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Disability rights advocate to give bioethics talk
Judith E. Heumann, adviser on disability and development for World Bank, will speak to the "Disability and Bioethics" working research group on Monday, April 19.
Heumann will discuss "Disability Rights Issues and the World Bank," noon-
1:30 p.m., in the Peabody Museum auditorium, 170 Whitney Ave. The talk is free and open to the public.
The head of her own consulting firm, Heumann & Associates, Heumann is an internationally recognized leader in the disability community and a lifelong civil rights advocate for disadvantaged people.
In 2002, Heumann was appointed as the World Bank's first adviser on disability and development. In this position, she leads the World Bank's disability work and develops programs that allow disabled people around the world to live and work in the economic and social mainstream of their communities.
Heumann served for eight years in the Clinton administration's Department of Education as the assistant secretary for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. She was responsible for national programs in special education, disability research, vocational rehabilitation and independent living, serving youth and adults with disabilities.
Heumann helped to design the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. In addition, she helped draft the Americans with Disabilities Act, Workforce Investment Act, Vocational Rehabilitation Act and the Assistive Technology Act.
A delegate to the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, Heumann co-founded the World Institute on Disability, a public policy research think tank devoted to disability issues.
On Monday, April 19, the Morgado Family Fund Fellowship and Calhoun College will host a visit by celebrated dancer and choreographer Mark Morris.
Morris will be the guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. "An Evening with Mark Morris," a public lecture, will begin
at 7:30 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
Morris, who formed the Mark Morris Dance Group in 1980, has since created over 100 works for the company.
From 19881991, he was director of dance at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the national opera house of Belgium. Among the works created during his tenure were three evening-length dances, "The Hard Nut," "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato" and "Dido and Aeneas."
In 1990, he founded the White Oak Dance Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Morris also has created four works for the San Francisco Ballet and has received commissions from such companies as the American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet.
Morris has worked extensively in opera, directing and choreographing productions for the New York City Opera, English National Opera and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
Named a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1991, Morris is the subject of a biography by Joan Acocella. His "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato: A Celebration," a volume of photographs and critical essays, was published in 2001.
Dr. Charles Weijer, associate professor and Canadian Institutes of Health Research investigator at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, will deliver two lectures on Wednesday, April 21, as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series.
Weijer will discuss "Towards a Synthesis of the Ethics and Epistemology of Clinical Research" at a noon seminar in the Peabody Museum auditorium, 170 Whitney Ave. In a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St., he will discuss "At the Crossroads of Science, Race and Community: Is Race-Based Medical Research Racist?" 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.
Weijer is the author of over 60 peer-reviewed articles, including papers on the protection of communities in research; the ethical analysis of benefits and harms in research; and the rehabilitation of equipoise. His work has been published in Science, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, among others.
In 2002, he was elected a fellow of the Hastings Center for distinguished contributions to bioethics.
Naoyuki Agawa, minister for public affairs at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C., will speak in the Council on East Asian Studies colloquium series on Wednesday, April 21.
"Japan's New Global Security Policy: From the Tiny Teardrop of Sri Lanka to the Devastated Town of Samawaat" is the title of Agawa's lecture, which will begin at 12:30 p.m. in Rm. 119, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.
Agawa began his career working as an associate and Asian partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C., before taking a position as counsel at Nishimura & Partners in Tokyo.
Agawa has taught on the law faculties of Doshisha University, University of Virginia Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, and most recently as a professor at Keio University.
A member of the bar in New York, Washington, D.C., and in Japan, Agawa also serves as a member of the U.S.-Japan Study Group at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan.
Agawa's numerous publications include "Maritime Friendship: A History of the Relationship Between the Japan Maritime Defense Force and the United States Navy," "Have You Found America? Post WWII Period" and "To America with de Tocqueville."
Paula J. Dobriansky, under secretary for global affairs in the U.S. Department of State, will visit the campus as a Zucker Environmental Fellow on Wednesday, April 21.
Dobriansky will give a public lecture on sustainability titled "Working to Promote Sustainable Development through Partnerships" at 2:30 p.m. in Rm. 119, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. She will give a master's tea at 4 p.m. in the Jonathan Edwards College master's house, 70 High St. Both events are free and open to the public.
Dobriansky was appointed in 2001 as under secretary of state for global affairs. In this position, she is responsible for a broad range of foreign policy issues, including democracy, human rights, labor, counter-narcotics and law enforcement, refugee and humanitarian relief matters and environmental/scientific issues.
Prior to her appointment as under secretary, Dobriansky served as senior vice president and director of the Washington office of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Dobriansky's previous government appointments include serving as associate director for policy and programs at the U.S. Information Agency, deputy assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs, and director of European and Soviet affairs at the National Security
Council.
Dobriansky has written and lectured extensively on foreign affairs-related topics, ranging from U.S. human rights policy to East European foreign and defense policies.
The Zucker Fellowship was established in 1990 by gift of Yale College alumni from the Class of 1962 to bring a major scientist, public policy figure or author in the field of environmental studies to campus each year.
Physicist and arms control specialist Sidney Drell will visit the campus on Wednesday, April 21.
Drell's talk, titled "The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons and Their Proliferation," will begin at 4 p.m. in Davies Auditorium, 15 Prospect St. Co-sponsored by International Security Studies and the Faculty of Engineering, the talk is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture.
A faculty member of Stanford University since 1956, he is currently emeritus professor of theoretical physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
Drell, who is considered to be a leader in providing essential technical advice to the government on national security issues, focuses his research efforts on high-energy physics. He has carried out theoretical work on the use of the electromagnetic interactions as an experimental probe into the structure of protons and other strongly interacting particles.
In addition to publishing extensively in physics journals, Drell has co-authored two textbooks that have been widely translated, "Relativistic Quantum Mechanics" and "Relativistic Quantum Fields."
As chair of the U.S. Department of Energy's High Energy Physics Advisory Panel from 1974 to 1983, Drell helped guide long-range planning of the nation's high energy physics program.
In 2001, Drell was presented with the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award bestowed by
the U.S. intelligence community. He is
also one of 10 scientists honored by the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office as "founders of national reconnaissance as a space discipline."
Ben Schwegler, vice president and chief scientist at Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) Research and Development, will visit the campus on Thursday, April 22.
Schwegler will discuss "The Role of Information Technology and Productivity in Sustainable Development" at noon
in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall,
205 Prospect St. Lunch will be provided. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Yale Industrial Environmental Management Program at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. For further information contact Timothy DeCerbo at (203) 436-4421 or iem@yale.edu.
Schwegler and his team have developed integrated infrastructure models, which have resulted in a more efficient theme park and resort design, novel water treatment plants enabling the first closed-loop control of wastewater treatment plants, and next generation fireworks.
Schwegler has been involved in nearly all of Walt Disney Imagineering's construction projects for more than 21 years.
At WDI Research & Development, he directs the Environment, Materials and Infrastructure Group, where he created and manages the 4D Simulation-based Design Team that improves Disney's ability to simulate, predict and manage the product delivery process.
Robert Semple, environmental editor of The New York Times, will give a lecture as part of a series on "Politics and Environment in the 2004 Election Year" on Thursday, April 22.
Semple will discuss "Reflections and Predictions: A Historical Perspective on Environmental Issues in American Politics" at
4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 205 Prospect St. The talk is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Heather Kaplan at (203) 776-5363 or heather.kaplan@yale.edu.
A 1959 graduate of Yale College, Semple is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes. The first, awarded in 1966, was for his editorials on environmental issues. The second, which he received in 1996, was for his editorials on the environment.
Semple joined The New York Times in 1963 and has served in various reporting and editing positions. He was White House correspondent under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, served as London bureau chief in the mid-1970s and as foreign editor from 1977 to 1982. He then ran The New York Time's op-ed page for six years. Since 1988, he has been associate editor of the paper's editorial page. Semple also carries the title of chief editorial writer.
Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, The Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education at Harvard University and co-director of the Harvard Immigration Project, will speak in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, April 23.
Suarez-Orozco's talk, titled "Moving Stories: Immigrant Youth in Interdisciplinary Perspective," will be held 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.
Suarez-Orozco works in the areas of cultural psychology and psychological anthropology, with a focus on the study of immigration and globalization.
The author of numerous scholarly essays, books and edited volumes, Suarez-Orozco recently published the six-volume "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration," (with Carola Suarez-Orozco and Desiree Qin-Hilliard). In addition, he has co-authored "Latinos Remaking America" (with Mariela Paez), "Children of Immigration" (with Carola Suarez-Orozco) and "Cultures Under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma" (with Antonius C.G.M. Robben).
Presently, Suarez-Orozco is co-directing a comparative, interdisciplinary and longitudinal study of Asian, Afro-Caribbean and Latino immigrant children in American society, funded by the National Science Foundation's cultural anthropology division.
Saint Thomas More, the Catholic Chapel & Center, will host a visit by John T. Noonan Jr., senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth District, on Thursday, April 22.
Noonan will address changes in the moral teaching of the Catholic Church in two seminars and a lecture. He will speak on "The Church's Power to Dissolve Marriages" at 10:30 a.m. and "The Church and Slavery" in the 2 p.m. seminar. At 4:30 p.m., Noonan will deliver the Judge Guido Calabresi Fellowship in Religion and Law lecture, titled "A Church that Can Change and Cannot Change: The Development of Moral Doctrine." The events will take place in the Saint Thomas More Chapel, 268 Park St., and are free and open to the public. For information, call (203) 777-5537 or visit www.yale.edu/stm.
Prior to appointment to the bench, Noonan served on the special staff of the National Security Council. He taught law at the University of Notre Dame and at UC Berkeley, and has been visiting professor of theology at Boston College, Notre Dame and the Angelicum.
Noonan is the author of six legal works, including "Bribes," a history of the ideal of integrity in government; "The Responsible Judge," a study in judicial ethics; and "The Believer and the Powers that Are," on the interaction between government and religion.
Inaugurated in 2003, the annual Judge Guido Calabresi Fellowship in Religion and Law was established by an anonymous foundation in honor of Guido Calabresi, Sterling Professor Emeritus and former dean of Yale Law School. The fellowship aims to explore the intersection of religion and law.
Malcolm Baker, professor of the history of art and the history of collecting at the University of Southern California (USC), will give the Lewis Walpole Library Lecture on Friday, April 23.
Baker will speak on "The Faithless Column and the Crumbling Bust: Alexander Pope and Sculptural Portraiture" at 5:30 p.m. at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a reception.
Baker, who also serves as a special adviser to the Getty Project for the Study of Collecting and Provenance at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, directs the newly established USC-Getty Program in the History of Collecting and Display. He was formerly head of the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries Project at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London, an institution in which he had earlier been deputy head of research and assistant keeper of sculpture.
Baker's publications have mainly focused on the history of sculpture and the history of collecting. Among them are "A Grand Design," an exhibition catalogue about the history of the V&A's collections to accompany an exhibition shown in Baltimore, Boston and Toronto; "Figured in Marble. The Making and Viewing of Eighteenth-century Sculpture"; and (co-authored with David Bindman) "Roubiliac and the Eighteenth-Century Monument: Sculpture as Theatre," which was awarded the 1996 Mitchell Prize for the History of Art.
Baker is currently working on a book on the role of the portrait bust in 18th-century Britain.
Ronald F. Thiemann, professor of theology and of religion and society at Harvard Divinity School, will speak on campus on Sunday, April 25.
Thiemann will discuss "Can Lutherans Be Effective Public Intellectuals?" at 2 p.m. in the Niebuhr Lecture Hall, Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. The talk is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception. For more information, contact Paul Stuehrenberg at (203) 432-5292, or e-mail paul.stuehrenberg@yale.edu.
Thiemann served as dean of Harvard Divinity School from 1986 until 1998. He was director of the school's Center for the Study of Values in Public Life and is a faculty fellow at the John F. Kennedy School's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
Thiemann is the author of numerous books, including "Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise," "Constructing a Public Theology: The Church in a Pluralistic Culture" and "Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma for Democracy." He is currently working on "Prisoners of Conscience: Public Intellectuals in a Time of Crisis," a book-length project which examines the courageous stances of four public figures -- Anna Akhmatova, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Langston Hughes and George Orwell during the period of 1914-1945.
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Bioethics talk will focus on ethics and clinical research
Japan's global security policy topic of East Asian studies talk
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Social policy lecture will focus on immigrant youth
U.S. Court of Appeals judge to be next Calabresi Fellow
Sculptural portraiture focus of Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Theology and religion scholar to speak in Divinity School talk
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