Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 14, 2005|Volume 34, Number 7

Former World Fellows will
return to campus for forum

World leaders who are alumni of the Yale World Fellows Program will return to campus to meet with this year's participants and discuss pressing global issues Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 19-22.

"The Return to Yale Forum is a critical component of the World Fellows Program," says Daniel C. Esty, director of the program and a faculty member at the Law School and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

The forum, Esty continues, is "designed to create and facilitate a network of international leaders among the alumni of the program and to strengthen ties between the international community and Yale."

About 40 of the 52 alumni World Fellows are expected to attend the forum, which will be on the theme "Governance in a Globalizing World: Common Interests and Diverse Voices." The event will include panel discussions, breakout groups, formal lectures and informal conversations designed to spark lively discussions and to establish connections between the participants.

The Yale community is invited to attend a lecture series on Thursday, Oct. 20. The talks will focus on three different topics and take place at 5:30 p.m. in three different venues.

"Terrorism: Politics by Other Means?" is the topic of the session being held in the Law School's Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. The featured speakers will be Bakhodir Ganiev, United Nations Development Programme strategist for Uzbekistan and 2005 World Fellow; Aboubakr Jamaï, publisher of Le Journal Hebdomadaire, Morocco's premier business newspaper, and 2004 World Fellow; and Shamit Saggar, professor of political science at the University of Sussex, adviser to the United Kingdom Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and 2003 World Fellow.

"Can We End Poverty in Our Time?" is the question that will be discussed in the Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall, 120 High St. Speakers will be J.R. Nereus Acosta, congressman and vice president of the Liberal Party of the Philippines and 2004 World Fellow; Cecilia Barja-Chamas, director of human development for La Paz, Bolivia, and 2004 World Fellow; and Henry Njoroge, managing director of UUNET Kenya Ltd., principal business communications provider for Eastern Africa, and 2005 World Fellow.

"AIDS: Crisis of Sex, Drugs or Culture?" is the theme of the third session in Rm. 120 of the Law School. Speakers will be Khuat Thi Hai Oanh, Vietnam's leading AIDS policy innovator and 2005 World Fellow; Paul Kwengwere, former head of ActionAid Malawi and 2004 World Fellow; and Emran Razzaghi, director of prevention affairs for the Iranian Welfare Organization and 2004 World Fellow.

Following the lectures, members of the Yale community can meet the past and current World Fellows at a reception being held at 7 p.m. in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St.

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Former World Fellows will return to campus for forum

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'Aesthetics & Politics' in Pakistan to be explored

Experts to address global warming at conference

Treasures from Yale's Collections

Panel to focus on debate over career vs. motherhood

Event honors Jacques Derrida, originator of 'deconstruction'

Chemistry department symposium to celebrate opening of building

Events pay tribute to former University printer Greer Allen

Yale Books in Brief

Edward Kaplan has been designated as an INFORMS fellow