Conservationist to discuss human-land relationship
Peter Forbes, executive director of the Center for Whole Communities at Knoll Farm in Vermont, will speak on campus on Monday, April 21.
Forbes will discuss “The Power of Story in Strengthening Conservation” at 4 p.m. in the third-floor auditorium, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave. Sponsored by the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies’ Land Use Coalition, the talk is open to the public free of charge.
Author, photographer, farmer and conservationist Forbes will examine the relationship between people and the land in the United States. In doing so, he will explore the question: How do we convey a story about our human-land relationship that captivates an audience that may not have the same experience?
In 1998 Forbes became the first national fellow for the Trust for Public Land, devoting himself to researching and writing about individual and community relationships with the land. For the previous 10 years he had directed all of the land conservation efforts undertaken by the Trust for Public Land in New England. In 2001, Forbes founded the Center for Land and People, a program of the Trust for Public Land, to help foster a new practice of land conservation in which relationship is as important as place.
He co-founded and directs the Center for Whole Communities at Knoll Farm in Vermont’s Mad River Valley, where every year members of a broadly defined land movement gather to engage in dialogue and learn new ways to do their work.
Art history and neuroscience is focus of talk by Yale alumnus
The Humanities Program and the Whitney Humanities Center will host a talk by David Freedberg, the Pierre Matisse Professor of History of Art at Columbia University and director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, on Wednesday, April 23.
Titled “Art History and the Neurosciences,” Freedberg’s talk will begin at 5 p.m. in Rm. 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. All are welcome to attend this free talk. For more information, contact Manana Sikic at (203) 432-0673 or manana.sikic@yale.edu.
A Yale College graduate, Freedberg has written about a vast array of topics, ranging from the art of the Renaissance to modern art and criticism. His books include “The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response” and “The Eye of the Lynx: Art, Science and Nature in the Age of Galileo,” which was honored with the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize of Phi Beta Kappa “for significantly contributing to our understanding of the cultural and intellectual condition of humanity.”
His current research expands the boundaries of humanistic studies by applying new knowledge from the field of neurosciences to the understanding of art — an interest that is reflected in the title of his current book project, “Modes of Seeing: Mind, Body and Emotion in the History of Art.”
Bioethics talk to feature political philosopher
Michael J. Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, will speak to the Bioethics Study Group focusing on “Technology and Ethics” on Wednesday, April 23.
“The Case Against Perfection” is the title of his talk, which will be held 4:15-6 p.m. in Rm. 127, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. To reserve a seat, send e-mail to brooke.crockett@yale.edu.
Sandel has taught political philosophy at Harvard University since 1980. He is the author of “Liberalism and the Limits of Justice,” “Democracy’s Discontent,” “Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics” and “The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering.” His work has been translated into numerous languages and his writings appear in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic and The New York Times.
Sandel has given lectures around the world including the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Oxford University in 1998.
His undergraduate course, “Justice,” has one of the largest enrollments of any lecture course in Harvard’s history. Sandel also teaches courses on ethics and biotechnology, and, at Harvard Law School, “Ethics, Economics and Law.”
Noted Harvard physicist is Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
Eric Mazur, the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University, will visit the campus on Wednesday, April 23, and Thursday, April 24, under the auspices of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program.
On Wednesday, Mazur will give a talk titled “How the Mind Tricks Us: Visualizations and Visual Illusions” at 7 p.m. at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave. The lecture will illuminate the ways in which research in neurobiology and cognitive psychology enables people to understand how the mind processes information, in particular, visual information.
On Thursday, Mazur will speak on “Control of Coherent Optical Phonons” at 4 p.m. in Rm. 57, Sloane Physics Laboratory, 217 Prospect St. He will discuss the use of ultrafast laser pulses to control a semiconductor-semimetal transition through the generation of coherent phonons.
Both lectures are free and open to the public.
His research team in the physics department of Harvard University has made contributions in spectroscopy, light scattering and the precise manipulation of materials by ultrashort laser pulses.
A distinguished scientist and researcher in the field of optical physics, Mazur also is widely recognized as a leader in science teaching. In his book, “Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual,” Mazur presents a new approach to teaching introductory physics that concentrates on conceptual understanding and application.
The Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program adds to the intellectual life on more than 100 chapter campuses each year by facilitating an exchange of ideas between the visiting scholars and the faculty and students.
CIRA talk will examine China and the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Dr. Zunyou Wu, director of the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing, China, will speak in the Director’s International Seminar sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS on Thursday, April 24.
“China’s Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic” is the title of his talk, which will be held 4-5:30 p.m. in Rm. 101, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health,
60 College St. The talk is open to members of the Yale community only. For more information and to reserve a seat, contact Nicole Whitcher at (203) 764-4337 or nicole.whitcher@yale.edu.
Wu conducts operational, scientific research at the grassroots level with sex workers, injecting drug users, former plasma donors, migrants and HIV-infected individuals in China. A renowned epidemiologist, he made considerable contributions to the control of SARS in Beijing. His research findings have also been published in 163 academic papers and international scientific journals, including Science and Lancet. Wu, who wrote 28 chapters of monograph for the Oxford Textbook for Public Health, is a leader in the field of HIV prevention strategies and oversees the overall technical implementation of identification, prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS in China.
Wu has contributed in the development of China’s flagship policy on controlling the HIV epidemic among the drug using population. In recognition of his contributions, he was awarded the 2005 International Rolleston Award for being a pioneer in implementing HIV intervention programs among injecting drug users in China.
‘Pacific perspectives’ is focus of Walker Lecture
Christopher R. Hill, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, will give the George Herbert Walker Jr. Lecture in International Studies on Thursday, April 24.
His talk, titled “Pacific Perspectives: United States Diplomacy in a Rapidly Changing Asia,” will be held at 4 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Sponsored by the MacMillan Center, the lecture is free and open to the public.
A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Hill’s most recent assignment was as ambassador to the Republic of Korea. In 2005, he was named head of the U.S. delegation to the Six-Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue. Hill previously served as U.S. ambassador to Poland and the Republic of Macedonia, and special envoy to Kosovo.
Earlier in his Foreign Service career, Hill served tours in Belgrade, Warsaw, Seoul and Tirana, and on the Department of State’s policy planning staff and in the department’s Operation Center.
Hill received the State Department’s Distinguished Service Award for his contributions as a member of the U.S. negotiating team in the Bosnia peace settlement, and was a recipient of the Robert S. Frasure Award for Peace Negotiations for his work on the Kosovo crisis. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Hill served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon.
George Herbert Walker III, formerly the U.S. ambassador to Hungary, established the lecture series in memory of his father, a graduate of the Yale Class of 1927.
Zigler Center talk will explore ‘why race and place matters’
Kesha Moore, assistant professor of sociology at Drew University, will speak in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, April 25.
Her talk, titled “Gentrification in Black and White: Why Race and Place Matters in Structuring Neighborhood Outcomes,” will be held 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; no reservations are necessary. For further information, e-mail sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.
Moore’s areas of interest include race and class stratification, urban neighborhoods, and the symbolic construction of identity. She has conducted research on community development in urban neighborhoods, inter-class relations within the black community, the role of churches in community development, and the impact of welfare reform. She is currently working on an analysis of African-American women and the hair care industry.
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