Connecticut judge to explore how courts deal with medical issues
The Honorable Barry R. Schaller '60 B.A., '63 J.D., a judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, will talk on the topic "Medicine on Trial: Courtroom Stories of Medicine, Law & Morality" on Thursday, March 19, at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. His talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by The Program for Humanities in Medicine.
Schaller will discuss how courts deal with vital medical issues. Specifically, he will address the application of judicial restraints on cases involving medical ethics, and how these constraints affect the way issues and interests are identified, how courtroom stories are told, and how cases are decided.
Schaller was appointed to the Appellate Court in 1992 after serving 18 years on the Connecticut trial bench. A Guggenheim Fellow at the Yale Law School, he regularly teaches courses on law, literature and jurisprudence to state court judges. He is the author of the recent book "A Vision of American Law: Judging Law, Literature and the Stories We Tell," which received the Quinnipiac Law School's award for excellence. In the book, he draws on examples from American literature to analyze legal aspects of some of society's major problems, including violence. He has authored numerous articles on such topics as law and the humanities, constitutional law, complex case management and violence in American society.
Nigerian historian to discuss indigenization in African church
J. F. Ade. Ajayi, emeritus professor of history at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria, will discuss "Indigenization and Identity in the African Church: The Continuing Relevance of Samuel Crowther" on Friday, March 20, 12:15-1:30 p.m. at the Overseas Ministries Study Center, 490 Prospect St. His talk is free and open to the public. Attendees are invited to bring a light lunch; coffee will be served.
Ajayi was professor of history at the University of Ibadan 1963-89. His publications include "Christian Missions in Nigeria, 1814-91" and a multi-volume edited series "A History of West Africa." He is currently completing a biography of Samuel Crowther, focusing on Crowther's views of religion, African nationalism and the indigenization of church leadership. Ajayi is a fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and the Royal Historical Society (United Kingdom).
Unisys Corporation CEO to talk at the School of Management
"Building a New Unisys: Challenges and Opportunities for a New CEO" is the title of an International Business Roundtable talk being given on Tuesday, March 24, by Lawrence Weinbach, chair, president and chief executive officer of Unisys Corporation. His talk will take place 11:45 a.m.-
1 p.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
Weinbach was elected to his current position in September 1997. He joined Unisys after serving his second four-year term as managing partner and chief executive of Andersen Worldwide. During his tenure, the company became the largest and most successful global professional services organization. When he left, the firm had revenues in excess of $11 billion and operated in 80 countries, employing more than 100,000 people.
Weinbach joined Andersen Worldwide following his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1961, and became one of the youngest partners in the firm's history. He served in various capacities in Andersen Worldwide's Chicago, New York and Stamford (Connecticut) offices prior to being elected chief executive. He is on the boards of numerous not-for-profit companies.
New Haven author will read from her fiction
New Haven author Alice Mattison will read from her fiction on Tuesday, March 24, at 5 p.m. in the Faculty Room of Connecticut Hall, 344 College St. The reading, sponsored by the English department, is free and open to the public.
Mattison's most recent book, a collection of intersecting stories titled "Men Giving Money, Women Yelling," was published by William Morrow in 1997 and was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review. She is also the author of two novels, "Hilda and Pearl" and "Field of Stars," as well as two previous collections of stories, "Great Wits" and "The Flight of Andy Burns." In addition, she has written a collection of poems titled "Animals." Many of Mattison's stories have appeared in The New Yorker. She teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College in Vermont.
Battered women is the subject of talk, video presentation
Grace Poore, who created a video on battered women titled "Voices Heard Sisters Unseen," will discuss her video and other projects on Tuesday, March 24, at 7 p.m. in Rm. 309 of William L. Harkness Hall,
100 Wall St. The event, sponsored by the Yale Women's Center as part of Women's History Month celebrations, is free and open to the public.
"Voices Heard Sisters Unseen" presents personal stories and feminist analysis about how the courts, police and social services "re-victimize" battered women who are deaf, disabled, lesbians, prostitutes, HIV-positive, or undocumented (have no immigration status). Through interviews, poetry, dance and music, the video shows survivors of domestic abuse working to change the way the system treats battered women. Poore's current project, a video titled "The Children We Sacrifice," focuses on incestuous sexual abuse of female children in South Asian communities. During her talk, Poore will discuss her visits with activists, incest survivors and service providers in Sri Lanka, India, the United States and Canada.
For further information, call 432-0845.
Tanner Lectures to focus on beauty and justice
Harvard University professor Elaine Scarry will deliver the 1998 Tanner Lectures on Wednesday and Thursday, March 25 and 26, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The talks will focus on "Beauty and Its Relation to Justice." Wednesday's lecture is titled "On Beauty and Being Fair," and Tuesday's talk is "On Beauty and Being Wrong." Both are free and open to the public.
Scarry, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, joined the Harvard faculty in 1989. Her work gained national prominence with the 1986 publication of "The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World," an interdisciplinary study of the representation of violence and pain in literary texts, aesthetic theory, political philosophy, science and medicine.
Scarry is also author of "Resisting Representation" and "Making Mental Pictures Fly" (in press), and editor of two volumes on English literature and poetry. She is currently working on "The Matter of Consent," an account of the structural attributes common to consent in aesthetics, medicine, political philosophy and law, as framed through the problem of absence of consent in the development and use of nuclear arms.
A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Scarry was a Leff Fellow at Yale Law School in 1993 and delivered the Luce Lectures at Yale in 1986.