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Celebrated composer to visit the campus
World-renowned Scottish composer James MacMillan will be in residence at the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) and the School of Music during the week of April 5.
On Tuesday, April 6, at 3 p.m., MacMillan will lead a master class in which Nathan Carterette will perform MacMillan's "Piano Sonata" in Sprague Memorial Hall, 470 College St. On Wednesday, April 7, MacMillan will speak on "The Healing of the Age: The Imperative To Place a Living Art Music at the Heart of Intellectual and Spiritual Renewal" at 3:30 p.m. in the Great Hall, ISM, 409 Prospect St. On Friday, April 9, MacMillan will conduct the Yale Schola Cantorum in a performance of his composition "Seven Last Words from the Cross." The concert will take place at 7 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets.
MacMillan's international career was launched with the premiere of "The Confession of Isobel Gowdie" at the BBC Proms in 1990. Another of his compositions, "Veni, Veni, Emmanuel," has been performed over 300 times by such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony.
Known internationally for his conducting, MacMillan was appointed composer/conductor with the BBC Philharmonic in 2000, and earlier this year was awarded a CBE. His most recent works include "A Deep but Dazzling Darkness" for solo violin and large ensemble, and "Symphony No. 3: Silence."
MacMillan's music has been featured at numerous international music festivals, including the Edinburgh Festival, the Bergen Festival and the South Bank Centre's "Raising Sparks" festival in London.
The "Race, Health and Medicine" speaker series will continue with a lecture by Nikolas Rose, professor of sociology and director of the BIOS Research Center for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society at the London School of Economics (LSE), on Monday, April 5.
Titled "Race in the Age of Genomic Medicine," Rose's lecture will begin at
11 a.m. in Rm. 313, Gordon Parks Seminar Rm., 493 College St. The talk is free and the public is invited to attend.
Rose joined the LSE in 2002 as professor of sociology and convenor of the Department of Sociology. He is managing editor of Economy and Society, a leading British journal of social sciences.
Rose has published widely on the social and political history of the human sciences and on changing rationalities and techniques of political power. His most recent books include "Governing the Soul" and "Powers of Freedom."
Rose's current research interests include biological and genetic psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience. His research focuses on the political, social and ethical implications of recent developments in the life sciences, notably molecular genetics, neuroscience and psychopharmacology. In particular, Rose is looking at the ways in which new types of chemical intervention into the human brain are changing ideas about normality and abnormality, about the distinction between cure and enhancement and about the border between illness and health.
On Monday, April 5, the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization will host a visit by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power.
Power will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 43 Hillhouse Ave. A book signing will follow the talk in the Common Rm. of Luce Hall. For more information, call (203) 432-1900.
A 1992 graduate of Yale College, Power is considered to be one of the most compelling speakers on the integration of consideration of human rights into American foreign policy through her work on genocide.
Power's book, "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide," won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Prize for the best book on U.S. foreign policy.
"A Problem from Hell" covers genocide in the 20th century and the U.S.'s responses to them. Power concludes that lack of political will on the part of America's leaders was the most significant factor in this country's failure to intervene in situations such as those faced by the Cambodians, the Rwandan Tutsies, the Iraqi Kurds and the Bosnians.
The founding director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy from 1998 to 2002, Rose is currently a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Presently, she is working on a book on the causes and consequences of historical amnesia in American foreign policy.
Sara Kiesler, Hillman Professor of Computer Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, will speak to the Technology and Ethics working group on Wednesday, April 7.
Kiesler's lecture, titled "On Robots, Computer Agents and Dogs," will take place 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 5:45-7 p.m. For reading materials and dinner reservations, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188.
Kiesler was among the first to conduct behavioral studies of how computers have changed communication and social relationships. She co-authored "Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization."
Previously, she has collaborated with Robert Kraut on HomeNet, the field study of families on the Internet, and has conducted studies of multidisciplinary collaborations and distributed work arrangements in organizations and science.
Kiesler is currently working on a project that examines the application of social science theory to designing more effective online communities. Another project is developing ways of using technology to improve highly complex collaborations in project-based organizations, hospitals and government services.
Her studies of human-robot interaction are aimed at understanding people's mental models of robots, and cognitive and social designs for effective interactions with autonomous personal robots. She also is collaborating on the NurseBot project to develop mobile, personal service robots to assist the elderly and chronically ill people.
Robert M. Morgenthau, district attorney for the County of New York, will visit the campus on Wednesday, April 7, as a Gordon Grand Fellow.
Morgenthau will discuss "Issues and Law Enforcement" at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 129, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. Sponsored by the Gordon Grand Fellowship, the talk is free and open to the public.
Morgenthau has served as district attorney for over eight years. During that time, he has developed a reputation as an effective opponent of tax-fraud, organized crime, corruption and white-collar crime. He established a special unit to investigate securities fraud and prosecuted highly publicized bribery cases against city officials and IRS attorneys and accountants.
After serving for four years in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Morgenthau enrolled at Yale Law School, graduating in 1948.
In 1961, after 12 years of practicing corporate law, Morgenthau was appointed United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Following the election of President Nixon in 1970, Morgenthau resigned from his post as United States attorney. He was first elected district attorney of New York County in 1974.
Morgenthau has received numerous awards and honors, including the Citation of Merit from the Yale Law School, the Emory Buckner Award from the Federal Bar Council and the Distinguished Public Service Award from the New York County Lawyers' Association.
An active member of the New York community, Morgenthau's civic activities include serving as chair of both the Police Athletic League and the Museum of Jewish Heritage -- A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.
Geraldo Rivera, war correspondent for FOX News Channel, will be the guest at a Calhoun College master's tea on Wednesday, April 7.
Rivera will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the master's house, Calhoun College, 434 College St. Seating is limited; and it is necessary to sign up for this event in the Calhoun College master's office.
Rivera, who joined FOX News Channel in November 2001 as a war correspondent, has been on the front lines in virtually every international conflict since 1973. His war experience has spanned the violent coup in Chile and the Yom Kippur War to the civil wars in Guatemala, the Philippines and Nicaragua.
Rivera previously served as host of CNBC's prime time show, "Rivera Live," where his critically acclaimed coverage of the O.J. Simpson civil trial verdict set an all-time CNBC ratings record.
Before becoming a member of the original cast of ABC's "Good Morning America," Rivera presented the first television broadcast of the Abraham Zapruder film of the assassination of President John Kennedy as host of ABC's "Good Night America." He then began an eight-year association with ABC's "20/20" as an investigative reporter before producing and hosting "The Geraldo Rivera Show" for 11 years.
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy journalism award (his third) for his NBC News documentary on women in prison, Rivera has received more than 170 awards for journalism, including the George Foster Peabody Award as well as three national and seven local Emmy Awards.
Noted Alaska women's historian June Namias will visit the campus on Thursday, April 8.
Namias' lecture, titled "Searching for Aleutian Encounters: British, Russians and the Women of Unalaska," will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 217A, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The talk is sponsored by the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders and is free and open to the public.
Namias, professor emerita of history at the University of Alaska, has been researching the history of Unangan or Aleut women and the impact of British and Russian "discovery" in that area since 1996.
Seeking to uncover the mid- to late-18th-century history of Unalaska, one of its largest and most historically significant Aleutian islands, Namias has worked with the documents, both written and drawn, of Captain Cook's third voyage, Russian materials, museum collections and folklore. She also visited the island several times and has done interviews with elder Unangan women.
Author of "White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier, 1607-1862," Namias has also edited a number of works written by women about their experiences on the frontier, including "Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees: A Narrative of Indian Captivity," by Sarah F. Wakefield.
T H I S
Genomic medicine subject of 'Race, Health and Medicine' talk
Pulitzer Prize-winning author
to discuss 'the age of genocide'
Computers and robots topic of technology and ethics talk
Gordon Grand Lecture
will focus on law enforcement
Renowned reporter Rivera
to be guest at master's tea
Lamar Center talk will explore history of Alaska women
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