Yale Bulletin and Calendar

December 1, 2006|Volume 35, Number 12|Two-Week Issue

Visiting on Campus

Founder of leading Spanish magazine to hold a workshop

Julio Villanueva-Chang, founder and editor-in-chief of Etiqueta Negra, will lead a workshop on Friday, Dec. 1.

The workshop, titled "On Writing Profiles: Can You Really Ever Know Someone Else?," will take place 4-7 p.m. at the Yale College Writing Center. Sponsored by the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at the MacMillan Center, the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism and the Yale Journalism Initiative, the workshop is open to the public free of charge.

Etiqueta Negra is an acclaimed Spanish-language non-fiction magazine based in Lima, Peru.

A 1995 recipient of the Interamerican Press Association Award in Feature Writing, Villanueva-Chang has written for publications in America and Europe, including El País, La Vanguardia, Il, El Malpensante, Reforma, Gatopardo, La Nacion, Vogue and World Literature Today. His features for El Comercio, Lima's daily, are collected in "Mariposas y Murcielagos." Currently, Villanueva-Chang is working on a text for The Virginia Quarterly Review.

Villanueva-Chang has been a scholar at Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Fundación Nuevo Periodismo and a visiting professor in the Master of Journalism program at Barcelona University-Columbia University. In addition, he teaches workshops for reporters and editors in Latin America and Spain.

Former Stanford president will deliver inaugural lecture

Gerhard Casper '62 L.L.M. will give the inaugural Kronman-Postol Lecture on Thursday, Dec. 7.

Titled "Caesarism in Democratic Politics -- Reflections on Max Weber," Casper's talk will take place 4:30-6 p.m. in Rm. 127, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. Sponsored by the Law School's Dean's Office, the talk is free and open to the public.

Casper is president emeritus of Stanford University and the Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education there. He is also a professor of law, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and a professor of political science.

Casper has written and taught primarily in the fields of constitutional law, constitutional history, comparative law and jurisprudence.

His books include an empirical study of the Supreme Court's workload; "Separating Power," on the separation of powers practices at the end of the 18th century in the United States; and "Cares of the University," which was a five-year report to the board of trustees and the academic council of Stanford.

Casper has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute, the International Academy of Comparative Law, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Order pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste (Order pour le mérite for the Sciences and Arts) and, most recently, the American Philosophical Society.

Currently, Casper serves as a successor trustee of Yale, a member of the board of trustees of the Central European University in Budapest and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

FedEx executive to speak in SOM Leaders Forum

Frederick W. Smith, chair, president and chief executive officer of FedEx Corporation, will speak in the School of Management Leaders Forum on Tuesday, Dec. 5.

Smith's talk will take place 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. in the General Motors Rm., Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave.

Smith is responsible for providing strategic direction for all FedEx Corporation operating companies, including FedEx Services, FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight and FedEx Kinko's. Since founding FedEx in 1971, he has been an active proponent of regulatory reform, free trade and "open skies agreements" for aviation around the world.

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale in 1966 and served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1966 to 1970.

Formerly chair of the board of governors for the International Air Transport Association and the U.S. Air Transport Association, Smith has also served on the boards of several large public companies including the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Mayo Foundation. Currently, Smith is chair of the Business Roundtable's Security Task Force and the French-American Business Council.

A member of the Business Council and the CATO Institute, he served as co-chair of the U.S. World War II Memorial Project. In 2004, Smith was named Chief Executive magazine's "CEO of the Year."

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