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Environomental scholar to speak in Slifka Center event
Mark Sagoff, Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment and former president of the International Society of Environmental Ethics, will speak at Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale on Wednesday, Dec. 7.
Sagoff's talk, titled "An Autopsy for Environmentalism," will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Slifka Center, 80 Wall St. The talk, which is part of the center's seventh annual Forum on Bioethical Issues in Society, is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-1134.
A senior research scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Sagoff will argue that the current emphasis on science has weakened the environmental movement.
In his most recent book, "Price, Principle, and the Environment," Sagoff argues that the solution to environmental problems does not lie in correctly computing costs and benefits to find efficient policies. Instead it lies in a deliberative political dialogue that is sensitive to the moral and aesthetic reasons supporting environmental protections.
In the first in a series of exchanges between the Moscow Conservatory and the School of Music, Tigran Alikhanov, pianist and director of the conservatory, will visit the campus Wednesday-Friday, Dec. 7-9, for a recital, a public master class and a panel discussion.
The recital, part of the Horowitz Piano Series, will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. Alikhanov will perform works by Beethoven, Schumann and Mussorgsky. Tickets are $8-$15; student tickets are $5.
On Thursday, Alikhanov will work with Yale pianists in a master class at 10:30 a.m. A panel discussion on "Music Education in the United States and Russia" will take place on Friday from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Joining Alikhanov will be Thomas C. Duffy, acting dean of the School of Music (YSM); Boris Berman, chair of the YSM piano department; and students from both the Moscow Conservatory and YSM. All of the events will take place in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall, corner of College & Wall streets. The master class and panel discussion are free and open to the public. For more information, contact (203) 432-4158 or visit www.yale.edu/music.
Alikhanov has given hundreds of recitals in all the major cities in the former Soviet Union and has toured Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics, France, the United States, and Austria, among many others. He has performed with renowned conductors, and has participated in several debut performances including Messiaen's "Turangalila" symphony in Bratislava in 1984 and the third "Brazilian Bachiane" by Villa-Lobos in St. Petersburg in 1987.
Ira Glass, radio producer and host of "This American Life," will be the guest at a Davenport College master's tea on Sunday, Dec. 11.
Glass will speak at 3 p.m. at the master's house, 271 Park St. The talk is free and open to members of the Yale community.
The documentary public radio program "This American Life" focuses on the details of life that often go unobserved. The show premiered on Chicago's public radio station WBEZ in 1995 and is now heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by over 1.7 million listeners. "This American Life" addresses one theme each week, exploring it from various points of view. A number of stories from the program are in development to become feature films at Warner Brothers and the show has released two greatest hits compilations and a DVD.
Under Glass's editorial direction, "This American Life" has won numerous honors and awards for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including the Peabody and DuPont-Columbia awards, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award. The American Journalism Review declared that the show is "at the vanguard of a journalistic revolution."
The program has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, Entertainment Weekly and numerous other publications.
Glass has made appearances on the "Late Show with David Letterman" and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." In 2001, Time magazine named him "Best Radio Host in America."
Civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory will visit the campus on Sunday, Dec. 11.
Gregory will speak at 5:30 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, corner of College and Grove streets. Doors open at 5 p.m. General admission tickets are $35; $30 for students. Tickets are available at (866) 468-7619 or www.ticketweb.com. For further information, call (203) 777-6335 or visit www.dickgregory.com.
Gregory began performing comedy in the mid-1950s while serving in the army. He entered the national comedy scene in 1961 when Chicago's Playboy Club booked him. By 1962 Gregory had become a nationally known headline performer, selling out nightclubs, making numerous national television appearances, and recording popular comedy albums.
Inspired by the work of leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Gregory took part in the civil rights movement and used his celebrity status to draw attention to such issues as segregation and disfranchisement.
Gregory's autobiography "Nigger" was published in 1963 and became the number one best-selling book in America.
Through the 1960s, Gregory spent more time on social issues and less time on performing. He participated in marches and parades to support a range of causes, including opposition to the Vietnam War, world hunger and drug abuse. In addition, Gregory fasted in protest more than 60 times. In Iran, he fasted and prayed in an effort to urge the Ayatollah Khomeini to release American embassy staff who had been taken hostage.
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