Two prominent faculty members and a noted University administrator will be the featured speakers in three lecture series opening this week. Art masterpieces in the University's collections
Patrick McCaughey, the recently appointed director of the Yale Center for British Art, will open this fall's Art Gallery Associates lecture series titled "Upstairs, Downstairs: Masterpieces in the Yale Art Museums." Mr. McCaughey's lecture, "The Englishness of English Art," will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. Reservations are required for the three-part lecture series, which will be held on consecutive Wednesday evenings. The cost is $34 for the general public and $24 for members of the Art Gallery Associates, which is the membership organization of the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art.
Prior to coming to Yale, Mr. McCaughey served for eight years as the director of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford. The Australian native is the author of several books and exhibition catalogues on Australian and American art and is a frequent contributor to leading art publications on subjects ranging from Tiepolo to modernist sculpture.
Other speakers in the series are Jules D. Prown, the Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, on Sept. 25, and art historian and critic Robert Rosenblum on Oct. 2. For reservations or more information, call 432-9658. Merging humanities and medicine
The Program for Humanities in Medicine's annual lecture series will be launched on Thursday, Sept. 19, with a talk by Dr. Ezra E.H. Griffith, director of the Connecticut Mental Health Center 'CMHC' and professor of African and African-American studies and psychiatry. In his talk, titled "Crossing Cultures: Transracial Adoption," Dr. Griffith will demonstrate that adoption of black children by white families continues to be the focus of intense national debate. He will explore the controversial issue and whether the arguments around it are science-based or are grounded in cultural or political preference.
Dr. Griffith's talk will begin at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The public is welcome to attend the free event, which is being cosponsored by the medical school's Office of Multicultural Affairs.
A member of the Yale faculty since 1977, Dr. Griffith was appointed director of the CMHC in 1989. Considered an expert in the field of community mental health, he has concentrated his research on cultural and forensic psychiatry and served throughout his career as a consultant to numerous community and professional organizations.
Future talks in the Program for Humanities in Medicine will be announced in upcoming issues of the Yale Bulletin & Calendar. For further information, call 785-5494. Exploring child policy issues
Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology, will present the opening lecture in the social policy luncheon series sponsored by the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy on Friday, Sept. 20. His talk, "School Reform with an Emphasis on School Readiness," will be held at noon in Rm. 410 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona 'SSS' Hall, corner of Grove and Prospect streets. The lecture series is free and open to the public.
Dr. Zigler is the originator of the School of the 21st Century, a national model school-reform initiative which places child care and other family support services in the public schools, and is one of the founders of the national pre-school program Head Start. In recent years, he has been working with the Clinton administration on the expansion of Head Start programs.
Subsequent speakers in the Bush Center series will discuss children and politics, Head Start, child care, welfare reform, the media's coverage of children's issues and other topics. All talks will be held on Fridays at noon in Rm. 410 SSS. For a schedule or other information, call Julia Downs at 432-9935.