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October 12, 2007|Volume 36, Number 6


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Acclaimed bass-baritone to lead master class

Yale Opera will present a master class with bass-baritone Alan Held on Monday, Oct. 15.

Held will work with singers from Yale Opera at 7 p.m. 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.

Held is an internationally acclaimed opera singer, whose numerous prizes and honors have included the 1991 Birgit Nilsson Prize, two Richard Tucker Music Foundation Career Grants and a Richard Gold Award from the Shoshana Foundation for his work with Wolf Trap Opera. He was named by Opera Education International as one of the 71 best singing actors and actresses over the past 46 years.

Held has appeared in leading roles at the Washington Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Cincinnati Opera, the Seattle Opera, and in many of the major houses of Europe, including Teatro Alla la Scala, Teatro Real in Madrid, the Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera and the Opera National de Paris, among numerous others.

Held has also performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Kirov Opera Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony and the Houston Symphony.

In 1990, Held was invited by Luciano Pavarotti to be his guest on a PBS “Live from Lincoln Center” broadcast of “Pavarotti Plus.”


Film producer to speak in SOM Leaders Forum

Film producer Robert Simonds will speak in the School of Management Leaders Forum on Tuesday, Oct. 16.

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

A 1985 graduate of Yale College, Simonds is regarded as one of Hollywood’s most prolific and profitable producers of motion picture comedies.

He has produced over 30 feature films which have generated in excess of $3.5 billion in worldwide revenue. Simonds focuses on two distinct demographic markets. The high-concept teen movie is a genre he has dominated for over a decade, with films such as “The WaterBoy,” “Just Married” and “Big Daddy.” He also focuses on modestly budgeted family films such as “Cheaper by the Dozen,” “Yours, Mine and Ours,” “Herbie Fully Loaded” and “The Pink Panther.”


Theologian to deliver Bainton Lecture

Bernard McGinn, the Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School, will deliver the Bainton Lecture at the Divinity School on Tuesday, Oct. 16.

McGinn will speak on the topic “The Dynamic Structure of Mystical Consciousness” at 5:15 p.m. in Niebuhr Lecture Hall, 409 Prospect St. A reception will follow in the Sarah Smith Gallery. The talk and reception are open to the public free of charge.

Named the Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor in 1992, McGinn is currently president of the Medieval Academy of America and editor-in-chief of the 115-volume Paulist Press series Classics of Western Spirituality.

McGinn is the author of numerous books including, most recently, “The Doctors of the Church: Thirty-Three Men and Women Who Shaped Christianity,” “Meister Eckhart’s Mystical Thought. The Man from Whom God Hid Nothing” and “Early Christian Mystics. The Divine Vision of the Spiritual Masters,” with Patricia Ferris McGinn.

Among his specialized areas of interest are the history of Christian thought, Western religious traditions, late medieval and early modern mysticism, monasticism, the apocalyptic tradition, Christian art, the medieval papacy, and heresy and dissent in medieval culture.


‘History of last night’s dream’ is focus of Slifka Center talk

The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale will host a talk by author Roger Kamenetz on Wednesday, Oct. 17.

Kamenetz will discuss his new book “The History of Last Night’s Dream” at 4:30 p.m. at the Slifka Center, 80 Wall St. A reception will be held after the talk. All are welcome to attend this event.

In his book, Kamenetz explores the world of dreams and touches on how the struggle between what we dream and how we interpret our dreams has shaped Western thought.

A poet and essayist, Kamenetz is internationally known for his work in Jewish-Buddhist dialogue. He is a professor of literature and director of the Jewish Studies Program at Louisiana State University and author of eight books, including “The Jew in the Lotus,” “The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems” and “Stalking Elijah,” which won the National Jewish Book Award for 1997 in the category of Jewish Thought. He has written for The New York Times and Moment Magazine.


Lamar Center talk will explore American folk heroes

Robert Miller, professor of law at the Lewis & Clark School of Law, will present a lecture on American folk heroes Lewis and Clark and Thomas Jefferson on Thursday, Oct. 18.

Titled “The Doctrine of Discovery and Native America,” Miller’s talk will begin at 5 p.m. in Rm. 127, Sterling Law Building, 127 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at (203) 432-2328 or e-mail lamar.center@yale.edu.

In his lecture, Miller will review Lewis and Clark and Jefferson, whose views became a legal basis for Indian removal policies and the massive loss of Indian lands then and now. His talk will be drawn from his recent book, “Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny.”

At Lewis & Clark School of Law, Miller teaches courses on federal Indian law and civil procedure. He is also the chief justice of the Court of Appeals of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and a board member of the Oregon Native American Business Entrepreneurial Network and the Tribal Leadership Forum. He is an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.


School finance reform is topic of Zigler Center lecture

Dianne Kaplan deVries, project director at the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding (CCJEF) in Hartford, will be the next speaker in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Oct. 19.

Her talk, titled “School Finance Reform in Connecticut: The CCJEF Quest for Education Adequacy and Equity,” will be held at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 116, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information, e-mail sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.

Kaplan deVries leads CCJEF’s efforts through research, policy development and education outreach. She has been working on school finance reform issues in Connecticut since early 1998, when she served as education adequacy consultant to the Johnson v. Rowland legal team, one of the predecessor school finance lawsuits to CCJEF v. Rell. When the case was withdrawn in late 2003, she proceeded to build a much larger statewide coalition, CCJEF. Today, CCJEF’s municipalities, school districts, professional associations, teachers’ unions, other education advocacy organizations and parents continue the struggle for adequate and equitable funding for the public schools, seeking to ensure equal educational opportunity and to close the achievement gap within and across Connecticut school districts.

In addition to consulting with CCJEF, Kaplan contributes to studies in other states that cost out No Child Left Behind and program evaluation/cost-effectiveness research informing school reform strategies.


The role of the European Union to be examined in ISS lecture

Charles Kupchan, professor of international relations at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Government Department, will give a talk in the Grand Strategy Lecture Series addressing the topic “The Grand Strategies of the Great Powers.”

Titled “The European Union: Past Its Prime or Emergent Pole of Power?,” Kupchan’s talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 18., in Rm. 119, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. Sponsored by International Security Studies, the talk is free and the public is invited to attend.

Kupchan is also a senior fellow and director of Europe studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Kupchan was director for European affairs on the National Security Council (NSC) during the first Clinton administration. Before joining the NSC, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the Policy Planning Staff. Prior to government service, he was an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University.

He is the author of “The End of the American Era,” “Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order,” “Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community” “Atlantic Security: Contending Visions,” “Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe,” “The Vulnerability of Empire,” “The Persian Gulf and the West,” and numerous articles on international and strategic affairs.


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

New facility is place where ‘future of medicine’ can unfold

Facility balances researchers’ needs with environmentally friendly features

Alumnus’ gift supports ‘critical’ work at F&ES

Yale affiliates to exhibit photographs, games and paintings at art festival

Yale’s United Way fundraising goal set at $1.2 million


SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEWS

Museum honorees to ponder ‘The Future of Life on Earth’

‘The Greening of Yale and Beyond’ is topic of symposium

Symposium to examine the intersection of faith and politics

‘21st Century Democracy’ is the theme of Law School reunions

IN MEMORIAM

Exhibit examines post-war effort to halt the spread of communism . . .

Campus Notes


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