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Writing by Irish women will be topic of master's tea
Siobhan Kilfeather, professor of English at the University of Sussex and an editor of the new volumes of "The Field Day Anthology of Irish Literature: Irish Women's Writing and Traditions" will be the guest at a master's tea on Monday, Nov. 4.
Kilfeather will talk about the making of this controversial collection in a lecture titled "Irish Women's Lives, Works and Ways" at 4 p.m. in the Pierson College master's house, 231 Park St. The talk is free and open to the public.
The work comprises Volumes IV and V of the "Field Day Anthology of Irish
Literature."
Soon after the long-awaited publication of Volumes I, II and III in 1991 an oversight became apparent: the anthology contained almost no contributions from women. These two new volumes represent an 11-year endeavor by an interdisciplinary and collaborative group of women editors who engaged dozens of scholars in the task of bringing together 1,500 years of written documents by and about Irish women.
Kilfeather, who grew up in Belfast and who specializes in 18th-century literature, Irish women's literature and postcolonial literature and criticism, edited the anthology's sections on sexuality, sexual experience and genre.
The two new volumes, launched simultaneously in Dublin, Paris, New York and London, have been hailed by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney as "a mighty achievement; the texts and contexts of more than a thousand years of Irish women's writing brilliantly, abundantly presented and comprehended."
James G. Anderson, the Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, Harvard University, will visit the campus for three days and deliver the Mrs. Hepsa Ely
Silliman Lectures on MondayWednesday, Nov. 46.
The lecture series, which will focus on "Chemistry and the Earth: Bridging Electronic Structure and Climate," will take place 4:305:30 p.m. in Davies Auditorium, Becton Center, 15 Prospect St. The lectures are free and open to the public.
Anderson will discuss "Climate Forecasts that are Tested and Trusted: A Societal Objective" on Monday, "The Nature of the Chemical Bond in Transition: Prediction of Barrier Heights" on Tuesday and "Coupling of Chemistry and Climate: Eocene, Present and Future" on Wednesday.
Anderson, who is also the chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, joined the faculty at Harvard University in 1978. From 1970 to 1975, he was a member of the physics department at the University of Pittsburgh, first as a postdoctoral fellow and then as an assistant professor. He was a research scientist at the Space Physics Research Laboratory of the University of Michigan and then a member of the faculty of the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science.
Anderson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received numerous awards and honors for his research.
Established in 1901, The Silliman Memorial Lecture series is the oldest at Yale. It was established by a bequest from Augustus Ely Silliman of Brooklyn, New York, in honor of his mother, Hepsa Ely Silliman. The series brings to campus outstanding researchers in the natural sciences.
Nicola T. Shaw, senior lecturer in research at the Lancashire Postgraduate School of Medicine and Health will speak on "Telemedicine and Telecare: Ethical Considerations and Impediments to Sustainable Development and Use" on Wednesday, Nov. 6.
The lecture will take place at 4:15 p.m. at the Institute for Social And Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. It is part of a monthly speaker series on "Ethics, Technology and Utopian Visions," presented by the Yale Interdisciplinary Bioethics Program and
its working research group on "Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology and Transhumanism." The lecture is free and open to the public.
For information, reading materials and dinner reservations, contact Carol Pollard by phone at (203) 432-6188 or e-mail carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Telemedicine is the provision of medical care where patient and health professional are separated in either time or space.
Shaw's research focuses on the people, organizational and social issues around the development and use of health informatics applications in primary care. She recently completed a book on security, data protection and ethical issues associated with paperless practice.
In 1999, Shaw undertook a regional evaluation of all telemedicine and telecare projects for the United Kingdom National Health Service Executive (Northwest). In 2000, she was asked to evaluate the first national strategy for general practice computerization by the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care in conjunction with the General Practice Computing Group. She is currently investigating the relationship of policy and practice related
to the use of informatics applications -- such as the electronic health record -- in
primary care.
Bill Bastone, founder and webmaster of The Smoking Gun.com, will speak at a master's tea on Wednesday, Nov. 6.
Bastone's talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Calhoun College's master's house,
434 College St. The tea is free and open to the public.
Bastone, the editor-in-chief of The Smoking Gun.com, is also a New York City crime reporter with over 14 years of experience.
Launched in April 1997, the website uses the Freedom of Information Act, law enforcement sources and national court files as its sources. It contains digitized versions of documents, including CIA memos and confidentiality agreements by major motion picture stars. It draws 35,000 visitors a day and has generated a book by the same name. The book spotlights some of the site's most popular documents and also contains new material.
Carla Hills, former U.S. Trade representative in the Bush Administration and former secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Ford administration, will deliver the George Herbert Walker Jr. Lecture in International Studies on Thursday, Nov. 7.
Hill's talk, titled "Reflections on Trade Liberalization: The Promise and the Peril," will be held at 4 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS).
A 1958 graduate of the Law School, Hills is currently the chair and CEO of Hills & Company, an international consulting firm that advises U.S. companies on their trade and investment interests abroad. She served as U.S. Trade representative 19891993 and was the primary U.S. negotiator of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Prior to that, she was named secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1975, becoming the third woman in the U.S. to hold a cabinet-level position.
George Herbert Walker III established the George Herbert Walker Jr. Lecture in 1986 in memory of his father, a graduate of the Yale Class of 1927. The fund supports lectures in international studies at YCIAS. Previous Walker lecturers have included former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and former Secretary of State Madeline K. Albright.
"The Third Lie: Why Government Programs Do Not Help Children," is the topic of the next lecture in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Nov. 8.
Richard J. Gelles, the Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence at the University of Pennsylvania's (UPenn) School of Social Work, will speak at 11:30 a.m. in Room 211, Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave.
The talk is free and open to the public. For further information, call (203) 432-9935.
Gelles is also the co-director of the Center for the Study of Youth Policy and co-director of the Center for Children's Policy, Practice and Research at UPenn. His book "The Violent Home" was the first systematic empirical investigation of family violence and continues to be highly influential. He is the author or co-author of 23 books and more than 100 articles and chapters on family violence. His latest books are "The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives" and "Intimate Violence in Families, Third Edition."
In 1998, Gelles was appointed to the Kinship Care Advisory Panel of the Administration for Children, Youth and Families. He was also a member of the National Academy of Science's panel on "Assessing Family Violence Interventions."
From 1973 to 1981, Gelles edited the journal "Teaching Sociology." He has received numerous awards for research and teaching, has presented many lectures to policy-making groups and has been featured frequently in the media.
James P. Ronda, the H.G. Barnard Professor of Western American History at the University of Tulsa and one of the nation's foremost historians of Lewis and Clark, will deliver the second annual Betts Lecture on Friday, Nov. 8
Ronda's lecture "Lewis and Clark: Who Cares? Why Bother?" will be presented at
5 p.m. in Sudler Hall in William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The lecture is free and open to the public. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St., will host a reception following the lecture.
Ronda has written 10 books on western exploration, including "Finding the West: Explorations with Lewis and Clark," "Astoria and Empire," and "Lewis and Clark Among the Indians."
Ronda has observed that the "Lewis and Clark expedition was not simply imagination's army marching through fantasy's landscape without consequences for itself, the western country and those who already called the west home. Images of change and transformation filled the stories Lewis and Clark told about themselves and their journey. Lewis and Clark saw themselves as representatives of a changing world. ... To revisit Lewis and Clark is to look again at all those who left home to find something of value some other place."
The Betts Lecture series honors Roland W. Betts II, an alumni fellow of the Yale Corporation, for his support of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale. The annual Betts Lecture at Yale is given by the current or immediate past president of the Western History Association, an organization founded in 1961 "to promote the study of the American West in all its varied aspects."
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Scholar of the American West
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