Narrative film is topic of ‘Scroll, Book Screen’ lecture
T H I S
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.
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ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
Anderson comes to Yale as Lanman Professor
Harries appointed as first Ragen Professor
Nägele is first incumbent of Mohr Professorship
Smith has been named to Wells Professorship
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
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