The art of Chinese calligraphy is focus of humanities lecture
The “Scroll, Book, Screen: Means and Meaning in the Humanities” series will continue on Monday, April 7, with a talk by Robert E. Harrist Jr., the Jane and Leopold Swergold Professor of Chinese Art History at Columbia University.
Harrist will discuss “Text, Script and Meaning in the Art of Chinese Calligraphy” at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The talk, co-sponsored by the Humanities Program and the Whitney Humanities Center, is free and open to the public. For more information contact Manana Sikic at (203) 432-0673 or e-mail manana.sikic@yale.edu.
Harrist has published books and articles on Chinese painting, calligraphy and gardens, as well as on topics such as replicas in Chinese art, clothing in 20th-century China, and contemporary artists such as Xu Bing. His most recent book, “The Landscape of Words,” studies the role of language in shaping perceptions of the natural world.
During 2006-2007 he was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University. Harrist’s books include: “The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection,” “Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China: Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin” and “Power and Virtue: The Horse in Chinese Art.”
Zigler Center talk will examine family courts and child custody
Dr. Roy Lubit, who has a private practice in child and forensic psychiatry, as well as a position on the clinical faculty in the Department of Child Psychiatry/Child Study Center at New York University’s School of Medicine, will speak in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, April 11.
Lubit’s talk, titled “The Family Courts and Child Custody: A System Needing Change,” 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 and no reservations are necessary. For further information, e-mail sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.
Lubit’s current interests include the impact of divorce on children, evaluating claims of abuse in the midst of child custody evaluations, the difficulties children of the wealthy encounter while growing up, and why some people become terrorists. His forensic and trauma skills are relied upon in all five boroughs of New York Family Courts. In his private practice, most of Lubit’s work consists of forensic evaluations. He also consults to the Child and Law Committee of the Bar Association of the City of New York.
Lubit did his psychiatry residency at Yale, where he was a fellow of the Zigler (then Bush) Center.
Homeland security chief to present talk
Homeland security chief Michael Chertoff will discuss “Confronting the Threats to Our Homeland” on Monday, April 7, at the Yale Law School, 127 Wall St.
His address, which is the 2007-2008 Sam & Ronnie Heyman Lecture on Public Service, will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School. A reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public.
Chertoff was sworn in as the second secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on Feb. 15.
The lecture is the keynote for the first Heyman Federal Public Service Colloquium, being held earlier that day. The colloquium highlights the Law School’s Heyman Federal Public Fellowship Program, which allows graduates to explore careers in public service by working closely with high-level U.S. government leaders for a year.
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