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Friday, Feb. 28

"New Threat to North American Hardwood Forests? Strategies for Increasing Awareness and Education Within the Forestry Community About the Potential Impact of Exotic Wood-Boring Insects on Forest Ecosystems and Forest-Based Economies"
8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Marsh Hall. Workshop. Registration: Page Bertelson, (203) 432-5117 or yff@yale.edu.

"Village Territories: The Delimitation of Locality in Twentieth-Century Central Africa"
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Seminar rm., ISPS. Achim von Oppen, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. (Program in Agrarian Studies)

"The Role of the Juvenile Court in the Child Welfare System"
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Rm. 211, Mason Laboratory. Carmen L. Lopez, judge, Child Protection Session, Superior Court. Info.: (203) 432-9935. (Yale Center for Child Development and Social Policy)

"Determinants of Land-Use Change in the United States, 1982-1997"
Noon-1 p.m. Bowers Aud., Sage Hall. Ruben Lubowski, United States Dept. of Agriculture. Part of the "Natural Developments: Towards Certification of a Code" series.

Human Rights Workshop
12:30-2 p.m. Faculty lounge, SLB. Molly Beutz, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, and Eric Friedman, Physicians for Human Rights. (Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights)

"Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan: Theater, Gender and Nationalism"
4 p.m. Rm. 217A, HGS. Ayako Kano, Univ. of Pennsylvania. (Council on East Asian Studies)

Pre-Concert Conversation
7 p.m. Rm. 403, Leigh Hall, 435 College St. Conversation with Yale Philharmonia Orchestra conductor Peter Oundjian. Concert follows at 8 p.m in Woolsey Hall.

Saturday, March 1

"The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions"
Noon. BAC. A Gallery Talk tour.

Sunday, March 2

Catholic Faculty Series: "Life as a Scholar and as a Believer"
6 p.m. Saint Thomas More Chapel Hall. Dinner discussion with Mary Tyrrell.

Monday, March 3

Political Economy Workshop
Noon. Rm. 203, Luce Hall. Kathy Bawn, Univ. of California at Los Angeles.

Henry Adams Colloquium
4 p.m. & 8 p.m. Rm. 208, WHC. Dean Richard Brodhead will chair the first panel on "The Education of Henry Adams"; Prof. Ruth Yeazell will chair the second panel on "The Humanities of Henry Adams."

"Semmelweis Redux; Trying Again to Figure Him Out"
4:30 p.m. Fulton Rm., SHM. Dr. Sherwin Nuland. (Program in History of Medicine and Science)

"Understanding the Mechanisms of Plasma Processing by Exploring the Chemistry of the Plasma-Surface Interface"
4:30 p.m. Rm. 253, SCL. Ellen Fisher, Colorado State Univ. (Dept. of Chemistry)

"Women at the Center or Margin?: The Female Choruses of Greek Tragedy"
4:30-6 p.m. Rm. 309, WLH. Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Hamilton College, with Prof. Margaret Homans, respondent.

"NGO Advocacy at the United Nations: How Do Outside Groups Work to Set the U.N. Agenda?"
4:30-6:20 p.m. Rm. 103, LEPH. Catherine Dumait Harper, Doctors without Borders.

"When Jews, Italians, Greeks and Slaves Belonged to Races Different from 'We, the People': Race, Class and National Identity in Immigration Law and Policy, 1882-1924"
4:30 p.m. Faculty lounge, SLB. Legal History Forum with William Forbath, Univ. of Texas, Austin.

Tuesday, March 4

"A Clash of Titans: Waterloo in British Culture"
12:30 p.m. BAC. Elisa Milkes, Horace Mann Sch.

Political Theory Workshop
12:15-1:45 p.m. ISPS. Kenneth Baynes, SUNY, Stony Brook.

"Pop Art of the Sixties: Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein"
2 p.m. YUAG. Gallery Talk by Jess Atwood- Gibson.

"Seafaring, Narrative and Know-How"
4 p.m. 3rd floor, Romance Languages Lounge, 82-90 Wall St. Margaret Cohen, New York Univ. (French Dept.)

Journalism and Japan Speaker Series
4 p.m. Rm. 202, Luce Hall. Jun Okumura, president, The Japan External Trade Organization, and Calvin Sims, New York Times correspondent and fellow, Council on Foreign Relations.

"Henry Adams: The Historian as Novelist?"
4 p.m. Aud., WHC. Gary L. Wills, historian, will deliver the first of two Tanner Lectures on Human Values. The lecture will focus on Adams' book "Democracy." Reception will follow in Rm. 108. Info.: Manana Sikic, (203) 432-0673 or manana.sikic@yale.edu.

"Culture and Politics--My Discovery of Taipei"
4:30 p.m. Aud., Luce Hall. Lung Yingtai, writer, critic and former commissioner, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government.

"Zola's Combustion Chamber"
4-5 p.m. Rm. 102, LC. Prof. Peter Brooks presents the eighth DeVane Lecture in the series "Visions of the Real."

"The Cult of Saints"
5:30 p.m. BAC. Paul Binski, Univ. of Cambridge, will deliver the third of four Paul Mellon Lectures.

Wednesday, March 5

"Chewong (Peninsular Malaysia) Concepts of Living Things: Neo-animism and 'Primitive Religions'"
Noon. Rm. 203, Luce Hall. Signe Howell, Univ. of Olso, Norway.

"The Case for Expanded HIV Testing in the Era of Effective Therapy"
Noon. CIRA, 40 Temple St. Center for Interdisclipinary Research on AIDS Bioethics Workshop with Prof. David Paltiel.

"The Role of the International Marketplace in Shaping Forest Policy"
2:30-3:30 p.m. Marsh Hall. Linda Coady, World Wildlife Fund, and Tamara Stark, Greenpeace Forest Campaign, Canada. Part of the "Sustainable Forest Policy and Certification" seminar series.

"Why Cézanne Matters"
3:45 p.m. YUAG. Prof. Karsten Harries. Part of the series "Object Lessons."

"Developing Direct-Oxidation, Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells"
4 p.m. Rm. 211, Mason Laboratory. Barnett F. Dodge Lecture by Ray Gorte, Univ. of Pennsylvania. Reception at 3:15 p.m. (Dept. of Chemical Engineering)

Political Science and European Studies Post Communist Workshop
4 p.m. Rm. 119, 8 Prospect Place. Jan Gross, New York Univ.

"Balancing Kinetic and Thermodynamic Control: The Mechanism of Squalene Cyclase from Combined QM/MM Simulations"
4 p.m. Rm. 160, SCL. Jiali Gao, Univ. of Minnesota. (Dept. of Chemistry)

"Henry Adams: The Historian as Novelist?"
4 p.m. Aud., WHC. Gary L. Wills, historian, will deliver the second of two Tanner Lectures on Human Values. The lecture will focus on Adams' book "Esther." Reception will follow in Rm. 108. Info.: Manana Sikic, (203) 432-0673 or manana.sikic@yale.edu.

"Better Health through Information Technology"
4:15 p.m. Rm. 110, CSS. Dr. Robert H. Friedman, Boston Univ.; and chief, Medical Information Systems Unit, Boston Medical Center. Info. and reservations: Carol Pollard, (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu. (Ethics and Technology/Health Behaviors/Health Behaviors & Lifestyles working research groups)

"La Lucha de las Mujeres Retornadas de Guatemala, por la Tierra en el Contexto Global"
4:30 p.m. Luce Hall. Latin American and Iberian Studies special presentation. Info.: www.yale.edu/las/news.

"The New Logic of Global Environmental Governance"
5 p.m. Bowers Aud., Sage Hall. Ann Florini, The Brookings Institution. Part of "Globalization and the Environmental: International Agendas and Local Responses." Info.: Amy Doolittle, (203) 432-3660.

Thursday, March 6

"Process Art of the Sixties: Eva Hesse and Robert Morris"
Noon. YUAG. Gallery Talk by Jess Atwood-Gibson.

African Studies Brown-Bag Lunch
Noon. Rm. 203, Luce Hall. Sharon Jackson.

"The Effects of the G.I. Bill for Civic Membership Among the World War II Generation"
Noon-1:30 p.m. ISPS. Politics of Public Policy Seminar with Suzanne Mettler, Cornell Univ.

Genocide Studies Program Seminar Series
2:30-4:20 p.m. ISPS. Tom Cushman, Wellesley College.

"Art of the Han Dynasty and Engraved Stone Reliefs"
4 p.m. Rm. 202, Luce Hall. Xin Lixiang, National Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, and Jiang Yingju, Shandong Provincial Committee of Specialists in Cultural Properties and Chinese Association for the Study of Han Dynasty Pictorial Art, Jinan, Shangdong. Lecture will be in Mandarin Chinese.

"In Bed with Proust"
4 p.m. Rm. 309, WLH. Diana Fuss.

"Transition from Youth to Adulthood in a Globalizing World: Results from the GLOBALIFE Project"
4-5:30 p.m. Rm. 107, Williams Hall. Hans-Peter Blossfeld.

"Neorealism Revisited"
4 p.m. Romance Languages Lounge, 82-90 Wall St. Francesco Casetti, Milan. (Italian Dept.)

"Politics, Culture and the Arts"
4:15 p.m. Rm. 203, Luce Hall. African Studies Colloquium Series with Bantu Mwaura.

Berlioz Bicentennial Celebration
4:15 p.m. BRBL. Lecture by Peter Bloom, Smith College. A concert will follow at 5:15 p.m.

"Sources of Stability and Instability in Central Asia"
4:30 p.m. Rm. 103, Luce Hall. Prof. Pauline Jones-Luong. (International Security Studies)

"Inviting the Viewer: Aspect of Visuality in Late Classical Greek Art"
4:30 p.m. Rm. 407, PH. Katharina Lorenz, Justus. (Dept. of Classics)

"Restorative Gardens: The Healing Landscape"
5 p.m. Beaumont Rm., SHM. Dr. Richard E. Kaufman, author. Part of the Program for Humanities in Medicine lecture series.

"Gothic Expressivities"
5:30 p.m. BAC. Paul Binski, Univ. of Cambridge, will deliver the fourth of four Paul Mellon Lectures.

"How Does Music Mean? What's It Good For?"
8 p.m. Rm. 208, WHC. Dr. Gilbert Rose. Reception at 7 p.m. in Rm. 108. For info. or to R.S.V.P. for reception: Alicia Grendziszewski at (203) 785-7205 or alicia.grendziszewski@yale.edu. (Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities)

Friday, March 7

"CANDID: The Creation, Adoption, Negation and Distortion of Ideas in Development"
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Seminar Rm., ISPS. Desmond McNeill, Centre for Development and the Environment, Univ. of Oslo, Norway. (Program in Agrarian Studies)

"Sustainable Hydrology--Foundation for Effective Green Site Design"
Noon. Bowers Aud., Sage Hall. Wendi Goldsmith, The Bioengineering Group, Inc.

"The 'Missional Church': Learning About the Conversion of the Church in North America"
12:30 p.m. OMSC, 490 Prospect St. Darrell L. Guder, Princeton Theological Seminary. Bring a lunch at 12:15; coffee will be provided. (Overseas Ministries Study Center)

Saturday, March 8

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

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Noted historian Garry Wills will deliver the Tanner Lectures

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Parents show no risk of heart attack when witnessing children's surgeries

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