Hong Kong politician will talk about democracy, human rights
Martin C. M. Lee, chair of the Hong Kong Democratic Party, will explore the topic "The Future Path of Democracy and Human Rights" on Monday, March 31, at 8 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St. Sponsored by the Asia Law Forum, the event is free and open to the public.
Mr. Lee became chair of the Democratic Party, Hong Kong's largest political party, in 1994. The party has received wide support from citizens for advocating the development of democratic institutions and the preservation of current freedoms and rule of law in order to continue prospering after the transfer of sovereignty to China in June.
Previously, Mr. Lee was chair of the United Democrats of Hong Kong, the colony's first political party. A lawyer, he was elected to Hong Kong's Legislative Council in 1985 as the representative of Hong Kong's legal community and has been re-elected in every election since. From 1985 to 1989, Mr. Lee was a member of the Basic Law Drafting Committee, the body appointed by the Chinese government to draft Hong Kong's post-1997 constitution. He has received numerous honors, including the Prize for Freedom from Liberal International and the 1995 International Human Rights Award from the American Bar Association in recognition of his "extraordinary contributions to human rights, the rule of law and the promotion of justice." In 1995 Asiaweek magazine named him as one of "Twenty Great Asians" who have "changed the region over the past two decades."
Noted public opinion researcher to visit as Downey Fellow
George Gallup Jr., who chairs the Gallup entities responsible for public opinion surveys and survey research, will present a public address on the topic "The Forgotten Americans: When Society Has Failed" on Tuesday, April 1, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Mr. Gallup is visiting campus as the third Downey Fellow. His talk is free and open to the public.
Mr. Gallup is chair of the George H. Gallup International Institute and cochair of the Gallup Organization Inc. In addition to survey research, he has been involved in civic activities such as alcohol and drug abuse prevention and promotion of education. He has authored or coauthored numerous articles and books on survey research, religion, health, urban problems and other topics. Among these are the books "American's Search for Faith," "My Kid on Drugs?," "Who Do Americans Say That I Am?" "100 Questions and Answers About Religion in America" and "Growing Up Scared in America."
Among many other professional activities, Mr. Gallup serves as national chair of Your Opinion Counts, an industry-wide-supported information and education program on survey research, and is a member of the Chairman's Council of the National Council on Alcoholism. He is chair of the board of the National Coalition for Children's Justice and is on the boards of Educate America, Inc. and Religion in American Life, Inc. His honors include the 1994 Charles E. Wilson Award for dedication to religion and service to humanity.
The Downey Fellowship is a memorial to the late Russel H. Downey Jr. '44. His family and friends helped establish the memorial lecture and visit. The Timothy Dwight College "PUB" has been renovated with the memorial funds and is also dedicated to the memory of Mr. Downey.
Award-winning poet will read from his works
Michael S. Harper, a poet and the University Professor and professor of English at Brown University, will read from his poetry on Tuesday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Rm. 208 of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The public is invited to attend the free event, which is sponsored by the English department and the department of African and African American studies.
Professor Harper is the author of nine books of poetry, including "Dear John, Dear Coltrane," "History is Your Own Heartbeat," "Nightmare Begins Responsibility," "Images of Kin: Selected Poems," "Healing Song for the Inner Ear," and most recently, "Honorable Amendments." He is coeditor of two anthologies, "Chant of Saints" and "Every Shut-Eye Ain't Asleep." Professor Harper has won the Poetry Society of America's Melville-Cane Award, the Black Academy of Arts and Letters Award for poetry and the Robert Hayden Poetry Award of the United Negro College Fund. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
International Security Studies hosts lecture by CIA historian
Donald P. Steury, a senior historian on the history staff of the Central Intelligence Agency's CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, will deliver a lecture titled "Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates" on Wednesday, April 2. His talk, sponsored by International Security Studies, will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 103 of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The public is welcome to attend the free event, which was rescheduled from January.
Mr. Steury has been a member of the CIA's history staff since 1992. He is editor of a collection of essays by Sherman Kent, who is considered one of the "founding fathers" of strategic intelligence in the United States. The collection, "Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates," was published in 1994. Mr. Steury has also edited and compiled two collections of documents, "Estimates on Soviet Military Power, 1954 to 1984" and "Intentions and Capabilities: Estimates on Soviet Strategic Forces, 1950-1983," as well as several articles on German naval operations during World War II.
Mr. Steury began his career with the CIA in 1981 as an intelligence analyst in the Office of Strategic Research and became an analyst in the Office of Soviet Analysis SOVA when it was created in the same year. He spent the next 11 years in SOVA and its successor, the Office of Slavic and Eurasian Analysis, where he analyzed Soviet naval strategic forces, planning and programs.
Lecture on art jewelry marks launch of gallery's new collection
"The Most Despised Art: Art Jewelry, Adoration, and the Enigma of the Decorative" is the title of the sixth annual Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Lecture in American Art, which will be given on Wednesday, April 2. The featured speaker will be Clive Dilnot, visiting fellow and course leader at the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 5 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. A reception in the gallery's sculpture hall will precede his talk at 4 p.m. in the gallery's sculpture hall.
Mr. Dilnot's lecture relates to the art gallery's most recent decorative arts project, the assembling of a collection of 20th-century fashion jewelry. Some of the newly acquired pieces in the collection will be on display at the time of Mr. Dilnot's talk.
Mr. Dilnot has written and lectured extensively on the theory and social significance of design. He has curated such exhibitions as "What, If Anything, is an Object?" at the Fogg Museum at Harvard University. Educated in fine art, history of art and sociology in England, Mr. Dilnot taught for 10 years in that country before joining the faculty of Harvard University in 1986. He has been teaching at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for the past two years.
The Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Lecture in American Art was endowed by the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Mr. Rodriguez Roque was executive director until his death in 1989. A graduate of Yale B.A. 1972, M.A. 1975 , he was for several years associate curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and published frequently on American painting and decorative arts.
Population Council president to present evening talk
Margaret Catley-Carlson, the first woman and first non- American to serve as president of the Population Council, will present two talks on campus on Wednesday, April 2. Her first talk, titled "Women's Reproductive Health: Mountains, Molehills and Mifepristone RU-486 will be held 2:30-3:45 p.m. in Rm. 226 of Osborn Memorial Laboratory, corner of Prospect and Sachem streets. Her second lecture, at 7 p.m., will be on the topic "Population, Poverty and the Environment: Achievable Agenda or Inevitable Abyss?" It will be held. in the auditorium of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., and will be followed by a reception.
Ms. Catley-Carlson has been president of the Population Council since 1993. The council undertakes social and health science programs and research relevant to developing countries, and conducts biomedical research to develop and improve contraceptive technology. Prior to her current post, Ms. Catley-Carlson was Canada's deputy minister for health and welfare. She began a 25-year career in government service in Canada's Department of External Affairs, where she held diplomatic posts in Sri Lanka and London, and later served as presdient of the Canadian International Development agency and deputy executive director operations of UNICEF, with the rank of assistant secretary-general of the United Nations. She serves on the board of health of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the board of the Overseas Development Council, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group of Experts of the World Health Organization's Global Programme for Vaccines and Immunization and the Yale School of Medicine's Dean's Council.
Ms. Catley-Carlson's visit to campus is cosponsored by a number of on- and off-campus groups, including the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the Connecticut Geographic Alliance and Planned Parenthood of Connecticut.
Noted Indian poet will read from and discuss her works
Award-winning poet Sujata Bhatt will be the guest at a master's tea on Thursday, April 3, at 3:30 p.m. at the Silliman College master's house, 71 Wall St. The following day, at 4 p.m., she will read from her works at a tea at the Asian American Cultural Center, 295- 297 Crown St. Both events are free and open to the public.
Ms. Bhatt, who was born in India, received her M.F.A. from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa, and currently lives in Germany. She has three collections of poetry: "Brunizem," which won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize; "Monkey Shadows," which was a Poetry Book Society recommendation; and "The Stinking Rose," which was shortlisted for best collection in the 1995 Forward Prize for Poetry. In 1991 Ms. Bhatt was honored with a Cholmondeley Award. Her poems have been widely anthologized and have been broadcast on British, German and Dutch radio.
For more information, call Mary Li Hsu, assistant dean of Yale College and director of the Asian American Cultural Center, at 432- 2900.
Distinguished ecnonomist will speak at campus events
Amartya Sen, a widely published Harvard economist who has been touted as a prospect for the Nobel Prize in Economics, will present a seminar paper titled "From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality" on Thursday, April 3, at 4 p.m. in Rm. B8, 28 Hillhouse Ave. The seminar is sponsored jointly by the senior undergraduate seminar "Economics of Inequality," taught by Michael Henry, and the Trade and Development Workshop coordinated by Philip Levy. In addition, Professor Sen will deliver the closing address at the two- day international conference "Democracy and Development: The Role of International Organizations" being held Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5, in the auditorium of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The public is welcome to attend both events.
Professor Sen is the Lamont University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard. He has published widely in several areas. Among his works are "Collective Choice and Social Welfare," "On Economic Inequality," "Poverty and Famine," "Commodities and Capabilities," "On Ethics and Economics," "Hunger and Public Action" and "Inequality Reexamined." Last year, he was included on an informal short list of economists considered for the Nobel Prize in economics. Educated in India and England, he has taught in both countries and was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy and a fellow of All Soul's College at Oxford University. He is past president of the Econometric Society, the Indian Economic Association, the International Economic Association and the American Economic Association. In addition, Professor Sen is a fellow of the British Acadmy and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
'The Difference Race Makes' is title of Law School lecture
On Thursday, April 3, three law professors will discuss the issue "The Difference That Race Makes" as part of the Law School's 1996 James A. Thomas Lecture, which was rescheduled from last spring. Their talk will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St. The public is invited to attend the free event. Speakers are Ian F. Haney Lopez, assistant professor at Boalt Hall School of Law, the University of California; Cheryl I. Harris, assistant professor of law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law; and Richard Thompson Ford, assistant professor of law and urban studies at Stanford Law School.
Professor Lopez, who specializes in critical race theory, is the author of "White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race" and of a number of articles, including "Community Ties and Law School Faculty Hiring: The Case for Professors Who Don't Think White," published in "A Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence 100." Professor Harris has focused her work on the issues of civil rights, race-conscious remedies, critical race theory, and race and gender. She is a former cochair of the National Conference of Black Lawyers and advised the legal department of the African National Congress on South Africa's new constitution. Professor Ford specializes in local government and property law, urban issues, civil rights and race relations, as well as democratic theory and institutions. His articles and papers have dealt with such subjects as the boundaries of race, affirmative action and multiculturalism.
Practicing medicine 'for fun not fund' is topic of physician's talk
"Medicine for Fun Not Fund: Working for a Healthy World for Children" is the title of the next Program for Humanities in Medicine Lecture, which will be given Thursday, April 3, by Dr. Patch Adams, founder and director of the Gesundheit Institute in Arlington, Virginia. His talk will be at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. It is free and open to the public.
Dr. Adams is known for his pioneering approach to medicine. He has described his approach to medicine by saying, "Healing should be a loving human interchange, not a business transaction." Since he founded the Gesundheit Institute nearly 25 years ago, the institute has provided free medical care to more than 15,000 people. The institute also created a 40-bed hospital healing center in rural West Virginia.
Dr. Adams combines his work as a physician with work as a workshop facilitator, entertainer and clown. His workshops are designed to challenge both health-care providers and consumers with creative solutions to such issues as as the rising cost of health care, the dehumanization of medicine, malpractice suits and the abuses of the third-party system. His theatrical presentations cover health-related issues, including self-care and prevention. Dr. Adams' honors include the Boise Peace Quilt Award in recognition of his many tours to the former Soviet Union, where he entertained children in hospitals and orphanages as a clown. He has been a social issues columnist for Holistic Medicine, a journal of the American Holistic Medical Association.
Spiritual needs of people with Alzheimer's is topic of talk
Marion Roach Smith, an advocate for people with Alzheimer's disease, will speak on "The Right to Worship: Spirituality and Religious Faith in the Life and Care of those with Alzheimer's Disease" on Monday, April 7, a12:30-2:30 p.m. in the Common Room of the Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. Following her talk, she will lead a panel discussion. The event, sponsored by the UCC Seminarians at Yale, is free and open to the public.
Ms. Smith is author of the 1985 book "Another Name for Madness," an account of a family's struggle with Alzheimer's disease, and contributed to two others: "Understanding Alzheimer's Disease" and "Confronting Alzheimer's Disease." She has written for The New York Times Magazine, Newsday, American Health and Prevention. She served as an adviser to former New York City mayor Edward Koch, assisting in the establishment of the city's Alzheimer's Disease Information and Referral Office.
"My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1977, and since then I've been an advocate, trying to educate people about the disease and trying to address legal issues, social issues and the practical needs of patients and caregivers. Now I think it's time to do something spiritual," Ms. Smith said in 1992, when she initiated her first interfaith service for those with Alzheimer's and their families.
Panelists for the discussion include Martha O. Adams, author of "Alzheimer's Disease: A Call to Courage for Caregivers" and a lay member of the United Church of Christ, and the Reverend Ray Cooley, chaplain at the Masonic Geriatric Healthcare Center in Wallingford, Connecticut. Mr. Cooley is an ordained minister in the Southern Baptist Church.
For further information, call Sam Dexter at 203 787-5022.
Panelists to discuss use of information technology
A team of nationally recognized experts on strategic business uses of information technology in health care will explore that topic in a panel discussion on Monday, April 7, 2:30-5:30 p.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The discussion is part of Professor Paul Bracken's School of Management course "Building Competitive Advantage Through Information Technology." Members of the media and business professionals from all facets of health care services are invited to attend the event. To reserve a seat, contact Karin Nobile at 432-6010 or via e-mail at karin.nobile@yale.edu.
In addition to Professor Bracken, the panelists include Melvin Bergstein, chair of Diamond Technology Partners, Inc. in Chicago; Charles Buck, program leader for General Electric's healthcare quality and strategy group; Kamal Hamid, associate director of Bear Stearns & Co., Inc. and head of its health care information technology research; Dr. James Riopelle, chief executive officer of GeriMed of America, primary health clinics for the elderly; and Hank Vermeulen, vice president of Aetna US Healthcare. Moderating the discussion will be James W. McLane, the former executive vice president of Aetna and CEO of Aetna Health Plans, who is currently an adviser to various health care service-oriented venture capital companies.
Islamic law scholar will examine ancient Sunni legal debate
Islamic studies scholar Baber Johansen will be the next speaker in the Law School's 1997 Dean's Lecture Series on Monday, April 7, at 4:30 p.m. in the faculty lounge of the Law School, 127 Wall St. Mr. Johansen, director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, will talk on "Truth and Validity of the Cadi's Judgment: A Legal Debate Among Muslim Sunni Jurists from the 9th to the 13th Centuries." The event is free and open to public.
Mr. Johansen was for many years a professor of Islamic studies at the Institut fur Islamwissenschaft der Freien at the Universitat Berlin. He has written three books, including "The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent: The Peasant's Loss of Property Rights as Interpreted in the Hanafite Legal Literature of the Mamluk and Ottomon Periods." His book "Contingency in sacred law" is forthcoming. Mr. Johansen has been called upon to evaluate Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Paris III and to serve as a special evaluator on Islam and Islamic law for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Emory professor to examine Holocaust 'myth and memory'
Deborah Lipstadt, the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, will consider the popular trends in recalling the Holocaust on Monday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St. Her lecture, "Surviving the Survivors: Holocaust Myth and Memory in the American Imagination," is cosponsored by the Judaic Studies Program and Yale Hillel. The public is invited to attend, free of charge.
Professor Lipstadt is widely regarded as a leader in the field of Holocaust memory and denial. She is the author of "Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust," which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and "Denying the Holocaust: the Growing Assault on Truth and Memory," which won the 1994 National Jewish Book Honor Award. Professor Lipstadt acted as historical consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where she helped design the section "American Response to the Holocaust." In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed her to serve on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. In her capacity as a member of the newly formed Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad, Professor Lipstadt advises Secretary of State Madeline Albright on matters of religious prosecution abroad. She is frequently asked by the media to analyze matters of contemporary and Jewish interest; however, because she refuses to debate those who deny the Holocaust, she has declined invitations to appear on a host of national television shows.
Novelist filmmaker to discuss 'The Art of Fiction'
Novelist, critic, and filmmaker Susan Sontag will speak on "The Art of Fiction: A Reading" on Tuesday, April 8, at 4:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Later that same day, at 8:30 p.m., she will take part in informal conversation at Ezra Stiles College, 9 Tower Pkwy. Both events are free and open to the public.
Ms. Sontag's books include three novels, "The Benefactor," "Death Kit" and "The Volcano Lover"; a volume of short stories, "I, etcetera"; a play, "Alice in Bed"; and six books of essays, including "On Photography," "Illness as Metaphor" and "AIDS and Its Metaphors". Her books have been translated into 23 languages and have won many prizes.
Ms. Sontag has made four feature-length films and directed plays in the United States and Europe, most recently a production of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" in besieged Sarajevo.
A human rights activist for more than two decades, Ms. Sontag served 1987-89 as president of the American Center of PEN, an international writers' organization. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a MacArthur Fellow 1990-95. She was named "Officier des Arts et des Lettres" by the French government in 1984, and won the Malaparte Prize in Italy in 1992.
Her new novel, "In America," will be published in 1998 by Farrar Straus & Giroux.
Yale Review holds readings by two noted poets
Poets Charles Simic and Kay Ryan will read from their recent work on Tuesday, April 8, at 8 p.m. in Byers Hall Common Room of Silliman College, 505 College St. The event, sponsored by The Yale Review, is free and open to the public.
Mr. Simic, author of 13 books of poetry and three of prose, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for "The World Doesn't End." His book "A Wedding in Hell" won a Jane Kenyon Award for poetry. He has received a PEN International Award, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Edgar Allan Poet Award and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and teaches English at the University of New Hampshire.
Commenting on Mr. Simic's most recent collection, "Walking the Black Cat," a New York Times Book Review critic commented, "Few contemporary poets have been as influential--or as inimitable--as Charles Simic. For more than 30 years his work has claimed citizenship to its own dreamlike land."
Ms. Ryan, who teaches and writes in California, will be giving her first public readings on the East coast in April. She has written three volumes of poetry, "Strangely Marked Metal," "Flamingo Watching" and most recently, "Elephant Rocks." Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and The New Republic, as well is in several anthologies. She teaches at the College of Marin. Of Ms. Ryan, poet Mary Sarton has written, "Kay Ryan makes it all fresh again with her highly original vision, her elegant, quirky craft. These poems look easy, but the deeper one delves, the more they astonish and astound."
Brown University mathematician will present Robinson Lectures
Stephen Lichtenbaum of Brown Uniersity will deliver the Abraham Robinson Memorial Lectures in Mathematics Tuesday- Thursday, April 8-10. His lectures, on the topic "The Special Values of Zeta Functions, Euler Characteristics and Motives," will take place each day at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 220 of Dunham Laboratory, 10 Hillhouse Ave.
The Abraham Robinson Lectures are supported in part by a fund established by colleagues and admirers of the late Sterling Professor of Mathematics, who died in 1974. Professor Robinson was the author, with one of his students, of "Wing Theory," the 1956 book based on his aeronautical engineering work in Britain during World War II. His research included work on the foundations of mathematics and on the application of methods from mathematical logic to problems of more traditional mathematics. He is perhaps best known as the creator of nonstandard analysis, a rigorous formalism that enables one to deal logically with the imprecise concept of "infinitesimals."
Political activist to recount life 'From Yale to Jail'
David Dellinger '36, who was an outspoken leader in the anti- war and disarmament movements in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s, will give an account of his experiences during a visit to the campus on Wednesday, April 9. Mr. Dellinger will be the guest at a tea that day at 4 p.m. in the master's house of Trumbull College, 100 High St. At 7 p.m., he will lead a discussion in the common room of Dwight Hall, 67 High St. Both events are free and open to the public.
Mr. Dellinger, the son of a well-to-do Boston lawyer, walked out of Yale one day during the Great Depression to experience life in a way similar to hobos: riding the freight trains, sleeping at missions and standing in breadlines. The experience, he has said, convinced him that he would follow a path like St. Francis of Assisi. He participated in freedom marches in the South and later became a member of the famed Chicago Eight, a group of activists who were brought to trial in connection with demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He came out with the cry "the whole world is watching," referring to the media coverage of the Chicago police riot. His personal experiences with others who shaped the decade of the sixties, including Martin Luther King Jr., Abbie Hoffman, Bayard Rustin, Jerry Rubin and Joan Baez, are described in Mr. Dellinger's autobiography "From Yale To Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter," which was published in 1993.
For more information, call Jimmy Byun at 865-9249.