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Gordon Grand Fellow to discuss the power of advertising
The Gordon Grand Fellowship will host a visit by Peggy Conlon, president and chief executive officer of The Advertising Council, on Tuesday, Jan. 20.
While on campus, Conlon will be the guest at a 3 p.m. master's tea and at 4 p.m., Conlon will discuss "Public Service Advertising: Creating Social Change 30 Seconds at a Time!" Both events, which are free and open to the public, will take place at the Branford College master's house, 80 High St.
Conlon, who joined the staff of The Advertising Council in 1999, heads an organization that mobilizes yearly more than $1.5 billion of advertising time and space, the creative services of over 40 major advertising agencies, and related financial support from hundreds of corporations. During her tenure as president, Conlon has championed the organization's mission among various government agencies and has partnered with both the Clinton and Bush Administrations to use public service advertising to improve some of the nation's social issues.
Conlon recently completed a two-year term as chair of the International Radio and Television Society Foundation and currently serves on the Media, Citizens & Democracy Advisory Board for the Council for Excellence in Government. She also organized the Campaign For Freedom to address the critical issues resulting from the events of Sept. 11 and to help Americans respond to the crisis.
She has lectured widely on issues including underage drinking, drug abuse prevention and maternal health.
In 2002, Conlon was awarded the New York Women in Communications Matrix Award for Advertising.
Richard J. Samuels, the Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will visit the campus on Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 20 and 21, as a McClellan Visiting Fellow in Japanese Studies.
On Jan. 20, Samuels will deliver a lecture titled "'Machiavelli's Children': Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan," at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. On Jan. 21, Samuels will participate in a round table discussion on "Japanese Civil-Military Relations" at noon in Rm. 103, Luce Hall. Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, both events are free and open to the public.
The founding director of the MIT Japan Program, Samuels served as head of the MIT Department of Political Science 1992-1997.
In 2001, Samuels became chair of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, an independent federal grant-making agency that supports Japanese studies and policy-oriented research in the United States.
"'Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan," Samuels' most recent book, is a comparative political and economic history of political leadership in Italy and Japan. The book won the 2004 Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies.
Samuels has been awarded three Fulbright Fellowships, an Abe Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Research Grant to support five separate extended research trips to Japan, enabling a total of seven years of field research in Japan.
Kathy Hudson, director of the Genetics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., will deliver two lectures on Wednesday, Jan. 21, as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series.
Hudson will speak at a noon seminar in the auditorium of the Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave. She will then discuss "Making Babies in the Genetic Age" in a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St. Both lectures are open to the public free of charge. For further information, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Hudson founded the Genetics and Public Policy Center in 2002. Her goal in creating the center was to introduce an organization solely dedicated to the analysis of public policy issues raised by advances in human genetics.
Before founding the center, Hudson served as assistant director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). She was responsible for communications, legislation, planning and education activities. While at NHGRI, she spearheaded efforts to develop policies to prevent genetic discrimination.
Previously, Hudson served as a senior policy analyst in the Department of Health and Human Services.
Dan Glickman, the former U.S. secretary of agriculture and current director of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, will visit the campus on Thursday, Jan. 22.
Glickman will discuss "Politics and the Environment" at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 205 Prospect St.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of a one-credit seminar series on "Greening the Vote: Politics and the Environment in the 2004 Election Cycle." For more information, contact Heather Kaplan (heather.kaplan@yale.edu or (203) 645-6325), or Kathleen Campbell (kathleen.campbell@yale.edu or (203) 561-8053).
Glickman served as agriculture secretary from 1995 to 2001. During this time, the department modernized food-safety regulations; forged international trade agreements to expand U.S. markets; and improved its commitment to fairness and equality in civil rights. He led the effort to ensure that agricultural technology be governed by a regulatory approval process based on sound science. In 2002, he was appointed director of the Institute of Politics.
Prior to his appointment as agriculture secretary, Glickman served for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Kansas' Fourth Congressional District. He served as a member of the House Agriculture Committee, including six years as chairman of the subcommittee that had jurisdiction over most federal farm policy issues. He was a member of the House Judiciary Committee, and was also considered to be an expert on technology issues and general aviation policy. He also chaired the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Jane Knitzer, acting director of the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, will speak in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Jan. 23.
Knitzer's talk, titled "School Readiness for the More Unready Young Children: Facing the Challenge," will be held 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Rm. 102, Becton Center, 15 Prospect St. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, call (203) 432-9935.
A psychologist, Knitzer has concentrated her career studying policy research and analysis of issues affecting children and families, including mental health, child welfare and early childhood. She has served on the faculty at Cornell University, New York University and Bank Street College for Education. Prior to that, she worked for numerous years at the Children's Defense Fund.
Knitzer's work at NCCP focuses on broad efforts to improve outcomes for low-income young children and families. She directs NCCP's Let's Invest in Families Today initiative. She developed NCCP's Map and Track report series, which tracks state-by-state policies and practices affecting young children and families.
Knitzer currently focuses her research on exploring the policy and practice challenges of promoting school readiness in young children and families experiencing multiple risk factors, especially domestic violence, substance abuse and depression.
Knitzer is the recipient of the first Distinguished Contribution to Child Advocacy Award from the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Stanley F. Wainapel, clinical director of rehabilitation medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and professor of clinical rehabilitation at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, will speak to the Disability and Bioethics Working Research Group on Monday, Jan. 26.
Wainapel will discuss "Pushing the Envelope: the Professional and Personal Challenges of a Physician Who Happens To Be Blind" at noon in the auditorium of the Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave.
During his talk, Wainapel will present a brief biographical sketch of his current professional and avocational activities with emphasis on how they are accommodated in the face of severe vision loss; a review of the technological and attitudinal barriers faced by health care professionals with disabilities; and a discussion of the role of self-disclosure as a therapeutic strategy for professionals who have physical disabilities.
An actively practicing and academically based psychiatrist for almost 30 years, Wainapel is the author of more than 60 publications on topics ranging from vision rehabilitation to alternative medicine, performing arts medicine, and physical disability among physicians.
He has lectured in the United States, Canada and Japan, and was recently profiled on NBC's "Today Show."
Marcia Pointon, professor emerita at
the University of Manchester, honorary research fellow at the Courtauld Institute and visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, will deliver this year's Paul Mellon Lectures on Tuesday, Jan. 27, Wednesday, Jan. 28, Thursday, Jan. 29, Tuesday, Feb. 3 and Wednesday, Feb. 4.
The title of the five-part lecture series is "Brilliant Effects: Jewelry and Its Images in English Visual Culture, 1700-1880." The lectures will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. The lectures are free and open to the public, but seating is limited to 200.
Pointon will discuss "Fault Lines and Points of Light: What Have History and Art To Do with Jewels?" on Jan. 27; "Portraits as Jewels: Bridging Distances in Visual and Material Culture" on Jan. 28; "Jewelry as Excess: Luxurious Expenditure and the Imagery of the Tragic Heroine" on Jan. 29; "Jewelry and Transvaluation: On Shrines, Museums and Protestant Painting" on
Feb. 3; and "Slime, Diamonds and Snow: Jewels, Gender and Morality in Ruskin and His Contemporaries" on Feb. 4.
Pointon is the author of "Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England" and "Strategies for Showing: Women, Possession and Representation in English Visual Culture 1665-1800."
Currently, Pointon is working on a new book on the display culture of jewels and jewelry in 18th- and 19th-century Europe. This book is based on her 2000 Paul Mellon Lectures, which were sponsored by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and were given at the National Gallery in London.
Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff, senior research associate at the National Center for Children in Poverty, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, will speak in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on
Friday, Jan. 30.
Her talk, titled "The Controversy Over Corporal Punishment: What Are the Roles of Social Science and Social Policy?" will begin at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 102, Becton Center, 15 Prospect St. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, call (203) 432-9935.
Gershoff's research interests include tracking the dynamic effects of poverty and material hardship on young children over time, evaluating the long-term effectiveness of a violence prevention program on adolescents, and determining whether and how parental corporal punishment may have negative effects on children.
She is also principal investigator on a grant "Youth Violence in Multilevel Neighborhood Context," awarded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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School readiness to be focus of social policy lecture
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