‘Moth Smoke’ author will give a reading on campus
Mohsin Hamid, author of “Moth Smoke” and “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” will visit the campus on Monday, April 14.
Hamid will read from his works at 5:30 p.m. in Rm. 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. Sponsored by the Mott-Atkins Fund of Saybrook College and the Muslim Students Association, the event is free and open to the public.
Hamid’s first novel, “Moth Smoke,” tells the story of an ex-banker and heroin addict in contemporary Lahore. It was published in 10 languages and became a cult hit in Pakistan, where it was made into a television miniseries. The book won a Betty Trask Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and was named a New York Times notable book of the year.
His second novel, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” recounts a Pakistani man’s abandonment of his high profile life in New York. Published in 20 languages, it became a bestseller in both America and Pakistan. Winner of the South Bank Show Award for Literature, the novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Decibel Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was a New York Times notable book of the year.
Mohsin’s writing has appeared in TIME magazine, The New York Times and the Paris Review, among other publications.
Noted scholar to speak in ‘Scroll, Book, Screen’ series
Lorraine Daston, director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, will give the next talk in the “Scroll, Book, Screen: Means and Meaning in the Humanities” series on Tuesday, April 15.
“Seeing Things: Perception and Ontology in Science” is the topic of Daston’s talk, which will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 119A, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. Sponsored by the Humanities Program and the Whitney Humanities Center, the talk is open to the public free of charge.
Since 1995, Daston has served as director of the Max Planck Institute and as an honorary professor at the Humboldt University, both in Berlin. At the Max Planck Institute, she has organized research projects on the history of demonstration and proof, the varieties of scientific experience, the moral authority of nature, and the common languages of art and science. These projects have resulted in the publication of the edited volumes “Biographies of Scientific Objects” and “Things that Talk.”
Daston has published widely on the history of statistics and probability theory, early modern natural knowledge, scientific objectivity and the cognitive passions. Her books include “Classical Probability in the Enlightenment” and “Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750” (with Katharine Park), both of which were awarded the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society. She has taught at numerous universities, including Columbia and the University of Göttingen.
Coca-Cola World Fund Lecture to feature author of ‘Empires’
Michael W. Doyle, the Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy and professor of law and political science at Columbia University, will give the 15th annual Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on Wednesday, April 16.
His talk, titled “Striking First: the Law and Politics of Preemptive and Preventive Force,” will be held at 4 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. A reception will follow. The lecture is sponsored by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Law School and the School of Management.
Doyle is the author of “Empires,” “U.N. Peacekeeping in Cambodia: UNTAC’s Civil Mandate,” “Keeping the Peace,” which he edited with Ian Johnstone and Robert Orr, “Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century,” edited with Olara Otunnu, “New Thinking in International Relations Theory,” edited with John Ikenberry, and “Ways of War and Peace,” among others.
He recently served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser to former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. His responsibilities in the Secretary-General’s Executive Office included strategic planning, outreach to the international corporate sector (the “Global Compact”) and relations with Washington. Formerly the director of the Center of International Studies at Princeton University, Doyle is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
The Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale was established in 1992 to support endeavors among specialists in the intersection between international relations, international law, and the management of international enterprises and organizations.
Bellos Lecturer will explore sources of health disparities
This year’s Sybil Palmer Bellos Lecture will be delivered by David R. Williams, the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at Harvard University, on Wednesday, April 16.
Williams will discuss “Social Sources of Health Disparities: Patterns, Causes, Interventions” at 3:30 p.m. in the lecture hall, Rm. 118 at the School of Nursing,
100 Church St. South. The Wisser Tea will immediately follow the lecture. For more information, contact Sydney Martin at sydney.martin@yale.edu or (203) 785-2393.
Williams’ work explores social influences on health, including trends and specific mechanisms by which socioeconomic and racial differences affect physical and mental health, as well as interventions that might reduce those health disparities.
In his research, Williams has examined the extent to which psychosocial factors, such as stress, racism, social support, religious involvement, psychological resources and health behaviors, are linked to health and social status, and how these can explain socioeconomic and racial variations in health.
Williams has served on the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics and on six panels for the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health and is the executive staff director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America.
He is currently appearing in the PBS documentary “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?”
Celebrated artist and scholar to give Kinney/Tesoro Lecture
The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders will host a visit by Charles M. Carrillo, award-winning artist and scholar of the history and cultural heritage of New Mexico, on Thursday, April 17.
Carrillo will give the inaugural Kinney/Tesoro Lecture in the History and Culture of the American West at 5 p.m. in Rm. 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The lecture, titled “New Mexican Santos: The Devotions of the Colonial Frontier of New Spain,” is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-2328 or e-mail lamar.center@yale.edu.
Carrillo, a santero — a carver and painter of sacred images — will present some examples of his santos during his talk. His work is in the permanent collections the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe and the Denver Museum of Art. The National Endowment for the Arts named him as a National Heritage Fellow in 2006 and noted that he is recognized not only as the primary authority on this subject but also as the most accomplished artist practicing in this regional tradition.
His honors include the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Spanish Market and the Museum of International Folk Art Hispanic Heritage Award. Carrillo has lectured widely and is currently an adjunct professor in the University of New Mexico’s Religious Studies Program. He is the author of “Hispanic New Mexican Pottery,” “A Tapestry of Kinship” (co-authored with José Antonio Esquibel) and “Saints of the Pueblos.”
Lewis Walpole Library Lecture to feature Yale alumnus
The 15th annual Lewis Walpole Library Lecture will be given by Leo Damrosch, the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, on Friday, April 18.
Damrosch will discuss “Feeling Free in the Enlightenment: Diderot Versus Rousseau, or Philosophy Versus Lived Experience” at 5:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St.
Damrosch’s lecture builds on the research that went into his most recent book, “Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius,” which was one of five finalists for the 2005 National Book Award and winner of the PEN New England Award for nonfiction.
A Yale College graduate, Damrosch has served as chair of the Department of English and was awarded a Harvard College Professorship for distinguished teaching.
He is the author of “Symbol and Truth in Blake’s Myth,” “God’s Plot and Man’s Stories: Studies in the Fictional Imagination from Milton to Fielding,” “Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson” and “The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit.”
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