Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 5, 2007|Volume 36, Number 5

Visiting on Campus

Professional surfer to be guest at Calhoun College master’s tea

Calhoun College will host a visit by Fernando Aguerre, president of the International Surfing Association, on Monday, Oct. 8.

Aguerre will speak at 4:30 p.m. at the master’s house, 434 College St. The talk is free and open to the public.

Aguerre founded the Argentinean Surfing Association in response to a military ban on surfing in Argentina in 1997. Eventually, the ban on surfing was lifted.

In 1979, Aguerre, his mother and his brother, Santiago, opened the Ala Moana Surfshop in Mar del Plata, which became one of the leading beach clothing manufacturers in Argentina. Following that, Aguerre moved to San Diego, California, and he and his brother led 500 visitors a year on guided surf tours to Isla Natividad in Baja California, Mexico.

In 1985, Fernando and Santiago opened the Reef and sold 3,000 pairs of flip flops in their first year in business. Reef became the largest beach sandal company in the world. In 2005, the Aguerre brothers sold their remaining shares of the company.

Celebrated mezzo-soprano to lead opera master class

Ann Murray, one of the leading opera singers in the British Isles, will give a public master class for on Monday, Oct. 8.

The class will take place at 7 p.m. in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall, 470 College St. Tickets for the master class are $8 ($5 for students). For more information, visit www.yale.edu/music or call (203) 432-4158.

Several Yale Opera students will sing for Murray, who will then critique their performance and offer suggestions for improving both technique and interpretation.

At La Scala in Milan, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival, her roles have included Donna Elvira, Sextus, Dorabella, Cherubino, Elvira, the Composer, Octavian, Xerxes, Giulio Cesare, Idamantes, Charlotte, Rosina, Octavian, Cecilio, La Cenerentola, Nicklausse and Cherubino, among others.

Murray has sung with the Orchestre de Paris, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and in the Musikverein, Vienna.

She performs with the leading orchestras of Great Britain, at the BBC Promenade Concerts and at major festivals.

In 1997 Murray was given an Honorary Doctor of Music degree by the National University of Ireland, and in 1999 was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.

In the 2002 Golden Jubilee Queen’s Birthday Honours, she was appointed an honorary Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In 2004 she was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

Alan Dershowitz to discuss ‘anti-semitic hate speech’

Legal scholar and renowned attorney Alan Dershowitz will visit the campus on Thursday, Oct. 11.

Dershowitz will speak on “Anti-Semitic Hate Speech: Incitement to Violence in the Absence of a Marketplace of Ideas” at 7 p.m. in Levinson Auditorium, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, this is the inaugural Professor William Prusoff Lecture, honoring a researcher who has been on the Yale faculty for over 50 years, and who created the first generation of anti-viral and anti-HIV medication.

An alumnus of Yale Law School, Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Best known for defending celebrity clients such as Claus von Bülow, O.J. Simpson, Michael Milken and Mike Tyson, he also frequently represents indigent defendants and takes half of his cases pro bono.

Dershowitz is the author of 20 works of fiction and non-fiction, including “Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence,” “Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge,” “The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century” and “America on Trial: Inside the Legal Battles That Transformed Our Nation.”

‘The end of reading’ is focus of ‘Scroll, Book, Screen’ talk

The “Scroll, Book, Screen: Means and Meaning in the Humanities” series will continue on Thursday, Oct. 11, with a talk by James O’Donnell, professor and provost of Georgetown University.

Titled “The End of Reading,” O’Donnell’s talk will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Sponsored by the Humanities Program and the Whitney Humanities Center, the talk is open to the public free of charge.

O’Donnell is a widely known scholar of Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the history of the book, and the intersection of the humanities and information technologies. His best known publications are “Augustine’s ‘Confessions,’” “Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace” and “Augustine: A New Biography.”

Founder of the electronic journal The Bryn Mawr Review, O’Donnell has served as president of the American Philological Association and as a fellow of the American Medieval Academy.

SEC commissioner to speak in Corporate Governance series

Roel Campos, commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), will give a talk in the Lunch Forum Series on Corporate Governance on Thursday, Oct. 11.

Campos will discuss “Shareholder Suffrage: The Battle to Reform Director Elections at Corporate Boards” at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. A-53, Watson Center, 60 Sachem St. To attend the talk, register at http://events.som.yale.edu/index.php?eventid=347.

First sworn in as a commissioner of the SEC in 2002, Campos was nominated by President George W. Bush for a second term in 2005, and was confirmed by the Senate.

He has served for four years as the SEC’s liaison to the international regulatory community. Campos is regarded as an influential voice for the convergence of standards and for rational regulation that promotes cross-border transactions.

As the vice chair of the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions, Campos has developed productive relationships with securities regulators in Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. He also has facilitated the development of international auditing and accounting standards through his work as chair of the Monitoring Group, which oversees the setting of International Standards of Audit.

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