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TIAA-CREF executive is next speaker in Yale Leaders Forum
The next Yale Leaders Forum will feature a conversation with Herbert M. Allison Jr., chair, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of TIAA-CREF, on Thursday, March 23.
Allison will speak at 11:45 a.m. in the General Motors Room at the School of Management, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is free and open to the public.
A Yale College graduate, Allison became chair, president and CEO of TIAA-CREF in 2002. He joined TIAA-CREF after a 28-year career at Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., where he last served as president and chief operating officer (COO) until 1999.
His career began with Merrill Lynch in 1971. He first served as an associate in investment banking in New York, and he also held posts in Paris, London and Tehran. He became president and COO and a member of the board in 1997. During his tenure there, Allison ran both the Investment Banking and the Corporate and Institutional Groups. He also served at various times as head of human resources and as chief financial officer.
In 2000, Allison accepted a leadership role in the Alliance for Lifelong Learning Inc., a joint venture of Oxford, Stanford and Yale universities. As president and CEO, he helped build an online learning organization for adults.
Allison serves on the advisory board of the Yale School of Management, is the vice chair of the Business-Higher Education Forum, and is on the board of directors of The Conference Board.
Calestous Juma, professor of international development at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project, will speak as part of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy Environmental Governance Speaker Series on Thursday, March 23.
Juma will discuss "Global Environmental Governance: The Case for Institutional Innovation" 4-6 p.m. in the auditorium of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. A reception will follow in the second-floor common room. Sponsored by the Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Center for International & Area Studies, the talk is free and the public is invited to attend.
In his lecture, Juma will focus on the future of global environmental institutions, development and Africa, biotechnology, and other topics in environment and
development.
Formerly the executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, he is the founding director of the African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi.
Juma served as chancellor of the University of Guyana and is a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Art and Science. He is a member of the Kenya National Academy of Sciences.
The recipient of several international awards for his work on sustainable development, Juma is a national associate of the U.S. National Academies and has served on its committees on science advice, geographical information sciences and biotechnology. He is lead author of "Innovation: Applying Knowledge in Development."
Johanna Fernandez, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History and the Center for African American Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University, will give the next lecture in the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program's Speaker Series on Monday, March 20.
Fernandez will discuss "Radicals in Black and Brown: The Young Lords, the Black Panthers and the Social and Structural Roots of Late Sixties Urban Radicalism"
4-5:30 p.m. in Rm. B012, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program, the Center for the Study of Race, Inequality & Politics and the Department of African American Studies. For more information, e-mail alondra.nelson@yale.edu.
Fernandez was previously a visiting professor at Trinity College, where she taught in the Department of History and in the American Studies Program.
She is currently working on the manuscript for her book, titled "When the World Was Their Stage: A History of the Young Lords Party, 1968-1974."
Fernandez's research explores the ways in which the structure and economy of the city were transformed in the years following World War II and the consequences of these changes for 1960s radicalism and for Puerto Ricans, African Americans and other urban dwellers.
The Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery will host a visit by Deborah Swallow, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, on Thursday, March 23.
Swallow will deliver the Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture on "Collectors, Benefactors, Scholarship and the Public: The Role of the University Art Gallery" at 5:30 p.m. in the center's lecture hall, 1080 Chapel St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Swallow was appointed director of the Courtauld Institute in 2004. Prior to her appointment, she served as assistant keeper, acting keeper, and chief curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum's Indian Department, as well as senior chief curator and director of collections at the museum.
Swallow is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the advisory board of the Nehru Centre (High Commission of India), and an executive trustee for the Nehru Trust for the Indian Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is a specialist in the history of the relationships between British, Indian and South East Asian textiles and dress.
Established to honor the memory of Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, director of the Yale University Art Gallery from 1957 to 1971, the annual Ritchie Lectures, which are jointly sponsored by the Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery, bring to the university distinguished members of the international visual arts community.
Dan Alon, an Israeli Olympic athlete who survived the Munich massacre in 1972, will speak on Thursday, March 23.
Alon's talk will begin at 7:30 p.m. in
Rm. 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 61 High St. The talk, sponsored by Chabad at Yale and Yale Friends of Israel, is free and open to the public.
Alon was born in Tel Aviv in 1945 and began fencing when he was 12 years old, coached by his father. He was Israel's champion fencer for many years, representing Israel in international competitions before the fateful trip to Munich for the Summer Olympics, when 11 Israeli hostages were murdered by members of a Palestinian terrorist group, Black September. For many years, Alon kept silent about the tragedy he witnessed, but since the release of the recent Steven Spielberg movie, "Munich," he has begun to tell his story.
Alon, who is trained as a chemist, owns a plastics factory.
Women's rights advocate Malalai Joya will visit the campus on Thursday, March 23.
Joya will give a talk, titled "Women's Rights, Warlords and the U.S. Occupation of Afghanistan," at 7:30 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Council on Middle East Studies at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies in cooperation with the Interfaith Refugee Ministry of New Haven and the Afghan Women's Mission. For more information, e-mail cmes@yale.edu or visit www.afghanwomensmission.org.
The talk will be preceded by a screening at 6:30 p.m. of the documentary "Afghanistan Unveiled." The film, which aired on PBS, was made in 2003 by a team of women journalists trained in Afghanistan.
Joya is visiting the United States for the first time since her 2005 election to the new Afghan Parliament. She has been called "the most famous woman in Afghanistan" and has survived assassination attempts and many death threats for speaking out against warlords and fundamentalist leaders.
"They will kill me but they will not kill my voice because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring," Joya said in a BBC News interview in January.
Ruth Sidel, professor of sociology at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY), will speak as part of the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, March 24.
Titled "Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream," Sidel's talk will begin 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.
Sidel has studied the role of women, the care of children and the provision of human services in urban areas in the United States and in many other countries. She has made study visits to the People's Republic of China, Great Britain and Sweden to study health and human services.
She has lectured widely in the United States and in other countries on the impact of poverty on women and children, on the problems of combining work and family, and on the need for a comprehensive, humane U.S. family policy.
Sidel's books include "Women and Child Care in China," "Women and Children Last: The Plight of Poor Women in Affluent America," "On Her Own: Growing Up in the Shadow of the American Dream," "Keeping Women and Children Last: America's War on the Poor" and the forthcoming "Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream."
Kurosawa Kiyoshi, a film director and professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, will discuss his films as part of "Kinema Club VII: Regimen, Revival And Recent Japanese Cinema," Friday-Sunday, March 24-26.
Kurosawa will hold a workshop on Thursday, 4-6 p.m., in the Luce Hall auditorium followed by a screening at 7 p.m. and a discussion of his 1998 film "Serpent's Path" in the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) auditorium, 53 Wall St. Kurosawa will also hold a workshop on Friday, 4-6 p.m., in the WHC auditorium. On Saturday, a screening and discussion of his most recent film, "Loft," will take place 7-10 p.m., in the WHC auditorium. Film screenings and workshops are free and open to the public.
Nakamura Hideyuki, a professor at Rikkyo University, will give the keynote address on Friday 7-9 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The talk will be preceded by a reception. For further information and a complete conference schedule, e-mail jeffrey.levick@yale.edu.
Kurosawa first received international acclaim for his serial killer thriller "Cure" in 1997. Many of his films focus on the way society shapes the individual, with individuals obsessed with some eccentric project, or how social mechanisms disintegrate when faced with the wholly irrational.
T H I S
Global environmental governance is focus of talk
1960s urban radicalism is topic of talk
Ritchie Lecture will examine the role of the university art gallery
Survivor of the Munich Olympic massacre will visit the campus
Afghani activist will examine women's rights in Afghanistan
Talk will focus on single mothers and the American dream
Kinema Club VII will feature well-known filmmaker
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