Terry Lectures will focus on the nexus of science and religion
Barbara Herrnstein Smith, who holds joint appointments at Duke University and Brown University, will deliver a series of lectures titled "Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion" as part of the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship.
Smith will discuss "The New Naturalism I: Cognitive Machinery" on Tuesday, Oct. 17; "The New Naturalism II: Evolutionary Riddles" on Thursday, Oct. 19; "Deep Reading: The New Natural Theology" on Tuesday, Oct. 24; and "Reflections: Science and Religion, Natural and Unnatural" on Thursday, Oct. 26. All talks will begin at 4:30 p.m. and will take place in Rm. 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. They are free and open to the public.
Smith is the Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Duke, where she also directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science. In addition, she holds the position of Distinguished Professor of English at Brown University.
Her current teaching and research focus on 20th-century reconceptions of knowledge and science, contemporary accounts of language and cognition, the relations between the sciences and the humanities, and the naturalistic tradition in the study of religion.
A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Smith has authored and edited many books and articles on language, literature and critical theory, including "Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End," "Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy" and most recently, "Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human."
Japanese cinema expert Donald Richie will lecture and lead workshops on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 17, 18 and 19.
Richie will speak on "Japan the Incongruous and Myself" Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Rm. 101, Linsly-Chittenden, 63 High St. Also on Wednesday, he will lead a panel discussion of Akira Kurosawa's "Stray Dog" following a screening of the film at 8 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St. Richie will also lead workshops for undergraduates and graduates on Tuesday and Thursday. For more information, e-mail anne.letterman@yale.edu. The Council on East Asian Studies is one of the co-sponsors of the event.
Richie has authored more than 50 books and numerous essays on Japanese culture and cinema. He has taught and lectured on Japan all over the world. His books on Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu are considered to be among the finest studies of movie directors in international film scholarship.
For nearly 50 years, Richie has been a film critic, book editor and columnist for The Japan Times, Tokyo's leading English-language newspaper. He has also written for Time and Newsweek, The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Nation, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and many other international publications.
Among his numerous awards are the Kawabata Award, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Cultural Award, John D. Rockefeller III Award and the Japan Foundation Award.
The International Affairs Council will host a talk by Godfrey Hodgson, journalist, historian and biographer, on Wednesday, Oct. 18.
Titled "Colonel Edward M. House: Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand Man," Hodgson's talk will begin at 4 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is free and the public is invited to attend.
Hodgson is an associate fellow of Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University.
He has written biographies of Henry L. Stimson and Daniel Patrick Moynihan as well as an article about the American foreign policy establishment.
Susan Gubar, Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University, will visit the campus on Thursday, Oct. 19.
Gubar will read from and discuss her new book "Rooms of Our Own" at 4 p.m. in Rm. 309, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. Her talk, which is open to the public free of charge, is co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Program in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. For more information, call (203) 432-0845 or e-mail wgss@yale.edu.
Taking Virginia Woolf's classic "A Room of One's Own" as her guide, Gubar tells her own story of the developments in feminist intellectual history over the past several decades, as academic feminism has absorbed the influences of post-structuralism, critical race and postcolonial studies, and queer theory and the effects of globalization and of the institutionalization of women's studies. Her narrative recounts the comedies and tragedies of campus life.
A founder of the field of feminist literary criticism, Gubar is co-author, with Sandra Gilbert, of "The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the 19th-Century Literary Imagination" and of the three-volume "No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the 20th Century." She is co-editor, also with Gilbert, of "Shakespeare's Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets" and of "The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English."
More recently she published "Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture" and "Poetry after Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew."
Dr. Robert Sapolsky will be among the speakers in the Department of Psychiatry's conference, titled "Facing Stress: Implications for Psychiatric Practice and Research," on Friday, Oct. 20.
Presented by the Yale Psychiatric Alumni Association, the continuing medical education conference will be held in the Anlyan Center, 300 Cedar St. Sapolsky, who is scheduled to speak at 8:30 a.m., will discuss his book "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases and Coping." Fees for the conference range from $125 to $150. For registration information, visit www.cme.yale.edu/conferences/conference_schedule.asp or call (203) 785-4578.
Sapolsky, a professor of biological sciences, neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford, focuses his research on stress and neuron degeneration as well as gene therapy to protect susceptible neurons from disease.
In his book, "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers," Sapolsky examines how prolonged stress can damage the neurons of the hippocampus. He is currently working on gene transfer techniques to strengthen neurons against the disabling effects of glucocorticoids.
Sapolsky is recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and the Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience. He received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Young Investigator of the Year Awards from the Society for Neuroscience, the Biological Psychiatry Society and the International Society for Psychoneuro-Endocrinology.
Elaine Zimmerman, executive director of the Connecticut Commission on Children, will speak in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Oct. 20.
Zimmerman's talk, titled "Parents -- The Missing Voice for Children," will be held at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 116, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The free talk is open to the public. For further information, e-mail sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.
She will speak on The Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI), which was designed by the Commission on Children in collaboration with the American Leadership Forum and Leadership Greater Hartford. The PLTI engages parents and facilitates their active leadership in public policy that improves child outcomes.
In addition to her work with PLTI, Zimmerman co-designed Connecticut's School Readiness Campaign, which involves business, mayors, parents, the legislature and early childhood educators. She also served as chief consultant to the Early Reading Success legislation, which created full-day kindergarten, after school programs, summer programs and resources for teacher training in early literacy and language acquisition.
Zimmerman guided the first state legislation in the nation on prevention that created a Prevention Council, budget, benchmarks and a prevention framework for the state of Connecticut. Author of a report on bullying, she guided the legislature through the passage of the Safe Learning Act.
A published poet, essayist and political analyst, Zimmerman was one of 10 women honored with the Good Housekeeping Award for Women in Government in 2001.
The "Living Faith Preaching Series" will continue with a sermon led by Right Reverend Victoria Matthews, Diocesan Bishop of Edmonton, Anglican Church of Canada, on Sunday, Oct. 22.
Matthews will give a sermon as part of University Public Worship at 10:30 a.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. A continental breakfast and choir concert will begin at 9:45 a.m., and a lunch and conversation with Matthews will take place following worship.
Matthews graduated from Yale Divinity School and was the recipient of the North American Theological Fellowship.
Ordained in the Diocese of Toronto in 1979, she spent the next several years in parish ministry.
After receiving a second master's degree in theology in 1987, Matthews served as part-time faculty at Trinity Divinity College.
Elected Suffragan Bishop of Toronto in 1993, she was consecrated in 1994. In 1997, Matthews became Diocesan Bishop of Edmonton.
In addition to her diocesan responsibilities, Matthews serves as chair of the Primate's Theological Commission.
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Japanese cinema expert to lecture and lead workshops
Colonel Edward M. House biographer to speak on campus
'Rooms of Our Own' author to discuss her work
'Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers' author to speak at conference
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Preaching series continues with sermon by Diocesan Bishop
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