Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 22, 2008|Volume 36, Number 19

Visiting on Campus

Berkeley College master’s tea to feature noted Irish poet

Noted poet Micheal O’Siadhail will be the guest at a Berkeley College master’s tea on Wednesday, Feb. 27.

O’Siadhail will give a reading of his work at 4 p.m. in the master’s house, 125 High St. The event is open to members of the Yale community only.

O’Siadhail, who has been a lecturer at Trinity College in Dublin and a professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, is the author of 10 collections of poetry. Among his many academic works are “Learning Irish” and “Modern Irish.”

He was awarded an Irish American Cultural Institute Prize for Poetry in 1982 and in 1998 the Marten Toonder Prize for Literature.

A founding member of Aosdána, the academy of distinguished Irish artists, O’Siadhail was also the founding chair of the Ireland Literature Exchange.

Historian will explore ‘pirate principles’ in talk

Adrian Johns, professor of history and chair of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago, will visit the campus on Wednesday, Feb. 27.

“Pirate Principles: Information, Monopolies and Media in the Modern Age” is the title of his talk, which will begin at 5 p.m. in Rm. 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Sponsored by the Humanities Program, Program in the History of Science and Medicine and Whitney Humanities Center, the talk is free and open to the public. For information, contact Manana Sikic at (203) 432-0673 or e-mail manana.sikic@yale.edu.

Johns’ works include “The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making,” a study of the interplay in the early modern period of publishing and science. “The Nature of the Book” won the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association and the Louis Gottschalk Prize of the American Society for 18th-Century Studies.

He is currently completing a new book, “Piracy: Creativity, Commerce and Crime from the Invention of the Printing Press to the Internet.” Johns’ teaching ranges across the history of science, culture, authorship and property through several centuries.

Harvard scholar will examine Britain and the Mediterranean

David Armitage, professor of history at Harvard University, will give a talk at the Yale Center for British Art on Wednesday, Feb. 27.

He will discuss “An Empire Between: Britain and the Mediterranean, 1600-1830,” at 5:30 p.m. at the center, 1080 Chapel St. All are welcome to attend.

Armitage is the author of “The Ideological Origins of the British Empire,” “Greater Britain, 1516-1776: Essays in Atlantic History” and “The Declaration of Independence: A Global History.” He edited “Theories of Empire, 1450-1800,” Hugo Grotius’ “The Free Sea” and “British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory,” and was co-editor of “Milton and Republicanism” and “The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800.”

Armitage is currently working on a study of the foundations of modern international thought and on an edition of John Locke’s colonial writings.

Zigler Center lecture to focus on low-income preschoolers

C. Cybele Raver, associate professor at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, will speak in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Feb. 29th.

Raver’s lecture, titled “Supporting Low-Income Preschoolers’ School Readiness in Head Start: Lessons from Chicago School Readiness Project,” will be held at 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Rm. 116, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the public and no reservations are necessary. For further information, e-mail sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.

Raver’s research focuses on young children and families facing economic hardship, particularly the mechanisms that support children’s positive outcomes in the policy contexts of welfare reform and early intervention. She and her research team currently conduct the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP), a federally-funded randomized control trial intervention. The CSRP tests the impact of comprehensive teacher training and mental health consultation services on Head Start classroom processes, on young children’s self-regulation, and on their academic achievement in kindergarten and first grade.

Raver earned her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Yale and was a fellow of the Zigler (then Bush) Center while at Yale.

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