Yale Bulletin and Calendar

September 24, 2004|Volume 33, Number 4

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American Ballet Theatre dancer to give Calhoun master's tea

Julie Kent, a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), will speak at a master's tea on Monday, Sept. 27.

Kent's talk will begin at 4 p.m. at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The talk is free and open to the public.

Kent joined the ABT as an apprentice in 1985. In that same year, she won first place in the regional finals of the National Society of Arts and Letters at the Kennedy Center. In 1986, she was the only American to win a medal at the Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition and she became a member of ABT's corps de ballet. She was appointed a soloist with ABT in 1990 and a principal dancer in 1993, the year in which she won the Erik Bruhn Prize in Toronto.

Kent's roles with ABT include title roles in "Anastasia" and "Cinderella," Terpsichore and Calliope in "Apollo," Kitri and the Queen of the Driads in "Don Quixote," Desdemona in "Othello," and the pas de deux in "Other Dances."

She created the roles of Artemis in "Artemis" and Sibyl Vane in "Dorian," and leading roles in "The Brahms/Haydn Variations," and "Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison," among others.

In April 2000, Kent won the "Prix Benois de la Danse," the only American ever to win this prize. Kent's film career includes starring roles in "Dancers" in 1987 and "Center Stage" in 2000.

Anthropologist is next McClellan Visiting Fellow

Anne Allison, associate professor and chair of the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and the next McClellan Visiting Fellow in Japanese Studies, will deliver a lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 30.

Allison will discuss "Techno Animism and Virtual Intimacy in the Age of Pokemon" at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 1, 158 Whitney Ave. She will also conduct a roundtable discussion on Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 11:30 a.m. to discuss her research and new book, provisionally titled "Millenial Monsters." Both events are free and open to the public, but registration is required for the roundtable discussion. To register for the event, contact Anne Letterman at (203) 432-3428 or anne.letterman@yale.edu.

Allison's research focuses on the ways in which desire reconfirms or re-imagines socio-economic relations in various contexts in postwar Japan. Her publications include "Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club" and "Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan."

Currently, Allison is exploring the recent popularization of Japanese children's goods in the global marketplace and how its trends in cuteness, character merchandise, and high-tech play pals are remaking Japan's place in today's world of millennial capitalism.

The McClellan Visiting Fellowship in Japanese Studies was inaugurated in 2000 by the Council on East Asian Studies in honor of Edwin McClellan, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature.

Noted spy novelist to present master's tea

Branford College will host a visit by novelist Alan Furst on Tuesday, Sept. 28.

Furst will be a guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. in the Branford College master's house, 80 High St. The talk is free and open to the public.

Furst is widely recognized as a master of the historical spy novel. He is the author of "Night Soldiers," "Dark Star," "The Polish Officer," "The World at Night," "Red Gold," "Kingdom of Shadows" and the New York Times bestseller "Blood of Victory."

Historian and Yale alumnus will speak at master's tea

Geoffrey Kabaservice, author and practice manager at the Advisory Board Company in Washington, D.C., will give a master's tea on Wednesday, Sept. 29.

Kabaservice 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.

In his role as a practice manager at the Advisory Board Company, Kabaservice recently led his team through a study of how to maximize marketing's impact in the health care industry.

A historian who specializes in social mobility and leadership in 1960's America, Kabaservice received both his bachelor's degree and Ph.D. from Yale.

He is the author of the 2004 book, "The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment." A review in Publisher's Weekly stated "Not only President Bush but John Kerry and Howard Dean attended Brewster's Yale, and Kabaservice's history offers valuable insights into a crucible that helped shape their political character."

Standardized testing will be topic of social policy talk

The Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series will continue with a talk on Friday, Oct. 1, by Richard P. Phelps of the Nonpartisan Education Review of Northampton, Massachusetts.

Phelps' talk, titled "Defending Standardized Testing In Education: Why and How," will begin at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 102, Becton Center, 15 Prospect St. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, call (203) 432-9935.

Phelps has edited the weekly on-line series, In Defense of Testing, at EducationNews.org for the past four years. His recent books include "Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing," and the edited volume "Defending Standardized Testing." He is also the author of dozens of journal articles and statistical compendia.

Phelps has taught secondary school mathematics in Burkina Faso, West Africa, and worked at Indiana's Education Department, the U.S. General Accounting Office, the American Institutes for Research, Westat and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. He was also a research fellow at the Educational Testing Service.

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