Speakers will share their visions of Africa in the future
Three activists who are touring New England as part of the Africa Peace Tour will discuss their visions of their homelands in the next century on Monday, April 7, 4-7 p.m. in Rm. 202 of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Council on African Studies.
Speakers in the discussion, titled "Africa in the 21st Century," are Barine Yorbe from Ogoniland, Justin Mayunga from Zaire Congo and Bennoune Mahfoud from Algeria. Ms. Yorbe is currently living in exile in the United States and serves as vice president of the Federation of Ogoni Women. Mr. Mayunga, who is now a graduate student in the U.S., is a member of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress and was a leading participant in a series of demonstrations by teachers in Zaire who protested against the Mobutu Sese Seko government. Mr. Mahfoud is a well-known writer and a professor at the University of Algiers. As a teenager, he joined the FLN forces that were struggling against the French during Algeria's war for independence.
More than a dozen activists are speaking on New England college and university campuses as part of the Africa Peace Tour. In addition to discussing issues affecting Africa in the 21st century, they also hope to encourage Americans to support the efforts of African countries to determine their own futures. The tour is sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee.
Rescue of Denmark's Jews during war is topic of talk
Judith S. Goldstein, executive director of the Thanks to Scandinavia Foundation, will present a talk titled "Silence, Compliance, Willing Participation or Resistance?: The Rescue of Denmark's Jews and Contemporary Values Education" on Tuesday, April 8, at noon in the first-floor conference room of 88 Trumbull St. Her talk is sponsored by the Program on Non-Profit Organizations. The public is invited; however, as seating is limited, those wishing to attend should contact Karen Refsbeck at 432-2121 to reserve a seat.
Ms. Goldstein is the author of "Crossing Lines: Histories of Jews and Gentiles in Three Communities" and "The Politics of Ethnic Pressure: the American Jewish Committee Fight against Immigration Restriction, 1906-1917." She is also executive director of the Danish- American Dialogue on Human Rights, an effort to examine the roots of civic responsibility, tolerance, and public and private values by engaging Danish and American college students in a reflection on the rescue of Jews, the Holocaust and contemporary human rights issues. In 1943, Danish citizens across the nation mobilized to rescue Danish Jews from extinction.
Harley-Davidson CEO will be guest at master's tea
Richard F. Teerlink, chair, president and chief executive officer of Harley-Davidson, Inc. will present a talk titled "The Journey Never Ends" during a tea on Tuesday, April 8, at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The event is free and open to the public.
Mr. Teerlink joined Harley-Davidson in 1981 as chief financial officer and was appointed to the board of directors in 1982. In 1986 he helped guide the firm back to public ownership, and two years later was appointed president and chief operating officer. He has been chief executive officer since 1989 and chair since 1996. Prior to joining Harley-Davidson, he held key executive positions with Herman Miller, Inc. of Zeeland, Michigan, and RTE Corporation of Waukesha, Wisconsin. He is an active board member and participant in many business and community organizations.
South African jurist will explore role of justice in peace process
The Honorable Richard J. Goldstone of the Constitutional Court of South Africa will deliver the Sherrill Lecture on the topic "The Role of Justice in a Peace Process -- South Africa and Bosnia" on Tuesday, April 8, at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St. The public is invited to attend the free event.
Mr. Goldstone became a justice of the Constitutional Court in 1994 after serving as a judge of the appellate division of the South African Supreme Court. From 1991 to 1994, he served as chair of the Commission of Inquiry regarding Public Violence and Intimidation, which came to be known as the Goldstone Commission. He was chief prosecutor of the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda 1994-96 and was also chair of the Standing Advisory Committee of Company Law. He currently serves as national president of the National Institute of Crime Prevention and the Rehabilitation of Offenders, and heads the board of the Human Rights Institute of South Africa. In addition, he is chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand and chair of the Bradlow Foundation, a charitable educational trust. His many honors include the International Human Rights Award of the American Bar Association.
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 8 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 bread lines. 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.
Deputy minister of Russian culture to give Woodward Lecture
Mikhail E. Shvydkoi, deputy minister of Russian culture, will deliver the Woodward Lecture on the topic "The Current Cultural Situation in Russia" on Wednesday, April 9, at 4 p.m. in Rm. 401 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. Sponsored by the department of Slavic languages and literatures, his talk is free and open to the public.
Mr. Shvydkoi has been deputy minister of Russian culture since 1993. In that capacity, he has responsibility for a range of cultural activities and institutions in Russia, including international exchanges, museums, book publishing on culture, media relations and mass information, and the problems of restitution the transfer of artistic treasures seized during war .
Mr. Shvydkoi's special area of interest is the theater. He served 1973-90 as deputy editor-in-chief of Theater, Russia's leading Russian magazine about theater, and has been a theater reviewer for All-Russian Radio and Television since 1975. He is also host of a monthly radio program called "Theater and Life" and of the program "Portraits of Friends."
Since 1980, Mr. Shvydkoi has written several screenplays, directed a number of documentary and television films, and written over 10 feature-length documentaries. He is a member of the faculty of the world theater history department at the Russian State Humanities University.
Mr. Shvydkoi's numerous other activities include serving as president of the UNESCO's National Commission on the World-Wide Decade of Cultural Development and as vice president of its International Theater Institute's Committee on Communication.
Vietnamese-American poets to read and discuss their works
Two Vietnamese-American poets will read from and discuss their works during a tea on Wednesday, April 9, at 4:30 p.m. in the master's house at Berkeley College, 125 High St. The event, cosponsored by the Asian-American Cultural Center, is free and open to the public.
The two poets -- Barbara Tran and Christian Langworthy -- are coming to the campus to speak at a college seminar taught by visiting lecturer Dan Duffy '83 on contemporary literature from Viet Nam and Vietnamese Americans. Their poems appear this month in the Council on Southeast Asia Studies' new book "Not a War: American Vietnamese Fiction, Poetry and Essays," which is edited by Mr. Duffy.
Ms. Tran, who was born in New York, is interim program director of the Asian American Writers Workshop AAWW there. She is now editing a collection of Vietnamese-American writing for AAWP. Her own poems have appeared in Antioch Review, the Asian Pacific American Journal, Pequod, Seneca Review, Southern Poetry Review and "Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry."
Mr. Langworthy, who was born in Viet Nam and later adopted by an American family, served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army before taking up a career as a writer and poet. He is now contributing poetry editor of the Asian Pacific American Journal and an M.F.A. candidate at Columbia University. He has a collection of poems titled "The Geography of War," which won the 1993 American Chapbook Award. His poems have been published widely. One of his most recent works will appear in the spring issue of Ploughshares. His other honors include an Academy of American Poets' Prize, an American College & University Poetry Award and a Carl Sandberg Fellowship.
Famed ballplayer's wife to talk about breaking baseball's 'color line'
Rachel Robinson, author of the book "Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait," about the life and achievements of her famous baseball-player husband, will take part in a discussion on Wednesday, April 9, titled "Honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Breaking of the Color Line in Baseball." It will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Varsity Room of Ray Tompkins House, 20 Tower Pkwy. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the School of Nursing, the Department of Athletics, the Office of New Haven Affairs and the New Haven Free Public Library.
While sharing in the accomplishments of her husband, Ms. Robinson also had her own successful career. She was a member of the staff of the first day hospital in the United States for mentally ill patients at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she served as a nurse-therapist and researcher. She was an assistant professor at the Yale School of Nursing and director of nursing at the Connecticut Mental Health Center 1965-72. That same year she became president of the Jackie Robinson Development Corporation, which played a role in building homes for families with low and moderate incomes. The firm dissolved in 1986.
Ms. Robinson is also founder of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, which was established in 1973 as a living memorial to her husband's legacy of activism, courage and commitment to social justice. Through the foundation, Ms. Robinson has been actively involved in supporting the college education of minority scholars and developing their leadership potential.
Advocate for people with AIDS to discuss policy challenges
"1997 AIDS Policy Challenges: A Consumer's Perspective" is the title of a talk being presented on Thursday, April 10, by Michael Shriver, public policy director of the National Association of People with AIDS. Mr. Shriver's talk, part of the Yale AIDS Colloquium Series sponsored by the Institution for Social and Policy Studies ISPS , will begin at 4 p.m. at ISPS, 77 Prospect St. The public is welcome to attend, free of charge.
Prior to his current post, Mr. Shriver served from 1993 to 1995 as executive director of Mobilization Against AIDS in San Francisco, where he worked on protecting and augmenting federal funding for HIV AIDS prevention and care. He also worked on the creation and establishment of the Comprehensive HIV Prevention Working Group under the auspices of the Department of Health and Human Services. He recently served on the steering committee convened by the National Institutes of Health to examine ethical aspects of HIV- prevention vaccines. A former public policy director of San Francisco's 18th Street Services, the nation's largest outpatient drug and alcohol counseling program for gay and bisexual men, Mr. Shriver has been a plenary speaker and keynote speaker in various HIV AIDS conferences throughout the United States.
Former medical school dean will speak about ethical dilemmas
Dr. Leon Rosenberg, former dean of the School of Medicine who is now senior vice president for scientific affairs at Bristol-Myers Squibb, will discuss "Ethical Dilemmas in the Pharmaceutical Industry" on Thursday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Silvia Slifka Chapel at Slifka Center, 80 Wall St. The event, sponsored by the Yale Hillel Forum on Bioethical Issues in Society, is free and open to the public.
Dr. Rosenberg is a noted research geneticist, teacher, clinician and administrator. He joined Bristol-Myers Squibb as president of its Pharmaceutical Research Institute in 1991 after serving as medical school dean at Yale since 1984. A specialist in inherited metabolic disorders in children, he has received numerous awards for his work, including the Borden Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics for outstanding achievement in research relating to infant nutrition and child development. In 1993 he was presented an Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Dr. Rosenberg is on the board of participants of the Intercompany Collaboration for AIDS Drug Development and is chair of its scientific panel. He recently completed a term on the Science Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Active in a number of professional societies, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a past president of the American Society of Human Genetics and the Association of American Physicians. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1985.
Northwestern law professor to deliver Litowitz Lecture Michael Perry, the Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law at Northwestern University, will deliver the first Robert M. Litowitz Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy on Monday, April 14, at 4 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. A reception will follow at 5:30 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.
Professor Perry has published extensively on religion, morality and the law. His books include "The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries," "Religion in Politics: Constitutional and Moral Perspectives," "The Constitution in the Courts: Law or Politics?" and "Love and Power: The Role of Religion and Morality in American Politics."
"Michael Perry is an excellent choice for the first Litowitz Lecturer," says Ian Shapiro, professor of political science and director of the Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, which sponsors the lecture series. "His reflections on liberal democracy and religious morality promise to be incisive and thought provoking."
The Litowitz Lectures were endowed by the estate of Robert M. Litowitz, who died in 1990 prior to completing his studies at the Divinity School. A noted intellectual is invited to deliver the Litowitz Lecture each year on some aspect of ethics and public policy, and is "encouraged to bring religious perspective to bear on these issues," says Professor Shapiro. For more information on the lectures, contact Clarissa Hayward at 432-3246.
"The Life of the Mind" is theme of this year's Tanner Lectures
Psychologist Liam Hudson will explore "The Life of the Mind" when he presents this year's Tanner Lectures on Human Values Monday and Tuesday, April 14 and 15.
The topic of the April 14 talk will be "Strangely Familiar: The Psychological Significance of Boundaries and of What Lies Beyond Them," while on April 15, the psychologist will speak on "The Visual Arts as Laboratories of Truth and Value."
The two talks represent the complementary halves of the work that Mr. Hudson and his partner, Bernadine Jacot, have undertaken in the Balas Copartnership, where together they undertake inquiries both in psychology and in the visual arts and design. Two books -- "The Way Men Think" and "Intimate Relations" -- have been published by the copartnership.
Mr. Hudson has written that "the life of the mind is governed ... by the need to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable." He says the relationship between the two lectures he will present at Yale is "akin to conversation, sometimes fertile, sometimes baffling. The lectures remain closely linked ... Between them, they seek to define a territory within which discoveries about the life of the mind might in future be made."
Both lectures are free and open to the public. They will take place at 4 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. A reception will follow the first talk. The Tanner Lectures on Human Values are sponsored by the Graduate School and the Whitney Humanities Center.
'Redefining the Female Figure' is subject of sculptor's talk
Artist Nancy Fried, a sculptor who lives and works in New York, will present "Redefining the Female Figure," a slide show and discussion of her work, on Tuesday, April 15. Her presentation will begin at 4 p.m. in Rm. 309 of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public.
Ms. Fried explores the emotions of fear, loss, grief, pride and hope in her autobiographical pieces on illness and recovery. Some of her most well-known sculptures are of models of herself with one breast, which she created after having a mastectomy. "My work is about the truthfully rendered middle-aged female figure," she has said of her creations. "Our culture says women should hide the 'flaws.' It says that we are no longer sensual, sexual beings when we start aging, get fat, wrinkle or lose a breast. But we're not Jane Fonda! My torsos stand proud and tall, without shame or apology for having developed rolls of fat or having lost a breast. My work is classical, definitely not trendy. I hope that it helps to redefine female beauty."
Ms. Fried's works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and she has exhibited widely. She has received a number of grants for her work.
Ms. Fried's presentation is sponsored by the Research Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies, the Women's Studies Program and the history of art department.
Post-Cold War strategy is lecture topic of U.S. foreign policy expert
Michael Mandelbaum '68, a noted authority on American foreign policy and international security issues, will deliver a lecture titled "Post-Cold War American Foreign Policy: The Basics" on Wednesday, April 16, at 4 p.m. in Rm. 203 of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. In his lecture, which is free and open to the public, he will assess the position of the U.S. in the world order since the end of the Cold War and outline some basic principles for American grand strategy. The talk is sponsored by International Security Studies.
Professor Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. He also is director of the Project on East-West Relations at the Council on Foreign Affairs in New York, and is a regular foreign affairs columnist for Newsday. In addition, he is the associate director of the Aspen Institute's Congressional Project on American Relations with the Former Communist World. He has recently been engaged in the public debate about NATO expansion, and has argued against the enlargement of the alliance to include the states of East-Central Europe.
Professor Mandelbaum is the author of seven books on nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy, U.S.-Soviet relations and Cold War politics. His most recent work is "The Dawn of Peace in Europe." He has taught at Harvard and Columbia universities and the U.S. Naval Academy.