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New lecture series will examine 'gender and militarism'
The first lecture in the Women's and Gender Studies Program's new series on "Gender & Militarism" will be given by Cynthia Enloe, research professor at Clark University, on Monday, Oct. 13.
Enloe will speak on "A Feminist View of the Militarization of Iraq" at 4 p.m. in
Rm. 211, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. Sponsored by Women's and Gender Studies Program, the Center for the Study of Globalization, International Affairs Council and the Department of African-American Studies, the lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Vron Ware at (203) 432-0847 or vron.ware@yale.edu.
After 30 years of serving on the faculty at Clark University, Enloe retired from teaching and conducting research in 2002. She continues to supervise graduate students as a research professor. She is a founding member of the Women's Studies Program at Clark and served as the program's director for more than six years.
Enloe has spent her career studying the impact of militarism, state policies and politics on the lives of women throughout the world. Her books include "Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Sense of Feminist Politics" (1989), "The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War" (1993), "Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives" (2000), and the forthcoming "The Curious Feminist," to be published by the University of California Press in 2004.
In 2003 she was named the honorary geographer for the Association of American Geographers. The award recognizes excellence in research, teaching and writing on geographic topics by non-geographers.
Among other honors, Enloe was given an Outstanding Teacher Award three times by Clark University.
J. Baird Callicott, professor of philosophy and religion studies at the Institute of Applied Sciences, University of North Texas, will deliver two lectures on Wednesday, Oct. 15, as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series.
Callicott will discuss "The Endangered Species Act at 30: Explicit and Implicit Values in America's Strongest Piece of Environmental Legislation" at a noon seminar in the lower level conference room at ISPS,
77 Prospect St. In a public lecture at
7:30 p.m. in the Joseph Slifka Center,
80 Wall St., he will discuss "Intrinsic Value of Nature: Theoretical and Pragmatic Perspectives." 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.
Callicott focuses his research on four major areas: theoretical environmental ethics, land ethics, the philosophy of ecology and conservation, and comparative environmental philosophy.
He is the author of "Earth's Insights: A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback," "In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy," "Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays in Environmental Philosophy," "American Indian Environmental Ethics: An Ojibwa Case Study," and more than a hundred book chapters, journal articles, encyclopedia entries and book reviews.
He is editor or co-editor of numerous books, including "Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy."
Bob Schieffer, correspondent for CBS News, will be the guest at a master's tea on Thursday, Oct. 16.
Schieffer will speak at 4 p.m. at the Morse College master's house, 99 Tower Pkwy.
Considered to be one of broadcast journalism's most experienced Washington reporters, Schieffer has been anchor and moderator of "Face the Nation," CBS News' Sunday public affairs broadcast, since 1991. He also serves as CBS News' chief Washington correspondent, a position he has held since 1982.
Schieffer has covered Washington for CBS News for over 30 years and is one of the few broadcast or print journalists to have covered all four major beats in the nation's capital -- the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department and Capitol Hill.
Since 1982, Schieffer has been chief Washington correspondent and has served as Congressional correspondent since 1989. He has covered every presidential campaign and, since 1972, has been a floor reporter at all of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions.
In 1996, Schieffer stepped down as anchor of the Saturday edition of the CBS Evening News, a position he held for 20 years.
In 2003, Schieffer was honored with the Paul White Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. He has won numerous other awards, including five Emmys.
Jeanne Milstein, child advocate for the State of Connecticut, will speak in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, October 17.
Milstein's talk, titled "The Real State of Connecticut's Children," will take place at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 104, Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Avenue. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, call (203) 432-9935.
Milstein was appointed as the state's child advocate by Governor John G. Rowland. The Office of the Child Advocate oversees the protection and care of Connecticut's most vulnerable and youngest citizens and advocates for their well being.
Milstein has dedicated her career to advocating for the state's children and youth.
Prior to her appointment as child advocate, Milstein was director of government relations for the Department of Children and Families and legislative director for the Connecticut Commission for Children. Earlier she was responsible for child-care in the Connecticut Department of Human Resources and was executive director of the Women's Center of Southeastern Connecticut.
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk will deliver the Finzi-Contini Lecture on Thursday, October 16.
Pamuk will discuss "Melancholy--Tristesse--Huzun: Landscapes of Istanbul" at 4:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. A reception will follow the lecture in Rm. 208. The talk is free and open to the public.
Pamuk has been the recipient of major Turkish and international literary awards, including the Madarali Novel Prize and the Prix de la Découverte Européenne. His work has been translated into more than 13 languages.
Pamuk's first novel, published in 1982, "Cevdet Bey ve Ogullari" ("Mr. Cevdet and His Sons"), was awarded first prize in the 1979 Novel Contest by the Milliyet Press and won the Orhan Kemal Novel Prize in 1983. His second novel, "Sessiz Ev" ("The Silent House"), received the Madarali Novel Prize in 1984 and the French translation of the book won the 1991 Prix de la Découverte Européenne.
The Finzi-Contini lectureship was endowed in 1990 by the Calabresi family, including Guido Calabresi, former dean of the Yale Law School, in memory of his mother, Bianca Maria Finzi-Contini Calabresi. The biannual lectureship sponsors a distinguished lecturer in the field of comparative literature, broadly defined.
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University, will give the fifth annual John W. Hall Lecture in Japanese Studies on Thursday, Oct. 16.
Gluck will deliver her lecture, "After the Shipwreck: New Horizons for History-Writing," at 4:30 p.m. in the Henry R. Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. A reception will follow.
Gluck specializes in modern Japan, from the late 19th century to the present.
Her publications include "Japan's Modern Myths" (1985), "Showa: the Japan of Hirohito" (1992), "Asia in Western and World History" (1997), "Past Obsessions: War and Memory in the Twentieth Century" and the forthcoming "Versions of the Past: the Japanese and Their Modern History."
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ISPS bioethics lectures to feature environmentalist
Celebrated CBS correspondent to present master's tea
State of Connecticut's children topic of social policy talk
Turkish novelist to deliver Finzi-Contini Lecture
Noted historian on Japan to give Hall Lecture
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