethnography
is subject of sociology talk
Saint Thomas More to host
day of prayer and reflection
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Locke recalls Yale years, defends affirmative action in Chubb Lecture
Alumni to ponder intersection of law and technology
Legal scholar John Langbein is named Sterling Professor
Historian Cynthia Russett is appointed Larned Professor
Conference honors economist William Brainard
Environmental Science Center opening Oct. 26
Event to celebrate 'Cultures of Native America'
Drama school stages Chekhov's 'compassionate meditation'
Yale Opera students to perform scenes from famous operas
'Practical Logic' series opens with talk on challenge of intersexuality
Talks about Sept. 11 aftermath to focus on questions of gender
Symposium to explore 'material culture' of Colonial New York
Project teaches Head Start parents about computers, cancer
Conservation of biodiversity in China is subject of talk
Stephen Bright to speak at tea
Getting the low-down on downtown
Honoring an 'unsung hero'
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