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Master's tea will feature 'Be More Chill' author
Calhoun College will host a master's
tea with author Ned Vizzini on Monday, April 11
Vizzini will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the master's house, 434 College St. The talk is free and the public is invited to attend.
Vizzini is the author of two acclaimed books about 21st-century youth. His novel "Be More Chill" was honored by Judy Blume on the "Today Show" and received "Best of 2004" honors from Entertainment Weekly and is being published in six languages.
"Teen Angst? Naaah ... ," Vizzini's first book, was published in 2000 when the author was 19. It now has nine editions
in print.
Vizzini has been honored by BookSense, The National Association for Gifted Children and the New York Public Library for his work.
The Peabody Museum of Natural History will host a talk by Ian Tattersal, curator of the American Museum of Natural History, on Tuesday, April 12.
Titled "Becoming Human," Tattersal's talk will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the third floor auditorium of the museum, 170 Whitney Ave. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is the final presentation in the Peabody lecture series "Fossil Fragments: The Riddle of Human Origins."
Tattersal, curator in the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History and adjunct professor of anthropology at Columbia University and City University of New York, will trace the major events in human and cognitive evolution over the last 5 million years, asking the question: "How and when did we become fully human?"
The Yale Center for British Art's 2005 Paul Mellon Lectures will be given by David H. Solkin, professor of the social history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, on Tuesday, April 12; Wednesday, April 13; Thursday, April 14; Tuesday, April 19; and Wednesday, April 20.
The title of the lecture series is "The Epic of Common Life: Genre Painting and Social Change in Early 19th-Century Britain." The talks will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the BAC, 1080 Chapel St. The series is open to the public free of charge.
Solkin will discuss "New Adventures in Space and Time: Reconfiguring Rural Life in the Age of Revolution" on April 12; "Trouble in Arcadia" on April 13; "The Subjects and Spaces of Surveillance" on April 14; "The Colonization of Carnival" on April 19; and "The End of Olde England: Remaking the Nation After Waterloo" on April 20.
Solkin's talks will focus on the school of painting of everyday life that emerged to great acclaim in Britain during the period spanning the Napoleonic Wars and the Great Reform.
A leading authority on British art from the late 17th century to the early 19th century, Solkin is the author of numerous publications including "Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in 18th-Century England."
The School of Forestry and Environmental Studies' (F&ES) Industrial Environmental Management (IEM) Lecture Series will continue with a talk by Göran Carstedt, the former president of IKEA North America, on Tuesday, April 12.
Carstedt will speak on "Creating a Sustainable Future Together: the Volvo and the IKEA Experiences" at 3 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception. For more information, contact Gretchen Rings at (203) 432-6953 or gretchen.rings@yale.edu.
Before joining IKEA, Carstedt served for many years with Volvo, beginning in 1974 as manager of market planning at the car division in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 1985-90 he was president of Volvo Svenska Bil AB, the Swedish Volvo sales organization for cars, trucks, buses, spare parts, financial and computer services and car rentals.
Carstedt was head of IKEA Retail Europe and a member of the IKEA Group Management Board from 1990 to 1997.
This event is part of the 2005 IEM Lecture Series on "Retailing and Sustainability" sponsored by F&ES. In its 15th year, the lecture series brings speakers from a variety of companies and organizations to F&ES to discuss the relationship between business and the environment.
Alan H. Guth, the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give the annual Leigh Page Prize Lectures on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, April 12, 14 and 15.
The subject of Guth's lecture on Tuesday will be "Cosmic Inflation and the Accelerating Universe"; "Eternal Inflation" on Thursday; and "Time Travel and Cosmic Strings: A Playground for Theoretical Physicists" on Friday. The lectures will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 59, Sloane Physics Laboratory, 217 Prospect St. Sponsored by the Department of Physics, the talks are free and open to the public.
Guth has focused his research on the application of theoretical particle physics to the early universe: what can particle physics tell us about the history of the universe, and what can cosmology tell us about the fundamental laws of nature?
Guth has explored the question of whether it is in principle possible to ignite inflation in a hypothetical laboratory, creating a new universe. According to Guth, the answer is a "definite maybe. It has been proven that it cannot be done classically, but with quantum tunneling it might be theoretically possible," he claims.
Each year, the Department of Physics invites a distinguished physicist to present a series of three Leigh Page Prize Lectures, named in honor of Leigh Page '13 Ph.D., acting chair of the Department of Physics from 1943 to 1945 and acting director of the Sloane Physics Laboratory in 1945.
Dr. Andrew Newberg, a noted researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, will visit the campus on Tuesday, April 12, under the auspices of the Thomas E. Golden Jr. Fellowship in Faith and Science.
Newberg will give the Fellowship Lecture on "Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief" at 4:30 p.m. at Saint Thomas More Chapel, 268 Park St. A complete schedule is available at www.yale.edu/stm or by calling (203) 777-5537.
Newberg is currently assistant professor in the Departments of Radiology and Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, where he is also director of clinical nuclear medicine and neuroPET research. Newberg has been particularly involved in the study of mystical and religious experiences and much of his research has focused on the relationship between brain function and religious experience. He has co-authored two books on this subject, "Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief" and "The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Belief."
He has presented his work at scientific and religious meetings world-wide and has appeared on "Good Morning America" and "ABC World News Tonight" as well as in Newsweek and the New Scientist.
The Thomas E. Golden Jr. Fellowship in Faith and Science, established in 2001 by Golden, a graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Engineering, enables a distinguished guest to visit the Yale campus for a full day, visiting with students informally in the morning and delivering a public lecture in the afternoon.
Celebrated author Kate Walbert will
be the guest at a master's tea on Tuesday, April 12.
Walbert 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.
Walbert made her writing debut in 1998 with "Where She Went," a collection of interlinked stories about the lives and travels of a mother and daughter. The New York Times named "Where She Went" a Notable Book of 1998.
In 2001 she published "The Gardens of Kyoto" -- a bittersweet story about the friendship between two cousins prior to World War II. The novel is based on her Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Award-winning story of the same name.
Walbert has published fiction and articles in the Paris Review, Double Take, The New York Times and numerous other publications. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.
Dusty Baker, the manager for the Chicago Cubs, will be the guest at a master's tea on Thursday, April 14.
Baker 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.
Baker was a major league outfielder who went on to become a three-time winner of the National League Manager of the Year Award.
After leading the San Francisco Giants to the 2002 World Series (where they were defeated by the Anaheim Angels), Baker guided the Chicago Cubs to the National League Championship Series in 2003.
Steven Epstein, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), will deliver the final lecture in the Race, Health and Medicine Speaker Series on Wednesday, April 13.
"Beyond the Standard Human: The Politics of Racial Inclusion and the Management of Racial Difference in U.S. Biomedical Research" is the subject of Epstein's talk, which will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 313, the Gordon Parks Seminar Room, 493 College St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Epstein's main areas of academic interest and teaching include the sociology of science and scientific knowledge, and race, gender, sexuality and biomedicine. He is currently completing a book on the "politics of inclusion" and the "management of difference" in biomedical research in the United States, and is the author of the award-winning book "Impure Science: AIDS, Activism and the Politics of Knowledge."
Thomas L. Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, will present a public lecture on Friday, April 15.
Friedman's book, "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century," will be the subject of his 2 p.m. lecture in Rm. 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Globalization, the talk is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-1900 or e-mail globalization@yale.edu.
"The World Is Flat," Friedman's latest work, is being published this month. He became The New York Times' foreign affairs columnist in 1995 and won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2002, his third Pulitzer for the newspaper. His previous Pulitzer Prizes included one in 1983 for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel). In 2005, Friedman was elected as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Friedman's book, "From Beirut to Jerusalem," won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 1989 and "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" won the 2000 Overseas Press Club award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy. He also wrote "Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism."
Christopher Weeramantry, retired judge for the International Court of Justice, will give the keynote address for the Yale Journal of International Law Young Scholars' Conference on Saturday, April 16.
Weeramantry's talk, titled "The International Court of Justice: A Vision for the New Century and the Court's Role in the Nuclear Age," will take place 1:15-2:15 p.m. in Rm. 127, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. Sponsored by the Journal of International Law, the Greater New Haven Peace Council, the Quinnipiac School of Law's International Law Society and the University of Connecticut Law School, the talk is free and open to the public.
Weeramantry was a judge of the International Court of Justice from 1991 to 2000 and vice-president of the Court from 1997 to 2000. While on the court he wrote numerous judgments seeking to advance the frontiers of international law and make it more multi-cultural and future-oriented.
Weeramantry is the author or editor of over 20 books and over 100 articles on such topics as apartheid, the impact of the world's religions on law and human rights and the impact of technology on human rights. In his most recent book, "Armageddon or Brave New World?" Weeramantry wrote that the U.S. invasion of Iraq would be unconstitutional, violate 10 principles of the U.N. charter and be morally indefensible.
The president of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, Weeramantry is the founder of the Weeramantry International Centre for Peace, Education and Research in Colombo,
Sri Lanka.
T H I S
Human evolution is subject of Peabody talk
Paul Mellon Lectures will focus on 19th-century Britain
Former IKEA executive to give F&ES lecture
MIT physicist will deliver
the Leigh Page Prize Lectures
Golden Fellowship will address religion and the brain
Author of 'The Gardens of Kyoto' to visit the campus
Chicago Cubs manager
to be guest at master's tea
Race and biomedical research
to be examined in talk
Acclaimed New York Times columnist to give public talk
Law school talk will examine role of the International Court
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