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April 13, 2007|Volume 35, Number 25


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Visiting on Campus

Gender and drama are focus of two talks on campus

Jill Dolan, the Zachary T. Scott Family Chair in Drama at the University of Texas at Austin, and Stacy Wolf, associate professor in the Performance as Public Practice Program in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, will give talks on gender and drama on Thursday, April 19.

Dolan will discuss "From Flannel to Fleece: Revisiting Lesbian Feminist Experience as Queer Theory in Performance" and Wolf will discuss "'We're Not in Kansas Anymore': How 'Wicked's' Women Queered the Broadway Musical." They will lecture in tandem at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 106, 212 York St. A question-and-answer session will follow the talks. Sponsored by the World Performance Project at Yale and the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, the talks are free and open to the public.

Dolan is a Distinguished Teaching Professor and head of the M.A./M.F.A./Ph.D. Program in Performance as Public Practice. She is the author of "Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre," as well as "Geographies of Learning: Theory and Practice," "Activism and Performance" and "The Feminist Spectator as Critic," among other books and numerous essays on feminism and theater.

Wolf also teaches in the Plan II Honors Program and oversees student dramaturges on all productions. She received a Theatre & Dance teaching award in 2006. She is the author of "A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical" as well as articles on musical theater, feminism and theater audiences.


'Mexican American lawyering' to be examined in lecture

Michael A. Olivas, the William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Houston (UH) Law Center, will speak on campus on Monday, April 16.

Titled "'Colored Men' and 'Hombres Aqui': Hernandez v. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican American Lawyering," Olivas' talk will take place 4:30-6 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. Sponsored by the Law School's Dean's Office, the lecture is free and open to the public.

Olivas serves as director of the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance at UH. From 1990 to 1995 and 2001 to 2004, he served as associate dean of the Law Center. He was named Bates Professor of Law in 1996, and Bates Distinguished Chair in 2002.

His honors include selection in 2001 for the Esther Farfel Award, as the Outstanding Professor at the University of Houston. In addition, he was elected to membership in the American Law Institute and the National Academy of Education, the only person to have been selected to both honor academies.

Olivas is the author or co-author of eight books, including "The Dilemma of Access," "Prepaid College Tuition Programs," "Latino College Students" and "The Law and Higher Education."

A member of the Pennsylvania Bar, Olivas has published widely in higher education journals and law reviews, and has served on the editorial board of more than 20 scholarly journals, including The Review of Higher Education, The Journal of College and University Law, and The Journal of Higher Education.


Mahatma Gandhi's grandson will deliver Gandhi Lecture

Rajmohan Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson and a visiting professor in the Program on South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will deliver the 2007 Gandhi Lecture on Thursday, April 19.

Gandhi's talk, titled "Gandhi in Our Times," will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 55 Wall St. The talk, sponsored by the Council on South Asian Studies at the MacMillan Center, is open to the public free of charge. Following the lecture, Gandhi will join members of the South Asian Studies Council for dinner and a talk titled "Gandhi You May Not Know" at Ahimsa Restaurant, 1227 Chapel St. The fee for the dinner is $25. To attend, call Dr. Pravin Bhatt at (203) 281-6208 or Dr. Kirit Vaidya at (203) 371-4366.

Gandhi's lecture will focus on the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims, the relationship between religion and politics, and coping with fanaticism and extremism.

Gandhi is faculty director of Global Crossroads, a learning and living community at the University of Illinois. He is also a jury member for the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award and co-chair of the Centre for Dialogue & Reconciliation in Gurgaon, India.

A former member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of the Indian Parliament), Gandhi led the Indian delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Commission in 1990. He is a commentator in the Indian media, and the author of several books. In 2002, he received the Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters) Award for "Rajaji: A Life," a biography of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1878-1972), a leading figure in India's freedom movement and former governor general of India.

In 2004, he received the International Humanitarian Award (Human Rights) from the City of Champaign.


T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Program celebrates town-gown ties, diversity

Charlie Rose of PBS to present Fryer Lecture

Study: Early estrogen therapy may reduce cardiovascular risks

In Focus: Women Faculty Forum

Exhibit celebrates centennial of Yale benefactor Paul Mellon

Three congregations to demonstrate ancient tradition of line-singing

Geologist Jun Korenaga is honored for his research on the Earth's mantle

Alumnus describes how life's challenges have also been a 'gift'

Vivian Perlis honored as chronicler of American music

Three award-winning alumni writers will read from their works

Yale Opera to stage classic operetta in a new style

Homage to director Rossellini will highlight program on Italian cinema

'Biodiversity and global change' are focus of Peabody event

Traditional calligraphy by Chinese student featured in benefit exhibition

Kristin Savard wins this year's Hockey Humanitarian Award

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