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Law School Dean's office to host visit by head of LDF
Elaine Jones, president and director-counsel emeritus of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), will give a Dean's Lecture on Monday, April 4.
"Judicial Courage: Skelly Wright's Example" is the title of her lecture, which will take place 4:30-6 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. Sponsored by the Law School's Dean's Office, the talk is free and open to the public.
The LDF is the nation's oldest law firm fighting for equal rights and justice for people of color, women and the poor. Jones became president of the organization in 1993. She played a key role in securing passage of legislative milestones such as the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1982, the Fair Housing Act of 1988 and the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
The first African American to serve on the board of governors of the American Bar Association, Jones was also the special assistant to U.S. Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman Jr., in which post she played a role in admitting women to the Coast Guard.
Jones is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement Award, People for the American Way's 2001 Democracy Award and The American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession (Margaret Brent Award). In 2000, President Clinton presented her with the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award.
A frequent guest lecturer, Jones left her post at LDF in 2004 after a 32-year tenure.
Peter H. Gleick, co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security in Oakland, California, will be the 2005 Zucker Fellow and will speak on campus on Tuesday, April 5.
Gleick will discuss "Fresh Water and U.S. Foreign Policy: Crisis and Opportunity" at 2:30 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. At 4 p.m. he will be the guest at a tea at the Branford College master's house, 80 High St. Both talks are free and open to the public.
Gleick's research and writing address the critical connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources.
A Yale College alumnus, Gleick is an internationally recognized water expert. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003, Gleick was also dubbed a "visionary on the environment" by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 2001. That same year he was also appointed to the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1999, Gleick was elected an academician of the International Water Academy in Oslo, Norway.
Gleick is the author of many scientific papers and four books, including the biennial water report "The World's Water."
Sponsored by the Yale College Dean's Office, the Zucker Fellowship was established in 1990 by a gift from the Class of 1962 to inspire students to embark on careers in environmental fields by bringing a major scientist, public policy figure or author in the field of environmental studies to campus each year.
Sister Helen Prejean, author, anti-death penalty activist and inspiration for the award-winning film "Dead Man Walking," will visit the campus on Tuesday, April 5.
Prejean's talk, titled "The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions," will take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center, 268 Park St. The talk is free and open to the public. Antoinette Bosco, an award-winning journalist and author of "Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty," will be the respondent. A reception will follow the lecture and books by both speakers will be for sale. For more information, call (203) 676-0523 or visit the website at www.yale.edu/stm.
Prejean, a sister of St. Joseph of Medialle, began counseling death row inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1981. Her 1993 book about the experience, "Dead Man Walking," was adapted into a film by Tim Robbins. Prejean's role was played by Susan Sarandon, who won an Academy Award for her portrayal.
The author of the 2004 book "The Death of Innocents," Prejean gives about 140 lectures a year seeking to ignite public discourse on the death penalty.
The Law School's Dean's Lecture Series will continue with a talk by Lauren Edelman, a professor of law and sociology and the director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, on Tuesday, April 5.
Edelman will speak on "The Endogeneity of Law: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Practices" 4:30-6 p.m. in the faculty lounge of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. The talk is open to the public free of charge and will be followed by a reception in the Alumni Reading Room.
Edelman's research addresses the intersection of law and work. She has published widely on issues such as the institutionalization and transformation of law (especially civil rights law) within the workplace; how employers and organizational professionals interpret, implement and transform civil rights law; the impact of the internal handling of discrimination disputes; diversity; judicial deference to organizational institutions; and the "new institutionalism" in socio-legal studies.
Edelman won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 for her work on the formation of law in the workplace. She served as president of the Law & Society Association 2002-2003, and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences 2003-2004.
Edelman will be returning to the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in 2005 to participate in a special group on social scientific perspectives on employment discrimination.
Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn, author of "The Empty Room: Surviving the Loss of a Brother or Sister at Any Age," will speak on campus on Tuesday, April 5.
DeVita-Raeburn will be the guest at a tea at 5 p.m. in the Silliman College master's house, 71 Wall St. Sponsored by Silliman College and the Yale School of Nursing Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care, the talk is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing by DeVita-Raeburn. For more information, call the Silliman College master's office at (203) 432-0700.
DeVita-Raeburn will discuss her book, a recollection of her childhood with her brother, Ted, who died after suffering from aplastic anemia for eight years, and her struggle to cope with the loss of a sibling. The book draws on interviews she held with 77 men and women who had lost a sister or brother.
"This moving book is a must-read for anyone who has lost a brother or sister (and for their parents as well) and needs help understanding and coping with their emotions," said Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, the Rossi Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York Hospital Weil Cornell Medical Center.
Maja Mataric, an associate professor in the Computer Science Department and Neuroscience Program at the University of Southern California (USC), will speak to the Technology and Ethics Working Research Group on Wednesday, April 6.
Titled "Robots Among Us? The Challenges of Assistive Interactive Robotics," Mataric's lecture will begin at 4:15 p.m. at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. Dinner and a continued discussion will take place 5:45-7 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Information Society Project at the Law School, the talk is free and open to the public. For information and dinner reservations, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Mataric, who joined USC in 1997, is the founding director of USC's interdisciplinary Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems and co-director of the USC Robotics Research Lab.
Mataric is active in educational outreach and is collaborating with K-12 teachers to develop hands-on robotics curricula for students at all levels as tools for promoting science and engineering topics and recruiting women and under-represented students.
She is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including the Okawa Foundation Award, the National Science Foundation Career Award, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's TR100 Innovation Award, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Robotics and Automation Society Early Career Award and the USC Provost's Center for Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship. She is featured in the Emmy Award-nominated documentary movie about scientists titled "Me & Isaac Newton."
An associate editor of three journals, Mataric has published over 30 journal articles, 17 book chapters, four edited volumes, and has two forthcoming books.
Calhoun College will host a master's tea with documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock on Wednesday, April 6.
Leacock will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The talk is open to the public free of charge.
Filmmaker and cinematographer Leacock made a major contribution to the development of the American version of "cinema verite" called "Direct Cinema." Direct Cinema attempted to utilize the camera only as a means to objectively record events as they happened without subjecting it to pre-planned direction or much care for the resulting technical quality of the finished product. Typically, Leacock and the others involved in the movie travelled to events with minimal equipment and carried hand-held cameras.
Leacock began making his first films at age 14 while living in Britain (he was born a British citizen in the Canary Islands). He participated in World War II as a combat cameraman for the army and got his professional start in 1948 working as a cameraman and associate producer for the documentary "Louisiana Story."
Leacock went on to collaborate with several documentary makers before creating his own production company, Drew Associates, in 1958 with Robert Drew. He and Drew started the Direct Cinema movement with their innovative Living Camera series.
Leacock also founded and was the head of the film department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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