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World-renowned conductor
to give Walpole Library Lecture
The 10th Annual Lewis Walpole Library Lecture on Tuesday, April 8, will feature Nicholas McGegan, music director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (PBO).
McGegan will present his lecture, titled "Mr. Handel Puts on An Opera" at 5 p.m. in the McNeil Lecture Hall, Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. A reception will follow the lecture at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, corner of Wall and High streets. The lecture and reception are free and open the public. For more information, call (860) 677-2140 or e-mail walpole@yale.edu.
Considered to be one of the world's leading authorities on baroque and classical music, McGegan is also well known for his knowledge of modern and period-instrument orchestras, and has guest-conducted for international orchestras and opera companies around the world.
His repertoire includes baroque masters such as Handel, Rameau and Vivaldi, as well as Mozart and the complete symphonies of Beethoven.
During his tenure with the San Francisco-based PBO, it has become one of the leading original instrument orchestras in the United States.
In 1999, McGegan conducted the PBO in the orchestra's European debut in Germany's International Handel Festival Göttingen.
McGegan and the PBO have made more than 30 recordings together, including the world-premiere recording of Handel's "Susanna," which received a Gramaphone Award.
In addition to his position at the PBO, McGegan also directs the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; is the founder and director of the chamber music ensemble, The Arcadian Academy; serves as the musical director of the Irish Chamber Orchestra; and since 1990 has been the artistic director of the International Handel Festival Göttingen.
Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's Magazine, will be the guest at a master's tea on Tuesday, April 8.
Lapham will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The talk is free and open to the public.
A 1956 graduate of Yale College, Lapham began his career as a journalist when he joined the staff of the San Francisco Examiner in 1957. He has been the editor of Harper's Magazine since 1976.
Lapham, who writes a monthly essay titled "Notebook" for Harper's, was honored with a 1995 National Magazine Award for three of his essays. In a statement about the award, Lapham was described as having "an exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity."
Lapham has published several books of essays; his most recent, "Theater of War," was published in 2002.
Lapham has been a frequent contributor to numerous national magazines and newspapers.
He was the host and author of the six-part documentary series "America's Century," which was broadcast in 1989 on public television in the United States and in England. From 1989 to 1991, he was the host and executive editor of "Bookmark," a weekly public television series that was broadcast on over 150 stations nationwide.
"From Mythology to History: A Journey to the End of the Millennium" is the title of lecture to be given on Tuesday, April 8, by the novelist Abraham B. Yehoshua.
Sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Whitney Humanities Center as part of their Literary Arts and Archives Series, Yehoshua's talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St. The lecture is free and the public is invited to attend. For more information, contact Manana Sikic at (203) 432-0673 or manana.sikic@yale.edu.
A native of Jerusalem, Yehoshua served as a parachutist in the Israeli army from 1954 to 1957.
From 19631967 he served in Paris as the general secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students. Since 1972 he has been a professor of comparative and Hebrew literature on the faculty of Haifa University.
The author of more than a dozen books, Yehoshua's works have been translated into 22 languages and many of his novellas and short stories have been adapted to television and films.
Yehoshua has been awarded numerous prizes, including the American Prize for the Best Jewish Book in 1990, the Booker Prize in 1992, and the Koret Prize in 1993.
A visiting professor at a number of universities, including Harvard and Princeton, he is also an activist in the Israeli peace movement.
"The Global Compact: A Global Experiment in the Possibilities of Cooperation" is the title of a talk to be given on Wednesday, April 9, by Georg Kell, executive head of The Global Compact Office, and Nancy Nielsen, senior director of International Alliances for Pfizer.
Kell and Nielsen will speak from 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Rm. A-60 at the School of Management, 135 Prospect St. The talk is free and open to members of the Yale community.
The United Nations Global Impact is an initiative that was developed to involve the business sector in promoting universal values in the areas of labor, human rights and the environment.
In his current position, Kell oversees a network that includes several hundred companies, international labor, non-governmental organizations and other civil society groups. He was one of the chief architects of The Global Compact initiative, launched by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2000 to promote good corporate citizenship and responsible globalization.
Kell joined the executive office of the secretary-general in 1997 as a senior officer responsible for fostering cooperation with the private sector to advance broad United Nations objectives.
Nielsen, who earned her MBA from the Yale School of Management, leads Pfizer's global cross-divisional team on corporate social responsibility. She led the campaign to promote the signing of the United Nations Global Compact by Pfizer.
Considered to be the world's largest pharmaceutical company, Pfizer is the first U.S. pharmaceutical company and the largest overall U.S. company to sign the agreement.
Artist Alex Katz will give a talk in the Contemporary Artists Lecture Series on Thursday, April 10.
"The Myth of Genius" is the subject of Katz's talk, which will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Katz is considered to be one of the most important American artists to have emerged since 1950. His work is comprised primarily of large portraits that combine aspects of abstraction and realism. This "abstraction" takes the form of flatly painted, oversized heads, which make his paintings immediately recognizable.
His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide and is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Hirshhorn Museum and National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Art Institute in Chicago. A painting and numerous works on paper are in the Yale University Art Gallery's collection.
Charles Benbrook of Benbrook Consulting Services will speak to the Genetically-Modified Plant Working Research Group on Tuesday, April 8.
Benbrook will speak on the topic of "Agrobiotechnology and Impact on Environment," 35 p.m. at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. The Working Research Group is part of the Bioethics Program. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Prior to founding his consulting firm in 1990, Benbrook worked on agricultural policy, science and regulatory issues from 1979 to 1997 in Washington, D.C., and served as the agricultural expert on the Council for Environmental Quality during the Carter administration.
He was the executive director of the Subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture and had jurisdiction over pesticide regulation, research, trade and foreign agricultural issues.
Benbrook was recruited to the position of executive director of the Board on Agriculture of the National Academy of Sciences in 1984 and served in that position for seven years.
He began to focus his research on biotechnology in the early 1990s, and in 1998 he developed Ag BioTech InfoNet, which is one of Internet's most extensive independent sources of technical, policy and economic information on biotechnology.
Cynthia Minkovitz, associate professor, and Bernard Guyer, the Krieger Professor and chair of the Department of Population and Family Health Services at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, will deliver the next lecture in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, April 11.
Dr. Minkovitz and Dr. Guyer will speak on "A New Type of Pediatric Practice: Findings from the 3-Year Assessment of Healthy Steps" from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Rm. 211 of Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information, call (203) 432-9935.
The Healthy Steps for Young Children Program is a national child health initiative that focuses on the importance of the first three years of life. It emphasizes the need for a close relationship between health care professionals and parents in addressing the physical, emotional and intellectual growth and development of young children.
The program utilizes "Healthy Steps Specialists" who are members of the team who have specialized training in child development.
Minkovitz's research focuses on the delivery of preventive services to children, understanding and improving the behavior of health care providers, and understanding how women's health and their multiple roles in society impact children's access to health care.
Guyer's research concentrates on low birth weight and infant mortality, the assessment of primary health care systems, and childhood injury and injury prevention.
Guyer is the principal investigator on the national evaluation of the Healthy Steps for Young Children Program.
T H I S
Harper's Magazine editor
to be guest at master's tea
Award-winning novelist to speak on the end of the millennium
United Nations initiative
topic of SOM lecture
Contemporary Artists Lecture Series continues at YUAG
Agrobiotechnology to be explored in bioethics talk
Social Policy talk will focus on early childhood development
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