School of Music hosts talkby Pulitzer Prize-winning critic
Tim Page, a Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic for the Washington Post, will lecture on Wednesday, April 1, at 12:30 p.m. in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall, 470 College St. The event is free and open to the public.
Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism for his work at the Washington Post, where he has been music critic since 1995. Previously, he worked in a similar capacity at The New York Times and Newsday. He has also been a clerk in a record store, played cocktail piano and composed and played keyboard for a rock band. He has presented hundreds of radio premieres on WNYC-FM, and founded and served as the first executive producer for BMG Catalyst. He has just completed the first biography of American novelist Dawn Bowell, which will be published this fall.
Combining work and family is topic of medical school talk
Ellen Galinsky, president and cofounder of the Families and Work Institute, will present two lectures at the medical school focusing on work and family life on Wednesday, April 1. She will discuss the topic "Integrating Work/Family Issues into Clinical Practice" in a free, public lecture 2:30-
4 p.m. in Brady Auditorium, 310 Cedar St. At noon that day, she will speak on the topic "Rethinking the Brain: Policy Implications Regarding New Insights into Early Development" during pediatric grand rounds in Fitkin Amphitheatre (enter through 310 Ce-dar St.). This presentation is open to members of the Yale medical community.
Ms. Galinsky helped found The Families and Work Institute, a nonprofit enterprise based in New York City, in 1989. The institute strives to find research-based strategies that foster mutually supportive connections among workplaces, families and communities. Its focus ranges from prenatal and child care to elder care. Galinsky, who previously served on the Bank Street College of Education faculty, coordinates outreach activities for public awareness to promote healthy child development and school readiness. She has written numerous publications and has conducted extensive research on work/
family issues. She has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and many international corporations.
Galinsky's visit is cosponsored by the School of Nursing and the School of Medicine's department of pediatrics, the Early Childhood Education Program at the Yale Child Study Center, and the Office for Women in Medicine.
Master's tea will feature former Massachusetts governor
Michael Dukakis, the former governor of Massachusetts and a 1988 presidential candidate, will be the guest at a tea on Wednesday, April 1, at 4 p.m. in the Silliman College master's house, 71 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public.
Dukakis served in the Massachusetts state legislature and was elected governor of the state in 1974. His gubernatorial term was dominated by his successful attempt to relieve Massachusetts from one of its worst financial and economic crises in history. In 1982 and again in 1986, Dukakis was re-elected governor, winning an unprecedented third term. In 1988, he served as the Democratic presidential candidate. Since 1991, he has focused his efforts on national health care policy reform. He has taught on this and related issues at the University of Hawaii, Northeastern University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, Florida Atlantic University, and UCLA. In addition, he has written a number of articles on the subject of health care reform for such publications as the Journal of American Health Policy, the Yale Law and Policy Review and the New England Journal of Medicine. He was also involved in the production of the widely distributed publication Insuring American Health of the Year 2000.
Tetelman Lecture will explore technology's evolution
Henry Petroski, the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and professor of history at Duke University, will present the Tetelman Lecture on "Bridges to Understanding the Evolution of Technology" on Wednesday, April 1. His talk will begin at 5 p.m. in the auditorium of Becton Center, 15 Prospect St. On the following day, at 4 p.m., Petroski will be the guest at a tea in the Jonathan Edwards College master's house, 70 High St. Both events are free and open to the public.
In his illustrated Tetelman Lecture, Petroski will outline the evolution of bridges in the latter part of the 19th and early part of the 20th century, and will explore how the same dynamics behind the evolution of bridges have also driven overall technological development. The author of over 70 journal articles on mechanics and design, Petroski has also written about engineering and culture for a general audience, and writes the engineering column in American Scientist. His books include "To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design," which was adapted for a BBC television documentary, "The Evolution of Useful Things" and "Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering," which was named best book in the category of general engineering by the Association of American Publishers in 1994.
Sex crimes prosecutor to speak at master's tea
Linda Fairstein, supervisor of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit for the Office of the New York County District Attorney, will be the guest at a tea on Thursday, April 2, at 4 p.m. in the Silliman College master's house, 71 Wall St. The event, sponsored by Silliman College and Consent, is free and open to the public.
Fairstein has supervised the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit for more than two decades. She specializes in crimes of sexual assault, child abuse and domestic violence. She is the author of the nonfiction work "Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape" and two crime novels, "Final Jeopardy" and "Likely to Die." A member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Fairstein serves on the board of directors of the National Victims Center, Phoenix House and the New York Women's Agenda.
State regulations for child care will be topic of Bush Center talk
"Regulation -- The Other Dimension of Quality Child Care" is the subject of a talk by Harold Gazan, former director of the Michigan Bureau of Child and Family Services, on Friday, April 3, at noon in the weekly lecture series sponsored by the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Sterling Library lecture hall, 128 Wall St.
In his 34-year career with the Michigan Department of Social Services, Gazan has been responsible for child day care services, child welfare, juvenile justice programs and facilities, adult services, domestic violence prevention and treatment, migrant services, refugee assistance and Native American affairs. He is now a private consultant to human services agencies and serves on the governing board of the National Association for Regulatory Administration, a professional organization dedicated to protecting the health, safety and well-being of children and vulnerable adults in day or residential human care facilities through licensing and other forms of regulation. Gazan was the recipient of the Michigan Public Servant of the Year Award in 1989.
For further information, call 432-9935.
Science historian to give talkat Whitney Humanities Center
Steven Shapin, professor of sociology and science studies at the University of California, San Diego, will present a talk titled "Folk Epistemology: The Case of Proverbs" on Monday, April 6, at 4 p.m. in Rm. 108 of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. His talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Issues in Science and the Humanities (ISH), a seminar series and discussion group recently founded to provide a forum for critical reflection on questions concerning the relations between the natural sciences and the humanities.
Shapin is the author of "Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life" (with Simon Schaffer), "A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England" and "The Scientific Revolution."
Participation in ISH activities is open to all interested members of the Yale community. For further information, or to be added to the ISH mailing list, call Manana Sikic at 432-0673.
Justice of South African court to deliver Castle Lectures
"Punishment of War Crimes: A National or International Question?" will be the topic of the three-part Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics and Economics, which will be presented during the month of April by The Honorable Justice Richard Goldstone of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
Goldstone's first lecture, "Impunity or Accountability: What Are the Options?" will be delivered on Monday, April 6. On Thursday, April 9, he will explore the question "International Justice: What Are the Options?" The series will conclude on Monday, April 13, with "The South African Solution: Is Truth Sufficient?" All of the lectures will be held 4-5:30 p.m. in the Law School's Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St., and will be followed by a reception 5:30-6:30 p.m. The lectures and receptions are free and open to the public.
Goldstone, who has been a justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa since 1994, served as the chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He has also served as the chair of the Commission of Inquiry regarding Public Violence and Intimidation, known as the Goldstone Commission. His Castle Lectures will be published in book form by Yale University Press.
The Castle Lectures were endowed by John K. Castle to honor his ancestor, the Reverend James Pierpont, one of Yale's original founders.
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