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U.S. representative to the U.N. to speak at Law School

Bill Richardson, the United States' permanent representative to the United Nations, will speak on "The U.S. Role in the U.N." on Monday, April 21, 3-4:30 p.m. in the second-floor faculty lounge of the Law School, 127 Wall St. The public is invited to attend, free of charge.

Mr. Richardson, who is Madeleine Albright's successor as the U.S. representative to the U.N., previously served eight terms in the House of Representatives, representing the 3rd Congressional District of New Mexico. He served as deputy house whip, was a member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and chaired the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs.

Well known for his special diplomatic missions, Ambassador Richardson negotiated the release of hostages in Bangladesh, Burma, Iraq and Sudan. He met with Cuba's Fidel Castro in 1996 and negotiated the release of three political prisoners. He has chaired election observation teams in Guatemala, Nicaragua and East Germany.

In his current post, Ambassador Richardson is handling such issues as the payment of U.S. arrears to the U.N., and is engaged in efforts to gain Senate action on the Chemical Weapons Convention, Law of the Sea Convention and other multilateral treaties. He will also play a key role in the efforts of the U.N.'s new Secretary General Kofi Annan to establish a program of reform that will gain the confidence of the U.S. Congress.

Ambassador Richardson's talk is sponsored by the Law School's U.N. Legal Studies program, directed by Professor Ruth Wedgwood.

U.S. Representative from New York to deliver Parks-King Lecture

U.S. Representative Floyd Flake D-NY will deliver the annual Parks-King Lecture on Monday, April 21, at 7 p.m. in the Divinity School's Marquand Chapel, 409 Prospect St. His talk, titled "I Believe I Can Fly," is free and open to the public. The event is sponsored by the Yale Black Seminarians.

Mr. Flake was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986 to represent New York's 6th Congressional district, which encompasses southeast Queens. In Congress, Mr. Flake has been a leading proponent of policies that promote local community and economic development. As a senior member of the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services, he has advocated the involvement of both the private and public sectors in community development. His Bank Enterprise Act of 1994 has attracted new and increased investment in underserved communities by creating incentives for financial institutions. He also serves as the senior Democrat on the Committee on Banking and Financial Services' Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, and in 1995 he was the manager of the House floor version of the bill to stabilize the Mexican peso.

Since 1976, Mr. Flake has been pastor of the Allen A.M.E. Church in Queens, New York. During his tenure the congregation has grown from 1,200 members to nearly 9,000. He formerly was dean of students and University chaplain at Boston University BU and also served as director of BU's Martin Luther King, Jr. Afro-American Center.

The Parks-King Lecture, named for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., was established in 1983 as a forum for African- American leaders to address the Yale and New Haven communities. The lecture series is intended to address issues pertinent to the black church and the African-American community in the context of scholarship and praxis.

Humor and religion is theme of talk by noted sociologist

Peter Berger, a professor of sociology and executive director of the Center for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University, will deliver a lecture on "Humor as a Religious Phenomenon" on Wednesday, April 23, at 12:30 p.m. in the Divinity School common room, 409 Prospect St.

The lecture will center on some of the issues that Professor Berger has explored in a book titled "A Rumor of Angels." The event, sponsored by the Divinity School and the Community Life Committee, is free and open to the public.

Professor Berger has written dozens of books on sociology, religion, economics and current affairs. He is best known for two books in the area of the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of religion. These are "The Sacred Canopy" and "The Social Construction of Reality."

Brother of executed Nigerian activist to discuss human rights

"The Struggle Against Shell Oil: Human Rights and Environmental Racism in Nigeria" is the title of a talk being presented on Thursday, April 24, by Dr. Owens Wiwa, who is the brother of the late Nigerian writer and environmentalist Ken Saro- Wiwa. Dr. Wiwa's talk will begin at 4 p.m. in Rm. 202 of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. It is free and open to the public.

Dr. Wiwa is a medical doctor and a human rights activist. His brother was president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People MOSOP when he was executed in 1995 by the Nigerian government for his activism in fighting for the rights and environmental health of the Ogoni people. Dr. Wiwa escaped from Nigeria just days after his brother's execution and now lives in exile in London.

Dr. Wiwa practiced medicine in Nigeria 1983-95. In 1990, he established two private rural health centers in Ogoni, where he treated hundreds of Ogoni men, women and children who were injured as a result of the ongoing military repression. Dr. Wiwa has documented human rights abuses perpetrated by the Nigerian army, as well as environmentally related diseases among the Ogoni, which he attributes to Shell Oil Company's takeover of Ogoni land for drilling. He is a member of the steering committee of MOSOP and has held other posts in the Ogoni movement.

Sponsors of Dr. Wiwa's talk include the Student Labor Action Coalition, the Council on African Studies at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, the Yale chapter of Amnesty International, the Schell Center for International Human Rights and the Students for Corporate Responsibility. For more information, call Joann at 865- 9249 or via e-mail: joann.lo@yale.edu.

Interventions for drug-using mothers is topic of talk

Suniya Luthar, associate professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, will give a talk titled "Relational psychotherapy mothers' group: Developmentally informed interventions with substance using mothers" on Friday, April 25, at noon in Room 410 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and Prospect streets. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy.

Ms. Luthar earned a doctorate in developmental clinical psychology at Yale in 1990. Her dissertation on resilience in high-risk inner-city adolescents won the award for best dissertation of the year from the American Psychological Association, Division 37. From 1994 until January of this year, she was assistant professor in the departments of psychiatry and psychology and at the Child Study Center at Yale, and director of child and family research in the substance abuse treatment unit of the School of Medicine. She has published numerous articles on issues related to substance abuse among teenagers, the families of drug abusers and children of drug- using mothers. She also continues her field-leading work on resilience.

Ms. Luthar won a five-year research scientist development award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 1993, the American Mensa Education and Research Foundation Award for excellence in research on intelligence and intellectual giftedness in 1995, and the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Child Development from Delhi University in India in 1996.

For further information, call 432-9935.

Building dedication will feature talk by church elder

The Yale Religious Ministries and the Yale Latter-day Saint Student Association will present a talk by Jeffrey R. Holland GRAD '73, an elder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his wife, Patricia Holland, on Friday, April 25. Their talk will begin at 7 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. The public is invited to attend, free of charge.

Elder Holland is a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He previously served as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, to which he had been named in 1989. In that post, he covered a wide variety of assignments as president of the Europe North Area of the church and first counselor in the presidency of the Young Men organization. He has also served the church as a general authority, regional representative, bishop and director of the Single Adult Program. He was a full-time missionary in England 1960-62.

From 1980-89, Elder Holland was president of Brigham Young University BYU in Utah. He is a former church commissioner of education and dean of the College of Religious Education at BYU, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees before earning his doctorate at Yale in American studies. He is the author of two books, "However Long and Hard the Road" and "On Earth As It Is in Heaven," the latter coauthored with his wife.

Elder Holland's honors include the Torch of Liberty award from the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'rith for his work on improving understanding between Christians and Jews.

He is visiting the campus to dedicate the newly renovated church facility for the Yale Latter-day Saint Student Association. Following his address at Battell Chapel, the church is sponsoring an open house at the renovated building, 84 Trumbull St. Elder Holland will meet with guests at the event. Refreshments will be served.

Native American artist will demonstrate his craft

The pubic is invited to watch Richard Hunt, a northwest-coast Native American artist, as he carves a new mask for the collections of the Peabody of Museum of Natural History, noon-4 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, through Wednesday, April 30. As he works, Mr. Hunt will answer inquiries about his art and cultural traditions. He will also give a formal lecture on Tuesday, April 29, at 4 p.m. on the topic "Art Versus Cultural Property" at the museum, 170 Whitney Ave. All events related to his visit are free with museum admission. On Saturday, April 26, the Peabody Museum will offer free admission to all New Haven residents with proof of residency.

Born in Alert Bay in British Columbia, Mr. Hunt has lived most of his life in Victoria, where he trained as a carver with his father. In 1973 he began work at the Royal British Columbia Museum as an apprentice carver, and a year later he assumed the duties of chief carver in the Thunderbird Park Carving Program. He resigned in 1986 to begin a new career as a freelance artist.

Mr. Hunt's Indian name, Gwe-la-yo-gwe-la-gya-les, means "a man that travels around the world giving." In 1991, Mr. Hunt became the first native artist to receive the Order of British Columbia "in recognition of serving with the greatest distinction and excellence in a field of endeavor benefiting the people of the Province of British Columbia and elsewhere." He also received the Order of Canada.

The Peabody Museum is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon-5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children ages 3-15 and for senior citizens. Museum members and all members of the Yale community are admitted free with I.D. For recorded directions and parking information, call the InfoTape at 432-5050.

Voyager will share tales of Northwest Passage expeditions

John Bockstoce, who has made 32 sea voyages in the far north to carry out his archaeological and historical research on the whaling industry and fur trade, will discuss his adventures in a talk titled "High Latitude: The North Atlantic" on Wednesday, April 30. His talk will begin at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave. Admission is $10 per person, and includes dinner.

In the 1970s, Mr. Bockstoce rebuilt a 32-foot Eskimo walrus- hide umiak and traveled in it more than 6,000 miles along the shores of the Northwest Passage. In the 1980s he changed to his present boat, "Belvedere," a 60-foot, steel-hulled motor sailing boat, which allows him to work farther offshore. In "Belvedere" he completed the first eastbound yacht transverse of the Northwest Passage, logging more than 50,000 miles in high latitudes.

Mr. Bockstoce's talk is part of the Hiram Bingham Adventure Program, named in honor of a man whose legendary expeditions took him across South America and whose collections from Machu Piccu have yielded insights into Inca culture. A second lecture as part of the program, featuring world travelers and amateuru photographers Arnold and Lucille Alderman, will be held May 20.


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