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Human rights movement subject of Sherrill Lecture
Aryeh Neier, president of the Open Society Institute (OSI), will deliver the Sherrill Lecture on Monday, March 1.
Neier will speak on "The Role of the International Human Rights Movement in World Affairs: Past, Present and Future," 4:30-6 p.m. in Rm. 127, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. Sponsored by the Law School dean's office, the talk is free and open to the public.
Neier, who joined the OSI and the Soros foundations network as president in 1993, previously spent 12 years as executive director of Human Rights Watch, an organization that he co-founded. Prior to that, he worked for the American Civil Liberties Union for 15 years, and served as national director for eight of those years.
An internationally recognized expert on human rights, Neier has conducted investigations of human rights abuses in more than 40 countries around the world. He played a leading role in thae establishment of the international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the former Yugoslavia.
Over the past 20 years, Neier has been directly engaged in the global debate on accountability and bringing to justice those who have committed crimes against humanity. His latest book, "Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights," is based on his experiences.
Neier is the author of six books, including "Dossier: The Secret Files They Keep on You," "Crime and Punishment: A Radical Solution," "Defending My Enemy: American Nazis in Skokie, Illinois, and the Risks of Freedom" and "War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror and the Struggle for Justice."
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham will read from his works on Monday, March 1.
The event will take place at 7 p.m. in the Taft Library, Jonathan Edwards College,
68 High St. The reading, sponsored by the Department of English and Jonathan Edwards College, is free and open to the public.
Cunningham received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his book "The Hours." The movie version of the book went on to win the Golden Globe winner for Best Picture and was nominated for nine Academy Awards.
Cunningham's work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Yorker and DoubleTake. He is the author of "A Home at the End of the World," which was recently made into a film directed by Michael Mayer and starring Colin Farrell and Robin Wright Penn; "Flesh and Blood"; "Land's End: A Walk Through Provincetown"; and "White Angel," which was chosen for Best American Short Stories 1999.
In 1993, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1988 and a Michener Fellowship from the University of Illinois in 1982.
This year's Blanksteen Lecture will be given by author James Carroll on Tuesday, March 2.
Carroll will speak in a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. at the Slifka Center, 80 Wall St.
Carroll was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1969 and served as Catholic chaplain at Boston University until 1974, when he left the priesthood to become a writer. In 1976 he published his first novel, "Madonna Red," which was translated into seven languages. Since then he has published nine novels, including The New York Times best sellers "Mortal Friends," "Family Trade" and "Prince of Peace." His novel "The City Below" was a New York Times Notable Book of 1994.
Carroll's memoir, "An American Requiem: God, My Father and the War that Came Between Us," received the 1996 National Book Award in non-fiction. His book "Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History," published in 2001, was a New York Times best seller, was honored as one of the Best Books of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times and was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. His tenth novel, "Secret Father," was published in 2003 to critical acclaim.
Carroll, whose weekly op-ed column has run in the Boston Globe since 1992, also lectures widely on Jewish-Christian reconciliation, on Catholic reform and on the question of war and peace. He is a regular participant in ongoing Jewish-Christian-Muslim encounters at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
Saybrook College will host a visit by Myron H. Thompson, chief judge for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama in Montgomery, Alabama, on Wednesday, March 3.
Thompson will be the guest at a lunch at 1 p.m. in the Fellow's Lounge, Saybrook College, 242 Elm St. At 4 p.m. he will talk at a master's tea at the Saybrook College master's house.
Thompson was appointed to the federal bench in 1980, and became the first African American appointed to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. He became chief judge in February of 1991, becoming the first African-American chief judge of any U.S. District Court in the State of Alabama.
Thompson received both his undergraduate and law degrees from Yale. After graduating from the Law School, Thompson returned to Alabama, beginning his professional career as assistant attorney general. He was the first African-American assistant attorney general in Alabama's history.
Prior to assuming the federal bench, Thompson had served as a municipal judge, performed public service legal work, and had a varied practice in criminal and civil law.
Dr. Dan G. Blazer, the J.P. Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and professor of community and family medicine at Duke University, will speak to the Aging Research Seminar on Wednesday, March 3.
Titled "Minor Depression: An Epidemiologic and Clinical Challenge in Geriatrics," Blazer's lecture will take place at noon in Rm. 206, Boyer Center, 295 Congress Ave. The seminar is sponsored by the Yale Program on Aging and the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale.
A geriatric psychiatrist and epidemiologist, Blazer is the author or editor of 29 books, over 150 published abstracts, 280 peer-reviewed articles and 120 book chapters on depression, epidemiology and consultation liaison psychiatry, especially with the elderly.
Blazer has served as the principal investigator of several studies addressing the physical and mental health of the elderly. His research interests include the use of statistical modeling in the identification of psychiatric syndromes and the methodology of both clinical and community-based epidemiologic studies.
Blazer's many honors and awards include fellowship in the American College of Psychiatry. Earlier this year, he was the recipient of the inaugural Geriatric Psychiatry Research Award from the American College of Psychiatrists.
In addition, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences in 1995, and is currently president-elect of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry.
Dr. Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven, the Henry R. Luce Professor of Health and Human Rights at Trinity College, will deliver the next lecture in the Race, Health and Medicine Lecture Series on Wednesday, March 3.
Titled "Race Patriots: Science and Medicine in Apartheid South Africa," Baldwin-Ragaven's lecture will begin at 11 a.m. in Rm. 313, Gordon Parks Seminar Room, 493 College St.
Previously, Baldwin-Ragaven taught in the Department of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. From 1997-1999, Baldwin-Ragaven was a research fellow with the Cape Town-based Health and Human Rights Project.
Baldwin-Ragaven co-convened the Dual Loyalty Project with colleagues from the UCT and Physicians for Human Rights. A three-year international project funded by the Greenwall Foundation, the project resulted in the publication of "Dual Loyalty & Human Rights in Health Professional Practice: Proposed Guidelines and Institutional Mechanisms."
She co-edited "An Ambulance of the Wrong Colour: Health Professionals, Human Rights and Ethics in South Africa," which received a meritorious book award from the UCT in 2001.
Prior to working in Africa, Laurel was employed in Canada, and focused her efforts on promoting the larger social and political context of medical practice, particularly with regard to violence against women, integration of immigrants and refugees, and adolescent health issues.
Democratic pollster Celinda Lake will deliver the next lecture in the series on "Politics and the Environment in the 2004 Election Cycle" on Thursday, March 4.
Lake will discuss "Do Americans Care About the Environment? A Democratic Perspective" at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 205 Prospect St. The talk is free and the public is invited to attend. For more information, contact Heather Kaplan at (203) 776-5363 or heather.kaplan@yale.edu.
Lake is president of Lake, Snell, Perry & Associates Inc., which provides research on issues including the economy, environment, health care and campaign finance reform. The firm's clients include the AFL-CIO, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Human Rights Campaign and the Kaiser Foundation.
Lake is also a pollster for U.S. News and World Report. She is one of the Democratic party's leading political strategists, serving as tactician and senior adviser to the national party committees and Democratic incumbents and challengers at all levels of government. During the 1992 election cycle, Lake oversaw focus group research for the Clinton/Gore campaign.
In past election cycles, Lake served as pollster for numerous politicians, including Governor Gary Locke of Washington state, the first Asian-American governor in the country; Patricia Madrid, the first female Hispanic attorney general in New Mexico; and Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
Marco Arcelli, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Enel North America, will visit the campus on Wednesday,
March 4.
Arcelli will discuss "Enel and the Renewable Energy Market in North America and Europe" at 4:15 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect. A reception will follow. The talk, which is sponsored by the Yale Industrial Environmental Management (IEM) Program at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), is free and open to the public. For further information, contact IEM at (203) 432-6953 or iem@yale.edu.
As the president and CEO of Enel North America, Arcelli is responsible for the operations of about 350 megawatts of renewable energy plants in the United States and Canada.
Based in Italy, Enel is one of the world's largest publicly traded utilities. The company is a leading owner and operator of renewable energy plants in North America, with plants in 16 states and two Canadian provinces.
Previously, Arcelli was the executive assistant of the CEO of Enel with direct responsibilities for strategic and operational issues. Before joining Enel, he held positions in GE Power Systems and GE Capital Structured Finance Group in the United States and Italy.
The IEM Spring Lecture Series is supported by the Joel Omura Kurihara Fund. Joel Kurihara, F&ES Class of 1992, was committed to improving business and environmental relations and the type of dialogue this series seeks to advance.
Russell H. Taylor, director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, will speak to the Technology and Ethics working research group on Wednesday, March 3.
Taylor will discuss "Computer Integrated Surgery: Coupling Information to Action in the 21st Century" at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. A workshop will take place from 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m., and will be followed by a dinner and a discussion period from 5:45 p.m. to
7 p.m. For reading materials and dinner reservations, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Since 1995, Taylor has also served on The Johns Hopkins University faculty as a professor of computer science, with joint appointments in radiology and mechanical engineering.
Taylor's research has focused on the impact of computer-integrated surgery (CIS) and the impact that it will have on medicine in the next 20 years. He believes that "a novel partnership between human surgeons and machines, made possible by advances in computing and engineering technology, will overcome many of the limitations of traditional surgery. By extending human surgeons' ability to plan and carry out surgical interventions more accurately and less invasively, CIS systems will address a vital national need to greatly reduce costs, improve clinical outcomes, and improve the efficiency of health care delivery."
At Johns Hopkins, Taylor has worked on all aspects of CIS systems, including modeling, registration and robotics in areas including percutaneous local therapy, microsurgery and computer-assisted bone cancer surgery.
Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), will deliver Grand Rounds in the Department of Psychiatry on Friday, March 5.
Volkow's talk, titled "Why Does the Brain Become Addicted?," will begin at 10:15 a.m. in the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) auditorium,
34 Park St. The talk is open to the Yale community only.
Volkow's main area of interest is the investigation of the mechanisms underlying the reinforcing, addictive and toxic properties of drugs of abuse in the human brain. Volkow was the first to use imaging to investigate the neurochemical changes in the human brain that occur during drug addiction. Her studies have documented a decrease in function of the dopamine system in addicted subjects that is associated with a disruption in function of frontal brain regions involved in motivation and drive.
Volkow's work has also focused on the investigation of the neurochemical mechanisms responsible for inter-subject variability in response to drugs of abuse and its potential link to vulnerability to drug abuse and alcoholism.
Volkow has authored or co-authored more than 280 peer-reviewed publications, three edited books, and more than 50 book chapters and non-peer reviewed manuscripts. She has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine in the National Academy of Sciences. In 2000, Volkow was named "Innovator of the Year" by U.S. News and World Report.
Internationally renowned poet, author and speaker David Whyte will come to campus as part of the series on "Spirit at Work."
Whyte will lead two events on March 5. The first, "Finding the Soul in the Workplace," will take place 9-11 a.m. at Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The second, an intensive workshop titled "Courage & Conversation for a New Workplace," will be held 1-4 p.m. in the GM Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. Seating is limited for both events, and registration and a fee are required. The registration fee includes a copy of one of Whyte's books or tapes. For more information or to register, call (203) 432-5660
or visit the website at www.yale.edu/learningcenter. The series is co-sponsored by the Organizational Development and Learning Center and the Yale Divinity School.
The author of four books of poetry, Whyte is one of the few poets to take his perspectives on creativity into the field of organizational development.
In organizational settings, Whyte uses poetry and commentary to illustrate how employees can increase creativity and adaptability in the workplace. In corporate settings, he uses poetry to bring an understanding of the process of change, helping clients to understand individuals and organizational creativity.
Whyte has worked with both American and international companies. His clients have included Boeing, Kodak and the Washington State Hospital Association.
T H I S
Author of 'The Hours'
to give a reading on campus
Award-winning novelist
to deliver Blanksteen Lecture
Alabama chief justice
to visit the campus
Geriatric depression focus of Aging Research Seminar
Medicine and science in
South Africa to be examined
Democratic pollster will explore politics and the environment
Market for renewable energy topic of F&ES lecture
Bioethics lecture will explore
computer-integrated surgery
Director of NIDA to examine
the brain and addiction
Renowned poet to lead
'Spirit at Work' series
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