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New York architect to deliver Paul Rudolph Lecture
Toshiko Mori, an award-winning New York architect, will deliver the Paul Rudolph Lecture on Monday, Oct. 21.
Mori will deliver a lecture titled "Immaterial/Ultramaterial" at 6:30 p.m. in Hastings Hall of the Art and Architecture building, 180 York St. The talk is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Mori has just been selected as the first woman to chair the Department of Architecture at Harvard University.
She has been a visiting critic and, in the fall of 1992, the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale.
Her work has been the subject of feature articles in numerous national publications and her designs have garnered dozens
of awards.
Margot Livesy will speak on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 4:30 p.m. at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Livesey is the author of four novels: "Eva Moves the Furniture," "Homework," "Criminals," and "The Missing World." She also wrote a collection of short stories titled "Learning by Heart" and is the co-author of "Writing About Literature: An Anthology for Reading and Writing."
Her stories have appeared in numerous publications and she has received several major grants for her writing. Livesy has taught in a number of writing programs including the Iowa Writer's Workshop, the University of California at Irvine and, most recently, at Emerson College.
"The Critical Period After All?: Rethinking the 1780s" is the title of the fifth annual Bosworth Lecture to be delivered by Pauline R. Maier, the William R. Keenan Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on Thursday, Oct. 24.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. Light refreshments will be served.
Maier is the author of publications including "From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776," "The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams" and "The American People: A History." Her most recent book, titled, "American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence," examines the development of independence, the writing of the Declaration and the transformation of the document during the 19th century from a revolutionary manifesto into a statement of principles for guiding established governments.
Maier has focused her studies on the Revolution's impact on the United States between Independence and the Civil War. She is currently collaborating with three other scholars on a book on the history of the United States.
Zacharias Kunuk, an Inuit filmmaker, and film producer and photographer Norman Cohn will visit the campus on Tuesday, Oct. 22, as the guest at a master's tea and for a screening of their new film "Atanarjuat/
The Fast Runner."
At 3:30 p.m., they will speak at a master's tea in Davenport College, 248 York St.
Their talk will be followed by a screening of their film at 6:30 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. There will be a discussion period and reception immediately following the screening.
Both events are free and open to the public.
Kunuk and Cohn's visit is sponsored by the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders with additional support from the Canadian Studies Committee of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Davenport College, the Department of Anthropology, the Film Studies Program and the Association for Native Americans at Yale.
"Antanarjuat/The Fast Runner," in Inuktitut with English subtitles, is Canada's submission for this year's foreign-language Oscar.
The film is based on an ancient Inuit legend and takes place at the dawn of the first millennium in the area encompassing Igloolik, a space in the eastern Canadian Arctic that has been inhabited for the past 4,000 years. An unknown shaman disrupts the stability of two families and conflict ensues across a vast landscape and time. The film traces the journeys of Atanarjuat, a man on a spiritual journey to reclaim the "good life" for his people.
The film, with its all-Inuit cast, has won numerous awards, including six Canadian Genie awards.
Patricia Steinhoff, professor of sociology at the University of Hawaii, will deliver the fourth annual John Whitney Hall Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 24.
Steinhoff's talk, titled "Who Really Kidnapped Those Japanese to North Korea?" will take place at 4 p.m. in the Peabody Museum Auditorium, 170 Whitney Ave. A reception will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public. For information, call the Council on East Asian Studies at (203) 432-3427 or e-mail alexander.han@yale.edu.
Since the 1970s, Steinhoff has studied the various branches of Japan's Red Army and the Japanese New Left protest cycle through interviews, field work and documentary research.
She is the author or editor of 10 books and more than 70 articles and book chapters, including two books published in Japanese. She is best known in the Japanese studies field for her research on conflict and radical groups in Japan and for her work on Japanese studies in the United States.
Steinhoff served as founding director of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Hawaii for eight years and has served on most of the national committees in the Japanese studies field.
The John W. Hall Lecture Series in Japanese Studies was established with generous support from Mrs. Robin Hall in memory of her husband. Considered one of this past century's finest scholars of the history of Japan, John Whitney Hall was born in Tokyo in 1916 and developed an interest in Japanese language, culture and history at an early age. After receiving his Ph.D. in East Asian languages and literatures at Harvard, Hall began his academic career at the University of Michigan in 1949 and came to Yale in 1961 as the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, a position he held until his retirement in 1983.
Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham, staff writers at the Washington Post and winners of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, will speak in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, October 25.
Their talk, titled "A Decade of Deadly Mistakes," will be held in Rm. 211, Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public. For information, call (203) 432-9935.
Horwitz, Higham and their colleague, Sara Cohen, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for a four-part series on the death of foster children in the District of Columbia's (D.C.) child welfare system. The series also won the Robert F. Kennedy grand prize for reporting on the disadvantaged and a medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., the organization's highest honor for investigative reporting.
Horwitz has spent most of her 18-year career at the Washington Post on the metropolitan staff, reporting on education, crime and social services. In addition to two dozen other journalism awards, she received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service and the 1999 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting along with two colleagues for an investigation of D.C. police shootings. Horwitz was also on a team of reporters who wrote a series about guns and violence in D.C. that was a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. Prior to joining the Post, she was a writer and editor at Congressional Quarterly.
Higham joined the Washington Post in 2002. Before joining the Post, he worked for the Baltimore Sun, the Miami Herald and the Allentown Morning Call, spending much of his 17-year career producing investigative projects. He was a finalist for two Pulitzer Prizes, one for a report on a yearlong police corruption probe that he wrote while working at the Miami Herald, and one for a story of a legal battle fought by parents of a child born without a brain that he worked on with a team of reporters.
Janine Jackson, program director for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) will speak at a master's tea on Thursday, Oct. 24.
Jackson will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The tea is free and open to the public.
In addition to her role as program director, Jackson is also the producer and host of FAIR's nationally syndicated radio show "Counterspin." She co-edited "The FAIR Reader: An EXTRA! Review of Press and Politics in the '90's."
Jackson's articles have be published in various publications and books. She has appeared on ABC's "Nightline" and CNBC's "Inside Business," and is the host of CUNY-TV's cable program, "Labor at the Crossroads." In 1994, she testified before the Senate Communications Subcommittee on reauthorization of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Joseph J. Grano Jr., chair and chief executive officer of UBS PaineWebber, will visit the campus on Wednesday, Oct. 30, as a Gordon Grand Fellow.
The Gordon Grand Fellowship at Yale will sponsor a master's tea at 4 p.m. in Saybrook College, 90 High St. The tea is free and open to the public.
Grano is a member of the Group Executive Board of UBS PaineWebber and has served as chair of the Board of Governors of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and a member of the NASD's Executive Committee.
In 2002, Grano was appointed chair of President Bush's Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Prior to joining UBS PaineWebber, Grano worked for Merrill Lynch for 16 years, starting as an investment executive in the New Haven office in 1972. He became one of Merrill Lynch's youngest vice presidents, with responsibility for product and pricing development for the firm's retail organization. He was senior vice president and business unit director for Affluent Customers. Later, he was named director of national sales for Merrill Lynch Consumer Markets. In this position, he was responsible for sales of all retail products.
In 1987, he was named the industry's best retail marketing executive in a survey conducted by Investment Dealer's Digest.
Grano joined PaineWebber in 1988 as president of retail sales and marketing with responsibility for the entire retail sales business. He was named president of PaineWebber Group in 1994 and named chairman in 2001.
Before joining Merrill Lynch, Grano served in the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets). He became one of the Army's youngest officers, achieving the rank of captain.
Grano is involved in a wide range of educational and philanthropic activities and has received numerous awards and honors.
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