Commonfund executive to speak in SOM Leaders Forum
The School of Management Leaders Forum will feature a talk by Verne O. Sedlacek, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Commonfund, on Tuesday, April 1.
Sedlacek will speak 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is open to the public free of charge.
As the largest non-profit investment manager, Communfund’s mission is to enhance the financial resources of nonprofit institutions and to help them improve investment management practices.
Verne was appointed president and CEO of the company in 2003. Prior to his appointments, Sedlacek served as executive vice president and chief operating officer. He is a member of the Commonfund Group Investment Committee. Before joining Communfund, Sedlacek was president and chief operating officer of John W. Henry & Company Inc., and president and director of Westport Capital Management Corporation and Global Capital Management Limited. He also has served on many not-for-profit and for-profit boards and is currently on the New York Stock Exchange Pension Managers Advisory Board.
Renowned guitar quartet will visit the campus
The Chamber Music Society at Yale will host a visit by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) on Monday and Tuesday, April 1 and 2.
Guitarists John Dearman, William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant and Matthew Grief will perform on Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Sprague Memorial Hall, 470 College St. The program will include classical works including Rossini’s “Barber of Seville” overture, Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 6,” de Falla’s “El amor Brujo” and Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Capriccio Espagnol.” The group will also play sets of Brazilian and Celtic music. Tickets are $27 to $34 ($14 for students).
The night before, Benjamin Verdery will host a public conversation with LAGQ in Sudler Hall, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. Admission is free.
For more information and tickets to the concert, visit www.yale.edu/music, call (203) 432-4158 or visit the Sprague Hall box office between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays.
Recognized as one of America’s premier instrumental ensembles and winner of a 2005 Grammy Award, LAGQ has been recording for nearly three decades and is considered to be one of the most versatile groups performing today. They are known for their critically-acclaimed transcriptions of concert masterworks as well as their recordings of works from the contemporary and world-music realms. The quartet’s most recent release is “LAGQ Brazil” featuring vocalist Luciana Souza. They received a Grammy nomination in the Best Classical Crossover Album category for their release “LAGQ-Latin.”
Franke Lectures continue with talk on ‘reformation of rights’
The Franke Lectures in the Humanities series on “Religion and Law in Historical Perspective” continues with a talk on Wednesday, April 2, by John Witte Jr., the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Ethics and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.
“The Reformation of Rights: Early Protestant Foundations of Western Rights” is the title of Witte’s talk, which will be held at 5 p.m. in Rm. 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the public. For information call Manana Sikic at (203) 432-0673 or e-mail manana.sikic@yale.edu.
Witte is a specialist in legal history, marriage and religious liberty, and has lectured and convened major conferences throughout North America, Western Europe, Israel, Japan and South Africa. He has published numerous articles, journal symposia and more than a dozen books, including “From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion and Law in the Western Tradition,” “Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment” and “God’s Joust, God’s Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition.” His writings have been translated into many languages and Witte has won numerous awards for his teaching and research.
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.
Classics lecture will explore the Anglophone Caribbean
Emily Greenwood, a lecturer in Greek at the University of Saint Andrews’ School of Classics, will visit the campus on Thursday, April 3.
Greenwood will discuss “Afro-Greeks: Uses of Classics in the Anglophone Caribbean” at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 407, Phelps Hall, 344 College St. All are welcome to attend. Greenwood’s talk is the inaugural lecture in an annual exchange between the Department of Classics and the School of Classics at the University of Saint Andrews in the United Kingdom. One faculty member in the classics department in each university will visit the other for a period of two weeks annually, to teach and lecture on topics of mutual interest.
Greenwood specializes in Greek historiography, the reception of classics in the Caribbean, and translation studies and classics. Her talk will consider the receptions of ancient Greece and Rome in the Caribbean, focusing specifically on linking Caribbean receptions of Homer to questions and problems in the modern reception of Homer more generally.
She has published widely on Greek literature and its reception, especially in the Caribbean, and is the author of “Thucydides and the Shaping of History.” Her wider interests include translation studies and classics, and she is currently working on a book manuscript titled “Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Classics and Anglophone Caribbean Literature in the 20th Century.”
Yale alumnus will give Public Voices/Public Faith talk
Kyle Cooper, founder and president of Prologue Films, will give a Public Voices/Public Faith Lecture on Wednesday, April 2.
Cooper will discuss “Faith and the Filmmaker” at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Sponsored by the Rivendell Institute and the Rivendell Graduate Organization, the free talk is open to the public.
Cooper, who holds a M.F.A. in graphic design from the School of Art, has created over 100 opening credit sequences for feature films, including the title sequence for David Fincher’s 1996 film “SE7EN.” Entertainment Weekly called his work a “masterpiece of dementia” and Details magazine crediting him with “almost single-handedly revitalizing the main-title sequence as an art form.” Among his other opening titles are “Spider-Man,” “Mission Impossible,” “Braveheart” and “Donnie Brasco.”
Cooper has directed live action for numerous television commercials and created four nightmare montages for the motion picture “Titus Andronicus.”
Recent projects include the main titles for the video game “Metal Gear 2,” 10 commemorative U.S. postal stamps celebrating “American Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes” and the 74th and 76th Annual Academy Awards. For each Academy Awards show Cooper produced more than 850 individual elements, including broadcast graphics, screen content and a 4 and 1/2 minute tribute to film composers.
He has received numerous awards and honors, including two Emmy Award nominations for his work on TNT’s “George Wallace” and the 74th Academy Awards show, held in 2002 .
‘No End In Sight’ director will screen film and lead discussion
Charles Ferguson, director and producer of “No End In Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq,” will screen his film and participate in a question-and-answer session when he visits the campus on Thursday, April 3.
The event will take place at 7 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St., and is co-sponsored by Saybrook College, the American Studies Program, the Film Studies Program, the Council on Middle East Studies and the Whitney Humanities Center. All are welcome to attend.
Trained as a political scientist, Ferguson has consulted to the White House, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Department of Defense, and several U.S. and European high technology firms including Apple, Xerox, Motorola and Texas Instruments. He is the author of three books and many articles dealing with various aspects of information technology and its relationship to economic, political and social issues.
In mid-2005, after learning that no major documentary covering U.S. policy in Iraq was being made or was planned, Ferguson formed Representational Pictures and began production of “No End In Sight,” which is an insider’s chronicle of the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy.
Nominated for an Academy Award in 2008 and the winner of eight prestigious awards, including the 2007 Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award, “No End In Sight” retells the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials, Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts.
Saybrook College master’s tea to feature acting coach
On Friday, April 4, renowned acting coach Susan Batson will be the guest at a master’s tea and will hold a book signing of her recent release “Truth: Personas, Needs and Flaws in the Art of Building Actors and Creating Characters.”
The events will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Saybrook College master’s house, 90 High St. Co-sponsored by Saybrook College, Theater Studies and the Whitney Humanities Center, the talk and book-signing are free and open to the public.
An actor, writer, director, producer, teacher and coach, Batson has been called a “technician of the spirit” by the New Yorker. Batson, who runs the New York- and Hollywood-based Black Nexxus acting studios, has worked with Nicole Kidman, Juliette Binoche, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx, Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs, Liv Tyler and Jennifer Connelly, among others.
Batson was in the original cast of “Hair” and became a protégé of theater legends Joseph Papp and Harold Clurman, a member of the Actor’s Studio, and a recipient of a New York Drama Critics Award, an LA Drama Critics Award and an Obie Award.
She has consulted with writer/director Spike Lee on several of his films and was a producer of the Broadway revival and television production of “Raisin in the Sun.” Batson has been profiled in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Variety, the Hollywood Reporter and Backstage.
Zigler Center talk will examine children and global policies
Christina Popivanova, an International Fellow in Public Policy at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Policy Institute, will give the next lecture in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, April 4.
Popivanova will be joined by Pia Rebello Britto, associate research scientist at the Child Study Center. Their talk, titled “Where Are the Young Children on Global and National Policies: A Review and Analysis of International and National Development Frameworks,” will be held 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. No reservations are necessary. For further information, e-mail sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.
Popivanova, who focuses her interests on national and international public affairs, has advised national and local partners on a variety of social issues concerning families and children, HIV/AIDS, child protection, child poverty, education and policy evaluation in Bulgaria and the southeast European region. She has led and negotiated national consultations in the child welfare sector, and advocated for and ensured support from key decision-makers for new policies and practices that facilitate the achievement of national goals for children and families in Bulgaria.
She has also presented the UNICEF position on the implementation of Convention on the Rights of the Child in Bulgaria in front of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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