Human rights in China to be discussed in Law School talk
"Human Rights in Post-Deng China" is the title of a lecture being given on Thursday, March 13, by Harry Wu, a human rights activist who spent nearly 20 years in Chinese forced labor camps. Mr. Wu's talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St. It is sponsored by Asia Law Forum.
Mr. Wu was arrested when he was a college student in Beijing for speaking out against the Soviet invasion of Hungary and criticizing the Chinese Communist Party. In 1960 he was sent to the Laogai, "China's Gulag," and spent the next 19 years in forced labor camps. He was released in 1979 and came to the United States in 1985 as a visiting professor of geology at the University of California at Berkeley. He currently serves as executive director of the Laogai Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization committed to documenting the Laogai system, and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has authored two books, "Laogai -- The Chinese Gulag," and an autobiography, "Bitter Winds."
In 1995, Mr. Wu was again arrested by the Chinese government when he tried to legally enter the country. He was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was freed after an extensive international campaign launched on his behalf. His honors include the 1996 Geuzen Medal of Honor from the Dutch Foundation for the Geuzen Resistance Movement and the Hungarian Freedom Fighters Award in 1991.
Safety of nation's blood supply, gene therapy are topics of talks
Dr. Harvey G. Klein, chief of the department of transfusion medicine for the National Institutes of Health NIH and a specialist in the areas of blood transfusion therapy and gene therapy, will present two talks during a visit to the campus on Tuesday, March 18. Dr. Klein will present a lecture titled "Cellular Gene Therapy" as the Joseph Bove Visiting Professor at 8:30 a.m. in Fitkin Amphitheater, Rm. 1094 of the Laboratory for Medicine and Pediatrics, 15 York St. The talk, which is part of the Yale Cancer Center's Grand Rounds, is free and open to the public.
"Safety of the Blood Supply" is the topic of Dr. Klein's second lecture, which will begin at 2 p.m. in Rm. 401 of the Clinic Building, 789 Howard Ave. The public is welcome to attend the free lecture, which is sponsored by the department of laboratory medicine.
Dr. Klein, who is also an assistant professor at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been chief of the department of transfusion medicine at the NIH since 1983. He has held various positions since 1973 at the NIH, including chief of the Hemorrhagic Diseases Program in the Division of Blood Diseases, chief of the Blood Services Section of the Clinical Center Blood Bank and special assistant to the director for science of the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center. He has been an adviser to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and has served on major committees of the American National Red Cross and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. In addition, he has been a member of the board of directors of the American Association of Blood Banks and the National Marrow Donor Program.
New York Times book editor to discuss his career at tea
Michael Jon Anderson, an editor for The New York Times Book Review, will discuss his career in journalism on Tuesday, March 25, at 4:30 p.m. at a tea in the Calhoun College master's house, 189 Elm St. The event is free and open to the public; however, as space is limited, those wishing to attend should call 432-0740.
Mr. Anderson began his career in journalism with the Chicago Sun-Times in 1975. During his tenure at the newspaper he served as a general assignment reporter, education writer, financial writer and financial news editor. He won the Jacob Scher Award for investigative reporting from the Chicago chapter of Women in Communication for his series in the newspaper on child welfare services in Illinois. Upon leaving the newspaper in 1982 he taught for two years at his alma mater, Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He worked briefly at The Los Angeles Herald- Examiner for which he covered the 1984 mass murder of 22 people at a San Diego MacDonald's restaurant before moving to The Los Angeles Times, where he worked on the newspaper's electronic publishing prototype, on the financial and suburban copy desks, and as a suburban news editor. In 1988 he joined The New York Times, where he is responsible for selecting books for review, soliciting reviewers, editing book reviews and assisting in production. Among the writers with whom he has worked are John Updike, Edna O'Brien, John LeCarreand John Irving.