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Best-selling author will present Calhoun College master's tea
Wendy Goldman Rohm, an award-winning investigative journalist, poet, playwright and best-selling author, will be the guest at a master's tea on Monday, Feb. 23.
Rohm will speak at 4:30 p.m. at the master's house, Calhoun College, 434 College St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Rohm has been a correspondent for numerous national and international newspapers and magazines, including The Financial Times of London, The Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, among others.
Rohm has worked as editor-at-large, managing editor, features editor and senior editor for a number of major publishers, including Ziff Davis and CMP Media.
Her first book, "The Microsoft File: The Secret Case Against Bill Gates," was published in 12 languages, and was on The New York Times best seller list. She currently is writing two books. The first, titled "Miracle Cells: Adventures on the Front Lines of a New Science," is a non-fiction thriller. The second book, with a working title of "Love's Cure," is a poetic consideration of areas of science that have defied measurement.
Rohm has directed professionally for the stage at Chicago's Organic Theatre, and has acted professionally at Chicago's Victory Gardens and the Organic Theatre, among others. She has served for more than a decade as producer and artistic director for Chicago's Element Theatre Company, which has produced numerous Chicago premieres and new plays.
Alexis Keller, the man who initiated and facilitated the Geneva Accord, the unofficial peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians, will present an open lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 24.
Keller will speak at 4 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Sponsored by the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, the session will feature Keller, who will be introduced by Ernesto Zedillo, director of the center, followed by comments from Yale faculty members Abbas Amanat, professor of Middle East history, Ellen Lust-Okar, assistant professor of political science, and Gustav Ranis, director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. The lecture is free and the public is invited to attend. For more information, call (203) 432-1900.
Keller, an associate professor at the University of Geneva, teaches European political theory of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Keller worked with Yossi Beilin, the former Israeli justice minister, and Yasser Abed Rabbo, former information minister for the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian delegation head, in secret negotiations that resulted in a 50-page accord that was signed in 2003.
Odessa Piper, executive chef of Wisconsin-based L'Etoile, will visit the campus on Tuesday, Feb. 24.
Piper will discuss "Creativity of Necessity and Spirit of Place: Cooking North of the 42nd Parallel Within a Regionally Reliant Framework" at 4 p.m. in the Marsh Hall rotunda, 360 Prospect Street. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Yale Coalition for Agriculture, Food and the Environment. For more information, contact Maura Leahy at (203) 988-7703 or maura.leahy@yale.edu.
Winner of the 2001 James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Midwest, Piper has been serving locally grown, seasonal cuisine for over 25 years. Her menus are primarily composed from local ingredients that are cultivated throughout the year in their native and adapted soils. Her cuisine has been featured in Gourmet, Sierra Magazine, Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Wine Spectator and The New York Times, as well as on National Public Radio.
Piper is a guest lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and the International Women's Forum.
Daniel Yergin, chair of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, will speak in the Grand Strategy Lecture Series on Wednesday, Feb. 25.
Titled "Grand Strategy and American Energy Policy," Yergin's talk will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be given in memory of Henry C. Bayer.
A 1968 graduate of Yale College, Yergin received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his work "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power," which became a national best seller and was made into an eight-hour PBS/BBC series. Yergin is also the recipient of the United States Energy Award for "lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding."
"The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy," a book that Yergin co-authored with Joseph Stanislaw, president of CERA, has been translated into 13 languages and made into a six-hour PBS/BBC documentary. The latter received three Emmy nominations, a CINE Golden Eagle Award and the New York Festivals Gold World Medal for best documentary.
A member of the board of the United States Energy Association, Yergin is also a member of the National Petroleum Council. In addition, he is a member of the U.S. Secretary of Energy's advisory board, and a director of the U.S.-Russian Business Council and the New America Foundation.
Calhoun College will host a master's tea with Major General Doron Almog, commander of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Southern Command, on Wednesday, Feb. 25.
Almog will speak at 4 p.m. at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Almog joined the Israel Defense Forces in 1969, volunteering in the Paratroop Brigade, where he served in all command roles, from platoon commander to brigade commander.
In 1996, Almog was appointed head of the Doctrine and Training Division at General Headquarters (GHQ). There, he established annual, strategy-defining doctrinal seminars, as well as a simulation game system.
Almog led the development of a doctrinal framework in cooperation with the Pentagon net-assessment team, considering innovation and experimentation for future force build-ups, to the mutual benefit of the United States and Israel. This system has become a fundamental tool in strategic operations and an essential decision making component in the IDF.
At GHQ, Almog also raised awareness of the need to develop the IDF's educational system, for example, bringing the information revolution to all training bases.
In 1998, Almog was appointed to the position of Corps Commander and promoted to the rank of Major General.
Almog was named commander of the IDF's Southern Command in 2000.
David Dinkins, former mayor of New York City, will be the guest at a Saybrook College master's tea on Wednesday, Feb. 25.
Dinkins will speak at 4 p.m. at the Saybrook College master's house, 90 High St.
Dinkins was elected mayor of New York City in 1989, the first African American to be elected to that post. He served for one term (1990-1993). During that time, he focused on crime and problems of racial inequality and initiated a program called "Safe Streets, Safe City: Cops and Kids," reducing crime and expanding opportunities for New York's children. He championed issues such as drug abuse prevention, AIDS, housing and education.
Dinkins has focused his career on working to empower poor people and minorities. Elected to the New York State Assembly in 1966, he helped create the Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge program, which provides grants and educational assistance to low-income students. He established guidelines that encouraged wider voter registration as president of the New York City Board of Elections, a post he held from 1975 until he became the president of the borough of Manhattan in 1985.
The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Borders and Frontiers will host a lecture by Donald Craig Mitchell, former vice president and general counsel of the Alaska Federation of Natives, on Thursday, Feb. 26.
Mitchell will discuss "Why History Counts: Alaska Natives and Federal Indian Policy from 1880 to 1971" at 4 p.m. in
Rm. 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The talk is free and the public is invited to attend.
Mitchell represented Alaska natives in a variety of issues ranging from state and federal regulation of subsistence hunting and fishing to Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service delivery problems.
On behalf of native groups, Mitchell filed and litigated Kokechik Fishermen's Association v. Secretary of Commerce in 1989. Kokechik prevented the Reagan administration from issuing a permit to the Japanese salmon fishery to entangle and drown marine mammals within the United States 200-mile exclusive economic zone. The Kokechik injunction accelerated the successful effort of the Alaska natives and the national environmental community to compel the federal government to take more vigorous action to end high seas drift net fishing.
Mitchell is the author of "Sold American: The Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land, 1867-1959," published in 1997, and "Take My Land Take My Life: The Story of Congress's Historic Settlement of Alaska Native Land Claims, 1960-1971," which was published in 2001.
Kellyanne Conway, president and chief executive officer of the Polling Company Inc. in Washington, D.C., will deliver a lecture on Thursday, Feb. 26, as part of a series on "Politics and the Environment in the 2004 Election Cycle."
Conway will discuss "Do Americans Care About the Environment?" at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 205 Prospect St. The talk is free and open to the public.
A Republican pollster, Conway founded the Polling Company Inc. in 1995. The firm specializes in survey research, focus groups and strategic counsel for political, corporate, legal and public affairs clients.
Conway appears regularly on CNN,
C-SPAN, National Empowerment Television, MTV, and several network news broadcasts. Her writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Review and Campaigns & Elections.
Ladies' Home Journal magazine named her "A Rising Star of Politics" in 1996, and Swing Magazine named her one of the "30 Most Influential Twentysomethings in America."
Milner Ball of the University of Georgia School of Law will deliver the Robert M. Cover Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 26.
Ball will speak on "Non-Religious Practice of Belief in Law and Elsewhere" at
4 p.m. at the Slifka Center, 80 Wall St. Sponsored by the Robert M. Cover Lectureship in Law and Religion, and co-sponsored by the Law School and the Slifka Center, the talk is open to the public free of charge.
Ball, the Harmon W. Caldwell Professor of Constitutional Law, has served on the faculty of the University of Georgia since 1978. He is also an ordained Presbyterian minister. He specializes in the areas of law and religion, constitutional law, Native American law and jurisprudence.
A well-known scholar of law and religion, Ball is the author of several books, including "Called by Stories: Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law," "The Word and the Law" and "Lying Down Together." He is the author of more than 50 articles and numerous book chapters and book reviews.
An ardent proponent of public interest efforts, Ball has worked closely with students on a number of social justice causes. He established the Public Interest Practicum in 1992, which developed into the University of Georgia School of Law's Civil Clinic Program in 1996.
The 44th annual Edward H. Hume Memorial Lecture will be given by Roderick MacFarquhar, chair of the Government Department and the Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, on Thursday, Feb. 26.
MacFarquhar will explore "China in Transition" at 4 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. A reception will follow in the second floor Common Room of Luce Hall. The talk, sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, is free and open to the public.
MacFarquhar's publications include "The Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals," "The Sino-Soviet Dispute," "China Under Mao," "The Forbidden City," and "The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Part I, II, and III." He is currently working on a book on the Cultural Revolution.
MacFarquhar was the founding editor of The China Quarterly, and has been a fellow at Columbia University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Royal Institute for International Affairs. Previously, he was a journalist and China specialist at The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, a TV commentator and a member of Parliament.
Academy Award-winning producer Mark Johnson will speak at a master's tea on Thursday, Feb. 26.
Johnson will speak at 4:30 p.m. at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College. St.
Johnson, who is currently an independent producer, won an Academy Award for his work on the Best Picture winner "Rain Man," and earned an Oscar nomination for "Bugsy." He was also honored with Golden Globe Awards for each. Both films were directed by Barry Levinson, with whom Johnson has had a long association that began with the director's debut film "Diner," for which Johnson was executive producer. He has also produced many of Levinson's other films, including "The Natural," "Young Sherlock Holmes," "Tin Men" and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
Johnson, along with Levinson, also presented the 1990 Oscar-winning foreign language film "Journey of Hope" and the acclaimed political satire "Bob Roberts."
Johnson's other producing credits include the science fiction comedy "Galaxy Quest," "My Dog Skip," "Donnie Brasco," "A Little Princess" and "A Perfect World."
Earlier in his career, he served as executive producer on Steven Soderbergh's "Kafka," Glenn Gordon Caron's "Wilder Napalm" and "Sniper," which was Luis Llosa's directorial debut.
John Walsh, the director emeritus of the
J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, will deliver the second and third in a series of four Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lectures on "Art and the Work of Architecture" on Thursday, Feb. 26, and Wednesday, March 3.
Walsh will give a lecture titled "'A Building Is a Struggle Not a Miracle': Architects Take On Museums," on Feb. 26 at 5:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. The third lecture in the series, "'Either You're a Museum or You're Modern': Buildings for Recent Art," will take place on March 3. Sponsored by the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art, the lectures are free and open to the public.
An author and art historian, John Walsh is a 1961 graduate of Yale College. From 1983 to 2000, he was director of the J. Paul Getty Museum and oversaw the growth of the collections and, working with architect Richard Meier, the conception and construction of the Getty Center.
A recognized authority on Dutch paintings of the 17th century, Walsh has written extensively on the subject. His most recent books include "Jan Steen, The Drawing Lesson" and "The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections: A Museum for the New Century."
The Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture Series was established by Jane T. Ritchie to honor the memory of her husband, who was director of the Yale University Art Gallery from 1957 to 1971.
Doug Imig, director of The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis, will speak in the next Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture on Friday, Feb. 27.
Imig's talk, titled "Building a Social Movement for America's Children: What Explains the Glaring Gap Between Public Concern and Political Action When It Comes to Children's Well-Being?" 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.
Imig's research interests include social movements, public interest representation, community advocacy and citizen involvement. He currently has a grant from the W. T. Grant Foundation for a project studying America's children's movements.
Imig's publications include "Poverty and Power: The Political Representation of Poor Americans" and "Contentious Europeans: Voice and Representation in an Emerging Polity," co-edited with Sidney Tarrow.
Richard J. Powell, the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University, will join the Mitchell-Ruff Duo in a program sponsored by the Yale University Art Gallery on Friday, Feb. 27.
Titled "The Art of Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden: A Call and Response Lecture/Concert," the program will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the lecture hall at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. The event is free and open to the public.
Considered one of the country's leading scholars of African-American art, Powell received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1988. Among his numerous publications are "Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson" and "Black Art: A Cultural History." His lecture will focus on specific artworks by Lawrence and Bearden that depict historical events and musical subjects that evoke a rich legacy of African-American music.
Pianist Dwike Mitchell and bassist and French horn player Willie H. Ruff Jr. will present a musical "response" to the talk.
T H I S
Globalization talk will feature
initiator of Geneva Accord
Nationally recognized chef
to discuss regional cuisine
Yale alumnus to present
'grand strategy' lecture
Leader of Israeli Defense Forces to visit the campus
Former mayor of New York City
to speak at master's tea
Lamar Center talk to explore
history of Alaska natives
Republican pollster to discuss Americans and the environment
Law scholar to deliver
Cover Lecture
'China in transition'
is topic of Hume Lecture
Award-winning producer
to be guest at master's tea
Art historian to present
Carnduff Ritchie Lectures
Well-being of American children is subject of social policy talk
African-American art and music is theme of lecture and concert
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