Master's tea features
broadcaster/columnist
Arianna Huffington, a nationally syndicated columnist and television broadcaster, will be the guest at a tea on Wednesday, April 22, at 5 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 189 Elm St. The event is free and open to the public.
Huffington, an outspoken Republican, has hosted her own television talk shows and speaks frequently about politics and culture on other nationally televised shows, including "Larry King," "Charlie Rose," "Crossfire," "Politically Incorrect," "Good Morning America" and the "Today Show."
Born in Greece, Huffington moved to England as a teenager and was educated there. Her first book, "The Female Woman," published in 1974, attacked extremism in the feminist movement. Her other books include '"After Reason," "The Gods of Greece," and "The Fourth Instinct," as well as biographies of Maria Callas and Pablo Picasso.
Her talk shows have included "Critical Mass," which aired 1993-94 on National Empowerment Television, and "Indecision 1996," which offered a satirical look at the 1996 presidential primaries and aired on Comedy Central. Huffington is a senior fellow of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, which is devoted to studying the digital revolution and its implications for public policy. She also serves as chair of the foundation's Center for Effective Compassion.
Museum series to conclude
with talk on Phillips Collection
The Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Memorial Lecture Series on the theme "Private Collection into Public Museum: Four Great Collectors" will conclude on Wednesday, April 22, with a talk on "Duncan Phillips and His Collection" by Charles Moffett, director of The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. The lecture will take place at
5 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. It is free and open to the public.
Moffett has held positions at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, among other museums. He has won many prizes and honors for his work in art history, including the Prix Bernier from the Institut de France in Paris and the Golden Eagle for his contribution to the film "Degas in the Metropolitan." In 1984, he was named as one of "The Best of the New Generation, Men and Women under Forty Who Are Changing America" by the Esquire National Register.
The Ritchie Memorial Lectures honor the memory of Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, the longest-serving director of the Yale Art Gallery. The series is cosponsored by the gallery and the Yale Center for British Art.
Talk to explore relation of
Apocalypse to popular culture
"Branch Davidians and Victorian Prophetesses: Gender, Violence and The Book of Revelation" is the subject of a talk by Mary Wilson Carpenter, associate professor of English and women's studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
Carpenter will speak on Thursday,
April 23, at 4 p.m. in Rm. 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Council on Middle East Studies, part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, in conjunction with the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series on Millennialism, titled "Millennialism Motifs and Movements."
In her talk, Carpenter will discuss the Apocalypse in relation to today's popular culture and Victorian literature and culture. She will examine how women writers represented the Apocalypse in their literary works, and will address such contemporary issues as whether the violence in The Book of Revelations provokes "paranoia" and whether there can be "a feminist reading of this misogynist work."
The author of several book chapters on feminist themes, Carpenter is working on a book tentatively titled "Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies," a study of race, gender, sexuality and family values in British bourgeois biblical commentary and in British women writers' construction of "domestic bodies" in reference to the English Bible.
For further information, contact Barbara Papacoda at 432-5596 or by e-mail at
barbara.papacoda@ yale.edu.
Mac 'guru' and theater musician to be guest at master's tea
Yale alumnus David Pogue, who has enjoyed success as a computer "guru," novelist and Broadway musician/conductor, will be the guest at a tea being held at
4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, in the Calhoun College master's house, 189 Elm St. The event is free and open to the public.
Since graduating from Yale College in 1985, Pogue has merged his two loves, the musical theater and Macintosh computers, in every way he could find: by writing manuals for music programs like Finale; by serving as a computer consultant for Broadway musicals; by teaching Mac music seminars around the country; and by acting as Mac "guru" to such Broadway and Hollywood stars as Mia Farrow, Carly Simon, Mike Nichols, Stephen Sondheim and others.
Pogue is the author of "Mac for Dummies," the number-one best-selling book in all 17 languages that it has been translated into, and the sequel "More Mac for Dummies." His other books include "Mac FAQs," "Macworld Macintosh Secrets" (with Yale classmate Joe Schorr) and the techno-thriller novel "Hard Drive." His column "The Desktop Critic" appears monthly in Macworld magazine, where he is a contributing editor. Pogue has also composed several musicals and conducted two Broadway shows.
Weyerhaeuser executive
to discuss renewable resources
Norman E. Johnson, senior vice president of technology for Weyerhaeuser Co., will present the next Yale Faculty of Engineering Dean's Distinguished Guest Lecture, titled "Sustainability -- The Role of Renewable Resources." The lecture will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 24, in Davies Auditorium, Becton Engineering and Applied Science Center, 15 Prospect St. A reception will follow in the Becton faculty lounge. Admission is free, and the public is invited.
Johnson joined Weyerhaeuser Co. in 1956 as a forestry entomologist. At the company, he has developed and overseen forestry research programs and timber operations in South Asia, and headed research, engineering and technology commercialization in the North Carolina region. Since 1990, as senior vice president of technology, he has been responsible for the Corporated Research and Development and Weyerhaeuser Information Technology organizations.
An adjunct professor for the North Carolina State University School of Forestry, Johnson also served for two years on the faculty of Cornell University's department of entomology. He serves on various committees with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was a member of President Reagan's Agriculture and Forestry Mission to Honduras (1982 and 1983) and to Zaire (1985).
MoMA curator will talk
about art of Jasper Johns
"Matter as Subject in Jasper Johns" will be the title of a talk being presented at
5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 24, by Kirk Varnedoe, chief curator of the department of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of a series of lectures by leading art historians being held in conjunction with the current exhibition "Now and Then and Later: Art Since 1945 at Yale" at the Yale University Art Gallery. A reception will precede the talk at 5 p.m.; both will be held at the gallery, 1111 Chapel St.
A member of the MoMA curatorial staff since 1985, Varnedoe recently organized the exhibit "Jasper Johns: A Retrospective" and is currently coordinating a Jackson Pollock retrospective for the fall of 1998. Other MoMA exhibits Varnedoe has organized include "Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture and Design," "High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture" and "Cy Twombley: A Retrospective." He is the author of "A Fine Disregard: What Makes Modern Art Modern," as well as numerous books and catalogues published in conjunction with his exhibitions. He has taught for many years at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and in 1992 held the Slade Professorship at Oxford University.