Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 2, 2007|Volume 35, Number 20

Visiting on Campus

Storrs Lectures will address 'the retirement income game'

Alicia H. Munnell, the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College's Carroll School of Management, will deliver the 2006-2007 Storrs Lectures on Monday, March 5, and Tuesday, March 6.

Her two-part lecture is titled "The Declining Number of Players in the Retirement Income Game." The first lecture will focus on "The Withdrawal of Business," and the second talk will address "The Implications for the Individual and Government." Both lectures will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the faculty lounge of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. and are free and open to the public. A reception will be held in the Alumni Reading Room following Monday's lecture.

In her lectures, Munnell will discuss solutions to the challenges of a retirement income system that previously relied on three components -- employers, government and individuals -- but now relies on two.

Munnell serves as the director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Before joining Boston College in 1997, she was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and assistant secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy.

She has published many articles, authored numerous books and edited several volumes on tax policy, Social Security, public and private pensions, and productivity. She was co-founder and first president of the National Academy of Social Insurance and is currently a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the Pension Research Council at Wharton.

The Storrs Lectureship, one of Yale Law School's oldest and most prestigious lecture programs, was established in 1889. These annual lectures are given by a prominent scholar and deal with fundamental problems of law and jurisprudence.

Award-winning playwright to give next Shulman Lecture

Cassandra Medley, recipient of the 2006 Audelco-August Wilson Award for her play "Relativity," about race and genetics, and a professor of theater at Sarah Lawrence College, will deliver the third of the 2007 Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities on Tuesday, March 6.

Titled "The Science of Dramatizing Science," Medley's talk will begin at 5 p.m. in the auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Manana Sikic at (203) 432-0673 or manana.sikic@yale.edu.

Medley's other plays include "Ms. Mae," "Ma Rose," "Walking Women," "Dearborn Heights," "Maiden Lane" and "Noon Day Sun." She is also the author of half a dozen screenplays, including "Almost Famous" and "Sonny."

A member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Playwrights Workshop of Healing Springs, Medley received a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in 1986 and a New York State Council on the Arts Grant in 1987. In 1989, she was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award in Playwriting. She earned the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Playwriting in 1990 and was a finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference in 1994. In 1995, she won both the New Professional Theatre Award and the Marilyn Simpson Award.

The lecture series is named after Robert Shulman, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and senior research scientist in diagnostic radiology, in recognition of his roles as a founding fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center and as a supporter of the integration of science and the humanities.

Davis Lecture Series will explore British abolition of slavery

The third annual David Brion Davis Lecture will be delivered by P. David Richardson, director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation and professor of economic history at the University of Hull, Monday-Wednesday, March 5-7.

Held in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the British abolition of the slave trade, Richardson's three-part lecture series will focus on the topic "Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and Its Abolition." The first lecture, titled "Growth and Expansion of the British Slave Trade, 1660-1807," will take place on Monday at 4:30 p.m. in the mezzanine of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St. Tuesday's lecture, which will address "African Agency in the Slave Trade," will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 211, Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), 63 High St. The final lecture, which will explore "Ideology, Politics and British Abolitionism, c.1780-1807," will also take place at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 211, LC. Sponsored by the The Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, the series is open to the public free of charge. For more information, contact Dana Schaffer at (203) 432-9238 or dana.schaffer@yale.edu or visit www.yale.edu/glc.

The lectures will explore the relationship between broad socio-economic forces and historical actors and agencies in shaping both the rise of the British slave trade after 1640 and the factors that contributed to its ending in 1807.

The lecture series was established in 2005 to honor Davis, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, founder of the Gilder Lehrman Center and one of the world's leading scholars of slavery and abolition in an international context. Each year, the Gilder Lehrman Center and Yale University Press publish the lectures in book form.

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