Father of Daniel Pearl to give Goldman Lecture
Judea Pearl, co-editor of “I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl,” will give the Richard W. Goldman Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 5.
Pearl will discuss “Confronting the Ideology of Terror” at 4 p.m. in the Branford College common room, 74 High St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, “I Am Jewish” captures the reflections of almost 150 people from various countries explaining what it means to them to say, “I Am Jewish.”
Pearl is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation.
Former U.S. poet laureate to visit the campus
Donald Hall, former United States poet laureate, will give a poetry reading on Wednesday, Feb. 6.
Hall will read from his works at 4 p.m. at the Beinecke Library, 121 Wall St. All are welcome to attend this free event.
A New Haven native, Hall is the author of many collections of poetry including the recent titles “White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006,” “Painted Bed” and “Without: Poems.” In 1988, Hall’s book “The One Day,” won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Hall has been awarded two Guggenheim fellowships, the Poetry Society of America’s Robert Frost Silver Medal, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Hampshire Writers and Publisher Project, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry.
In 2006, Hall was appointed the Library of Congress’s 14th poet laureate consultant in poetry.
Religion scholar to give first talk in Franke Lecture series
E. P. Sanders, the Arts and Sciences Professor of Religion Emeritus at Duke University, will give the first talk in the Franke Lectures in the Humanities series focusing on “Religion and Law in Historical Perspective” on Wednesday, Feb. 6.
“Does Law Debase the Human-Divine Relationship? The Christian Charge Against Judaism” is the title of his talk, to be given at 5 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public. For more information call Manana Sikic at (203) 432-0673 or e-mail manana.sikic@yale.edu.
Sanders’s field of expertise is Judaism and Christianity in the Greco-Roman world. He is the author of two award-winning books, “Paul and Palestinian Judaism,” winner of the National Religious Book Award, and “Jesus and Judaism,” winner of a Grawemeyer Award.
His publications have been translated into Italian, French, German, Finnish, Dutch, Spanish, Danish and Lithuanian, among other languages.
Sanders’s work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others.
He is presently a fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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 2008 series explores the historical relation between religion and law in Jewish, Christian and contemporary legal thought.
‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ author is Finzi-Contini Lecturer
The 2008 Finzi-Contini Lecture will be delivered by Azar Nafisi, award-winning author of the critically acclaimed memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” on Thursday, Feb. 7.
Titled “The Republic of the Imagination,” Nafisi’s talk will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St. The talk is open to the public free of charge. For more information call Manana Sikic at (203) 432-0673 or e-mail manana.sikic@yale.edu.
In her talk, Nafisi will examine literature’s power to liberate minds and peoples.
Her book, “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books,” portrays the Islamic revolution in Iran and its harrowing effects on Nafisi and her students. An exploration of the transformative powers of fiction in a world of tyranny, the book is a New York Times bestseller, has been translated in 32 languages, and has won numerous literary awards.
Nafisi presently directs the Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. A professor of aesthetics, culture and literature at Johns Hopkins, she has also earned international respect for advocating on behalf of Iran's intellectual youth, especially young women.
The Finzi-Contini Lectureship honors Bianca Finzi-Contini, a scholar of European literature and a native of Ferrara who left fascist Italy to establish herself in the United States. The lectureship was founded by her sons, the Honorable Guido Calabresi, judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and former dean of the Yale Law School, and Dr. Paul Calabresi. The lectures are devoted to any aspect of European or comparative literature and culture.
Lecture series to examine ‘Is God Just, or Just God?’
Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale will host a series of lectures during the month of February to be given by Edward L. Greenstein, professor of Bible and the Gwendolyn and the Joseph Straus Distinguished Scholar at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
The lecture series, to be held on Thursday, Feb. 7 and Wednesdays, Feb. 13 and Feb. 20, will address the topic “Is God Just, or Just God? — Rethinking Job.” In the first lecture, Greenstein will discuss “The Problem of Evil in the Book of Job.” The second lecture will focus on “Job on Trial: Another Look at the Prose Table,” and the final lecture will examine “Is Everybody at Fault? Another Look at the Dialogues in Job.”
The talks, which are free and open to the public, will take place at 4 p.m. at the Slifka Center, 80 Wall St.
The recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, Greenstein is the co-editor of “The Hebrew Bible in Literary Criticism” and “The State of Jewish Studies” and is the author of “Essays on Biblical Method and Translation.” He has published many articles, book chapters and reviews, and is a co-author of “The Timetables of Jewish History.”
Greenstein is currently completing a book titled “Reader Responsibility: The Making of Meaning in Biblical Narrative,” and is writing commentaries on the books of Job, Lamentations and Ruth.
Noted poet to read from her works
The Department of English and Jonathan Edwards College will sponsor a visit by poet Eavan Boland on Thursday, Feb. 7.
Boland will be the guest at a master’s tea at 4 p.m. at Jonathan Edwards College,
100 Tower Pkwy. At 7 p.m. she will read from her works in Rm. 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. Both events are free and open to the public.
Boland is regarded as one of Ireland’s premier contemporary poetic voices. Her 10 books of poetry, including the recently published “New Collected Poems” and “An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-87,” document the challenges of modern identity, filtered through lenses of Irish history, femininity, and the trials of the everyday. In her poem “The Pomegranate,” Boland writes of her first encounter with the Eurydice myth as “an exiled child in the crackling dust of the underworld, the stars blighted.”
She has taught at Bowdoin and Washington University, and has been writer in residence at Trinity College and University College Dublin. A member of the Irish Academy of Letters, Boland currently teaches English at Stanford University.
Celebrated actor to discuss the 2008 election
Award-winning actor Sam Waterston will visit the campus on Friday, Feb. 8, under the auspices of the Yale Dramatic Association.
Waterston will discuss “The 2008 Election; The Vote of Your Lifetime: How To Make It Count” 5-6 p.m. in Sudler Hall, William Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The talk is open the public free of charge.
Waterston’s portrayal of assistant district attorney Jack McCoy in “Law & Order” has earned him three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series, the 1999 Screen Actors Guild Award, a Screen Actors Guild nomination in 1998 and a Golden Globe nomination in 1995.
Waterston received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for “The Killing Fields,” and three Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe Award for “I’ll Fly Away.” He was awarded an Emmy as host of the 10-part NBC informational series “Lost Civilizations,” and, in England, has received numerous BAFTA nominations.
Waterston’s extensive film credits include Woody Allen’s “Interiors,” “Hannah and Her Sisters” and “Crimes and Misdemeanors”; John Waters’ “Heaven’s Gate”; and Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie.”
On television, he produced and starred in the cable movie “A House Divided,” and portrayed Abraham Lincoln in Gore Vidal’s television mini-series, “Lincoln.” Waterston starred in the NBC movie, “The Matthew Shepard Story,” and his latest films include “The Commission” and “Le Divorce.”
Most recently Waterston appeared as Henry Carr in Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties” at the Long Wharf Theater.
Parents impact on state policy is focus of Zigler center talk
Ann Pratt, executive director of Connecticut Parent Power, will speak in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Feb. 8.
Her talk, titled “Connecticut Parents Impacting State Policy to Put Children First” will be held at 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Rm. 116, William L. Harkness Hall,
100 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, e-mail sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.
Connecticut Parent Power is a statewide community organization funded by the Graustein Memorial Foundation, committed to advancing children and family issues such as increased access to early childhood education; advancing quality after-school programs; and increasing parental involvement in children’s academic success.
Pratt has worked for a variety of community organizations. Prior to joining Connecticut Parent Power, she served as lead organizer for the Greater Hartford Interfaith Coalition for Equity and Justice, an organization that addresses issues of racial and economic disparities affecting the Hartford region. She was also executive director of Hartford Areas Rally Together, and has served as a national trainer for the Gamaliel Foundation.
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