Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 15, 2005|Volume 32, Number 26

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Former chief of Indian Army to visit the campus

V.P. Malik, retired chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army, will visit the campus on Monday, April 18.

Malik will discuss "A Security Perspective on India and the World" at 4 p.m. in Rm. 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is free and open to the public.

Malik served as chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1997 to 2000. He was also the chair of the Chiefs of Staff Committee on India 1999-2000. In 1999, he planned, coordinated and oversaw execution of Operation Vijay, which successfully defeated Pakistan's attempted intrusion in Kargil Sector.

Currently president of the Observer Research Foundation Institute of Security Studies, Malik is the author of numerous military papers on defense planning and security issues. He has addressed many national and international seminars, civil and military institutions, universities and industrial organizations in India and abroad.

Thomas Lecture will focus on prejudice and the law

The Law School's Thomas Lecture will be given by Mahzarin Banaji, the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, on Monday, April 18.

"Ordinary Prejudice and the Law: A Behavioral Realism Approach" is the title of Banaji's talk, which will take place 4:30-6 p.m. in Rm. 127, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. Sponsored by the Law School's Dean's Office, the talk is open to the public free of charge.

Banaji previously held the post of the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Psychology at Yale from 1986 until 2001. In 2002 she moved to Harvard University, where she also serves as the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Banaji studies human thinking and feeling as it unfolds in social context. Her focus is primarily on thinking and feeling systems that operate in implicit or unconscious mode. In particular, Banaji is interested in the unconscious nature of assessments of self and other humans that reflect feelings and knowledge (often unintended) about their social group membership (e.g., age, race/ethnicity, gender and class). From such study of attitudes and beliefs of adults and children, she examines the social consequences of unintended thought and feeling.

Distinguished leader in nursing will deliver Bellos Lecture

Shirley Chater, a visiting professor at the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California School of Nursing in San Francisco, California, will give the Sybil Palmer Bellos Lecture on Wednesday, April 20.

Dr. Chater's talk, titled "What's Secure About Social Security: A Personal View," will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the lecture hall, Rm. 118 at the School of Nursing, 100 Church St. South. The Wisser Tea Reception will follow the lecture. To attend this event, please R.S.V.P. to (203) 785-2393 or sydney.martin@yale.edu.

From 1993 until 1997, Chater served as United States Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, where she launched a customers-first strategy and successfully implemented redesign efforts to increase efficiency.

Chater currently serves as chair of the national advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow Program and is an independent lecturer and consultant. She lectures on public policy and economic and social issues concerning the aging population in the United States.

Chater has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. She is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration and the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Canterbury Cathedral dean to give Divinity School lecture

Robert Willis, dean of Canterbury Cathedral, will deliver a lecture at the Divinity School on Wednesday, April 20.

Titled "Canterbury Pilgrims Conversations Along The Way," the lecture will begin at 3 p.m. in Niebuhr Hall, Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, 409 Prospect St. and will be followed by a reception at the Berkeley Center, 363 Saint Ronan St. The event is free and open to the public.

Dean of Canterbury Cathedral since 2001, Willis is also chair of the Conference of the Deans of the English Cathedrals. In addition, he is a member of the Cathedrals' Fabric Commission for England, the body that regulates the conservation of cathedrals and encourages creative works of art within them.

Willis has written many hymns, several of which have been published in books such as "Hymns Ancient and Modern" and "Common Praise." His verses have also been published as anthems.

Panel discussion will feature Topic Magazine creators

The Yale College Dean's Office will host a panel discussion with Yale College alumni David Haskell, Robert Blakeslee Gilpin and Rob Giampietro, creators and editors of Topic Magazine, on Wednesday, April 20.

The first in a series of "Francis Conversations with Writers and Editors," the panel discussion will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 211, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. Anne Fadiman, the Francis Writer in Residence at Yale, will introduce the speakers.

Haskell, Gilpin and Giampietro, all 2001 graduates from Yale College, will discuss magazine editing and their quarterly, Topic Magazine.

Topic is a magazine that publishes first-hand accounts of personal experiences and other subjects by both known and unknown writers.

Expert on effects of radiation will give inaugural EPH lecture

Roy E. Shore, director of the epidemiology and prevention program at New York University Cancer Institute and professor and director of epidemiology at New York University School of Medicine, will deliver the inaugural Nancy G. Hildreth-Chronic Disease Epidemiology Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, April 20.

Shore's talk on the topic "Advancing Our Understanding of Radiation Effects: Contributions by Nancy Hildreth" will take place at 4 p.m. in the Anlyan Center auditorium, 300 Cedar St. Hosted by the Division of Chronic Disease and Epidemiology at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH), the lecture is free and open to the public.

Shore's research focuses on the health effects of radiation. He and colleagues found that cataracts were induced after fairly low levels of radiation exposure to the lens of the eye among Chernobyl cleanup workers. Shore's studies have also documented the degree to which radiation exposure causes breast, thyroid and skin cancer.

Shore serves as a committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council, and he is also chairing an expert group on Chernobyl thyroid studies with the World Health Organization in Geneva.

The lecture honors Nancy G. Hildreth who earned her M.P.H. (1978), M.Phil. (1979) and Ph.D. (1981) in chronic disease epidemiology from EPH. Hildreth was nationally and internationally recognized for her research on exposure to thymic irradiation during infancy and radiation-associated breast cancer and thyroid abnormalities.

Bioethics lecture will examine practice of informed consent

Dr. Robert M. Nelson, associate professor of anesthesia and pediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, will give the next talk in the Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series on Wednesday, April 20.

Nelson will discuss "A Critique of the Theory and Practice of Informed Consent" at a noon seminar at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 87 Trumbull St. In a public lecture 5:30-6:45 p.m. in the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St., he will discuss "Why should a parent ever enroll his or her child in non-therapeutic research?" Both lectures are open to the public free of charge. For further information, contact Lili Beit at (203) 432-9736 or lili.beit@yale.edu.

Nelson's noon talk will review the theory of informed consent and the way in which this theory has been implemented in the regulation and conduct of research involving human subjects. His evening lecture will explore whether a parent has the authority to enroll a child in research that does not directly benefit the child.

A 1980 graduate of the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Divinity School, Nelson's research interests include research ethics, informed consent, parental permission and child assent, risk perception, and research regulatory oversight.

Renowned composer to lead concert of his work

Composer Krzysztof Penderecki will conduct the Yale Camerata, the Yale Glee Club, the Yale Philharmonia and the Elm City Girls Choir in a performance of his work titled "Credo" on Friday, April 22.

The concert will take place at 8 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, corner of College and Grove streets. The composer will give a pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St. Presented by the Institute of Sacred Music, the Yale Glee Club and the School of Music, both the concert and talk are free and open to the public. No tickets are required. For more information, call (203) 432-5062.

A liturgical piece for chorus and orchestra,"Credo" incorporates Polish hymns and is reminiscent of 19th-century harmonic works.

Penderecki has written nearly 40 orchestral works including five symphonies, various small-scale orchestral compositions and several solo concertos, as well as chamber music, numerous vocal works, five operas and a film score. He has an international reputation as a composer and as a conductor, both of his own works and those of other composers.

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