Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 19, 2007|Volume 36, Number 7

Visiting on Campus

YDS lecture will examine ‘Josephan perspectives’

Sean Freyne, emeritus professor of theology at Trinity College in Dublin and visiting professor of New Testament at Harvard Divinity School, will deliver a lecture on Friday, Oct. 19.

“Josephan Perspectives on the Galilean Social World: Some Reconsiderations” is the title of Freyne’s talk, which will begin at 12:15 p.m. in Latourette Hall, Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, 409 Prospect St. All are welcome to attend this lecture.

Freyne has conducted significant research on the Synoptic Gospels, most recently in the context of ancient biography and its social roles.

In addition, he has contributed numerous articles and papers on the current ‘third wave’ of historical Jesus studies. Freyne’s publication “Jesus a Jewish Galilean” gathers together many of his ideas on both Jesus and Galilee developed over the years.

Ethanol fuel is focus of Sustainable Food Project talk

David Pimentel, professor emeritus of insect ecology and agricultural science at Cornell University, will visit the campus on Tuesday, Oct. 23.

Pimental will present a lecture on “Ethanol Fuel: Energy, Food and the Environment” at 3 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Sponsored by the Sustainable Food Project, the talk is free and open to the public.

One of the foremost scholars of biofuels and energy balance, Pimentel focuses his research on basic population ecology, ecological and economic aspects of pest control, biological control, biotechnology, sustainable agriculture, land and water conservation, natural resource management, and environmental policy.

Pimentel has published more than 600 scientific papers and 24 books. Most recently, he released the third edition of his book, “Food, Energy, and Society,” an examination of the interdependency of food, energy, water, land and biological resources.

He has served on many national and government committees, including the National Academy of Sciences, the President’s Science Advisory Council, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, and the U.S. State Department.

Noted foreign correspondent to speak at master’s tea

John Pomfret, outlook editor of The Washington Post, will be the guest at a Saybrook College master’s tea on Wednesday, Oct. 24.

Pomfret will speak at 4 p.m. at the master’s house, 90 High St. Sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, the talk is free, and the public is invited to attend.

Author of “Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China,” Pomfret is an award-winning journalist with The Washington Post. He has been a foreign correspondent for 15 years, covering wars big and small in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Congo, Sri Lanka, Iraq, southwestern Turkey and northeastern Iran. Pomfret has spent seven years covering China — one in the late 1980s during the Tiananmen Square protests and then from 1998 until the end of 2003 as the bureau chief for The Washington Post in Beijing.

Pomfret speaks, reads and writes Mandarin, having spent two years at Nanjing University in the early 1980s as part of one of the first groups of American students to study in China. He has been a bartender in Paris and practiced Judo in Japan.

In 2003, Pomfret was awarded the Osborne Elliot Award by the Asia Society for the best coverage of Asia. Earlier this year Pomfret was awarded the Shorenstein Award from Havard and Stanford universities for his lifetime coverage of Asia.

‘Fame Junkies’ author to be featured at master’s tea

Jake Halpern, author of “Fame Junkies,” will be the guest at a Morse College master’s tea on Thursday, Oct. 25.

Halpern will speak at 4 p.m. in the master’s house, 99 Tower Pkwy. The talk is free and open to the public.

“Fame Junkies” explores the fascinating and often dark implications of America’s obsession with fame and examines how psychology, technology, evolution and profit conspire to make the public enthralled with the world of red carpets and velvet ropes.

Halpern has written for The New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, the Sunday Daily Telegraph (London), Entertainment Weekly, LA Weekly, Outside, Psychology Today and other publications. He is also a commentator and a freelance producer for National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”

‘Snapshots’ author to present lecture at Slifka Center

The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale will host a talk with Michal Govrin, author of “Snapshots,” on Wednesday, Oct. 24.

The talk will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the Slifka Center, 80 Wall St. A reception will be held following the lecture. All are welcome to attend this event.

Govrin writes poetry and fiction, and is also a theater director, specializing in Jewish theater and ritual. She teaches drama at the Jerusalem School for Visual Theater, is academic chair of the theater department at Emunah College, and frequently lectures abroad.

She has been awarded the Margalit Prize for Theater Direction; the Tel Aviv Foundation Award for her book “The Making of the Sea, a Chronicle of Interpretation”; the Kugel Prize and was named as a finalist for the Koret Jewish Book Award for “The Name”; the Prime Minister’s Prize; and the ACUM Prize for “Snapshots.”

Sustainable development to be examined in talk

Pascal Lamy, the director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), will present a lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 24, hosted by the Center for the Study of Globalization.

The lecture, titled “The Doha Round: An Agenda for Sustainable Development,” will take place at 7 p.m. in Rm. 114, Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, at the corner of Prospect and Grove Streets. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-1904 or e-mail globalization@yale.edu.

Lamy was appointed director-general of the WTO in 2005. Prior to this appointment he was the trade commissioner at the European Commission.

He began his career in the French civil service at the treasury, then became an adviser, first to the finance minister, then to the prime minister. In Brussels, from 1985 to 1994, he was the chief of staff for the president of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, and his representative as sherpa in the G7.

Child poverty reduction is topic of Zigler Center talk

James P. Horan, executive director of the Connecticut Association for Human Services (CAHS) in Hartford, will deliver the next talk in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Oct. 26.

Horan will discuss “Connecting the Dots: Linking Connecticut’s Economic Growth and Child Poverty Reduction” 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Rm. 116, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the public. For further information, e-mail sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.

Prior to joining CAHS in 2001, Horan served as chief administrative officer, chief of staff to the mayor, and lobbyist for the City of New Haven. Prior to that, he worked as an attorney at a Hartford law firm and associate director of the Connecticut Housing Coalition.

CAHS is an advocacy, research and outreach organization that works to end poverty and empower families to build a secure economic future. CAHS’s family economic security work has long addressed hunger, early care and education, and health care. CAHS now also focuses on asset-building and workforce education and training.

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