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Hong Kong is subject of East Asian Studies lecture
Margaret Ng, a member of the legislative council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, will deliver a lecture on Monday, March 28.
"From Non-Interference to Communication: Hong Kong's Constitutional Development" is the title of Ng's talk, which will begin at 4 p.m. in Rm. 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, The China Law Center at the Law School and the Asia Law Forum.
Ng is an elected member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, representing the Legal Functional Constituency made up of all barristers, solicitors and government lawyers.
A noted commentator and writer in both English and Chinese, Ng served as publisher of the Ming Pao News from 1988-1990. From 1986 to 1987, she was the newspaper's deputy editor-in-chief. A regular contributor to the South China Morning Post, Ng is the author of 12 books in Chinese.
Ng's past service in public committees includes the Central Policy Unit in 1989-90, 1991-92 and the Town Planning Appeal Board. She is currently a member of the Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption Operation.
Tabitha Jackson, a documentary producer and director, will give the next talk in the Race, Health and Medicine Series on Wednesday, March 30.
Jackson will discuss "Shooting Science: DNA and Documentary" at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 313, the Gordon Parks Seminar Room, 493 College St. Sponsored by the Department of African American Studies and co-sponsored by the Council on African Studies, the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, the talk is free and the public is invited to attend. For more information, contact lindsey.greene@yale.edu.
Jackson began her television career at the BBC in London working on the BBC/WGBH oral history series "People's Century." During her years at the BBC she worked on the investigative strand "Rough Justice" and made films for the "History Unit" and "News and Current Affairs."
Jackson's last film was the multi-award winning "Motherland: A Genetic Journey," a BBC documentary that used the latest genetic applications to connect hundreds of British African Caribbeans with a part of their pre-slave trade ancestry.
Author of "The Boer War," Jackson is currently working on "Rx for Survival," a six-part series on global health for PBS which is due to air in the fall.
New York Times Magazine columnist Rob Walker will give the next talk in the Industrial Environmental Management (IEM) lecture series on Thursday, March 31.
Walker will speak on "The Ethics of Consuming and the Consuming of Ethics: Sustainability in Real World Retailing" at 11:30 a.m. at the Center for Industrial Ecology, 380 Edwards St. Sponsored by the IEM Program of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the talk is open to the public free of charge. For more information about the IEM Lecture Series which is supported by the Joel Omura Kurihara Fund, contact Gretchen Rings at (203) 432-6953 or gretchen.rings@yale.edu.
Walker writes the "Consumed" column for The New York Times Magazine. His weekly column, a mix of business journalism and anthropology, explores the relationship between what we buy and who we are.
A journalist who often writes about marketing and consumption, Walker is also a contributing writer for Inc. Magazine. For three years, he wrote a column about advertising in Slate.com, and he previously worked as an editor at The New York Times Magazine, Money, and The American Lawyer, among others. Walker's book "Letters from New Orleans" will be published in 2005.
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri will visit the campus on Monday, March 28.
Lahiri will read from her works at 7 p.m. in Rm. 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall,
Lahiri's first book, "Interpreter of Maladies," a collection of stories published in 1999, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the American Academy of Arts & Letters Addison M. Metcalf Award, was a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, and was named Best Debut of the Year by The New Yorker.
Lahiri's first novel, "The Namesake," was named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly and Newsday, among others. The book was also named New York Magazine's Book of the Year.
Lahiri was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2002.
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