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Sorensen Lecture to feature former Cambridge dean
Don Cupitt, former dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, will deliver the Loring Sabin Ensign Lecture in Contemporary Interpretation of Religious Issues on Monday, Feb. 28.
Cupitt will speak on "A New Method of Religious Enquiry" at 5:15 p.m. in the H. Richard Niebuhr Lecture Hall of the Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be webcast live on the Divinity School's website: www.yale.edu/divinity/video/live.campus.event.html.
Cupitt is best known as a teacher and writer. Most of his books belong to a series of 23 titles that reflect the development of his thinking, from "Taking Leave of God" to "Emptiness and Brightness." He has made three television series, one of which, "The Sea of Faith," was made into a book.
Ordained in the Church of England in 1959, Cupitt served as vice-principal of Westcott House, an Anglican theological college in Cambridge, from 1962 to 1965. He became dean of Emmanuel College in 1966.
Cupitt believes that people are constrained by some of the values and religious perspectives that are already coded into our ordinary language. "The true religion," he says "is already there and we already believe it: it only needs to be brought out into the open. When we see it clearly for the first time, it is a big surprise."
The Loring Sabin Ensign Lectureship in Contemporary Interpretation of Religious Issues was founded in honor of Loring S. Ensign, M.Div. '51.
Dr. Richard Mollica, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, will deliver the Margaret Lindquist Sorensen Lecture focusing on politics and ethics on Tuesday, March 1.
Mollica will discuss "The Transfiguration of Healing: The care of survivors of mass violence and torture" at 5:15 p.m. in the H. Richard Niebuhr Lecture Hall of the Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be webcast live on the Divinity School's website:www.yale.edu/divinity/video/live.campus.event.html.
An alumnus of the Yale Divinity School, Mollica is director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, which for the past 25 years has studied the mental health impact of war and violence and developed methods of treatment. He created the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire, which is the first culturally validated instrument to measure the psychiatric symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in refugee populations. Translated into over 30 languages, the questionnaire is being used worldwide.
The emphasis of Mollica's presentation will be on self-healing and overcoming the fear of illness and tragedy as depicted in Raphael's "Transfiguration," and in modern images of mass violence and natural disasters.
According to Mollica, caring for traumatized persons worldwide has lead to a discovery of an essential architecture of a "trauma story" that can be used in the healing experience by therapists and trauma survivors.
Andrew Freear, associate professor at the Auburn University Rural Studio, will be the guest at a master's tea on Tuesday, March 1.
Freear will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Freear, who is also the co-director of the Rural Studio in Newbern, Alabama, is thesis project adviser to fifth-year undergraduate students and their building projects.
The Rural Studio is a hands-on architectural pedagogy that not only teaches students to design and build charity homes and community projects, but also improves the living conditions in rural west Alabama.
The focus of the student's thesis year is a community-based project and sustainable materials research. Working in small teams, the students experience the arts and crafts "hands-on" building tradition, work directly with the community, and have the added dilemma of negotiating designs and procedures with their teammates. The students conceive of the project and program, raise funds, write grants, make community presentations, and design and build the projects from foundation to roof. Projects have ranged from baseball fields to community centers to a house made of cardboard.
Freear has recently designed, supervised and built Rural Studio exhibits in Chicago, Cincinnati, The Whitney Biennial in New York, Vienna, Austria, and Barcelona, Spain.
He has lectured on the subject of the Rural Studio across the United States, and in Berlin, Barcelona and London.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, will
His talk, titled "The International Criminal Court: Hopes and Fears," will be held at 4 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. A reception will follow. The lecture is sponsored by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the Law School and the School of Management.
In 2003, Moreno-Ocampo, a native of Argentina, was elected as chief prosecutor of the court by the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Moreno-Ocampo was the assistant prosecutor in the "Military Junta" trial against Army commanders accused of masterminding the "dirty war" and other cases of human rights violations by the Argentine military. He was the prosecutor in charge of the extradition from the United States of former Argentine General Carlos Guillermo Suárez Mason, and in the investigation and prosecution of guerrilla leaders and of those responsible for two military rebellions in Argentina.
Previously, Moreno-Ocampo took on a number of pro bono activities including serving as legal representative for the victims in the extradition of former Nazi officer Erich Priebke to Italy and the trial of the chief of the Chilean secret police for the murder of General Carlos Prats.
The Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale was established in 1992 to support endeavors among specialists in the intersection between international relations, international law, and the management of international enterprises and organizations. Previous lecturers have included Senator Sam Nunn, Tom Friedman, Senator Gary Hart, Sadako Ogata, Mary Robinson and Douglas Daft.
Poet Li-Young Lee will give a reading from his works as part of the Literature and Spirituality Series on Thursday, March 3.
The reading, which will begin at 4:15 p.m. at the Divinity Bookstore, 409 Prospect St., will be webcast live at www.yale.edu/ism. A book-signing and reception will follow. The Literature and Spirituality Series is presented by the Institute of Sacred Music and the Divinity Student Book Supply. For more information, call (203) 432-5062.
Lee has served on the faculty of numerous colleges and universities. His books of poetry include "Book of My Nights"; "Rose," winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University; and "The City in Which I Love You," the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection from The Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of an autobiography, "The Winged Seed."
Lee's honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lannan Foundation and the John Simon Guggenhiem Memorial Foundation, as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 1988 he was the recipient of a Writer's Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.
Henry Jenkins, director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will speak to the Technology and Ethics working group on Wednesday, March 2.
Jenkins' talk, titled "The War Between Effects and Meanings: Rethinking the Video Game Violence Debate," will take place 4:15-5:45 p.m. at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. A dinner and discussion period will follow from 5:45 to 7 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Information Society Project and the Law School, the event is free and the public is invited to attend. For more information, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or e-mail carol.pollard@yale.edu.
In his lecture, Jenkins will discuss a U.S. Federal Court ruling that video games do not constitute a means of expression and therefore are not protected against government censorship.
Jenkins is the Deflorez Professor of the Humanities at MIT and a co-founder of the Education Arcade, a multi-university initiative to focus attention on the pedagogical potentials of computer and video games.
He is the author or editor of 12 books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including "Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture," "From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games," "Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture," and the forthcoming "Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Intersect."
The Race, Health and Medicine series will continue with a seminar featuring Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, a research psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, on Wednesday, March 2.
Titled "Root Shock: Urban Dislocation and African American Health," Fullilove's talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 313, Gordon Parks Seminar Rm., 493 College St. The seminar is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.yale.edu/afamstudies/events.html#racehealthmed.
A professor of clinical psychiatry and public health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, Fullilove is also a faculty associate of the Center for Bioethics.
Fullilove's current research focuses on the study of AIDS and other health problems of inner-city neighborhoods, and the relationship between the structure of cities and residents' mental health. She developed this research as co-founder of NYC RECOVERS, an alliance of organizations that have incorporated New York's 9/11 recovery into their on-going work.
With the support of a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Investigator Award, Fullilove has studied the long-term consequences of urban renewal for African Americans. This research formed the basis of her most recent book "Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It." Fullilove is also the author of "The House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place."
Fullilove has received many awards for her work including being named a "National Associate" by the National Academy of Science in 2003.
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