Victorian decorative arts is subject of lectures
Kenneth L. Ames, chair of academic programs at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts and a specialist on Victorian decorative arts in America, will visit the campus this week as an American Art and Culture Fellow at the Center of American Art and Culture. On Tuesday, Feb. 18, he will present a lecture titled "More is More: The Aesthetic of Fullness in Victorian Domestic Interiors" at 4:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale University Art Gallery enter on High St. . The event is free and open to the public.
"What Christmas Cards Teach Us About Art" is the title of Mr. Ames' second public lecture, which will be on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 268 of Street Hall, corner of Chapel and High streets.
Mr. Ames is known for his sociological perspective on the material goods owned and used by Victorian Americans. He has written numerous articles -- on subjects ranging from hall stands to cemetaries -- that probe the connection between values, objects and actions. He is the author of two books: "Beyond Necessity: Art in the Folk Tradition" and "Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture."
Mr. Ames is the third of four American Art and Culture Fellows at the University this year. Fellows participate in lectures, discussions and workshops focused on the topic "The Interpretation of Domestic Space." While he is on campus, Mr. Ames will also address a meeting of the Material Culture Study Group. For more information, call 432-2724.
Asiaweek correspondent to discuss his work
Alejandro Reyes, a senior correspondent for Asiaweek Ltd. in Hong Kong, will discuss his work during a brown-bag luncheon seminar on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at noon in Rm. 103 of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. His talk, titled "Balancing Act: Working as a Foreign Correspondent in Singapore," is sponsored by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies. It is free and open to the public.
Mr. Reyes joined Asiaweek in 1988 as a staff writer in Hong Kong. He was a Hong Kong correspondent 1990-92 and then served jointly as Singapore correspondent and Southeast Asian business correspondent. In 1994, he became the senior correspondent in Hong Kong. In addition to Hong Kong, he covers news and business events and developments in Taiwan and Vietnam, and writes special reports.
NBA's chief legal officer to speak at master's tea
Jeffrey Mishkin, executive vice president and chief legal officer for the National Basketball Association NBA , will share his views about how events in professional sports are magnified by the media and the public on Thursday, Feb. 20, at a tea in the Trumbull College master's house, 100 High St. The event is free and open to the public.
Mr. Mishkin will discuss the NBA's suspension of Chicago Bulls player Dennis Rodman for kicking a cameraman during a game as one example of a sports-related incident that received national attention "out of proportion to its actual importance."
Mr. Mishkin became chief legal officer in 1992 after working closely with the NBA for nearly 20 years through his association with the law firm of Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn. He has participated in every major legal decision that has affected the NBA in the last two decades, including the settlement of the Oscar Robertson litigation in 1976, collective bargaining negotiations between the NBA and the NBA Players Association, and Williams v. NBA, the 1994 antitrust action brought by the National Basketball Players Association. He has written and lectured on numerous sports law issues, and taught a course about professional sports and the law at Cardozo Law School 1984-89.
Princeton historian of religion to deliver Cover Lecture
Elaine H. Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton University who is credited with making her research on the history of early Christianity accessible to nonspecialists, will deliver the 1997 Robert M. Cover Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 4 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St. Her talk, titled "The Social History of Satan," is free and open to the public.
Ms. Pagels, who is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton, is the author of the 1995 book "The Origin of Satan," which traces the social history of Satan from his role as "the fallen angel" to his evolution as the more powerful and evil figure he is perceived to be by Christians today. The book focuses primarily on the first two centuries A.D., when Satan took on a new role in Christian culture, Professor Pagels believes.
Her other books include "Adam, Eve, and the Serpent," which she wrote after receiving a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981, and "The Gnostic Gospels," which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979 and The National Book Award in 1980. The latter volume is based on Professor Pagel's research on ancient Gnostic manuscripts that were discovered in 1945 near Nag Hammadi, Egypt.
Financing global biotechnology is subject of executive's talk
Fred Frank, vice chair and director of Lehman Brothers Inc., will present the next talk in a lecture series on "Financing Opportunities and Techniques in the Global Biotechnology Industry," sponsored by the Schools of Managment SOM and Medicine. Mr. Frank's talk, titled "Business and Biotechnology: Opportunities and Risks," will be on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 6 p.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The public is invited to attend the free event.
Mr. Frank first joined Lehman Brothers as a partner in 1969. He previously was codirector of research, and later president and director, of Smith, Barney & Co. Incorporated. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and is a member of The New York Society of Security Analysts. He is chair of the National Genetics Foundation and is a member of the Salk Institute National Council and a director of the Salk Institute. In addition, he is a member of the board of governors of the National Center for Genome Resources and of the SOM Management Advisory Board.
Advertising Council executive is featured speaker in Bush Center talk
Anna Maria Cugliari, vice president of The Advertising Council in New York City, will give a talk titled "Communicating About Children's Issues: Overcoming Barriers to Public Action" as part of the series of lunchtime talks sponsored by the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy. Her talk will be on Friday, Feb. 21, at noon in Rm. 410 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and Prospect streets. The public is invited to attend the free event.
The Advertising Council, a nonprofit organization, is the largest source of public service advertising in the country. Ms. Cugliari is director of a major new initiative to focus her organization's efforts on issues affecting the health and well-being of America's children. The Advertising Council has used market research techniques to find out why compelling facts about the needs of children do not inspire large-scale public or private remedies. A new strategy for communicating children's issues, based on the council's research, will be the subject of Ms. Cugliari's talk.
Before joining The Advertising Council in 1995, Ms. Cugliari was a policy analyst for the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, where she developed public policy for the governor of New York on issues arising from recent medical advances.
For further information, call 432-9935.
U.S. magistrate judge to participate in mock trial
The Honorable Holly Fitzsimmons, a U.S. magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut, will preside over a mock trial being held at the Law School on Friday, Feb. 21, at 6:30 p.m. The trial, presented by the Thomas Swan Barristers' Union at the Law School, will be based on a fictional case titled "The Playmaker: Michael Irvin v. Bubba Yahoo." Representing the plaintiff will be law students Paul Mandell and Amanda Perez, who claim Mr. Irvin's civil rights were violated when sheriff Bubba Yahoo pulled him over and assaulted him with a night stick. Arguing for the defense will be law students Adam Farlo and Paul Morf. The mock trial, which is open to the public, will take place in Rm. 120 of the Law School, 127 Wall St.
Ms. Fitzsimmons, who is based in Bridgeport, has been a magistrate judge since 1993. Her civil and criminal case responsibilities include engaging in settlement and alternative dispute resolution, overseeing consent decrees arising from class action litigation, issuing search and arrest warrants and other writs, supervising grand jury returns, naturalizing new citizens and supervising the prisoner litigation procedures for the district. Prior to her present position, she was an assistant U.S. attorney 1978-93. She served as the lead attorney for the New England Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force 1982-86, during which time she supervised investigations of some of the most significant drug cases in Connecticut. Since 1992, she has been a trial practice instructor at the Law School.
The Thomas Swan Barristers' Union organizes civil and criminal trials before juries drawn from the New Haven community. Students act in pairs to prepare for and conduct the trial, at which judges or practicing attorneys preside.
Geologist will discuss climate change as Zucker Fellow
Wallace S. Broecker, the Newberry Professor of Geology at Columbia University, will visit the campus on Monday, Feb. 24, as the spring term Zucker Environmental Fellow. He will give a general lecture titled "Is Water Vapor the Villian in Glacial Climate Change?"that day at 2 p.m. in Rm. 123, Kline Geology Laboratory, 210 Whitney Ave. He will also hold an informal talk at a master's tea at 4 p.m. in the Saybrook College master's house, 90 High St. Both events are free and open to the public.
Professor Broecker is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the National Medal of Science 1996 , and the Blue Planet Prize from the Asahi Glass Foundation, Tokyo 1996 . He is considered an expert in climatology, with research interests that include paleoclimatology, ocean chemistry, isotope dating and environmental science.
Noted scholar of linguistics to discuss language and politics
Noam Chomsky, an internationally acclaimed linguistics scholar, author and political philosopher who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT , will give two lectures on campus this week. On Monday, Feb. 24, he will give a talk titled "Knowledge of Language: Some Current Perspectives" at 5 p.m. in Rm. 114 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and Prospects street.
The following day, Professor Chomsky will discuss "Neoliberalism and Global Order" at 1 p.m. in Levinson Auditorium of the Law School, 127 Wall St. Both events are free and open to the public.
Mr. Chomsky is Institute Professor and professor of linguistics at MIT. He is credited with having revolutionized the field of linguistics study by shifting emphasis away from empiricism to an investigation into the biological components of language acquisition. His work also influenced the fields of psychology, philosophy and artificial intelligence. He has written many articles and books on linguistics, the most recent of which include "Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin and Use," "Language in a Pyschological Setting" and "Language and Thought."
As a social critic and political activist, Mr. Chomsky -- who is a libertarian socialist -- has written widely about U.S. foreign policy, war and peace and other global issues. His books on these topics include "American Power and the New Mandarins" about the Vietnam War , "Peace in the Middle East," "Mobilizing Democracy: Changing the U.S. Role in the Middle East" and "The Culture of Terrorism."
Mr. Chomsky's visit is sponsored by the linguistics department, the Law School and Calhoun College.