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September 21, 2007|Volume 36, Number 3


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Visiting on Campus

Narrative film is topic of ‘Scroll, Book Screen’ lecture

On Thursday, Sept. 27, Garrett Stewart, the James O. Freedman Professor of Letters in the Department of English at the University of Iowa, will give a lecture in the Humanities’ Program Lecture Series “Scroll, Book, Screen: Means and Meaning in the Humanities.”

Stewart will discuss “Writing with Movement: Enscrolled Time in Narrative Film” at 4:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information call Manana Sikic at (203) 432-0673 or e-mail manana.sikic@yale.edu.

Stewart’s topics of research include Victorian fiction, narrative theory, textual poetics and visuality studies.

He is the author of “Framed Time: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema,” “The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text,” “Between Film and Screen: Modernism’s Photo Synthesis,” “Dear Reader: The Conscripted Audience in 19th-Century British Fiction,” “Death Sentences: Styles of Dying in British Fiction” and “Dickens & the Trials of Imagination.”


SOM Leaders Forum will feature CEO of Istithmar

David Jackson, chief executive officer (CEO) of Istithmar, will speak at the School of Management Leaders Forum on Tuesday, Sept. 25.

Jackson’s lecture will take place 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. in the General Motors Room, Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is open to members of the Yale community only.

In 2006 Jackson was appointed CEO of Istithmar, the leading Dubai-based private equity and alternative investment house. In this capacity, he has overall responsibility for business initiated by Istithmar across its three divisions — investment, finance and administration, and funding. Prior to his appointment as CEO, Jackson served as the first chief investment officer of Istithmar, where he led the creation of the initial portfolio of approximately $2 billion and the implementation of the policies and procedures that provide Istithmar its platform today. He served in that position from 2003 to 2006.

Before joining Istithmar, Jackson spent over 10 years on Wall Street where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and worked with financial sponsors in leveraged buy-out transactions. Jackson was an associate, vice president and senior vice president at Lehman Brothers in New York and Hong Kong (1993-2001). He was a partner at Marco Polo Partners in New York (2002-2003).

Jackson holds a master’s degree in business administration from Yale. This year, Private Equity International Magazine named Jackson to its list of “50 Global Movers; the most influential people in global private equity.”


Social Policy Lecture will focus on ‘sandbox investment’

David L. Kirp, professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, will speak in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Sept. 28.

Titled “The Sandbox Investment — A Conversation Between David Kirp and Walter Gilliam,” the talk will take place 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. For further information, e-mail sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.

Kirp has written on a wide array of topics, including education, race and gender discrimination, housing, AIDS and civil liberties. He contributes regularly to the national media, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic Monthly, American Prospect and The Nation.

The author of “The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics,” Kirp is currently focusing on the nationwide movement for universal preschool and its larger political implications.

Kirp previously taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was the founding director of the Harvard Center on Law and Education, a national law reform center that promotes equality of educational opportunity. From 1983 to 1985 he was associate editor of the Sacramento Bee, and wrote a syndicated column for Copley News Service from 1985 to 1990. He has also worked with numerous public agencies at the international, federal, state and local levels, as well as with foundations and non-profit organizations.


T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Yale, Peru forge ‘model’ collaboration on Machu Picchu

Foster + Partners to design new SOM building

NIH grant aims to speed development of alcoholism treatment

‘Quiet on the set!’: Scenes for DeNiro-Pacino movie shot in employee’s home

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS

Scholars named to joint posts at MacMillan Center

Abigail Rider to manage Yale’s real estate

Exhibit chronicles slavery and emancipation in Jamaica

Activist and author Gloria Steinem to visit as Chubb Fellow

Art, music of Tibetan monks to be featured in campus events

Architect-designed housewares produced by Swid Powell . . .

Award-winning play about conjoined twins to be presented

Brownell: Food addiction and nutrition

Part one of two-part conference will explore ‘Frontier Cities’

Tribute to Cleanth Brooks examines the topic ‘What is Close Reading?’

Show features paintings of city scenes by Constance LaPalombara

Getting saucy

Look at ‘Past Year in Admissions’ . . .

Campus Notes


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