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February 17, 2006|Volume 34, Number 19


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Scholar on social protest movements to speak on campus

The next talk in the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program Speaker Series will be given by Robyn C. Spencer, assistant professor of African and African American studies and assistant professor of history at The Pennsylvania State University, on Monday, Feb. 20.

Titled "Engendering the Black Power Movement: Revolutionary Black Womanhood and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California," Spencer's talk will take place 4-5:30 p.m. in Rm. B012 at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. The talk, sponsored by the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program, the Center for the Study of Race, Inequality & Politics, and the Department of African American Studies, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact alondra.nelson@yale.edu.

Spencer's research interests include the African-American social protest movements, working class history, urban history and African-American women.

She has received several grants and fellowships for her work, most recently a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University.

Spencer is currently revising a book manuscript titled "Repression Breeds Resistance: The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, 1966-1982."

Her future research will explore how participation in the anti-war movement forged an anti-imperialist consciousness among working-class blacks. In many ways, it continues her emphasis on exploring overlapping and intersecting boundaries between social protest movements.


Winter Lecture will focus on corporate disclosure

Paul G. Mahoney, the Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law and the Albert C. BeVier Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, will deliver the Judge Ralph Winter Lecture on Corporate Law and Governance on Monday, Feb. 20.

Mahoney's lecture, titled "Did the SEC Improve Corporate Disclosure? Evidence from the 1930s," will take place 4:30-6 p.m. in the faculty lounge of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. Sponsored by the Law School Dean's Office and the Center for the Study of Corporate Law, the talk is free and open to the public. A reception will follow in the Alumni Reading Room.

A 1984 graduate of the Law School, Mahoney is a former law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Ralph Winter of the Second Circuit. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has served as a consultant on legal reform projects in the former Soviet Union, Mongolia and Nepal.

His research and teaching interests include securities regulation, corporate finance, and law and economic development.

Mahoney's publications include "Manager-Investor Conflicts in Mutual Funds" in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, "The Origins of the Blue-Sky Laws: A Test of Competing Hypotheses" in the Journal of Law & Economics and "Market manipulation: A comprehensive study of stock pools" (with Guolin Jiang and Jianping Mei) in the Journal of Financial Economics.


Master's tea will feature alumna and Chanel executive

Maureen Chiquet, president and chief operating officer of Chanel Inc., will be the guest at a Calhoun College master's tea on Thursday, Feb. 23.

Chiquet will discuss "A Journey from Mass to Class: A Career in Iconic Brands" at 4:30 p.m. in the master's house, 434 College St. The talk is free and the public is invited to attend.

Chiquet, who graduated from Yale College in 1985, joined Chanel in 2003. She moved to Paris and spent a year working with senior management to understand the brand and strengthen international communications, operations and strategic planning. While developing strong relationships with Chanel presidents based in Europe and Asia, Chiquet visited manufacturing plants, artisan studios, department stores and Chanel boutiques.

In 2004, Chiquet relocated to New York where she assumed the role of president and chief operating officer of Chanel, directing all U.S. operations for beauty, fragrance, fashion, watches and fine jewelry.

Prior to joining Chanel, Chiquet held successive positions at Gap Inc. since 1988. Her contributions to building the Old Navy business were marked by a steady rise from divisional merchandising manager to executive vice president of merchandising, planning and production. Under her direction, the brand grew from 35 to 850 stores in eight years.

Most recently, Chiquet served as president of Banana Republic, where she was responsible for overseeing the entire organization, including marketing, merchandising, planning, production, finance and distribution, as well as stores and operations in the United States and Canada.


Talk will examine stereotypes and educational achievement

Joshua Aronson, an associate professor of psychology and education in the Department of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University (NYU), will speak in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Feb. 24.

His talk, titled "Stereotypes and the Fragility of Competence, Motivation and Self-Concept" 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, e-mail sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.

Aronson's research focuses on the social and psychological influences on academic achievement. He is internationally known for his research on minority student achievement. Aronson and his colleagues' research shows how stereotypes that allege lower ability among these groups depress Black and Latino students' test and school performance, as well as women's comfort and performance in advanced mathematics and science domains.

He has authored many chapters and scholarly articles on this work and is the editor of "Improving Academic Achievement: Impact of Psychological Factors on Education." Aronson's current work focuses on methods of boosting the learning and test performance of underachieving youth. His forthcoming book is titled "Nurture of Intelligence."

Aronson has received awards and grants for his research, including Early Career Awards from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the National Science Foundation, and the G. Stanley Hall Award from the American Psychological Association.

He is currently co-director of the National Task Force on the Achievement Gap at NYU.


Celebrated conductor will lead a concert in tribute to Mozart

Well known conductor Sir Neville Marriner will lead four Yale ensembles in an all-Mozart concert in honor of the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth on Friday, Feb. 24.

The concert is the culmination of the conductor's weeklong residency at Yale, and will take place at 8 p.m. at Woolsey Hall, corner of Grove and College streets. Professor Markus Rathey will give a pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. in the President's Room in Woolsey Hall. Both the talk and concert are free and open to the public, but tickets are required for the concert. A limited number of tickets may be available at the door. Call (203) 432-4158 for reservations. The concert and talk are presented by the Institute of Sacred Music, the Yale Glee Club and the School of Music. For more information, call (203) 432-5062.

The Camerata, the Glee Club, the Schola Cantorum and the Philharmonia Orchestra will perform "Regina coeli," "Coronation Mass," "Vespers," "Haffner Symphony" and "Ave verum corpus." Soloists will be drawn from the University's graduate vocal programs.

Marriner is the founder and director of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. In addition, he has held conducting posts with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Northern Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra and the South German Radio Symphony Orchestra, and he works consistently with major orchestras throughout the world.

In honor of his service to music, Marriner was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and later received a knighthood. For his commitment to French cultural life, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et Lettres.


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