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Australian poet to read from his work
Celebrated poet John Kinsella will read from his work on Monday, Dec. 1.
Kinsella's reading will begin at 4 p.m. in Rm. 208 of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Harold Bloom, the Sterling Professor of the Humanities, will introduce Kinsella and discuss his work. The event is free and the public is invited to attend.
Considered to be one of Australia's finest and most controversial poets, Kinsella is the author of 17 collections of poetry, as well as works of fiction, drama and an autobiography. His most recent book is "Peripheral Light: New and Selected Poems," with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Kinsella is a fellow of Churchill College in Cambridge, England, and a professor at Kenyon College in Ohio.
Kinsella has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Western Australian Premier's Award for Poetry, The Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry and The John Bray Poetry Award from the Adelaide Festival. He is also the recipient of a senior fellowship from the Literature Board of The Australia Council and a Young Australian Creative Fellowship.
Publisher David R. Godine will deliver a lecture on campus on Monday, Dec. 1.
"From College Printer to Personal Publisher" is the title of Godine's lecture, which will begin at 8:30 p.m. in the Presidents' Room, Woolsey Hall, corner of College and Grove streets. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be preceded by a reception and dinner beginning at 6 p.m. To make reservations to attend this event,
e-mail adam.stack@yale.edu.
Godine will present a lecture chronicling his beginnings as an undergraduate printer at Dartmouth, his year in the pressroom of sculptor Leonard Baskin's Gehenna Press, five years in New York learning the business with the Book-of-the-Month Club, and the establishment of the house which bears his name.
Godine is well known for publishing material he presently favors -- writers he has discovered, classics he claims have been too long out of print, and works about typography and the graphic arts.
William T. Coleman Jr., a senior partner and senior counselor in the litigation department of the international law firm O'Melveny & Myers, will deliver the Preiskel-Silverman Lecture on Monday, Dec. 1.
Coleman's talk, titled "Year 2003: Accords and Discords," will take place 4:30-6:30 p.m. in Rm. 127, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St.
Coleman, a former president and chair of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and one of the principal drafters of the main brief in Brown v. Board of Education, has served six presidents during his career, holding positions on President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Commission on Employment Policy, as senior consultant and assistant counsel to the Warren Commission, and from 1975-1977, as secretary of the Department of Transportation under Gerald R. Ford.
Following his government service and prior to joining the law firm, Coleman was a distinguished fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
He has been the recipient of the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Throughout his career, Coleman has served on the boards of a number of private companies, educational institutions and charitable agencies including Chase Manhattan Bank N.A., IBM Corporation, PepsiCo. Inc., Brookings Institution, National Symphony Orchestra and the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a former member of the board of overseers of Harvard University.
Baritone opera singer Alan Held will conduct an opera master class on Monday, Dec. 1.
Held will work with singers at 7 p.m. in Sprague Memorial Hall, 470 College St. Tickets for the event, which is presented by the School of Music, are $8; $5 for students. For more information, call (203) 432-4158 or visit the website at www.yale.edu/music.
Recognized internationally as one of the leading singing actors, bass-baritone Held has performed with opera companies and orchestras around the world.
Since his debut in 1989 in "Billy Budd," Held has worked with the Metropolitan Opera, appearing in the lead baritone roles in "Les Contes d'Hoffmann," Wagner's "Ring Cycle," "Fidelio," "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg," "Romeo et Juliette" and "Samson et Dalila," among others.
He has performed regularly at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where he appeared most recently as Leporello in "Don Giovanni." He was also featured as Borromeo in the Royal Opera's production of "Palestrina" as part of the Lincoln Center Festival at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1997.
Held has also appeared in leading roles at the Washington Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Cincinnati Opera and the Seattle Opera, as well as in many of the major houses of Europe.
In 1990, Held was invited by Luciano Pavarotti to be his guest on a PBS "Live from Lincoln Center" broadcast of "Pavarotti Plus."
The William W. Goldman Lecture will be given by Philip Gourevitch, staff writer at The New Yorker, on Tuesday, December 2.
Gourevitch's talk, titled "Writing About Wrongs: Moral Clarity vs. Political Reality," will begin at 4 p.m. in Rm. 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.
Gourevitch's work has been a finalist for National Magazine Awards in 1996, 1998 and 2001.
His first book, "We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda," published in 1998, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the George K. Polk Award for Foreign Reporting, the PEN/Martha Algrand Award for First Nonfiction, the Overseas Press Club of America's Best Book Award, the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award and, in England, the Guardian First Book Award. It has been published in seven countries.
His second book, "A Cold Case," an account of a three-decades-long investigation of a double homicide in New York City, published in 2001, has been translated into six languages.
In addition to his work for The New Yorker, Gourevitch's nonfiction has appeared in numerous publications at home and abroad, and his short fiction has been published in such journals as Story, Southwest Review and Zoetrope, as well as in several anthologies.
Kenneth Bogen, environmental scientist in the Health & Ecological Assessment Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), University of California, will speak in the Risk Assessment Forum on Wednesday, Dec. 3.
Bogen will address the topic of "Environmental Health Triage: Why and How Best-Estimates of Exposure and Risk Need To Be Developed and Improved" at noon in the Peabody Museum auditorium, 170 Whitney Ave. The talk is free and open to the public. For further information, luncheon reservations and reading materials, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Bogen began his research at LLNL in 1986, and has focused his efforts on applying and improving methods to assess health risks posed by environmental chemicals and radiation. His research has involved regulatory toxicology, biologically based dose-response modeling, biodosimetric and pharmacokinetic modeling and quantitative uncertainty analysis.
Bogen has served on the National Research Council (NRC) committee that, at the request of Congress, issued the 1994 report "Science and Judgment in Risk Assessment," and now serves on the NRC Subcommittee on Assessing Toxicological Risks to Deployed Military Personnel. He chaired the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's Chronic Hazards Advisory Panel on Diisononyl Phthalate (2000-2001).
Bogen has written and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed papers, and is the author of a book on risk assessment and related policy issues.
A member of the Society for Risk Analysis since 1981, Bogen served 1995-1996 as president and councilor of its Northern California Chapter.
Judy Ellis, founder and chair of the Toy Design Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), will lead a workshop and a discussion on Wednesday, Dec. 3.
"Toys and the Ethics of Technology" is the title of Ellis' workshop, which will begin at 4:15 p.m. A dinner and discussion will follow at 5:45 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public and will take place at
the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. For more information or to make dinner reservations, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188.
Ellis founded the department at FIT in 1989. Earlier in her career, Ellis was professor of graphic design at Parsons School of Design for seven years, and then launched the consulting company Graphics for the Environment. Her clients inlcuded the Amerada Hess Corporation, Clairol and IBM.
Ellis has served on the board of trustees of the USA Toy Library Association and the advisory council of the WNET/Thirteen Student Arts Festival. She also created Discover Together, a program that involves design students working with children in a Head Start Day Care Center and conducting "Expression Through Art" workshops at elementary schools in Harlem.
In 1999, Ellis received the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and was honored in 2001 by the non-profit, national organization Women In Toys with an award for outstanding contributions to the toy industry.
John E. Pepper Jr., retired chair and chief executive officer of the Procter & Gamble Company, co-chair of development for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and a senior fellow of the Yale Corporation, will visit the campus on Wednesday, Dec. 3, as a Gordon Grand Fellow.
Pepper will discuss "What Do Procter and Gamble, the National Railroad Freedom Center, and Yale Have in Common?" at 4 p.m. in Rm. 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The talk is free and open to the public.
A 1960 graduate of Yale College, Pepper was selected to serve as senior fellow of the Yale Corporation in 2002.
Pepper joined Procter & Gamble in 1963 following three years in the U.S. Navy. He was appointed general manager of Procter & Gamble Italia in 1974 and group vice president for European operations in 1981. In 1984, Pepper was elected to the company's board of directors and became president of the company in 1986. He was named chair and chief executive officer in 1995.
A member of the executive committee of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Pepper is also co-chair of its Development Campaign. He serves as a director of the Xerox Corporation and Motorola Inc., and is a member and former chair of the U.S. Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations and the Ohio Business Roundtable.
Pepper serves on the executive committee of the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative and on the boards of Partnership for a Drug Free America and The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
Pepper holds honorary degrees from several institutions, including the University of St. Petersburg in Russia.
J. Stephen Morrison, executive director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and an alumnus of Yale College, will be the guest at a master's tea and lunch on Thursday, Dec. 4.
Morrison will speak at noon in the Fellows Lounge in Calhoun College, 189 Elm St. The talk is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. For seating availability, contact the master's office at (203) 432-0740.
Morrison joined CSIS in 2000 and has overseen the revitalization of the CSIS Africa Program. Beginning in 2001, he co-chaired the CSIS Task Force on HIV/
AIDS, a multi-year project that aims to strengthen U.S. leadership in battling global HIV/AIDS; identify emergent critical issues and appropriate U.S. foreign policy responses; and forge alliances with authorities in countries threatened by HIV/AIDS.
In his role as director of the CSIS Africa Program, Morrison spearheaded the review that resulted in the publication of "Africa Policy in the Clinton Years: Critical Choices for the Bush Administration." He co-chaired the reassessment of the U.S. approach to Sudan that laid the basis for the Bush Administration push for a negotiated peace settlement, and in 2002, organized an energy expert mission to the Sudan peace negotiations in Kenya.
He has written and lectured widely, and testified before Congress on a range of issues pertaining to U.S. foreign policy and Africa, including changing U.S. security calculations post 9/11 and rising U.S. stakes in Africa.
Francine Jacobs, an associate professor with joint appointments in the departments of Child Development and Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, will deliver the next Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture on Friday, Dec. 5.
Jacobs' talk, titled "Eating Humble Pie: Lessons from the Massachusetts Healthy Families Evaluation," will be held at
11:30 a.m. in Rm. 102, Becton Center,
15 Prospect St. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-9935.
Jacobs' research and teaching interests include child welfare, public welfare and childcare policy, and family development and family support programming. She has been an evaluation consultant to numerous child and family programs, and is currently the co-principal investigator of the Massachusetts Healthy Families Evaluation, an evaluation of the statewide home visiting program for young families.
Jacobs' "Five-tiered Approach to Evaluation," first proposed in 1988, has been used extensively to evaluate a broad range of programs and policies, both in the United States and abroad. This model was published in a recent evaluation manual, titled "Making It Count: Evaluating Family Preservation Services."
Jacobs has published numerous articles, and has co-edited several books, including "Evaluating Family Programs," "More Than Kissing Babies: Current Child and Family Policy in the United States," and the recent four-volume "Handbook on Applied Developmental Science."
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