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Documentary filmmaker
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The Council on East Asian Studies will sponsor a visit to campus by producer and director Sue Williams on Tuesday, April 15.
Williams' film, "China in the Red" will be shown at 6:30 p.m. in the Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. A panel discussion with Williams will follow at 8:30 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.
"China in the Red" was shot for Ambrica Productions over a period of four years, from 1998 to 2001. The documentary examines the changing values and expectations of ten individuals as they struggle to adapt to China's economic reforms. The film shows cross sections of Chinese society: young and old, rural and urban, workers and peasants.
Williams formed Ambrica Productions with co-producer Kathryn Dietz in 1986 to develop and produce documentaries of international scope and interest.
Ambrica's critically acclaimed biography, "Eleanor Roosevelt," was written, produced and directed by Williams. In addition, she has produced films for the BBC, Sloane-Kettering Memorial Hospital in New York and several for the permanent exhibition in the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum.
Williams' films have won awards at numerous festivals including the Gold Camera Award at the International Film and Video Festival, The Red Ribbon Award at the American Film and Video Festival and the Silver Award at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival.
Calhoun College will host Roger Cohn, editor of Mother Jones magazine, on Tueday, April 15.
This event is free and open to the public and will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.
A 1973 Yale College graduate, Cohn has been editor of Mother Jones since 1999. During that time, he led a resurgence of the magazine which has seen its circulation increase from 135,000 to 194,000. Under his leadership, the magazine has emphasized a new style of reporting and has featured such writers as Eric Schlosser, Ian Frazier and Barbara Ehrenreich.
Cohn also implemented a redesign of the magazine and in 2001, Mother Jones received the National Magazine Award for Excellence.
Before joining Mother Jones, Cohn spent seven years working as executive editor of Audubon magazine. From 1977 to 1987, he was a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he covered urban affairs and environmental issues. In 1984, he was awarded an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship for his reporting on the state of public housing in the United States.
Cohn has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post and the New York Observer.
Kenneth Pimple, director of the Teaching Research Ethics Program at The Poynter Center for Ethics and American Institutions at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, will speak in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 15 and 16.
On Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., Pimple will discuss "Encouraging Jekyll, Managing Hyde: Controlling Science Today," in the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St. The topic of Wednesday's lecture, which will take place at noon in the lower level conference room at ISPS, 77 Prospect St., is "Shackles for Prometheus." Both lectures are open to the public free of charge. For further information, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Pimple has over ten years of experience in organizing faculty workshops on ethics and research ethics, and since 1993 has directed the Teaching Research Ethics project (TRE). TRE offers an annual workshop for researchers from the sciences and other fields, and in its nine years has attracted over 300 participants from the United States and abroad.
In his first lecture, Pimple will discuss scientific research and the role of the government, scientists and the public. He will address such topics as the rights of scientists to have the freedom to conduct research, the role of the federal government to safeguard the public and the benefits and hazards of biomedical research to the public.
In his second lecture, he will address the issue of recent advances in science and what information has the potential to be hazardous, rather than useful, to the public.
Tom Wolfe, author of best-selling novels and non-fiction books, will visit the campus on Wednesday, April 16.
Wolfe will speak at two events while on campus. He will be the guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. At 7:30 p.m., he will deliver a public lecture in the McNeil Lecture Hall at the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. Both talks are free and open to the public.
Wolfe's works include "A Man in Full," the non-fiction "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and "Bonfire of the Vanities," which was the best-selling fiction debut of the decade.
The best-seller, "The Right Stuff," was the winner of the American Book Award for non-fiction and was made into an Oscar-winning film.
Wolfe received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1957 and has worked as a reporter for several newspapers, including the Washington Post and New York magazine.
Wolfe's first novel, "The Bonfire of the Vanities," which he wrote in 19841985, appeared in Rolling Stone magazine in serial form. It was published in book form in 1987 and was number one on The New York Times bestseller list for two months and remained on the list for more than a year, selling over 800,000 copies in hardcover and over two million in paperback.
Wolfe's most recent novel, "A Man in Full," published in 1998, headed The New York Times bestseller list for ten weeks
and has sold nearly 1.4 million copies in hardcover.
Critically acclaimed author Donna Tartt will be the guest of a Jonathan Edwards College master's tea on Thursday, April 17.
Tartt will speak in the master's house, 70 High St., at 4 p.m. The talk is free and open to the public.
Tartt began writing her first novel while a student at Bennington College. The novel was a murder-mystery centered on a group of classics students and was set at a small Vermont college in the 1980s. Published in 1992, "The Secret History" sold over one million hardcover and paperback copies and was translated into more than 21 foreign editions.
After the publication of "The Secret History," Tartt began writing her second novel. Published 10 years later, "The Little Friend," is set in a small town in the South in the aftermath of a murder. Publisher's Weekly stated in a review of the book that "Tartt's second novel confirms her talent as a superb storyteller, sophisticated observer of human nature and keen appraiser of ethics and morality."
T H I S
Master's tea will feature editor of Mother Jones magazine
Research ethicist to speak
at Bioethics Forum
"Bonfire of the Vanities" author to be featured at master's tea
Celebrated author to speak at Jonathan Edwards master's tea
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