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February 23, 2007|Volume 35, Number 19


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Visiting on Campus

Fashion critic to be guest at Silliman College master's tea

Fashion and media critic Michaela Davis will visit the campus on Monday, Feb. 26.

Davis will be the guest at a Silliman College master's tea at 4 p.m. in the first-floor common room of Silliman College, 100 Tower Pkwy. Sponsored by Film Studies, African American Studies, Silliman College and the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, the talk is open to the public free of charge.

Davis began her career in the fashion industry as assistant fashion editor at Essence magazine in 1991. She then went on to be the founding fashion director at Vibe magazine after which she began a career as a celebrity fashion stylist and journalist. She has contributed fashion features to numerous publications, including Mirabella and Vanity Fair, and has lent her image-making prowess to a host of artists and cultural icons, such as Beyonce, Prince, Oprah Winfrey, Alicia Keys and Mary J. Blige.

In 2003 Davis became fashion director and then editor-in-chief of Honey magazine. She then returned to work at Essence as the executive fashion and beauty editor and as the editor of the magazine's culture section. While at Essence she also spearheaded the breakthrough initiative Take Back the Music, a movement to bring awareness and balance to the disproportionate amount of hyper-sexualized images of young women of color in mainstream media.

Davis, who hosted a session at the 2005 Congressional Black Caucus, serves as a frequent commentator and style critic on Metro TV and Women's Entertainment Television's "Full Frontal Fashion" and E!. Davis is currently producing a documentary film titled "Something Like a Phenomenon: How Hip-Hop Dressed the American Dream."


Noted author is next Schlesinger Visiting Writer

Author and editor Dave Eggers will give a reading as a John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer on Tuesday, Feb. 27.

Eggers will read from his works at 7 p.m. in Rm. 201, Sudler Hall, in William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The event, which is free and open to the public, is also sponsored by the Department of English and Jonathan Edwards College. For more information, contact Susan Bianconi at susan.bianconi@yale.edu or (203) 432-0499.

Best known for his memoir titled "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," Eggers is also a designer, editor and publisher.

Eggers is the author of the story collection "How We Are Hungry" and the novels "You Shall Know Our Velocity" and "What Is the What." He is editor of the annual "The Best American Nonrequired Reading" series and co-editor of the "Voice of Witness" series of oral histories.

In 1998, Eggers founded McSweeney's, an independent book publishing house in San Francisco, which puts out the McSweeney's quarterly literary journal, the monthly magazine The Believer, a daily humor website, www.mcsweeneys.net, and Wholphin, a quarterly DVD collection of short films. He has designed most of the books and quarterlies published by McSweeney's and created the templates for The Believer and Wholphin.

He opened 826 Valencia in 2002, a writing lab for young people located in the Mission District of San Francisco, which now has branches in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and Michigan.

The John-Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund was established in 1999 by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schlesinger of Pound Ridge, New York, in order to enrich the experience of student writers in Yale College by supporting annual visits to campus by distinguished or emerging authors.


Chaplain's Tea will feature author of 'Changing Light'

Author Nora Gallagher will visit the campus to give a Chaplain's Tea and read from her works on Wednesday, Feb. 28.

Gallagher will discuss "The Cost of Love and Conscience" at 4 p.m. in Rm. 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. Later that day, at 7:30 p.m., she will read from and discuss her works in the common room of the Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. Both events are free and open to the public.

Gallagher is the author of the best selling "Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith," "Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment and Moments of Grace." "Practicing Resurrection" was a finalist for the Beliefnet Book of the Year Award. Her most recent work is titled "Changing Light."

Her essays and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, DoubleTake and Mother Jones. She is also the editor of the award-winning "Notes from the Field," a collection of literary essays about the outdoors. She has received fellowships at both the MacDowell Colony and Blue Mountain Center.


Celebrated pianist and music theorist to give Franke Lecture

On Thursday, March 1, Charles Rosen, professor emeritus of the University of Chicago, will give the second talk in the Franke Lecture Series focusing on "Music in Context: Early Modernity and Enlightenment."

Rosen will speak on the topic "Musical Ambition in the 18th Century" at 5 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the public. For information, contact Manana Sikic at (203) 432-0673 or manana.sikic@yale.edu.

A virtuoso pianist who studied with Moriz Rosenthal, Rosen is renowned for the lucidity, expressiveness and structural command of his playing as well as for the broad range of his repertoire. He has performed in recitals and orchestral engagements around the world, and has recorded the music of composers ranging from Bach, Beethoven and Debussy to Elliott Carter and Pierre Boulez.

Rosen is also the author of a number of acclaimed books about music, including "The Classical Style," which won the National Book Award in 1972, "Sonata Forms," "The Romantic Generation" and "Romantic Poets, Critics and Other Madmen." He regularly contributes to the New York Review of Books.

The Franke Lectures are made possible by the generosity of Richard and Barbara Franke, and are intended to present important topics in the humanities. The 2007 series celebrates music and culture and is organized in conjunction with the undergraduate seminar taught by Leon Plantinga.


Social Policy Lecture to focus on juvenile delinquency

David Brandt, associate professor of psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, will speak in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, March 2.

His talk, titled "Delinquency, Development and Social Policy," will begin at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 119, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, send e-mail to sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.

A clinical psychologist, Brandt has been teaching in the Graduate Program in Forensic Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City for many years, where he developed a course on the psychology and treatment of youthful offenders.

Brandt has presented and published numerous papers on adolescent development and antisocial youth.

His most recent book, titled "Delinquency Development and Social Policy," was published by Yale University Press in 2006. Brandt also maintains a private psychotherapy practice and is a program evaluation consultant for the West Side Crime Prevention Program in New York City.


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