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Inaugural Schechner Lecture will focus on skin diseases
Dr. Michael J. Detmar, associate professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, will give the inaugural Jeffrey Schechner Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 8.
Detmar will present a lecture titled "The Cutaneous Vascular System -- a New Target for the Prevention and Treatment of Skin Diseases" at Dermatology Grand Rounds at 10 a.m. in Fitkin Amphitheatre, 15 York St. He will present a second lecture at noon in the Beeson Library, Hunter 6, 15 York St., titled "Lymphangiogenesis in Development and Human Diseases." The talks are free and open to the public.
Detmar is also professor of pharmacogenomics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.
An active member of the dermatology community, Detmar has received recognition for his research from the National Alopecia Areata Foundation, the German Dermatological Society and the Dermatology Foundation in Berlin, Germany. He also serves on editorial boards for Cancer Research, Cancer Biology and Therapy, and the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, and has served as a reviewer for numerous journals and grants.
In 2005, the American Academy of Dermatology presented Detmar with the Marion B. Sulzberger Memorial Award and Lectureship at its 63rd meeting.
The lectureship is held in memory of Dr. Jeffrey Schechner, associate professor of dermatology in the Department of Dermatology, who died in September of 2004.
As part of its ongoing 75th anniversary celebration, Sterling Memorial Library will host a lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 8, by James Welbourne, city librarian and director of the New Haven Free Public Library.
Welbourne will discuss "Separate and Unequal: Public Library Service to African-American Communities in the South from 1900-1954 (The Plessy Years)" at 2 p.m. in Sterling Memorial Library's lecture hall, 120 High St. The lecture is free and the public is invited to attend. For more information, please contact amanda.patrick@yale.edu.
In his talk, Welbourne will retrospectively examine the role of public libraries in southern black communities between 1900 and 1954. He will discuss the impact of the Jim Crow laws and racial intimidation tactics on the provision of public library services to the millions of African Americans in the South during the Plessy vs. Ferguson years of legal segregation. He will share how this history of the public library's role in serving the black community has shaped his own vision of urban librarianship in the 21st century.
Welbourne is New Haven's sixth city librarian since the library's founding in 1887. He began his service as director of the New Haven Public Library system in 2000 where he currently oversees a system serving an urban population of over 150,000. The system consists of a central library, three neighborhood branch libraries with a fourth branch opening in June 2006, an electronic kiosk branch in the local Shaw's Supermarket and a Readmobile that visits schools and underserved neighborhoods throughout the city.
David Shambaugh, professor of political science and international affairs and director of The China Policy Program at The Elliott School of International Affairs of The George Washington University, will deliver the 46th Annual Edward H. Hume Memorial Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 9.
Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, Shambaugh's lecture, titled "Power Shift: China, the United States and Regional Order in Asia," will take place at 4 p.m. in the Henry R. Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. A reception will follow in the second floor common room. The talk is free and open to the public.
In his lecture, Shambaugh will explore the elements of China's regional rise and its implications for the evolving Asian order.
This lecture coincides with the publication of Shambaugh's recently published book "Power Shift: China & Asia's New Dynamics."
The Edward H. Hume Memorial Lecture, made possible by the colleagues, friends and family of Dr. Edward H. Hume, brings to Yale eminent scholars of East Asian studies. Hume devoted much of his life to working in China on health care and medical training, served as president of the colleges of Yale-in-China from 1923 to 1927, and founded the Hsiang-ya Medical School and Hospital in Changsha under the auspices of Yale-in-China.
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