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Financial Times editor will discuss globalization
Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, will give a public address on Monday, Nov. 1.
Wolf's talk, "Why Globalization Works," is free and open to the public. It will begin at 4 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Globalization. For more information, call (203) 432-1900 or e-mail globalization@yale.edu.
Wolf, who joined the Financial Times in 1987 as chief economics leader writer and became chief economics commentator in 1996, is the author of "Why Globalization Works" (Yale University Press, 2004). The book has been called the "fullest and most sophisticated treatment to date of the case for globalization" by The Economist.
Wolf was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 for services to financial journalism and was a joint winner of the Wincott Foundation Senior Prize for excellence in financial journalism in both 1989 and 1997. He is one of only two British journalists to have won the prize twice since its establishment. Wolf was also the recipient of the RTZ David Watt Memorial Prize in 1994.
Earlier in his career, Wolf served as a senior economist of the World Bank and worked in the India division until 1977. From 1979 to 1981 he worked in the Division for International Trade. In 1981 he became director of studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre in London.
The next meeting of the "End-of-Life Issues" working research group will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 2, and will feature a talk by Dr. Kathleen Foley, a world-renowned authority on pain and pain management.
Foley's talk, titled "The Current Status of Palliative Care in the U.S.," will take place at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m., followed by Foley's presentation. The talk is free and open to the public. For more information and dinner reservations, contact Carol Pollard at carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Named a 2004 McCann Scholar, Foley was presented the award by The Joy McCann Foundation in recognition of her role in mentoring physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals concerned with developing the evidence base for symptom management in seriously ill patients.
An attending neurologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and a former chief of the Pain and Palliative Care Service, Foley has focused her career on the assessment and treatment of patients with cancer pain.
Through her leadership of the Open Society Institute's Project on Death in America -- a nine-year program designed to improve end-of-life care through scholarship, research and clinical care -- she played an important role in the development of young physicians and healthcare professionals willing to commit their professional lives to advancing palliative care.
The Race, Health and Medicine series will continue with a lecture by Samuel Roberts, assistant professor of history at Columbia University and assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, on Wednesday, Nov. 3.
Roberts will discuss "Spaces of Consumption (and Vice Versa), or, Epidemiology, Public Health and the Mapping of Tuberculosis in the Era of Jim Crow" at 4:30 p.m. in the Gordon Parks Seminar Rm., Rm. 313, 493 College St. The talk, which is sponsored by the Department of African American Studies, African Studies Council, the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, is free and open to the public.
Roberts' research interests include the areas of 19th- and 20th-century science and racial thought, United States public health history and African-American history. His new studies explore migrant labor and public health in the Panama Canal Zone and banana plantations of Central America.
Roberts, a research fellow at the Institute for Research in African American Studies, is the author of a forthcoming book titled "Infectious Fear: African Americans, Tuberculosis, and Public Health in the Early Twentieth Century," an interdisciplinary project which examines public health and urban politics in the Jim Crow South between the eras of bacteriological promise and the expansion of the federal public health state.
Roberts recently received an award from the National Institutes of Health to study the history and ethics of tuberculosis surveillance in the United States.
The Technology and Ethics Working Research Group will host a visit by William A. Haseltine, chair emeritus and founder of Human Genome Sciences Inc., on Wednesday, Nov. 3.
Haseltine will discuss "Ethical and Social Issues of Research on Human and Other Genomes" from 4:15 to 5:45 p.m. at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Trumbull St. A dinner and discussion period will follow from 5:45 to 7 p.m. The event, cosponsored by the Information Society Project at the Law School, is free and the public is invited to attend. For more information, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or e-mail carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Haseltine is president of Haseltine Associates, a biotechnology consulting firm. He is the founder of Human Genome Sciences and served as chairman and chief executive officer from 1993 to 2004. In addition, Haseltine is president of The William A. Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts.
A professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health from 1976 to 1993, Haseltine is renowned for his research with both cancer and AIDS, for which he has received numerous awards and honors.
The author of more than 250 published scientific manuscripts, Haseltine is also the founder and president of the Society for Regenerative Medicine. He has founded seven biotechnology companies and, as an adviser to HealthCare Ventures, helped to create an additional 20 companies.
Brian W. Dippie, professor of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, will give the fourth annual Betts Lecture on Friday, Nov. 5.
Dippie's lecture, "'Its Equal I Have Never Seen': Custer Explores the Black Hills, 1874," will be presented at 5 p.m. in Sudler Hall, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. Sponsored by the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, the talk is free and open to the public.
Dippie, who is considered to be an expert on artists like George Catlin, Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, as well as on graphic portrayals of Custer's Last Stand, specializes in the art and popular culture of the American West. His many books include "The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy," "Custer's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth" and "West-Fever."
The lecture series honors Roland W. Betts II, an alumni fellow of the Yale Corporation, for his support of the Howard R. Lamar Center. The annual Betts Lecture is given by the immediate past president of the Western History Association, an organization founded in 1961 "to promote the study of the American West in all its varied aspects."
Shafqat Kakakhel, assistant secretary general of the United Nations and deputy executive director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), will visit the campus on Monday, Nov. 8.
Kakakhel will talk about his experiences with UNEP in a lecture titled "International Environmental Policy" at 12:30 p.m. in the Sage Hall lounge, 205 Prospect St. The talk is free and open to the public and refreshments will be provided.
Kakakhel was appointed to his current post in 1998. There, he assists the executive director of the United Nations in the execution of his tasks and duties relating to UNEP. This includes supervising all divisions and regional offices and overseeing all internal program coordination, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. Kakakhel also plays a key role in maintaining UNEP's relations with governments, working both to enhance the program's understanding of nations' expectations and environmental needs and to keep them fully informed of UNEP's ongoing activities and plans.
Kakakhel served with the Foreign Service of Pakistan for over 25 years. In addition to undertaking various assignments at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad, he also completed postings in Beirut, Cairo, Bonn, Jeddah and New Delhi.
During his diplomatic career, Kakakhel represented his country in numerous inter-governmental negotiations and events, including meetings of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. He was also the principal spokesperson of the Group of 77 and China during the preparatory process for the Habitat II Conference.
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Palliative care is the subject of ISPS lecture
Race, Health and Medicine talk will focus on tuberculosis
Human genome sciences topic of technology and ethics talk
Betts Lecture will explore the art of the American West
U.N. official will examine environmental policies
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