Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 21, 2005|Volume 34, Number 8

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School of Art event to feature science fiction writer

Novelist Mark von Schlegell will visit the campus and give a reading on Tuesday, Oct. 25.

Von Schlegell will give a reading from his latest novel "Venusia" at 7:15 p.m. at 353 Crown St. Sponsored by the School of Art, the event is free and open to the public.

"Venusia," the first volume in The System Series, is von Schlegell's first novel.

Von Schlegell's science fiction stories and essays have appeared internationally in magazines, artist books, catalogs and anthologies. He is currently collaborating with Philippe Parenno on the forthcoming artist book titled "The Red Devil," to be published in 2006.

A 1989 graduate of Yale College, von Schlegell has taught writing workshops at New York University, a class titled "Science Fiction: The Speculative Real" at the California Institute of the Arts, and poetry and fiction classes at the City University of New York.

He is a partner of Pruess Press in Los Angeles, California, and since 2002, has served as an editor of the Los Angeles art newsletter The Rambler.

Activist for women's rights in Nigeria to visit the campus

Hauwa Ibrahim, a senior partner with the Aries Law Firm in Abuja, Nigeria, will be the guest at a Calhoun College master's tea on Thursday, Oct. 27.

Ibrahim will speak at 4 p.m. in the master's house, Calhoun College, 434 College St.

Considered to be one of the top defenders of women's rights in Nigeria, Ibrahim has successfully challenged numerous charges and convictions under strict Islamic Sharia law, including sentences of death by stoning and limb amputation.

She has argued that Sharia law, despite its harsh punishments, requires the courts to respect the procedural and substantive rights guaranteed by the Nigerian constitution.

Ibrahim's professional accomplishments include election as the first female National Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association in 2000. In addition, she authored the first draft of the constitution for the Pan African Lawyers Union in 2002.

Ibrahim has served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program, the European Union's Commission and Ambassadors in Nigeria and the NGO Lawyers Without Borders.

Master's tea to featurePulitzer Prize-winning author

Mirta Ojito, the Pulitzer Prize winning author on race and immigration, will be the guest at a Morse College master's tea on Tuesday, Oct. 25.

Ojito will speak at 4 p.m. at the Morse College master's house, 99 Tower Pkwy.

She will discuss her latest book titled "Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus." "Finding Mañana," published in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Mariel boatlift, details her childhood in Cuba and her journey to America at the age of 16 on the boatlift.

Ojito shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2001 for a series of articles in The New York Times titled "How Race Is Lived in America."

A newspaper reporter for more than 17 years, Ojito has worked for The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald and, from 1996 to 2002, for The New York Times, where she covered immigration, among other beats, for the metro desk.

Throughout her career she has received several awards, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors' writing award for best foreign reporting for a series of articles about life in Cuba.

Ojito has taught journalism at New York University, Columbia University and the University of Miami.

Her work has been included in several anthologies including "To Mend the World: Women Reflect on 9/11," "Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times" and "By Heart/De Memoria."

Godfried Lecture to focus on science and the drug industry

Sheldon Krimsky, professor of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University, will present the Milton and Gladys Godfried Lecture in Medical Ethics on Thursday, Oct. 27.

Titled "Academic Science and the Drug Industry: Are the Conflicts of Interest Reconcilable?" Krimsky's talk will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Slifka Center, 80 Wall St. Part of the Forum on Bioethical Issues in Society, the talk is free and open to the public.

Krimsky previously served on the National Institutes of Health's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee and was chair of the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He currently serves on the board of directors for the Council for Responsible Genetics and as a fellow of the Hastings Center on Bioethics.

Krimsky is the author of eight books, including "Genetic Alchemy: The Social History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy," "Biotechnics and Society: The Rise of Industrial Genetics" and "Science in the Private Interest: Has the Lure of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research?"

His most recent book is a co-edited volume titled "Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age: Why We Need a Genetic Bill of Rights."

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