Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 26, 2007|Volume 36, Number 8

Visiting on Campus

Renowned nutrition and food policy expert to speak at Yale

Marion Nestle, acclaimed author, nutrition scientist and food industry critic, will deliver a lecture in the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity’s seminar series on Thursday, Nov. 1.

Nestle’s talk, titled “Food Politics: The Perfect Storm,” will take place 3:30-5 p.m. in Rm. 211, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The talk is free and open to the public. For further information, e-mail rudd.center@yale.edu or call (203) 432-6700. The talk is co-sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Project as part of its “Chewing the Fat” speaker series, sponsored by the Lazarus Fund for sustainable food and agriculture at Yale.

Nestle is a professor of nutrition, food science and public health at New York University and a long-time critic of the food industry and government policies that support big business over public welfare. Her research focuses on analysis of the scientific, social, cultural and economic factors that influence federal dietary guidance policies.

Nestle was featured prominently as a food and nutrition expert in Morgan Spurlock’s documentary “Super-Size Me,” in which she was the only interviewee who could accurately define a calorie.

She is the author of “What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating,” “Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health” and “Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology and Bioterrorism.” She is co-editor of “Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Food and Nutrition.”

Castle Lectures to explore ‘institutional design and power’

Robert Keohane, professor of international affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will deliver the Castle Lectures under the auspices of the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics, on Monday, Oct. 29, Tuesday, Oct. 30 and Monday, Nov. 5.

The lecture series, titled “Institutional Design and Power,” will address the topic of crafting multilateral institutions in a volatile contemporary environment, which poses fundamental challenges to international cooperation. In a significant reconsideration of the dynamics of institutional design, Keohane will examine the role of interests and power in the effective and legitimate construction of multilateral institutions.

Keohane will present three lectures: “Designing Multilateral Institutions: Interests and Power” on Oct. 29 in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave.; “Design and Efficacy” on Oct. 30 in Rm. 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.; and “The Legitimacy of Institutional Design” on Nov. 5 at the same location. Each will be presented 4-5:30 p.m., and will be followed by a reception. All are welcome to attend. For additional information, contact David Leslie at david.leslie@yale.edu.

Keohane is the author of “After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy” and “Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World.” He is co-author (with Joseph S. Nye Jr.) of “Power and Interdependence” and of “Designing Social Inquiry” (with Gary King and Sidney Verba).

The Castle Lectures were endowed by John K. Castle to honor one of his ancestors, the Reverend James Pierpont, who was one of Yale’s original founders. The lectures are intended to promote an awareness of and sensitivity to ethical issues facing individuals in modern American society. The Castle Lectures are published in book form by the Yale University Press.

‘Carmelita Tropicana’ will visit the campus

Writer and performance artist Alina Troyano will give a performance as “Carmelita Tropicana” on Thursday, Nov. 1.

Titled “Milk of Amnesia,” the performance will take place at 7 p.m. at New Theater, 1156 Chapel St. Tickets are $10 for adults; $6 for students. Reservations are required and can be made at www.yale.edu/wpp. For more information, contact wpp.info@yale.edu.

Troyano has presented her work nationally and internationally in both English and Spanish, and is currently the associate artistic director of INTAR, one of the longest running Latino theaters in the United States.

The recipient of a 1999 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, Troyano was named by el Diario as “one of the most prominent women of 1998.”

Troyano has received a number of awards and fellowships including the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2005), the Cuban Arts Foundation fellowship (2002), the Mark Taper Forum’s Latino Initiative fellowship (2002) and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts for screenwriting and playwriting (2006 and 1991) and for performance art (1987).

Juvenile delinquency is focus of social policy lecture

David Brandt, associate professor of psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, will give the next talk in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Nov. 2

His talk, titled “Delinquency, Development and Social Policy,” will be held at 11:30 a.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.

Brandt, who has been teaching at the Graduate Program in Forensic Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City for many years, has developed a course on the psychology and treatment of youthful offenders.

A clinical psychologist, Brandt has presented and published numerous papers on adolescent development and antisocial youth. His most recent book, “Delinquency Development and Social Policy,” was published in 2006. Brandt also maintains a private psychotherapy practice and is a program evaluation consultant for the West Side Crime Prevention Program in New York City.

Scholar of social thought to give annual Hollingshead Lecture

Hans Joas, director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt in Germany, will give the annual Hollingshead Lecture on Friday, Nov. 2.

Joas will discuss “Violence and Human Rights” 5-6:30 p.m. in Rm. 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the talk is open to the public free of charge.

A professor of sociology and social thought at the University of Chicago, Joas is a member of the Committee on Social Thought. He is considered to be among the most prolific social theorists of his generation.

Joas has written 10 books and edited 15 others, among them, “Pragmatism and Social Theory,” “The Creativity of Action,” “The Genesis of Values” and “War and Modernity.” Joas’ most recent works deal with the role of religion in modern everyday life and societies.

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