Yale Bulletin and Calendar

September 23, 2005|Volume 34, Number 4

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Iraq's libraries and cultural heritage to be discussed in talk

René Teijgeler, a book and paper conservator who previously served as senior adviser of the United States Embassy to the Iraqi Ministry of Culture, will speak on campus on Friday, Sept. 23.

Titled "The Devastation and Revival of Iraqi Libraries and Heritage," Teijgeler's talk will be held at 3 p.m. in the lecture hall of Sterling Memorial Library, 130 Wall St. A reception will follow. Sponsored by the Yale University Library, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Programs in International Educational Resources and the Council on Middle East Studies of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the event is free and the public is invited to attend. For more information, contact Graziano Krätli at graziano.kratli@yale.edu or (203) 432-1763.

Teijgeler's involvement in Iraq dates back to 2003, when he offered his services to the Civil-Military Cooperation, a NATO program that trains civilian experts to assist the military in the field. After a few weeks of military training, he was promoted to the rank of reserve major and sent to Iraq with a Dutch contingent. Once in Baghdad, he was promoted to senior adviser of the U.S. Embassy to the Iraqi Minister of Culture. His responsibilities included safeguarding the National Library and Archive, which lost 70% of its collections due to a fire in 2003, and protecting the archeological site of Babylon. He concentrated on training staff, improving management, and raising money to ensure proper restoration of damaged materials.

Roland Bainton Lecture will examine the Vatican Council II

John W. O'Malley, Distinguished Professor of Church History at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will deliver the 2005 Roland Bainton Lecture on Monday, Sept. 26.

O'Malley's lecture, titled "Vatican II: Did Anything Happen?," will begin at 5:15 p.m. in the H. Richard Niebuhr Lecture Hall at the Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a reception.

The Vatican Council II, called by Pope John XXIII, was held 1962-1965 and is often regarded as one of the most significant religious events since the 16th-century Reformation. Among the distinctive "progressive" teachings of Vatican II are that the church's mission includes action on behalf of justice and peace and is not limited to preaching and celebration of the sacraments.

Describing his lecture, O'Malley said, "40 years after the close of the council, some scholars and prelates have begun to denounce the idea that the council was in any sense a 'new beginning' and denounce historians who subscribe to the idea."

Trained in the history of religious culture, O'Malley teaches and conducts research on ecclesiology, medieval Scholasticism, Renaissance humanism, and the history of preaching and sacred rhetoric. His focus is on the interaction between culture and religion.

Inaugurated in 1988, The Roland Bainton Lectureship honors the two foci of Professor Bainton's life and work: church history and the church's witness to peace and justice. Bainton arrived at Yale as a student in 1914, was appointed to the faculty in 1921 and remained a member of the community until his death in 1984.

Calhoun College to host master's tea with noted cellist

Internationally renowned cellist Inbal Megiddo will be the guest at a Calhoun College master's tea on Thursday, Sept. 29.

Megiddo will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the master's house, Calhoun College, 434 College St. The talk is open to the public free of charge.

Megiddo has performed as a soloist with several ensembles including the Prague Chamber Orchestra and the Boston Classical Orchestra. Recent performances include a recital in the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., a concert of chamber music in Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Symphony at the Philharmonie, radio broadcasts with the Jerusalem Symphony, and live recital broadcasts in several countries including Israel, Germany, Spain and Ireland.

In 1995, Megiddo was the featured soloist at the official celebration of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations in Singapore.

Megiddo's CD of Israeli composer Hanna Levy's works was released in 1999 and was broadcast on Kol Hamuzika, Israel's classical music network. She has recorded a CD of Bloch's Schelomo with the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale. Her performance of the Bach Suite for Solo Cello No. 2 was broadcast in Berlin on both the classical radio station and public television station, and her recording of works by Beethoven, with pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar, will be released this year. She has also recorded and performed with the Grammy Award nominated group, The Yale Cellos.

Children as consumers is the topic of Zigler Center lecture

Susan Linn, associate director of the Media Center at Judge Baker Children's Center and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, will speak in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Sept. 30.

Linn will discuss "Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood" at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 116, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information, contact Sandra Bishop at sandra.bishop@yale.edu or (203) 432-9935.

Linn has written extensively about the effects of media and commercial marketing on children and her recently published book "Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood" received critical acclaim.

A co-founder of the national coalition Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Linn was appointed in 2000 to the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Advertising to Children. Her work on behalf of children has been featured on national media programs.

An award-winning ventriloquist and children's entertainer, Linn is internationally known for her innovative work using puppets in child psychotherapy. She pioneered this therapy at Children's Hospital in Boston and is now continuing it at the Children's AIDS Program.

Linn has written and appeared in a number of video programs designed to help children cope with issues ranging from mental illness to death and loss. She created Different and the Same: Helping Children Identify and Prevent Prejudice, video-based classroom materials designed for first to third graders. The series won the Media Award from the Association of Multicultural Educators.

Filmmaker David Lynch to speak on Transcendental Meditation

Award-winning writer, director and producer David Lynch will speak at Yale on Friday, Sept. 30.

"Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain" is the title of Lynch's talk, which will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets. Prior to the talk, there will be a screening of his film "Lost Highway" at 4 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Sponsored by the Yale Film Studies Program, The Cinema at Whitney, the Yale Film Society and the University Chaplain's Office, the talk and screening are free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 436-4668.

Lynch will speak about his films and about the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the benefits of stress-reducing meditation to students. He will be joined at the talk by John Hagelin, professor of physics and director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy at Maharishi University of Management, and by neuroscientist Fred Travis, director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition at Maharishi University of Management.

The David Lynch Foundation recently partnered with other foundations in a $1.2 million research grant to study the effects of Transcendental Meditation on brain functioning, academic performance, learning disorders, anxiety and substance abuse among students.

Lynch's filmmaking honors include Academy Award nominations for Best Director for "Mulholland Drive" in 2001, "Blue Velvet" in 1986 and "Elephant Man" in 1980. He won Best Director for "Mulholland Drive" at the Cannes International Film Festival. His other works include "Eraserhead" and the television series "Twin Peaks." He is currently directing a new film, "Inland Empire."

New Orleans' future is focus of Lamar Center talk

The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders and Davenport College will present "Scattered to the Wind: Place, Identity and Louisiana's Indigenous Culture" on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 4:30 p.m. in the Davenport College common room, 248 York St.

The event, which is open to the public free of charge, will feature Carl Brasseaux, director of the Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, and his son Ryan Brasseaux, an anthropologist and director of research and project management at Exhibits, Etc., a museum exhibition design firm.

Carl Brasseaux is one of the world's leading experts on French North America and has written over 30 books on the region. He and Ryan Brasseaux are co-authors (with Marcelle Bienvenu) of "Stir the Pot: The History of Cajun Cuisine."

The two are residents of Lafayette, Louisiana, which has doubled in size in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. They will discuss the history of their region and their work with evacuees, and will lead a roundtable about the future of New Orleans, which will include several Yale faculty members and students.

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