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Zigler talk will explore child abuse prevention
Preston A. Britner, associate professor of human development in the School of Family Studies at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, will speak in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Oct. 14.
His talk, "Parent Education and Home Visitation: Policies and Practices for Child Maltreatment Prevention," 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, email sandra.bishop@yale.edu or (203) 432-9935.
In his lecture, Britner will draw on national studies and his experiences with parent education and home visitation programs in Connecticut, South Carolina and Virginia. He has published extensively on child maltreatment prevention and the child welfare system, child-parent attachment and care giving relationships, youth mentoring, and social policy and law affecting children and families.
A University of Connecticut Teaching Fellow, Britner is an editor at The Journal of Primary Prevention and an editorial board member for Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, and the Journal of Child and Family Studies.
John Danforth, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former U.S. senator from Missouri, will visit the campus on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 15 and 16, as part of the "Living Faith" preaching series.
Danforth will speak at 11 a.m. on Sunday in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets.
Danforth, who graduated from Yale with degrees in both divinity and law, is an ordained Episcopal priest.
Nominated to serve as President Bush's representative to the United Nations in 2004, Danforth held that post for five months.
Danforth served in the U.S. Senate for 18 years, and was the first Republican in the history of Missouri to be elected to three terms as senator.
He has served as an assistant rector at the Church of the Epiphany in New York City and as assistant chaplain for New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, among numerous other clerical positions.
The Living Faith series is part of the Silliman Memorial Lecture series. Established in 1901 by a bequest from Augustus Ely Silliman of Brooklyn, New York, the series honors Silliman's mother, Hepsa Ely Silliman, and explores matters that "illustrate the presence and wisdom of God, as manifested in the natural and moral world." The series offers the University community the opportunity to hear from those whose faith has informed their lives and provided a focus for good in the world.
Judge Michael McConnell, a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, will give the Judge Guido Calabresi Fellowship lecture in Religion and Law on Wednesday, Oct. 12.
While on campus, McConnell will address the religious intentions of the framers of the First Amendment in two seminars, a lecture and a lunch with Yale students. The lecture, titled "Religion and Republicanism at the Founding," will be held at 4:30 p.m. in St. Thomas More Chapel, 268 Park St. The event is free and open to the public. For information, call (203) 777-5537 or visit www.yale.edu/stm.
McConnell is the Presidential Professor at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah.
Before his appointment to the bench, he taught at University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School, and argued 11 cases in the Supreme Court, most recently Mitchell v. Helms, involving aid to religious schools.
McConnell is co-editor of "Religion and the Law" and "Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought." His most recent work, "Establishment and Disestablishment at the Founding," which is forthcoming in the William & Mary Law Review, is related to the topic of his talk at Saint Thomas More.
The Calabresi Fellowship in Religion and Law was established in honor of Guido Calabresi, Sterling Professor Emeritus and former dean of Yale Law School. The fellowship aims to explore the intersection of religion and law.
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