Harper Lecture will address 'challenges for democracy'
Legal scholar and former civil rights lawyer Lani Guinier will give the Fowler Harper Lecture on Monday, April 30.
Titled "The Political Representative as Powerful Stranger: Challenges for Democracy," Guinier's lecture will be held 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.
Guinier specializes in voting rights law, democratic theory and practice, educational access and pedagogy, and social justice with an emphasis on the relationship between issues of race, gender and class. In 1998, she was appointed professor of law at Harvard Law School, becoming the school's first black female tenured professor. In 2001 she was awarded the Bennett Boskey Chair at Harvard Law School.
The recipient of a J.D. in 1974 from Yale Law School, Guinier is the author of five books, including "Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School and Institutional Change" (with Michelle Fine and Jane Balin), "Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice" and "The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy" (with Gerald Torres). Harvard University Press will publish her forthcoming book, "Meritocracy Inc.," which challenges institutions of higher education to re-align their admissions policies to fit their essential democratic mission.
Guinier has received many honors and awards, including the 2002 Leadership Award from the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association and the 1993 NAACP Legal Defense Fund William H. Hastie Award.
The Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and the Women Faculty Forum will host a visit by Juliet Mitchell, a professor at the University of Cambridge, England.
Mitchell will discuss "Can Gender Studies Be a Discipline?" at 6:30 p.m. in Rm. 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The talk is open to the public free of charge and will be followed by a reception. Robin Bernstein, assistant professor of Studies in Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University, and Laura Wexler, professor of American studies and chair of the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale, will respond to her talk. A general discussion with the audience will follow. For more information, e-mail wgss@yale.edu or wff@yale.edu.
A member of the British and the International Psychoanalytical Societies, Mitchell is a professor of psychoanalysis and gender studies on the faculty of social and political sciences in the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology and is a fellow of Jesus College,
Her most recent books are "Siblings: Sex and Violence, Polity Press" and "Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria and the Sibling Relationship for the Human Condition."
Gary Loveman, chair, chief executive officer (CEO) and president of Harrah's Entertainment Inc., will speak as part of the School of Management Leaders Forum on Tuesday, May 1.
Loveman's lecture will take place 5-6 p.m. in the Steinbach Lounge, 52 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is free and open to the public.
Loveman joined the Fortune 500 company as chief operating officer in 1998 and drew on his background in retail marketing and service management to develop and implement what is considered to be the gaming industry's most successful loyalty program, Total Rewards. Today, Total Rewards boasts more than 40 million customers and is largely responsible for the company's consistent same-store sales gains.
Since being named CEO in 2003, Loveman has presided over a period of growth and profitability that culminated in Harrah's 2005 acquisition of Caesars Entertainment Inc. Harrah's performance has led to its inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
Loveman, who has been recognized as the gaming and lodging industry's best CEO by Institutional Investor magazine for four consecutive years, is the chair of the American Gaming Association.
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