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New York Times reporter to deliver F&ES lecture
Andrew Revkin, environment reporter for The New York Times, will speak on campus on Tuesday, Oct. 21.
Revkin will discuss "The Daily Planet: Why the Media Have Trouble Covering the Biggest Story in the World -- The World Itself" at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), 205 Prospect St. Sponsored by F&ES with support from the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, the lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Fred Strebeigh at (203) 432-2250 or fred.strebeigh@yale.edu.
An award-winning author and journalist, Revkin has spent 20 years covering subjects such as murder in the Amazon, the crash of TWA Flight 800, the persistent pollution of the Hudson River and global climate change.
An environment reporter for The New York Times since 1995, first for the Metro section and more recently for Science Times, Revkin was part of The New York Times team covering the events following the Sept. 11 attacks, including the World Trade Center fires and the anthrax attacks.
Revkin's other writing includes "The Burning Season," which won the Sidney Hillman Foundation Book Prize and a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, was published in nine languages and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The book was the basis for the HBO film of the same name, which won two Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He also wrote "Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast," the companion volume to the first museum exhibition on climate change, created by the American Museum of Natural History.
Poet Jorie Graham, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, will visit the campus on Tuesday,
Oct. 21, as part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library's celebration of women in the arts.
Graham will read from her poetry at
4 p.m. in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St.
Since 1998, Graham has served as the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. Prior to that, she taught at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Graham is the author of numerous books of poetry and has also edited two anthologies. Her 1996 collection of poems, titled "The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994," was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Among Graham's other honors and awards are a MacArthur Fellowship and a Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In 1997 she was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Timothy Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation and former U.S. senator from Colorado, will deliver a lecture on campus on Thursday, Oct. 23.
Wirth will discuss "Oil Dependence, Foreign Policy and the Need for a New Energy Policy" at 4 p.m. in the Yale Law School's Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. The lecture is sponsored by the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and is free and open to the public.
Wirth recently led a bipartisan group, the Energy Future Coalition, in producing an energy blueprint for the United States. His article "The Future of Energy Policy," published last summer in Foreign Affairs magazine, is based on the work of the coalition.
As president of the United Nations Foundation since its inception in 1998, Wirth has focused the foundation's priorities on the environment and climate change, women and population, children's health and peace, security and human rights.
Prior to joining the foundation, Wirth was undersecretary of state for global affairs (1993-1997), responsible for coordinating U.S. foreign policy in the areas of refugees, population, environment, science, human rights, narcotics and crime. He represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate (1987-1993) and the state's second congressional district in the House of Representatives (1975-1987). In the Senate, he focused on environmental issues, especially global climate change and population stabilization, and in the House, he focused on communications technology and budget policy.
The first lecture in a year-long speaker series on race, health and medicine will be given by Robert Proctor, Ferree Professor of the History of Science and co-director of the Science, Medicine and Technology in Culture Program at Pennsylvania State University, on Thursday, October 23. (See related story.)
Proctor will discuss "Out of Africa, Thank God! Race in Recent Theories of Human Origins" 4-6 p.m. in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.
The lecture series, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the African American Studies Department and is co-sponsored by the Council on African Studies, the Center for International and Area Studies and the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund. For more information, visit the website at www.yale.edu/afamstudies/events.html.
Proctor's research interests focus on the history and philosophy of scientific controversy. He has also published articles on expert witnessing, molecular coproscopy, racial hygiene, tobacco duplicity, and agnatology, the social construction of ignorance.
"The Nazi War on Cancer," Proctor's most recent book, won the Viseltear Prize from the American Public Health Association and has been translated into German. He is currently writing a book on human origins titled "Darwin in the History of Life," and another on figured stones and the secular sacred, titled "Agate Eyes."
Previously, Proctor has held positions as senior scholar in residence at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and as a visiting fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
John Eckenrode, professor and chair in the Department of Human Development and co-director of the Family Life Development Center at Cornell University, will speak in the next Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture on Friday, October 24.
Eckenrode will examine "Investing in Young Mothers and Their Children: Do Home Visitation Programs Yield Long-Term Benefits?" at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 102, Becton Center, 15 Prospect St. The talk is free and open to the public. For further information, call (203) 432-9935.
Eckenrode concentrates his research on child abuse and neglect, the effects of preventive interventions, and stress and coping processes. He has done extensive research on home visitation programs with grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Mental Health and the Smith-Richardson Foundation. He is also the principal investigator for the National Archive for Data on Child Abuse and Neglect, funded by the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect.
Eckenrode has authored numerous journal articles and chapters, and has co-edited three books, "Stress Between Work and Family," "The Social Context of Coping" and "Understanding Abusive Families."
In 1997 he and his collaborators on the Prenatal/ Early Infancy Project received the annual research award from the National Institute for Health Care Management in the maternal and child health care category. In 1995, he received the Robert Chin Memorial Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues for the best paper on child abuse and neglect.
Saint Thomas More, the Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale, will host noted religion journalist Peter Steinfels on Wednesday, October 22.
Steinfels will discuss his book "A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America," at 4:30 p.m. Doors open at 4 p.m., and the talk is free and open to the public. Following the lecture, Steinfels will sign copies of his book, which will be available for purchase. For more information, call (203) 676-0523.
Considered to be one of the foremost journalists of religion, Steinfels was senior religion correspondent for The New York Times from 1988 to 1997, and continues to write a biweekly column for the paper titled "Beliefs."
In addition to his work at The New York Times, Steinfels was editor of Commonweal and is the author of "The Neoconservatives."
The annual Hollingshead Lecture will be given by Alain Touraine, professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, on Friday, Oct. 24.
Titled "From Economic Globalization to Political Crusade," Touraine's lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in Rm. 211 at the Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), 320 York St. A reception will follow in Rm. 401, HGS. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the lecture is free and open to the public.
Touraine is thought to be one of the most influential social thinkers of the late 20th century. His recent writings have focused on democracy, neoliberalism, identity politics and ethnic nationalism.
He is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an officer de la legion d'honneur and an officier de l'ordre du merite.
The 2003 James Snead Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Michael Barker, co-founder and co-president of Sony Pictures Classics, on Sunday, Oct. 26.
Barker will discuss "How Movies Can Shape Us as Spiritual, Moral and Political Human Beings" at 3:15 p.m. in Dwight Hall Chapel, 67 High St. Following the lecture, at 5 p.m., there will be a Service of Holy Eucharist in remembrance and thanksgiving for the life of James Snead. Sponsored by the Episcopal Church at Yale, the lecture and service are free and open to the public.
Barker and his partners, Tom Barnard and Marcie Bloom, founded Sony Pictures Classics, an autonomous company of Sony Picture Entertainment, in 1992. Sony Pictures Classics has been associated with films that have been nominated for 67 Academy Awards and have won 17. The company has supported some of the world's finest independent filmmakers including Louis Malle, David Mamet, James Ivory and Ismail Merchant. Some of its most successful films include "Howards End," the Academy Award-winning "Pollock" and Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," which grossed over $125 million.
Recent honors include The Gotham Industry Lifetime Achievement Award, the FINDIE Award at the IFP/West Spirit Awards and the GLAAD Media Award.
The Snead Memorial Lecture was established by the Episcopal Church at Yale in honor of James Arthur Snead (1953-1989), Yale Class of 1976.
T H I S
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet will read from her works
Former U.S. senator to discuss need for new energy policy
New lecture series to explore race, health and medicine
Home visitation programs focus of social policy lecture
Noted religion journalist to speak on crisis in church
Sociology scholar to deliver annual Hollingshead Lecture
Sony Pictures Classics executive to give Snead Lecture
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