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Noted actor to deliver Maynard Mack Lecture
"Acting in Wartime" is the title of the 2002-2003 Maynard Mack Lecture, which will be given on Monday, April 21, by the British actor Corin Redgrave.
Redgrave will speak at 5 p.m. in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.
The scion of a family steeped in theater and film, Redgrave is the son of Sir Michael Redgrave and the brother of Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave.
His recent roles, all at the National Theatre in London, include Gaev in "The Cherry Orchard," Boss Whalen in Tennessee Williams' "Not About Nightingales" and Hirst in Pinter's "No Man's Land." He is currently playing a role in the Australian play "Honour."
"A Man for all Seasons," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "Oh What a Lovely War!," "In the Name of the Father," "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Persuasion" and "The Forsyte Saga" are just some of Redgrave's many film and television appearances.
He is the author of several plays and books, among them one on Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," a play in which he has appeared as both Caesar and Brutus.
The Mack Lectureship, endowed through Yale's Elizabethan Club, honors a former chair of the Department of English and a notable scholar and teacher of Shakespeare and Pope. The lectureship brings to Yale a distinguished practitioner of theater.
The Yale Anthropology Society will sponsor a visit by Gananath Obeyesekere, professor emeritus of anthropology at Princeton University, on Tuesday, April 22.
Obeyesekere will speak on the topic of "Cannibal Talk: Dialogical Misunderstandings in the South Seas" at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 1, 158 Whitney Ave. Arjun Appadurai, the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of International Studies, will deliver closing remarks. The event is free and open to the public.
Obeyesekere, who conducts fieldwork in Sri Lanka and India, focuses his research on psychoanalysis and the ways in which personal symbolism is related to religious experience.
A fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the American Anthropological Institute, Obeyesekere is also a member of the Association of Asian Studies and serves on the editorial boards of both Anthropology and Medicine and the Encyclopedia of Indian Religion.
Obeyesekere is the author of numerous articles on topics including European voyages to Polynesia in the 18th century and the implications of these voyages for the development of ethnography.
He is the author or co-author of many books, among them "Medusa's Hair," "The Cult of the Goddess Patini" and "The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific."
Dr. Joel Alpert, an advocate of universal health care for children, will visit the campus on Wednesday and Thursday, April 23 and 24.
On Wednesday, Dr. Alpert will deliver
a Pediatric Grand Rounds Lecture noon-
1 p.m. in the Fitkin Amphitheatre, 310 Cedar St. On Thursday, Alpert will address two Bioethics Project Working Research Groups. Alpert will discuss "The Proposal of the Physicians' Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance" at the noon meeting of the "Justice and the Allocation of Medical Care" Working Research Group in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. "Access to Healthcare for Underserved Children" is the topic of Alpert's 5:15 p.m. talk to the "Children Under Stress" Working Research Group. The lecture will take place at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prosect St.
For more information or to make reservations to attend either of the Working Research Group meetings, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu. All of the events are free and open to the public.
Alpert, who received his bachelors degree from Yale in 1952, is professor emeritus and chair emeritus of pediatrics, professor emeritus of socio-medical sciences and community medicine and professor emeritus of health law at the Boston University School of Public Health. He also served as chief of pediatrics at Boston City Hospital 1972-1993. While at the hospital, he pioneered a primary care residency program that linked community pediatricians and health centers with hospitals.
Alpert was president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 1998-1999, and was honored with the AAP Job Lewis Smith Award for his contributions to community pediatrics. In 1998, Alpert received the Pew Foundation Award in Primary Care Education.
Superior Court Judge David Shaheed will discuss "Contemporary Islam and Its Impact on Religious Diversity and Tolerance" in a lecture sponsored by the School of Nursing Diversity Action Committee on Thursday, April 24.
Shaheed will speak about racial profiling and the social and professional responsibility of American communities to promote peace and tolerance. The talk will take place 5:30-7 p.m. in the lecture hall of the School of Nursing, 100 Church St. South. The lecture is free and open to the public. A community discussion will follow.
Appointed judge in the Marion County Superior Court of Indianapolis, Indiana in 1999, Shaheed was reelected to a six-year term in 2002.
Shaheed, who is the former president of the Interfaith Council, has been involved with interfaith dialogue for nearly 25 years. He now acts as chair of the Interfaith Alliance of Indianapolis, is a member of the Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis and is on the executive committee of the Religious Alliance Against Pornography.
Shaheed was the producer of a weekly news and Islamic perspectives television program titled "Al-Islam in America" and was a consultant to the Lilly Endowment on the Growth of Al-Islam in America. He is one of the founding members of the Coalition for Good Government and previously served as the assistant imam in Indianapolis.
T H I S
Anthropologist to discuss his research in the South Seas
Bioethics forums will focus on national health care legislation
Superior Court judge to speak on diversity and tolerance
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