Using information technology for teaching, research is topic of talk
"From the Information Highway to the Santa Fe Trail: Research and Teaching in the Information Age" will be the topic of a talk this week that is sponsored by Information Technology Services -- ITS -- and the University Library.
The lecture is the latest in a series of ITS-sponsored talks designed to encourage the use of information technology in new fields. It will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 20, in Sudler Hall Auditorium, William L. Harkness Hall, (use College Street entrance). The talk, which will be illustrated with multimedia materials from the World Wide Web, is free and open to the public. A reception will follow at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St.
The featured speaker, James J. O'Donnell, is both a distinguished scholar and a pioneer in the use of information technology for research and teaching in the humanities. A professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), he is the author of a three-volume edition and commentary on St. Augustine's Confessions. He is also editor of the electronic online journals Brywn Mawr Classical Review and Bryn Mawr Medieval Review and has taught a seminar on St. Augustine via the Internet that attracted 500 participants from around the world. He is currently interim vice provost for information systems and computing at UPenn, serves on the board of the American Philological Association and is a councillor of the Medieval Academy of America.
More House Lecture to examine 'Taking a Moral Stand'
Lisa Sowle Cahill, a Roman Catholic professor of Christian ethics at Boston College, will present the annual More House Lecture, "Taking a Moral Stance: Issues of Life and Death," at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28, in Rose Alumni House, 232 York St. The public is invited to attend the free lecture, which is sponsored by St. Thomas More Catholic Center and Chapel at Yale. Margaret A. Farley, the Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at the Divinity School, will present a response to Professor Cahill's lecture. The two scholars are coeditors of "Embodiment, Morality and Medicine."
In her works, Professor Cahill has addressed such issues as artificial reproduction, abortion and euthanasia. Her books include "Between the Sexes: Toward a Christian Ethic of Sexuality," "Women and Sexuality," "Love Your Enemies: Discipleship, Pacifism and Just War Theory" and "Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics." Currently president of the Society of Christian Ethics, Professor Cahill has served as a theological consultant to the U.S. Bishops concerning such matters as AIDS, marriage and divorce, and Catholic universities. She has also participated in national discussions on biomedical ethics.