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October 31, 2003|Volume 32, Number 9



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Japanese ceramics highlight of Yale Art Gallery event

Robert Yellin, a writer who specializes in Japanese ceramics, will give a lecture and demonstration at the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) on Tuesday, November 4.

The program, "From Momoyama to Heisei: The Changing Shapes of Japanese Ceramics," will take place from 2:00 to 3:30 pm. at YUAG, 1111 Chapel Street. The event is free and the public is invited to attend.

Yellin, who is considered to be an authority on Japanese ceramics, has been a resident of Japan since 1984. Prior to that time, he spent many years as an English lecturer at Aoyama Gakuin Daigaku and other universities, but as his interest in pottery grew, he spent most of his time studying and using Japanese ceramics.

In 1995, he published "Yakimona Sanka," a book about sake utensils that was recommended by the Japanese Library Association for inclusion in all public libraries.

He writes a monthly column on Japanese ceramics in the Japan Times, the largest English newspaper in Japan. He also writes for Daruma magazine, and was a former columnist for Honoho Geijutsu, a quarterly devoted to contemporary Japanese ceramics. His articles have also appeared in Asian Art Newspaper.

He is a member of the Japan Ceramics Society (Nihon Toji Kyokai) and his articles have appeared in its monthly publication Tohsetsu.

In addition to writing, Yellin currently devotes his time to running the Web sites he founded, www.japanesepottery.com and www.e-yakimono.net.


Nanotechnology to be explored in technology and ethics talk

Kevin D. Ausman, executive director, Center for Biological & Environmental Nanotechnology, Rice University, will speak to the Technology and Ethics working research group on Wednesday, Nov. 5.

Ausman will speak on "Health and Environmental Impacts of Nanomaterials: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," at 4:15 p.m. at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. The talk is free and open to the public.

For reading materials and dinner reservations, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.

In his lecture, Ausman will discuss nanotechnology, which has been predicted to be a $1 trillion industry within a decade, with applications ranging from nanoscale electronics to super-strong plastic/nanomaterial composites. He will examine public acceptance or rejection of nanotech and its resulting commercial viability and the impact this will have on nanotechnology research and development. Ausman will also speak about the current state of nanoscience and how public perception and ethical concerns influence policy.

Ausman oversees the operations of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, the National Science Foundation-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at Rice University.

Ausman's background is in the chemistry and physics of carbon-based nanomaterials, and he is currently involved in research projects examining the health and environmental impacts of nanomaterials and the scaleup of nanocrystal synthesis.


Bioethics lecture will examine litigation and clinical research

E. Haavi Morreim, professor of bioethics at the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee, will deliver two lectures on Wednesday, Nov. 5, as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series.

Morreim will discuss "Caught in the Crosshairs: Emerging Litigation in Clinical Research" at a noon seminar on the third floor of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave. In a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St., she will discuss "Is Secret Science Good for Your Health? Research Subject Privacy Versus the Public's Right to Know." 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.

In her noon lecture, Morreim will discuss why courts are poorly prepared to address clinical research issues, and why current lawsuits against clinical trials are not helping to rectify the situation.

For 23 years, Morreim has done clinical teaching and consulting on medical ethics. She chairs the Independent Patient Advocacy Council that was created to serve patients enrolled in the AbioCor artificial heart trial.

Morreim, who has a joint appointment as a professor in the Division of Health Services and Policy Research in the Department of Preventive Medicine, is the author of two books and more than a hundred publications in law, medicine and ethics journals.

Morreim also serves on the editorial board of several journals.


Multi-media artist to be guest at Calhoun College master's tea

Calhoun College will host a master's tea by nationally recognized artist, photographer, teacher and arts advocate William Christenberry on Thursday, Nov. 6.

Christenberry will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the master's house of Calhoun College, 434 College St.

For more than thirty years, Christenberry has photographed in and around Hale County, Alabama, and has documented rural southern landscapes and the worn, remote margins of small-town life.

His photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Phillips Collection; the Smithsonian's American Art Museum; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Library of Congress.


Beinecke event will feature novelist Shirley Hazzard

Award-winning novelist Shirley Hazzard will visit the campus on Thursday, Nov. 6.

Hazzard will read from her works at 4 p.m. at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public.

Hazzard's books have been set around the world, from New York to Italy to Japan, and often start in the middle of the 20th century.

A native of Australia, she delivered ABC's Boyer Lectures in 1984. In 1985, they were published in book form as "Coming of Age in Australia."

In 1980, Hazzard was honored with the National Book Critics Circle Award for "The Transit of Venus."

Hazzard's novels include "The Evening of the Holiday" (1966) and "The Bay of Noon" (1970). She is also the author of two collections of short fiction, "Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories" (1963) and "People in Glass Houses" (1967).

Her nonfiction works include "Countenance of Truth," a short work about the United Nations published in 1990, and a short memoir about her friend Graham Greene, "Greene on Capri," published in 2000. Her most recent book, "The Great Fire," was published this month.

Regarding her work, Hazzard has been quoted in an interview as saying, "I love novels. I love fiction. ... It's all about imagination. More and more our world is closing down on imagination. Instead, we have a lot of explanations."


'Anatomy of hope' topic of Fischer Lecture

Dr. Jerome Groopman, the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and chief of experimental medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will present the Iris Fischer Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 6.

Groopman will speak on "The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness" at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Rm. of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St.

His lecture will address a series of questions about the emotion "hope." Particularly, how does hope differ from optimism? Is true hope distinguishable from false hope? And can hope actually contribute to recovery by changing physical well-being?

Groopman established a clinical research and clinical care program at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an institution that provides specialized medical services to people with AIDS and cancer. He focuses his research on the basic mechanisms of cancer and AIDS.

Active in community education projects, Groopman fosters AIDS awareness among teenagers and young adults and is involved in regional and national education activities in AIDS and cancer medicine, and the training and education of young scientists in these fields.

His book, "The Measure of Our Days," published in 1997, explores the spiritual lives of patients with serious illness, and the opportunities for fulfillment they sometimes find. It was serialized in The New Yorker and in The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine.

He has written several editorials on policy issues for The New Republic, the Washington Post and The New York Times. In 1998, he became a staff writer in medicine and biology at The New Yorker.


Social policy lecture will focus on roles of American women

Mona Harrington, program director at the Workplace Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak in the next Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Nov. 7.

Harrington's talk, titled "Families, Flexible Work Arrangements, and Gender Equity: Connecting the Pieces" will begin 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.

The Workplace Center conducts action research on work-family-community connections. At the center, Harrington chairs a project for the formation of the Massachusetts Work-Family Council.

Her recent writing focuses on the policy implications of changes produced by the transformed roles of American women.

In her latest book, "Care and Equality: Inventing a New Family Politics," published in 2000, Harrington calls for a national conversation about new ways to connect families, care, women and work, and in her position with the Public Conversations Project of Watertown, Massachusetts, she organized a year-long series of public dialogues on these questions.

Harrington is the author of numerous books, including "Women Lawyers­Rewriting the Rules" (1995) and "The Dream of Deliverance in American Politics" (1986).


Renowned journalist is Eustace D. Theodore '63 Fellow

World-renowned journalist Anne Applebaum will deliver a public lecture on campus on Thursday, November 6, under the auspices of the Eustace D. Theodore '63 Fellowship.

Applebaum's talk, titled "The Gulag: What We Know, Why It Matters," will take place 4:30-5:30 p.m. in Rm. 201, Sudler Hall, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street. Sponsored by the Association of Yale Alumni, Pierson College and the Yale College Class of '63, the talk is free and open to the public.

Applebaum's latest book, "Gulag: A History," which was published in April, has been nominated for the National Book Award. The book narrates the origins, development and daily life of the Soviet prison camp system that incarcerated over 30 million citizens in its 60-year history. Publisher's Weekly said of the book, "This remarkable volume, the first fully documented history of the gulag, describes how, largely under Stalin's watch, a regulated, centralized system of prison labor -- unprecedented in scope -- gradually arose out of the chaos of the Russian Revolution."

A 1986 graduate of Yale College, Applebaum is columnist and member of the editorial board of the Washington Post and served as the foreign and deputy editor of the Spectator (London). She was the Warsaw correspondent for The Economist, a columnist for the on-line magazine Slate and has worked for several British newspapers.

Applebaum's work has also appeared in the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications.


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