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January 31, 2003|Volume 31, Number 16



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Talks

Friday, Jan. 31

"Making Short Work of Traditions: State Terror and Collective Violence in Marico, Rustenburg and Bophutatswana through the Testimony of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission"
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Seminar Rm., ISPS. John Higginson, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst. Part of the Program in Agrarian Studies.

"Trying to Be All Things to All Kids: Universal Prevention Efforts and University Collaboration in the New Haven Public Schools"
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Rm. 211, Mason Laboratory. Trey Billings and Dee Speese-Linehan, Social Development Dept., New Haven Public Schools, will deliver a lecture in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy Luncheon Series. Info.: (203) 432-9935.

"Prostitutes and Painters: Early Japanese Migrants to Shanghai in the Nineteenth Century"
Noon. Rm. 203, Luce Hall. Joshua Fogel, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara. Lunch will be provided. (Council on East Asian Studies)

"Natural Development: Toward Creation of a Code" Seminar Series
Noon. Bowers Aud., Sage Hall. Herb Bormann, emeritus prof. Info.: Colleen Murphy-Dunning, (203) 432-6570. (Hixon Center for Urban Ecology)

Human Rights Workshop
12:30-2 p.m. Rm. 128, SLB. Juan Mendez, director, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Notre Dame Law Sch. (Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights)

"The Art of Criticism: A Panel with Five Leading Book Critics"
1:30 p.m. Aud., WHC. Charles McGrath, editor, The New York Times Book Review; Francine Prose, author and book critic; Daniel Mendelsohn, contributor, New York Review of Books; Judith Shulevitz, columnist, The New York Times Book Review; and David Bromwich, prof. (Whitney Humanities Center/Yale Review of Books)

"Exemplary Women and the Uses of History in Early Twentieth Century China"
4 p.m. Rm. 203, Luce Hall. Roundtable series with Joan Judge, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara. (Council on East Asian Studies)

"Protecting Russian Wilderness and Wildlife in the Altai Mountains of Siberia"
4:15 p.m. Bowers Aud., Sage Hall. Vyacheslav Trigubovich, director, Siberian Interregional Center Zapovedniki (Center for Nature Reserve). Info.: Fred Strebeigh, (203) 432-2250 or fred.strebeigh@yale.edu.


Saturday, Feb. 1

"Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery"
Noon. BAC. A Gallery Talk tour.


Monday, Feb. 3

"The Silent Camp: Queer Resistance and the Rise of Pop Art"
4 p.m. Rm. 309, WLH. The Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies Lecture Series with Jonathan D. Katz. (Women's and Gender Studies Program/Dept. of the History of Art)

"Working with the Public"
6:30 p.m. Hastings Hall, A&A. Will Alsop. (Sch. of Architecture)


Tuesday, Feb. 4

"Helping Others Win the Game"
11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. G.M. Rm., 55 Hillhouse Ave. Kevin Johnson, president, St. HOPE Corporation. Part of the Black Business Alliance's Executive Leaders Series.

"One Day at a Time: Ordinary Peoples' Struggle"
Noon-1 p.m. Rm. 211, HGS. A brown-bag lunch series in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Speakers TBA. Open to members of the Yale community. Info.: (203) 432-0763; e-mail grad.diversity@yale.edu. (Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity/Office of Multicultural Affairs/EPH Minority Affairs Committee)

"The Jewish Diaspora in China: Past and Present"
Noon. Rm. 211, HGS. Xu Xin, director, Center for Judaic Studies; and prof., Sch. of Foreign Studies, Nanjing Univ. Lunch will be provided.

"Cassandra's Portrait of Jane Austen and its Rivals"
12:30 p.m. BAC. Art in Context talk by Ruth Yeazell, prof.

"Renaissance and Baroque Drawings: Some New Acquisitions"
2 p.m. YUAG. John Marciari, curatorial fellow.

"L'Europe des Arts: Théophile Gauthier et L'exposition Universelle de 1855"
4 p.m. Rm. 208, WHC. Marie-Hélène Girard, Univ. of Picardie, France. (French Dept.)

"Flaubert and the Scandal of Realism"
4-5 p.m. Sudler Hall, WLH. Peter Brooks presents the fourth DeVane Lecture in the series "Visions of the Real."

"American Politics after 9/11"
4 p.m. Rm. 102, LC. William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard, will deliver the Richard W. Goldman lecture.

"The Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Rail Travel"
4:15 p.m. Bowers Aud., Sage Hall. David Gunn, president and CEO, Amtrak. Part of "The Business of Sustainable Transportation" lecture series. Info.: Michelle Portlock, (203) 432-6953. (Industrial Environmental Management Program)

Master's Tea
4:30 p.m. Calhoun College master's house. Susan Stroman, director and choreographer, "The Producers."

"Abd al-Halim Hafiz, Sentimentalism and the Public Sphere in Egypt"
4:30 p.m. Rm. 207, WLH. Martin Stokes, Univ. of Chicago. (Dept. of Music)

"Who Is Black?"
7 p.m. 211 Park St. A discussion on intracultural communication and identity politics. Info.: (203) 432-4131. (Black Student Alliance)


Wednesday, Feb. 5

"A Buddhist Response to 9/11/01"
Noon. Rm. 203, Luce Hall. Sulak Sivaraksa, Harvard-Yenching Institute; co-founder, International Network of Engaged Buddhists.

"New Fuels and Process Sensors for Reducing Combustion Generated Pollution: 1. Oxygenated Hydrocarbons and the Effect of Their Molecular Structure on the Flame Composition; 2. In-Situ Combustion Measurements Using a Tunable Diode Laser and Two-Tone Frequency Modulation"
4 p.m. Rm. 211, Mason Laboratory. Murray Thomas, Univ. of Toronto. (Dept. of Chemical Engineering)

"Exporting Democracy"
4:15 p.m. Slifka Center. The Henry Kohn Lecture by Robert A. Dahl, prof.

Master's Tea
4:30 p.m. Calhoun College master's house. Justin Fox, editor-at-large, Fortune.

"Oil, Conservation, Sustainable Livelihoods in Pastoral Peoples in the Middle East"
5 p.m. Bowers Aud., Sage Hall. Dawn Chatty, deputy director, Refugee Studies Center; and prof., Oxford Univ., England. Part of the "Globalization and the Environment: International Agendas and Local Responses" series. (F&ES)


Thursday, Feb. 6

"The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutionaries"
11 a.m. BAC. Gallery Talk tour.

"Renaissance and Baroque Drawings: Some New Acquisitions"
Noon. YUAG. Gallery Talk by John Marciari, curatorial fellow.

"The 'Holocaust' from War Crime to Trauma Drama"
2:30-4:20 p.m. ISPS. Jeffrey Alexander, prof. Part of the Genocide Studies Program "Genocide Today: Fieldwork and Analysis."

"New Hydrogenation Catalysts for Polar Molecules that Deliver Hydride from a Metal and a Proton from an Electronegative Atom"
4 p.m. Rm. 160, SCL. Chuck Casey, Univ. of Wisconsin. (Dept. of Chemistry)

"Globalization and Taxation in Advanced Capitalist Countries"
4-5 p.m. Rm. 107, Williams Hall. John Campbell, Dartmouth College. Part of the Center for Comparative Research Colloquia series. Info.: www.yale.edu/ccr.

"Populism and Pioneers: S. An-sky's Heroes Learn to Read Russian"
4 p.m. Slifka Center. Gabriella Safran, Stanford Univ. (Program in Judaic Studies)

Japan and Journalism Series
4 p.m. Rm. 202, Luce Hall. Cheryl Wu Dunn, The New York Times.

"Physical and Mental Health Disparities Among Racial and Ethnic Groups"
4 p.m. Winslow Aud., LEPH. James S. Jackson, director, Center for Afro-American and African Studies; prof., Univ. of Michigan. Part of the Brigitte Prusoff Memorial Lecture Series.

"One Hand Zapping: How You Are Changing Television News and Why You Should Care"
4:30 p.m. Rm. 102, LC. Andrew Heyward, president, CBS News, and Poynter Fellow, will deliver the annual Gary Fryer Memorial Lecture. (Poynter Fellowship)

"Pitched Past Pitch of Grief: Art and Suffering"
5 p.m. Beaumont Rm., SHM. The Robert Penn Warren Lecture by Rosanna Warren, Boston Univ. (Program for Humanities in Medicine)

"The Last Train: Conducting Fieldwork in a Culture in Transition"
8 p.m. Rm. 208, WHC. Regina D'Amico, fellow, International Research and Exchanges Board; National Endowment for the Humanities. Part of the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities. Info.: Alicia Grendziszewski, (203) 785-7205 or e-mail alicia.grendziszewski@yale.edu.


Friday, Feb. 7

"Bridging Disciplines and the Theory/ Practice Divide: The Challenges and Successes of the UC/Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems"
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Seminar rm., ISPS. Carol Shennan, Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz.

"The Quality of State Funded Pre-Kindergarten Services Provided Through Faith Affiliated Programs: State and Federal Policy Implications"
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Rm. 211, Mason Laboratory. Walter Gilliam, assoc. research scientist, will deliver a lecture in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy Luncheon Series. Info.: (203) 432-9935.

"Ruling Inner Asia from Beijing"
Noon. Rm. 203, Luce Hall. New England East Asianists Series with Gray Tuttle, Trinity College. Lunch will be provided.

"Natural Development: Toward Creation of a Code" Seminar Series
Noon. Bowers Aud., Sage Hall. Speaker TBA. Info.: Colleen Murphy-Dunning, (203) 432-6570. (Hixon Center for Urban Ecology)

Human Rights Workshop
12:30-2 p.m. Rm. 128, SLB. Speaker TBA. (Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights)

"Historical Meaning, Aesthetic Significance, and the Theme of Forgiveness in Korean Literature"
4 p.m. Rm. 203, Luce Hall. Korean Studies Lecture Series with David McCann, Harvard Univ.


Saturday, Feb. 8

"Romantics and Revolutionaries"
Noon. BAC. A Gallery Talk tour.


Top of page.


T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Yale Community Unites in Grief For Victims of Tragic Accident

IN MEMORIAM

Talks, performances to mark Black History Month

Yale experts offer insights on ethical globalization

Senior to study 'directed evolution' at Cambridge as Churchill Scholar

IN FOCUS: Yale-China AIDS Education Program


Ecology & Evolutionary Biology faculty honored

News executive to discuss impact of 'One Hand Zapping'

Art gallery's history is showcased in new exhibit

Library exhibit highlights the peace movement


MEDICAL SCHOOL NEWS

English department to present staged reading of Byron drama

Dr. Stephen Fleck, noted for research on schizophrenia, dies

Conference to focus on the people and politics of the Balkan region

'Public service in Hong Kong' to be highlighted in symposium

Jonathan Spence elected president of American Historical Association

Upcoming CPTV program on the slave trade filmed during Yale event

Salute to King

Yale Books in Brief

Campus Notes


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