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"Wildlife in America" author is next Schlesinger visiting writer
Peter Matthiessen, author of "Wildlife in America," "The Snow Leopard" and "At Play in the Fields of the Lord," will visit the campus MondayWednesday, Nov. 1113, as a John-Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer.
On Monday at 4 p.m., Matthiessen will discuss his non-fiction writing in Sage Hall, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 205 Prospect St. On Tuesday at
4 p.m., he will give a public reading of his fiction at a master's tea in the common room of Davenport College, 248 York St. Both events are free and open to the public.
A 1950 graduate of Yale College, Matthiesson wrote an outdoors column for the Yale Daily News. After publication of his first two novels, he began three years of research and travel for his first non-fiction book, "Wildlife in America," a chronicle of human destruction of the natural world that is often credited with giving impetus to the modern environmental movement.
Matthiessen has won numerous awards and honors for his writing, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The John-Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund was established in 1999 by Mr. And Mrs. Richard Schlesinger of Pound Ridge, New York, in order to enrich the experience of student writers in Yale College by supporting annual visits to campus by distinguished or emerging authors. Matthiessen, in keeping with the intention of the Schlesinger family, will attend several writing classes in the English department and will meet informally with students.
Dr. Taslima Nasrin, a Bangladeshi physician and author, will visit the campus on Monday, Nov. 11, under the sponsorship of Freethought, a student association.
Dr. Nasrin will address the topic of "Growing Up Female in a Muslim World" at 4 p.m. in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Dr. Nasrin is the author of "Meyebela: My Bengali Girlhood," which was recently translated into English. She coined the word "meyebela," which means girlhood, for the title of her memoirs as an act of creative defiance. At the time, the only choices open to her in the Bengali language were an old Sanskritic expression and a common word that literally meant "boyhood." Dr. Nasrin created a word that better suited the needs of an emancipated Bengali woman. Her book describes the many restrictions placed on her early life because of her gender. She went on to become a physician, specializing in family planning and today is also a well-known author.
Dr. Nasrin first came to major world attention following the publication of her first book "Shame," which is a fictional account of Muslim violence toward a poor Hindu family.
She became known as the "female Salman Rushdie" when Muslim leaders in her homeland issued a fatwa against her, setting a $10,000 bounty on her head for statements she had made about Islam. She has lived mostly in exile since 1994, winning accolades from feminists and human rights activists around the world.
Pamela Frank, considered to be one of the world's most accomplished young violinists, will lead a master class for violinists on Tuesday, Nov. 12.
The class, which is open to the public, will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Sudler Recital Hall in William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St.
For more information contact the Yale School of Music at (203) 432-4158 or www.yale.edu/music.
Frank has established a reputation for her unusually varied range of performing activity. The breadth of her accomplishments and her level of musicianship were recognized in 1999 with the Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honors given to American instrumentalists. Last season, she toured extensively with her father, pianist Claude Frank, giving recitals in America, Japan and Europe. She has appeared with virtually every major orchestra in the United States and Europe and has performed at numerous festivals.
As a chamber musician, she works regularly with pianist Peter Serkin, Yo-Yo Ma, Tabea Zimmermann and Alexander Simionescu.
Frank has recorded the Beethoven sonata cycle with her father for MusicMasters, the Chopin Piano Trio with Emanuel Ax and the "Trout Quintet" with Yo-Yo Ma, and is featured on the soundtrack to the film "Immortal Beloved."
Frank began her violin studies at age 5 and formally launched her career when she received the Avery Fisher Career Grant
in 1988.
Christopher Cartmill will give a stage performance titled "Romantic Landscape: 'into the life of things'" on Wednesday, Nov. 13.
The event will take place at 5:15 p.m. at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. Admission to the event and the museum is free. For more information, call (203) 432-2800 or visit the website at www.yale.edu/ycba.
The event is a program of poetry and prose of the Romantic period dealing specifically with landscape and the cult of nature and will complement the center's fall exhibitions: "Romantic Watercolor: The Hickman Bacon Collection" and "The Romantic Landscape Print: 'The Chiaroscuro of Nature.'"
Cartmill's play "Incorruptible, The Life, Death and Dreams of Maximilien de Robespierre" premiered at the Bailiwick Repertory in Chicago and received a Joseph Jefferson Award for Outstanding New Work in 1990. His work "La Chasse" had a successful run in Los Angeles and received a 1997 Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding New Play. In 1999, his play "Romeo's Dream" was given a Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays.
His acting credits include Ganya in an Off-Broadway production of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot," Valmont in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" and Edmond Dantes in "The Count of Montecristo."
Cartmill has also created a series of programs for the New York Public Schools, in association with "Learning Through an Expanded Arts Program" and continues to write and perform special programs for the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Yale Center for British Art.
Ewald Kist, chair of the ING Group, will speak at the Yale School of Management's Leaders Forum on Thursday, Nov. 14.
Kist's talk will take place 11:45 a.m.
12:50 p.m. in Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is free and open to the public.
Kist is the chair of the executive board of the Amersterdam-based ING Group, which ranks among the 20 largest financial services companies in the world. ING is active in the fields of insurance, banking and asset management and has approximately 110,000 employees in 65 countries.
After serving as a lieutenant in the Dutch Army, Kist began his career as a management trainee with Nationale-Nederlanden, the largest insurance company in the Netherlands and one of the predecessor companies of the ING Group.
Throughout the years, Kist has held several management positions within the group, including a three-year term in Washington, D.C., serving as president of the group's United States insurance operations.
He is actively involved in many industry and community initiatives. He is a board member of national organizations such as the Association of Insurers, the Confederation of Dutch Employees, the Netherland's Red Cross and the National Fund for Aid to Victims. Internationally, he serves on the boards of the International Insurance Society in New York and the Peace Palace in The Hague. He is also a member of the Geneva Association.
Kist is an active sportsman and was a member of the field hockey team that competed in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico.
Reverend Michael Himes, professor of theology at Boston College, will present the annual More House lecture on Thursday, Nov. 14.
"The Sacramental Principle as the Center of Catholicism" is the title of Hime's talk, which will be given at 4:30 p.m. in the Saint Thomas More Chapel Hall, 268 Park St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Himes is the author of "Fullness of Faith: The Public Significance of Theology," with Kenneth Himes; "Johann Sebastian Drey: A Brief Introduction to the Study of Theology" (translation and introduction); associate editor of "The Harper Encyclopedia of Catholicism"; "Doing the Truth in Love: Conversations about God, Relationships and Service"; and "Ongoing Incarnation: Johann Adam Möhler and the Beginnings of Modern Ecclesiology". His classes include: "Belief in Modernity," "Sacramental Principle" and "Newman and Kierkegarrd."
In 1990 and 1991 Himes received the Most Influential Teacher Award, voted by the graduating class of the University of Notre Dame. He has won two Catholic Press Association Book Awards, one in 1994 and 1998; the Notre Dame Social Concerns Award, awarded by the Center for Social Concerns of the University of Notre Dame in 1995; The Sophia Award for Theological Excellence in Service to Ministry, awarded by the trustees and faculty of the Washington Theological Union, in 1999; and the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Outstanding Teaching, awarded by the Massachusetts Chapter (Boston College) in 2002.
The Yale Art Gallery will present a discussion about the Sacco and Vanzetti case by Patricia Klindienst, an independent scholar and writer, and Neil Thomas Proto, an attorney, writer and teacher, on Thursday, Nov. 14.
"A Conversation: Sacco and Vanzetti and the Italian American Community" is offered in conjunction with the current special exhibition "Justice on Trial: Ben Shahn's Case for Sacco and Vanzetti." The discussion, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 4 p.m. at the Yale Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St.
Klindienst has taught at Yale and Wesleyan universities and has written on feminist issues in literature. She is currently working on a book "In the Spirit of the Land" which tells the stories of immigrant, ethnic and Native Americans whose gardens help preserve and restore their cultural heritage.
Proto is an attorney in Washington, D.C. and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. He is chair of the City of New Haven Committee for the Commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. He frequently writes and lectures on the historical and legal setting of the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
"Bringing Economic, Social and Education Policy into Balance" is the topic of the next lecture in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Nov. 15.
Richard Rothstein, national educational columnist at The New York Times and research associate at Economic Policy Institute, will speak at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 211, Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave.
The talk is free and open to the public. For further information, call (203) 432-9935.
In addition to his weekly New York Times column, Rothstein's recent publications include "The Way We Were? Myths and Realities of America's Student Achievement," "Public Schools Learn from Private Schools?" and "Where's the Money Going? Changes in the Level and Composition of Education Spending."
Before Rothstein began writing his column for The New York Times in 1999, he was an adjunct professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
Heidi Jon Schmidt, author of "The Rose Thieves" and "Darling?" will be the guest at a master's tea on Thursday, Nov. 14.
Schmidt will speak at 4:30 p.m. in Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The tea is free and open to the public.
Schmidt's stories have been published in The Atlantic, Grand Street and Epoch and have won numerous awards including the Ingram Merrill and James Michener awards.
Schmidt currently teaches in a low-residency MFA program at Queens College, Charlotte, NC.
A review of her book "Darling?" on the Picador website states that Schmidt "sees everything fresh, her wit cuts straight to the hearts of characters, and finds those hearts fully, beautifully, alive. 'Darling?' marks the return of a powerfully original writer."
T H I S
Exiled physician and author
will discuss her Bengali childhood
World renowned violinist
will lead master class
Yale Center for British Art event will explore the Romantic period
Chair of the ING Group to speak in SOM Leaders Forum
Reverend and theologian
to deliver More House Lecture
'Sacco and Vanzetti' is the topic of a Yale Art Gallery discussion
New York Times columnist
will discuss education policy
Calhoun College master's tea will feature acclaimed author
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