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Talks

Friday, April 25

"Praising to Blame: Administrative Decentralization and Household Livelihood Strategies in Ethiopia"
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Seminar rm., ISPS. Teferi Abate Adem, Addis Ababa Univ. (Program in Agrarian Studies)

"A Room of Their Own: Nyobo and Cultural Production in Late Medieval Japan"
Noon. Rm. 202, Luce Hall. Melissa McCormick, Columbia Univ. (Council on East Asian Studies)

"Human Rights in Singapore, Flying Below the Radar"
12:30-2 p.m. Faculty lounge, SLB. Human Rights Workshop with Tai-Heng Cheng, former senior officer, Singapore police force. (Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights)

"War, Regime Centralization and Alienation of the Song Political Elite: Some Lessons from the Song Narrative Volume of the Cambridge History of China"
4 p.m. Rm. 203, Luce Hall. Paul Smith, Haverford College. (East Asian Studies)

"19th-Century Scientific Advances and the Dawn of Modern Neurosurgery; the Legacy of Sir William Macewen"
5 p.m. Historical Library, SHM. Dr. Franklin Robinson. (Beaumont Medical Club)

Saturday, April 26

"Bill Brandt: A Retrospective"
Noon. BAC. A Gallery Talk tour.

Sunday, April 27

"The Liturgy of Theory"
4 p.m. Marquand Chapel. Christopher Dustin, College of the Holy Cross, with response by Prof. Nicholas Wolterstorff.

"What's the Future: Pax Americana or a Multilateral Order?"
8 p.m. Luce Hall Aud. Michael Hirsh, senior editor, Newsweek; William Wohlforth, Dartmouth College; and Ernesto Zedillo, director, Center for the Study of Globalization. Moderator TBA. Part of "The War in Iraq: A Yale University Teach-in Series."

Monday, April 28

"Transaction Costs and Crony Capitalism in Asia"
Noon. Rm. 203, Luce Hall. Political Economy Workshop with Prof. David C. Kang.

"Gigantic Mimicry: On the Sacred Places of Japanese New Religions"
Noon. Rm. 102, Luce Hall. Hideaki Matsuoka, College of William and Mary. (Council on East Asian Studies)

"Public Policy Tradeoffs in Forest Management, Fire Management and Restoration of Fire-Damaged Watersheds: Lessons from the Hayman Fire"
4 p.m. Bowers Aud., Sage Hall. Workshop on Colorado's Hayman wildfire. Info.: (203) 432-5117; yff@yale.edu. (F&ES)

"On the Board, on the Air, in the Rough: Reflections on Leadership in Corporate Broadcast and Sports Management"
7:30 p.m. Rm. 128, SLB. Charles S. Mechem Jr., chair emeritus, Ladies Professional Golf Association.

Tuesday, April 29

"Developing Strategies to Collect and Utilize Critical Wildfire Impact Information"
8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Marsh Hall. Workshop. Info.: (203) 432-5117; yff@yale.edu.

"Two Dissertation Reports: The Research Phase"
Noon. Rm. 203, Luce Hall. Council on East Asian Studies China Workshop with Janet Chen and Jodi Weinstein. Lunch will be provided.

"Bill Brandt: A Retrospective"
12:30 p.m. BAC. Art in Context talk by Scott Wilcox.

"American Victorian Furniture: Exuberance and Reform"
2 p.m. YUAG. Gallery talk by David Barquist.

"Nanocrystalline Domains in Conjugated Organic Materials: From Polymers to Photocatalysis"
4:30 p.m. Rm. 253, SCL. Christopher J. Bardeen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Dept. of Chemistry)

Public Lecture
4:30 p.m. Branford Common Rm. Iris Chang, author. (Chinese American Students Association)

Wednesday, April 30

Bioethics Faculty Workshop
Noon. ISPS. Matthew Weed.

Southeast Asia Studies Lecture Series
Noon. Rm. 203, Luce Hall. Thaveeporn Vasavakul, Vietnam National Univ., Council on International Educational Exchange, Hanoi. Info.: www.yale.edu/seas.

"The Synthesis of Large and Small Molecules Using Olefin Metathesis"
4 p.m. Rm. 160, SCL. Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology. (Dept. of Chemistry)

"Korea: What Next?"
4-6 p.m. Luce Hall Aud. Prof. David Kang, Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, and Carl Saxer. Prof. Gustav Ranis, moderator. (YCIAS)

"The Human Touch: How Women Saved Health Care"
4:30 p.m. Rm. 118, lecture hall, 100 CSS. The Sybil Palmer Bellos Lecture by Anna Quindlen, author. The Wisser Tea will follow the lecture. R.S.V.P.: ysntemp@yale.edu. (Sch. of Nursing)

"Golden Rice: The Numerous Hurdles of a Humanitarian GMO-Project"
5 p.m. Bowers Aud., Sage Hall. Ingo Potrykus, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. (F&ES)

"UN Efforts to Protect Human Rights: The Role of the Office of High Commissioner"
6:15-8 p.m. Rm. 128, SLB. Bacre Wali Ndiaye, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. (Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights)

"Brains and Machines: Friends or Foes?"
6:15 p.m. Peabody Museum. Prof. Kumpati S. Narendra. Registration required: (203) 432-5099. Fee: $10; $5 for museum members.

Thursday, May 1

"Teahouses, Coffee Shops and Avant-Garde Magazines: The State of Informal Culture in China Today"
10 a.m. Rm. 203, Luce Hall. Haun Saussy, Stanford Univ.; Lydia Liu, Univ. of Michigan; Li Tuo, editor, Shijie. (Comparative Literature/Council on East Asian Studies)

"American Victorian Furniture: Exuberance and Reform"
Noon. YUAG. David Barquist.

"Restorative Gardens: The Healing Landscape"
5 p.m. Beaumont Rm., SHM. Dr. Richard E. Kaufman, author. (Program for Humanities in Medicine)

"Material Presence: The Yale University Art Gallery and the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn"
5:30 p.m. YUAG. Prof. Alexander Purves.

"Children and the Natural Environment"
5:30-7:15 p.m. ISPS. "Children Under Stress" Working Research Group with Prof. Stephen Kellert.

Friday, May 2

"Why Countries Really Commit to Human Rights Treaties"
12:30-2 p.m. Faculty lounge, SLB. Human Rights Workshop with Prof. Oona Hathaway. (Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights)

"What the Visual Cortex Computes"
4 p.m. Rm. 59, SPL. Charles Stevens, Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. in the 3rd floor lounge. (Physics Dept.)

"Trading Pictures: James Swan, Johnny Kit Elswa and the Art of the Northwest Coast"
5:15 p.m. Aud., SLB. George A. Miles. Reception to follow at BRBL followed by the opening of the James Swan exhibition.

Sunday, May 4

"The War in Iraq: A Yale University Teach-in Series"
8 p.m. Luce Hall. Open discussion by Yale students.

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Juniors honored for 'good labor in the world' and musical gifts

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New award will honor creativity of School of Nursing students

Concert to help raise funds for year-round, overflow homeless shelter

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