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Acclaimed novelist is next Schlesinger Visiting Writer
The John-Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund will host a master's tea and a reading by the novelist Caryl Phillips on Monday, Feb. 9.
Phillips will speak at 4 p.m. at Ezra Stiles College master's house, 9 Tower Parkway. At 7 p.m., he will read from his works in Rm. 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Both events are open to the public free of charge.
Phillips is the author of seven books that, taken together, have been hailed by Time magazine as "one of the literature's great meditations on race and identity." "A Distant Shore," Phillips latest novel, is a departure from his earlier works in that it is set in the present. The novel centers on the relationship between a retired white English schoolteacher and a young African immigrant who moves in next to her. They form an unlikely friendship based on their feelings of isolation. Through the intersection of their lives, Phillips explores the concept of national identity and its often violent impact on individual lives.
Phillips has also written plays, television dramas and a movie, Merchant-Ivory's "The Mystic Masseur." He has edited a tennis anthology and is currently a teacher at Columbia University's Barnard College.
The John-Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund was established in 1999 by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schlesinger of Pound Ridge, New York, in order to enrich the experience of student writers in Yale College by supporting annual visits to campus by distinguished or emerging authors.
Martha N. Hill, dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, will deliver the keynote address at The Yale Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care's 6th Annual Convocation of the Yale School of Nursing on Monday, Feb. 9.
Hill will discuss "Strategies to Reduce Racial and Cultural Disparities in Health Care." The program, which will begin at
4 p.m., will take place in the lecture hall, Rm. 118, Yale School of Nursing, 100 Church Street South, and will be followed by a reception and the presentation of Excellence in Caring Awards. The convocation is free and open to the public, but reservations are required; contact Nancy DeMatteo at (203) 737-5501.
A faculty member in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing since 1980, Hill also holds academic appointments in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Hill served as the president of the American Heart Association from 1997 to 1998 as the only non-physician in that role.
A member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Hill is internationally known for her research in preventing and treating hypertension and its complications, particularly among young, urban African-American men.
Chess grand master Maurice Ashley will be the guest at a master's tea on Monday, Feb. 9.
Ashley will speak at 4 p.m. in the Saybrook College master's house, 60 High St.
Considered to be the "Tiger Woods of chess," Jamaican-born Ashley made history when he became the first and only African-American to attain the title of International Grand Master of Chess in 1999. This accomplishment gained media coverage in Time magazine, The New York Times and Sports Illustrated, among others.
Ashley has made appearances on The Charlie Rose Show, CBS News This Morning, National Public Radio, CNN and Bloomberg Radio.
Ashley served as commentator for such chess competitions as the Man vs. Machine match (Kasparov vs. Deep Blue) in 1996, the IBM Kasparov vs. Deep Blue rematch in 1997, and a number of world championship matches.
Ashley was coach of the Raging Rooks of Harlem, 1991 winners of the National Junior High School Championships. He also coached the Dark Knights from Harlem, who won the national championship in the junior varsity division in 1994 and 1995, and overall are six-time national champions.
The designer of "Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess," an award-winning chess tutorial for CD-ROM, Ashley opened the Harlem Chess Center in 1999. The center has attracted such celebrities as the New York Knicks' Larry Johnson, jazz musician Wynton Marsalis and actor Will Smith.
In 2003, Maurice was named Grandmaster of the Year by the U.S. Chess Federation.
Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute and Worldwatch Institute, will speak on campus on Wednesday, Feb. 11.
Brown's talk, titled "Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble," will begin at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), 205 Prospect St. The talk is sponsored by the Coalition for Agriculture, Food and the Environment at F&ES. For more information, contact Pilar Montalvo at (203) 432-6865.
The Earth Policy Institute, an independent, nonprofit research institute, focuses on building an eco-economy.
Brown is the author of numerous books including "Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth," in which he calls for the design of a profitable economy that accurately reflects the social cost of abusing natural resources, and "Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble," where he addresses the need for a worldwide mobilization to stabilize population and climate before they spiral out of control.
The Earth Policy Institute created the "Environmental Alert" book series, based on a book that Brown co-authored, titled "Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy." Brown is the recipient of many prizes and awards, including the 1994 Blue Planet Prize for his "exceptional contributions to solving global environmental problems."
John Podesta, chief of staff for former President Bill Clinton, will deliver a lecture on Thursday, Feb. 12.
Podesta's lecture, titled "The Environment as a Part of Democratic Political Strategy," will take place at noon in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 205 Prospect St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Podesta was chief of staff from 1998 until 2001, and was responsible for directing, managing and overseeing all policy development, daily operations, congressional relations and staff activities of the White House.
He coordinated the work of cabinet agencies and oversaw the development of federal budget and tax policy, and served in the president's cabinet and as a principal on the National Security Council.
Podesta also served the Clinton Administration as both an assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff from 1997 to 1998. During President Clinton's first term in office, Podesta served as assistant to the president, staff secretary and a senior policy adviser on government information, privacy, telecommunications security and regulatory policy.
In 1988, Podesta co-founded Podesta Associates Inc., a government relations and public affairs firm in Washington, D.C.
Podesta is the president and chief executive officer of the Center for American Progress and a visiting professor of law on the faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center.
Chair and chief executive officer of 3M, W. James McNerney Jr., will visit the campus as the next Gordon Grand Fellow on Thursday, Feb.12.
McNerney will be the guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. in the common room, Branford College, 80 High St.
McNerney will discuss what his career and life experiences have taught him about the dynamics of leadership and learning.
Earlier in his career, McNerney held numerous positions with General Electric (GE). He was president and chief executive officer (CEO) of GE Aircraft Engines from 1997-2000 and president and CEO of GE Lighting in Ohio from 1995 to 1997. He served as president of GE Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong from 1993 to 1995 and president and CEO of GE Electrical Distribution & Control from 1991 to 1992.
Prior to that, McNerney was executive vice president of GE Financial Services and GE Capital from 1989 to 1991. From 1988 to 1989, he was president of GE Information Services.
McNerney is currently director of The Boeing Company and the Greater Twin Cities United Way. He is a member of the advisory board of Kellogg Graduate School of Management, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and the Business Council.
Holocaust survivor David Gewirtzman, and Jacqueline Murekatete, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, will speak about their experiences on Thursday, Feb. 12.
"Fighting Hate Across Cultures and Generations" is the title of their talk, which will take place at 7 p.m. in a location to be announced. For further information, contact Ali Almani at almani@yale.edu. Sponsored by Humanity in Action, the Afro-American Cultural Center and Hillel, the talk is free and the public is invited to attend.
Murekatete and Gewirtzman appear together frequently, describing their experiences escaping mass killings in Rwanda and Poland.
Gewirtzman survived the Holocaust by spending almost two years burrowed with other members of his family under a pigsty on a Polish farm.
Gewirtzman met Murekatete while speaking at her high school. She later wrote him a note relating her experience in the Rwandan genocide. In 1994, she narrowly escaped being murdered by a rival tribe. Her family -- both parents and all six siblings -- did not.
After hearing her story, Gewirtzman suggested she begin speaking to groups with him.
"We are as different as can be," he tells the students they speak to. "She's black, I'm white; she's young, I'm old; she's African and Christian and I'm a Jew from Poland. Yet we're like brother and sister, because we're bound by the common trauma of our experience and a common history of pain and suffering and persecution."
T H I S
Keynote address to examine
disparities in health care
Master's tea to feature
Chess grand master
'Rescuing a Planet Under Stress' topic of F&ES talk
Lecture will explore
the environment and politics
CEO of 3M to be next
Gordon Grand Fellow
Black History Month event
to feature survivors' stories
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