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Essays by Jewish women writers focus of Slifka Center event
Ruth Andrew Ellenson, editor of "The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt," will visit the campus on Monday, Nov. 7.
Ellenson will speak at 4:30 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St. A reception at 4 p.m. will precede the lecture. The event is open to the public free of charge.
Ellenson's writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, People, Forward and Heeb.
Ellenson says, "I hope that in these pages you'll find a voice that resonates with you and offers a new perspective on whatever guilt you face. Guilt can make you laugh at its absurdity, break your heart, or in choosing which guilt you accept or reject, help you come to a clearer understanding of who you are. My hope is that the essays in the book will do all three."
"The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt" is a collection of original essays by Jewish women writers -- including Aimee Bender, Daphne Merkin and Rebecca Walker -- exploring all the things that rabbis warned them never to discuss in public. This collection examines ways to deal with guilt and its positive impact.
Renowned Metropolitan opera star Jennifer Larmore will work with singers in the Yale Opera program on Monday, Nov. 7.
The class will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Morse Recital Hall, Sprague Hall, 470 College St. Admission is $8; $5 students. For more information, call the School of Music Concert Office at (203) 432-4158 or visit www.yale.edu/music.
Larmore, a mezzo-soprano, is a highly acclaimed performer in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world. Considered to be one of the foremost interpreters of Rossini, Larmore performed at the closing ceremonies of the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Larmore has received a number of prestigious awards and her discography contains over 60 recordings. Her Gramophone Award-winning performance of "Giulio Cesare" is considered to be one of the finest interpretations of that role ever performed.
Calhoun College will host a master's tea with Henry Njoroge, the managing director of UUNET Kenya Ltd., on Wednesday, Nov. 9.
The tea will begin at 4 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The talk is free and the public is invited to attend.
Njoroge works to expand the information technology sector of Kenya in his position at UUNET Kenya Ltd., the leading business communications provider in Eastern Africa.
Njoroge believes the answer to African development lies in creating an affordable voice and data communications network that will allow impoverished rural residents access to information. He wants to ensure broad access to technology and education as the cornerstone of a strategy to lead Africa to new economic and social heights.
He exerted pressure on the Kenyan government to end the 40-year telephone monopoly, open the Internet gateway,
and allow the free market to create needed infrastructure.
Njoroge also established and expanded Fintech, UUNET and several other information technology companies in Angola, Zambia and Uganda. With each of these companies, he works to redefine the Internet and telecommunications in Africa and make technology more widely accessible.
A member of the East Africa Business Summit, Njoroge is a mentor to young African business professionals.
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, will read from her work as part of the Yale Literature and Spirituality Series on Thursday, Nov. 10.
The reading, which will be followed by a book-signing and reception, will be held at 4:15 p.m. in the Divinity School common room at 409 Prospect St. The reading is free and open to the public. The Yale Literature and Spirituality Series is sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music and the Divinity Student Book Supply. For more information, call (203) 432-5062.
Robinson is the author of "Gilead," which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
Robinson is also the author of "Housekeeping," which was honored with the PEN/Ernest Hemmingway Award for First Fiction and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the Academy of American Arts and Letters. "Housekeeping" was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Robinson, who currently teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award in 1990 and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts in 1998.
She is the author of two books of nonfiction, "Mother Country" and "The Death of Adam."
The Reverend Cynthia L. Hale, founder and senior pastor of the Ray of Hope Christian Church, will visit the Yale Divinity School campus on Wednesday and Thursday, November 9 and 10, under the Luccock Visitorship.
Hale will preach at 10:30 a.m. in Marquand Chapel at the Divinity School, 409 Prospect St.
The recipient of numerous awards honoring her for her preaching, Hale was the first woman to serve as chaplain of the day in the U.S. House of Representatives and for the opening session of the Georgia State Senate.
Ray of Hope Christian Church, affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), was founded 18 years ago. Under Hale's leadership, the congregation has grown from an initial group of four people meeting for Bible study to a church of 3,500 with an average Sunday worship attendance of 2,000.
The Luccock Visitorship was established in 1963 in memory of Halford E. Luccock, who served as a professor in the Divinity School from 1928 to 1953. The Luccock Visitor, who is usually a parish minister, is invited to spend several days at the Divinity School interacting with faculty and students.
The Reverend Richard Rohr, OFM, an internationally renowned Catholic speaker and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation, will deliver St. Thomas More's More House Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 10.
Titled "Where Do We Find Hope?" Rohr's talk will begin at 4:30 p.m. at Saint Thomas More, 268 Park St. The talk is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 777-5537 or visit www.yale.edu/stm.
Rohr's talk will address sources of hope in troubled and uncertain times.
Rohr, a Franciscan of the New Mexico Province, is founding director of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He divides his time between that work and preaching and teaching on all continents.
He is best known for his numerous audio and video tapes and for the center's newsletter, "Radical Grace." His best-known books are "Simplicity, The Wild Man's Journey," "Quest for the Grail," "Everything Belongs," "Hope Against Darkness," and The Mystery of Suffering."
The More House Lecture is the oldest annual program at Saint Thomas More Chapel. Each year, a noted scholar presents a major work in the area of Catholic theology.
Israeli novelist Meir Shalev, will speak on campus on Thursday, Nov. 10.
Shalev will discuss "Memories of a Zionist Family: Israeli Fiction and Jewish Identity" at 7:30 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St. The event is co-sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies and the Jewish Federation of New Haven's Books Series.
Shalev has produced and hosted several radio and television programs. He is a columnist with the Israeli daily, Yediot Abronot, where he comments satirically on government policy and laments the situation of the Israeli people.
One of Israel's most celebrated novelists, Shalev's books have been translated into over 20 languages. He writes essays and fiction for both children and adults and is the author of "Four Meals"and "The Loves of Judith."
Robert J. Sampson, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences and chair of the Department of Sociology at Harvard University, will speak in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Nov. 11.
Sampson's talk, titled "Exposure to Neighborhood Advantage in the Lives of Urban Children: Explaining Trajectories of Change," will be held at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 116, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, email sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.
Sampson's research interests center on crime and deviance, the life course, neighborhood effects and the sociology of the modern city. His current work is focused on the community-level context of well being, race and ethnicity and mechanisms of ecological inequality, the social meanings of disorder, the network structure of community influence, civic engagement, and other topics linked to community-level social processes. Much of this work stems from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, for which Sampson serves as scientific director.
Sampson is also engaged in a longitudinal study from birth to death of 1,000 disadvantaged men born in Boston during the Great Depression era. Two publications from this project received distinguished book awards from the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association.
In 2005 Sampson was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
T H I S
Metropolitan Opera singer to lead a Yale Opera master class
Master's tea will explore communications in Africa
Pulitzer Prize winning-author to read from her work
Luccock Visitor will preach at Marquand Chapel
More House Lecture will focus on the theme of hope
Slifka Center talk will feature celebrated novelist
Talk will examine the influence of neighborhoods on children
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