Winter 2001

The Democratic Soul

[Lectures]

9 & 11 January 2001

DeVane Lecture: Anthony Kronman, Dean of the Yale Law School. (Discussion on the 11th to be moderated by Cynthia Farrar, Adjunct Associate Professor, Political Science and Director of Urban Academic Initiatives.)

One of the wisest and most searching explorations of political order ever written, Plato's Republic, contains a harsh attack on democracy. This critique of democratic man and the regime he inhabits is not incidental to Plato's argument. For Plato as for us, democracy is characterized by the free pursuit of individual desires. But in Plato's view, the resulting society is simply chaotic. According to Plato, psychic and political order share the same structure and are mutually reinforcing. The possibility of order in both domains depends on the existence of an unchanging formal reality, ruled by and accessible to the exercise of reason. Democracy, by this standard, is no order at all, because it privileges the singular and self-inventing individual.

The modern appreciation of democracy is based on a very different understanding of political order - as a framework for human actions and individual fulfillment, not the cause and consequence of an ordered soul. Our defense of democracy starts from different premises: most importantly, the Judeo-Christian belief in creation from nothing, ex nihilo. In this tradition, the absolute distinctness of every individual is something real and valuable in its own right.

A comparison between the Republic and the American republic reveals many of the themes that will reverberate throughout this course. Plato's critique not only highlights the peculiarities of our beliefs, but also poses an instructive and compelling challenge. How is radical individualism compatible with the need to offer a reasoned judgment about the relative worth of different forms of life? And on what basis are we to forge an account of the relationship between individual fulfillment and the good of the community as a whole?

Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets 4:00 PM

Was Harvey Cushing William Osler's Protégé?

[Lectures]

11 January 2001

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Michael Bliss, PhD. Professor of History/History of Medicine University of Toronto. Reception will follow. Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street, 5 pm

Theater and Anti-Theater in the 18th Century

[Exhibits]

15 January --14 April 2001

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: An exhibition of books, manuscripts, broadsides, and engravings documenting 18th-century controversies about the theater at Yale, in England, and abroad. Exhibition and accompanying catalog prepared by Vincent Giroud, curator of modern books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Library, in consultation with Joseph Roach, professor of English and Theater Studies.

Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street

Yale-China Centennial Year Art Exhibitions

[Exhibits]

15 January --15 December 2001

Yale-China: Over the course of Yale-China's Centennial year, and Yale's Tercentennial year, Yale-China will host a series of art exhibitions featuring works related to China, by members of the Yale and Yale-China communities.

The exhibit is open Monday - Friday from 9 - 5. Admission is free. The Yale China Association can be contacted for further information at 203-432-0880.

Yale-China Association 442 Temple St. (the corner of Temple and Trumbull), New Haven, CT.

Abraham Lincoln & Walt Whitman as Representative Americans

[Lectures]

16 & 18 January 2001

DeVane Lecture: David Bromwich, Bird White Housum Professor of English

Lincoln and Whitman were contemporaries. The great articulations of their genius began almost at the same moment--Lincoln in 1854 in the Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Whitman in 1855 in the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Looked at from a distance, their materials are vastly different. Lincoln is concerned with the survival of the nation and its system of freedom, Whitman with the imaginative experience open to "oneself" and open uniquely in democratic America. Yet both the great poet and the great politician write also as moral psychologists. To a surprising extent they share a vision of the democratic character. It is something new in the world, they think, and in their writings we find beautifully adequate descriptions of that newness. The character sketched by Lincoln and by Whitman is rooted in an experience of labor whose tendency is to become progressively more free--both in the individual workplace and in the geography of the nation. It is endlessly modified and shaped by exposure to human and social influences, not all of them agreeable. "Oneself" is by definition not a slave and not a master.

Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets 4:00 PM

Gordon Grand Lecture

[Lectures]

17 January 2001

Gordon Grand Fellowship: Ambassador Walter J.P. Curley '44 will give a public lecture.

Saybrook College Swing Space. 4 p.m

Chariots of Steel: Yale & Rail

[Exhibits]

Through 28 January 2001

Eli Whitney Museum: Each year the Eli Whitney Museum constructs a holiday train layout. Sustaining a tradition that goes back to the triumphant years of A.C. Gilbert's American Flyer Trains, they let the trains explore the history and culture that rail has shaped. This year's exhibition visits New Haven in 1913 and the opening of the Yale Bowl, whose mass audiences were a product of passenger rail. It was the dawn of modern scholastic athletics in America and the advent of a new identity for Yale and other institutions of higher education. It is a lively stop in the 300-year history that Yale will begin to celebrate in 2000. Eli Whitney graduated from Yale University in 1792 and is credited with the invention of interchangeable parts. He lived in New Haven for many years and died there in 1825. He is buried in Grove Street Cemetery. The exhibit schedule is as follows:

Admission is $2.00 for children and $3.00 for adults. The Eli Whitney Museum can be contacted for further information at 203-777-1833.

Eli Whitney Museum 915 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT

Russian Revolution and its Consequences

[Lecture]

19 January 2001

Manuscripts and Archives/Sterling Memorial Library with the Slavic and East European Collection of the Yale University Library will host a lecture by Paul Bushkovitch, Yale Professor of History.

3:00 p.m. in the Sterling Lecture Hall. 120 High Street A reception will follow.

Up With A Shout: The Psalms In Jewish and Christian Worship

[Conferences]

20 January --23 January 2001

Yale Divinity School/Berkeley Divinity School/Institute of Sacred Music: Coinciding with Yale's Tercentennial, the conference will celebrate the University's long tradition of Biblical study, musical performance, and theological formation. For further information contact: Melissa Maier, Yale ISM, 203-432-5180 or email

Paradoxes of Mind and Society: The Bounded Nature of Cognition and the Unbounded Possibilities for American Democracy

[Lectures]

23 & 25January - 2001

DeVane Lecture: Mahzarin Banaji, Professor of Psychology

All human beings are prone to systematic errors of thinking and feeling. We will participate in demonstrations of such errors, especially as they occur when humans assess, evaluate, and judge the most important stimulus in their environment other humans. From first impressions to enduring ones, from decisions about the qualities a person or group possesses to decisions about the worth of a person or social group, unconscious constraints on thinking and feeling create parallel constraints on social justice.

How deep are the bounds on human thinking and feeling and how do they shape social judgment? The focus of my research has been on the mechanics of unconscious mental processes, with attention to those that operate without conscious awareness, intention, or control. On the basis of dozens of experiments we ask: How should we conceive of equality in light of evidence about unconscious preferences, desires, and beliefs among those who are consciously unprejudiced? How should the impact of unintended harm be determined? In the obvious absence of simple solutions, new approaches to ensuring equality can gain by looking to discoveries in the mind sciences about the bounds on social thought and feeling. Based on the evidence, we may enter into a discussion of new forms of justice within democratic societies. To do so will require coming face-to-face with the paradox of the ordinary yet powerful mental threats to fairness and equality on the one hand and the democratic ideal of a just society on the other.

Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets 4:00 PM

Tetelman Lectures - Chemicals and the Environment

[Lectures]

24 January --26 January 2001

Sciences & Engineering: The Tetelman Lectures, which bring distinguished scientists and engineers to campus, will feature Jane A. Plant, Chief Scientist, British Geological Survey, and will be hosted by Yale professors Catherine and Brian Skinner. Gary Haller, Becton Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Master of Jonathan Edwards College, is organizing this series. Jane Plant is Chief Scientist of the British Geological Survey (Natural Environment Research Council) and Visiting professor at the Universities of Liverpool and Nottingham. She has published widely on sustainable mineral development, and economic and environmental geochemistry in the UK and internationally.

Concern over chemicals in the environment has increased as evidence for adverse impacts on wildlife and ecosystems and the health of people has increased. This is reflected in the large numbers of national and international initiatives aimed at reducing exposure to potentially toxic chemicals. Many of the initiatives are based on the precautionary principle whereby action to reduce exposure is taken without waiting for definite proof of harm. It will be argued that greater transparency, openness, and public involvement is required in the discussion of the distribution and health aspects of chemicals in the environment and this discussion must use easily understood information. A new paradigm for the manufacture and use of chemicals is required if the environment and the chemicals industry are to be sustainable into the future.

5:15 p.m. Yale Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street

Jan 25 The Master's Tea "A Conversation with Jane Plant"

4:00 p.m., Jonathan Edwards College, The Masters House, 70 High Street.

January 26 Environmental Geochemistry at the Global Scale

The Department of Geology and Geophysics: (Info on Jane Plant)

2:00 p.m., Kline Geology Laboratory, Room 123, 210 Whitney Avenue.

Globalization and the Environment: The Rise of Environmental Governance

[Lectures]

25 January 2001

School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Yolanda Kakabadse, president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, discusses "The Rise of Environmental Governance."

5:00pm Bowers Auditorium Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street

Readings from the Work of Richard Selzer

[Lectures]

25 January 2001

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Richard Selzer, M.D. Retired Professor of Surgery Yale School of Medicine. Writer. Reception will follow.

5:00pm, Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street

Medicine at Yale, 1901 - 1951

[Exhibits]

Through March 2001

Yale School of Medicine: This photographic exhibit chronicles the history of the Yale Medical School.

Sterling Hall of Medicine, Medical Library Rotunda, 333 Cedar Street

Neighbors: Working Together for a Healthy New Haven

[Exhibits]

Through - March 2001

Yale School of Medicine: Tercentennial Photograph Exhibit.

Sterling Hall of Medicine, Medical Library Rotunda, 333 Cedar Street

Yale's Legacy of Inventors

[Exhibits]

Through - 6 May 2001

Eli Whitney Museum: In honor of Yale's 300th Birthday, we will celebrate Yale's legacy of inventors. Each month we'll look at an inventory, an epoch, and a challenge to be conquered . . . with a project you can take home. Appropriate for children 11 and above.

Pre-reservation is advised: the materials are unusual and limited.

All begin at 3pm

Fee: $18, $15 for members *add $5 for materials

Eli Whitney Museum 915 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT Call 203- 777-1833

Yale: Crossing International Boundaries - A Tercentennial Retrospective

[Exhibit]

January 19 - September 14, 2001

Manuscripts and Archives/Sterling Memorial Library: Drawing from the library's rich and diverse area studies and archival holdings, this exhibit explores the interconnections between international events and area studies scholarship at Yale. The evolving interests of faculty and students are reflected in the library's collections and provide the historical context for understanding how Yale has taught, studied, and influenced counties and cultures outside of the United States.

The first series focuses on Slavic & East European and Southeast Asian Studies; exhibitions on Judaica, Near Eastern, Africa, East Asia and Latin America will follow.

The final exhibit will explore Yale's connections with the world of international affairs and diplomacy and its opening coincides with the Yale Center for International & Area Studies symposia, "Envisioning the World in the Next Century: Challenges to Internationalizing Yale," September 14, 2001.

Yale's East European, Slavic & Southeast Asian Studies Collections: Archival Development and Collecting during Times of Turmoil, Transition & Peace

This exhibit will focus on the correlation between revolutionary and peace-time events which have occurred in two diverse geographic regions in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia during the past 100 years. This collection helps document Yale scholarship outside national borders and reveals the role of Yale faculty and students in international affairs.

Manuscripts and Archives, Wall Street, New Haven. Call 432-1735 for more information.

Was Harvey Cushing William Osler's Protégé?

[Lectures]

11 January 2001

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Michael Bliss, PhD. Professor of History/History of Medicine University of Toronto. Reception will follow. Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street, 5 pm

Theater and Anti-Theater in the 18th Century

[Exhibits]

15 January --14 April 2001

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: An exhibition of books, manuscripts, broadsides, and engravings documenting 18th-century controversies about the theater at Yale, in England, and abroad. Exhibition and accompanying catalog prepared by Vincent Giroud, curator of modern books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Library, in consultation with Joseph Roach, professor of English and Theater Studies.

Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street

Yale-China Centennial Year Art Exhibitions

[Exhibits]

15 January --15 December 2001

Yale-China: Over the course of Yale-China's Centennial year, and Yale's Tercentennial year, Yale-China will host a series of art exhibitions featuring works related to China, by members of the Yale and Yale-China communities.

The exhibit is open Monday - Friday from 9 - 5. Admission is free. The Yale China Association can be contacted for further information at 203-432-0880.

Yale-China Association 442 Temple St. (the corner of Temple and Trumbull), New Haven, CT.

Gordon Grand Lecture

[Lectures]

17 January 2001

Gordon Grand Fellowship: Ambassador Walter J.P. Curley '44 will give a public lecture.

Saybrook College Swing Space. 4 p.m

Justice and the Genome: Historical Reflections

[Lectures]

17 January 2001

ISPS Bioethics Lecture: Forum on Bioethical Issues in Society. Speaker: Daniel Kevles, professor of History of Science, California Institute of Technology and visiting Professor of History, Yale University. Reception to follow.

7:30 pm Joseph Slifka Center

Chariots of Steel: Yale & Rail

[Exhibits]

Through 28 January 2001

Eli Whitney Museum: Each year the Eli Whitney Museum constructs a holiday train layout. Sustaining a tradition that goes back to the triumphant years of A.C. Gilbert's American Flyer Trains, they let the trains explore the history and culture that rail has shaped. This year's exhibition visits New Haven in 1913 and the opening of the Yale Bowl, whose mass audiences were a product of passenger rail. It was the dawn of modern scholastic athletics in America and the advent of a new identity for Yale and other institutions of higher education. It is a lively stop in the 300-year history that Yale will begin to celebrate in 2000. Eli Whitney graduated from Yale University in 1792 and is credited with the invention of interchangeable parts. He lived in New Haven for many years and died there in 1825. He is buried in Grove Street Cemetery. The exhibit schedule is as follows:

Admission is $2.00 for children and $3.00 for adults. The Eli Whitney Museum can be contacted for further information at 203-777-1833.

Eli Whitney Museum 915 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT

Russian Revolution and its Consequences

[Lecture]

19 January 2001

Manuscripts and Archives/Sterling Memorial Library with the Slavic and East European Collection of the Yale University Library will host a lecture by Paul Bushkovitch, Yale Professor of History.

3:00 p.m. in the Sterling Lecture Hall. 120 High Street A reception will follow.

Up With A Shout: The Psalms In Jewish and Christian Worship

[Conferences]

20 January --23 January 2001

Yale Divinity School/Berkeley Divinity School/Institute of Sacred Music: Coinciding with Yale's Tercentennial, the conference will celebrate the University's long tradition of Biblical study, musical performance, and theological formation. For further information contact: Melissa Maier, Yale ISM, 203-432-5180 or email

Medicalization, the State, and Individual Rights: A Brief History

[Lectures]

23 January 2001

ISPS Lecture: Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine and Society. Robert Nye, Professor of History, Oregon State University

4:00 pm Room 401 HGS, 320 York Street

Tetelman Lectures - Chemicals and the Environment

[Lectures]

24 January --26 January 2001

Sciences & Engineering: The Tetelman Lectures, which bring distinguished scientists and engineers to campus, will feature Jane A. Plant, Chief Scientist, British Geological Survey, and will be hosted by Yale professors Catherine and Brian Skinner. Gary Haller, Becton Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Master of Jonathan Edwards College, is organizing this series. Jane Plant is Chief Scientist of the British Geological Survey (Natural Environment Research Council) and Visiting professor at the Universities of Liverpool and Nottingham. She has published widely on sustainable mineral development, and economic and environmental geochemistry in the UK and internationally.

Concern over chemicals in the environment has increased as evidence for adverse impacts on wildlife and ecosystems and the health of people has increased. This is reflected in the large numbers of national and international initiatives aimed at reducing exposure to potentially toxic chemicals. Many of the initiatives are based on the precautionary principle whereby action to reduce exposure is taken without waiting for definite proof of harm. It will be argued that greater transparency, openness, and public involvement is required in the discussion of the distribution and health aspects of chemicals in the environment and this discussion must use easily understood information. A new paradigm for the manufacture and use of chemicals is required if the environment and the chemicals industry are to be sustainable into the future.

5:15 p.m. Yale Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street

Jan 25 The Master's Tea "A Conversation with Jane Plant"

4:00 p.m., Jonathan Edwards College, The Masters House, 70 High Street.

January 26 Environmental Geochemistry at the Global Scale

The Department of Geology and Geophysics: (Info on Jane Plant)

2:00 p.m., Kline Geology Laboratory, Room 123, 210 Whitney Avenue.

Globalization and the Environment: The Rise of Environmental Governance

[Lectures]

25 January 2001

School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Yolanda Kakabadse, president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, discusses "The Rise of Environmental Governance."

5:00pm Bowers Auditorium Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street

Readings from the Work of Richard Selzer

[Lectures]

25 January 2001

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Richard Selzer, M.D. Retired Professor of Surgery Yale School of Medicine. Writer. Reception will follow.

5:00pm, Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street

History of the Yale Law School

[Lectures]

29 January --23 April 2001

Yale Law School: This lecture series will explore the history of the Yale law school as it reflects and is reflected by the larger history of the legal profession and the nation. The lectures will explore the subject from a range of different points of view and examine the history of the Law School in from its formative period to the present day. On January 29, Robert Stevens discusses "History of the Yale Law School: Provenance and Perspective" These lectures are open all members of the university community and to the public.

4:30 pm Yale Law School, Room 127, 127 Wall Street

Democracy and Distribution

[Lectures]

30 January & 1 February 2001

DeVane Lecture: Ian Shapiro, Professor and Chairman, Political Science

My lecture addresses two questions: why has American democracy done so little to improve the condition of the poor and near poor, and what can be done about it? These questions are motivated by a practical concern and a theoretical conundrum. The practical concern is the persistence of comparatively high proportions of the population living in or close to poverty, and the widening income gap between them and better-off Americans. The theoretical conundrum is that this state of affairs is surprising, given standard expectations about the effects of democracy on distribution. Nineteenth century elites who resisted expansion of the franchise and socialists who endorsed the "parliamentary road to socialism" agreed that if majority rule is imposed on a massively unequal status quo, then most voters would favor taxing the rich and transferring the proceeds downward. This was formalized in political science via the median voter theorem. It predicts majority support for downward redistribution, given a distributive status-quo like that in the advanced capitalist democracies. In the lecture I explore a number of reasons why the theorem does not hold in practice, and discuss the implications for democratic reforms that might improve the absolute relative and absolute condition of those in the bottom quintile of the population.

4:00 pm Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets

Globalization and the Environment: Does Globalization Help or Hurt?

[Lectures]

1 February 2001

School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Vandana Shiva, director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and ecology in New Delhi, speaks on "Does Globalization Help or Hurt?"

5:00 pm Bowers Auditorium Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street

In The Company of Scholars

[Lectures]

2 February 2001

Graduate School: David M. Kennedy (Ph.D. 1968), Pulitzer Prize winning author and history professor at Stanford speaks on "A Tale of Three Cities: How the United States Won World War II."

4pm Yale Law School Auditorium, 127 Wall Street

The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets

4 February 2001

[Faith]

Chaplain's Office: Reverend Frederick J. Streets, Yale University Chaplain and Pastor, Church of Christ in Yale, Assistant Professor (Adjunct) Yale Divinity School, Assistant Clinical Professor of Social Work, Child Study Center.

VIDEO

11:00 am Battell Chapel, Corner of College and Elm Streets

Blackstone, Litchfield, and Yale: The Founding of Yale Law School

[Lectures]

5 February 2001

Yale Law School: History of the Law School lecture series. John Langbein speaks on "Blackstone, Litchfield, and Yale: The Founding of Yale Law School."

4:30 pm Yale Law School, Room 127,127 Wall Street

The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies

[Lectures]

5 February 2001

Institution for Social & Policy Studies: Sponsored by the Program on Non-Profit Organizations at ISPS, with Robert Lane, Eugene Meyer Professor Emeritus Political Science, Yale University.

7:30 pm Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street

Democracy and the Market

[Lectures]

6 & 8 February 2001

DeVane Lecture: Richard C. Levin, President of Yale and Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics

4:00 pm Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets

American Democracy and Crisis Management: The Case of John F. Kennedy

[Lectures]

6 February 2001

International Security Studies: Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies, King's College London, speaks on his recent book "Kennedy Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam". Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director, ISS, if interested. Lunch will be provided.

ISS is a center for teaching and research in international, diplomatic and military history. Most ISS events are open to the entire Yale-New Haven community and other interested guests.

12 noon Hall of Graduate Studies 211, 320 York Street

When Cocaine and Heroin Were New: America's First Response

[Lectures]

8 February 2001

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: David F. Musto, M.D. Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Professor of Child Psychiatry. Reception will follow.

5 pm Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street

Journalism Unplugged: the Triumph of 24/7 Media

[Lectures]

8 February 2001

Poynter Fellowship Lecture: Frank Rich, columnist for The New York Times, delivers the Gary Fryer Memorial Lecture. This lecture is sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism and is free and open to the public. For more information, please call 436-2185.

4pm, Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street

The Way of the World

[Theater]

8 February --3 March 2001

Beinecke Library/Lewis Walpole Library/Yale School of Drama: This comedy by William Congreve is produced by the Yale School of Drama as part of Yale's Tercentennial celebration. Universally considered the finest comedy of manners ever written, this playful social satire skewers the courting rituals of the upper class. This opulent production promises a grand parade of schemers, fops, fools, and Brits behaving badly.

University Theatre , 222 York Street

Symposium on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health

[Symposia]

9 -10 February 2001

Yale Law School/Yale School of Medicine/Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health/ Yale School of Nursing: The symposium is a kick-off event for Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics; a new publication jointly sponsored by the Yale Law School, Yale School of Medicine, Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health, and Yale School of Nursing. The Journal's first issue will be published in February 2001, and will concentrate on racial and ethnic disparities in health. Authors from the issue have agreed to share their papers at the symposium. Speakers will include:

A Tribute to Sylvia Ardyn Boone, The New Haven Years: 1970 - 1993

[Exhibit]

10 - 17 February 2001

The Prince Hall Masonic Lodge of New Haven is organizing a special tribute to the life and work of Professor Sylvia Ardyn Boone, a scholar of African and women's art, and the first African-American woman to receive tenure at Yale. The tribute will feature panel discussions on Boone's legacy at Yale and an exhibit chronicling her life and work.

Sylvia A. Boone graduated from Brooklyn College in 1960 and received a master's degree from Columbia in 1964. She then studied for a brief period at the University of Ghana, where she began lifelong friendships with such prominent African Americans as W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou.

Boone first came to Yale in the early seventies as a visiting lecturer in Afro-American Studies, and then went on to pursue her doctorate in art history. She joined the faculty in 1979 and received tenure in 1988. Professor Boone was a beloved and well-respected teacher, conducting classes on African art, aesthetics of female imagery in African art, masquerading and masks, and women's arts. She played a pivotal role in organizing the nationwide commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the 1839 "Amistad Affair," which is now an annual commemorative event in New Haven.

Alison Mackenzie Coordinator, Women Faculty Forum for the Tercentennial.

Tercentennial Office Telephone 203-432-8847 Fax 203-432-8828

Saturday, February 10

10am Sylvia A. Boone Exhibit opens to public, featuring photos, books, and memorabilia

11am-1pm PANEL: Sylvia Ardyn Boone: Her Legacy at Yale

Cheryl Finley, winner of the Boone Prize '98, Lyneise Williams winner of the Boone prize '00, Shirley Daniels '72, and Vera Wells '71

1pm-2pm Reception, Exhibit open to public

Sunday, February 11, 2001

11am Flowers at Battell Chapel in Honor of Boone

3pm-6pm PANEL: Beauty is a Duty: The Beauty Makers

Thursday, February 15, 2001

7pm Viewing of The Language You Cry In at the Afro-American Cultural Center or Luce Hall, Yale University

Saturday, February 17, 2001

10am Exhibit open to public

11am-1pm PANEL: Sylvia Ardyn Boone: Her Presence in New Haven

1pm-2pm Reception

All events will take place at the Little Red Schoolhouse,

Prince Hall Masons of New Haven, 106 Goffe St, New Haven CT 06511, 203-329-9957

Yale's Legacy of Inventors - Whitney's Interchangeable Hearts

[Exhibits]

11 February 2001

Eli Whitney Museum: In honor of Yale's 300th Birthday, we will celebrate Yale's legacy of inventors. This month we'll produce multiple matching Valentines with system of jigs, with a project you can take home. Appropriate for children 11 and above. Pre-reservation is advised: The materials are unusual and limited. Begins at 3 p.m.

Fee: $18, $15 for members *add $5 for materials

Eli Whitney Museum, 915 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT For information call 203- 777-1833

The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rev. Dr. Harry B. Adams

11 February 2001

[Faith]

Chaplain's Office: Horace Bushnell, Professor Emeritus of Christian Nurture Yale University.

VIDEO

11:00 am Battell Chapel, Corner College and Elm Streets

Law School in a University: Yale's Distinctive Path in the 19th Century

[Lectures]

12 February 2001

Yale Law School: History of the Law School series. John Lanbein speaks on "Law School in a University: Yale's Distinctive Path in the 19th Century.

4:30 pm Yale Law School, Room 127, 127 Wall Street

The Khmer Rough, Indonesia and East Timor, and Australia's Aborigines

[Lecture]

February 13 2001

Manuscripts and Archives/Sterling Memorial Library w/ Southeast Asia Collection of Yale University Library will host a lecture by Ben Kiernan, Yale Professor of History, on the Genocide topic.

3:00 pm Sterling Lecture Hall. 120 High Street. A reception will follow.

Neither Capitalist nor American: The Democracy as Social Movement

[Lectures]

13 & 15 February 2001

DeVane Lecture: Professor of American Studies and Chair of the Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration Michael Denning

In the decades when the modern social movements - the labor movement, the women's movement, the abolitionist movement, and the anti-colonial movement, were invented, a new definition of "the democracy" was recorded. "The portion of the people whose injury is the most manifest, have gotten or taken the title of the democracy." At a moment when historic breakthroughs to political democracy are accompanied by the wholesale destruction of social democracy, when the concept of "democracy" has been redefined by the opponents of the democracy, Professor Denning's lecture will return to the notion of "the democracy" as a social movement, reconsidering the democracy's relation to capitalism and to the American state, and taking up the lack of democracy in civil society - particularly in the workplace - by reflecting on the recently published Human Rights Watch report, Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards.

4:00 pm Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets

2001 The Space Odyssey - Tetelman Lectures

[Lectures]

14 February --16 February 2001

Sciences & Engineering: The Tetelman Lectures, which bring distinguished scientists and engineers to campus, features Roger Blandford, R.C. Tolman Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech. Gary Haller, Becton Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Master of Jonathan Edwards College, organized this series. Robert Blandford, Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology. He received his BA, MA and PhD degrees from Cambridge University. He joined the astronomy faculty of the CalTech in 1976. He is a recipient of the Helen B. Warner and Dannie Heineman prizes of the American Astronomical Society and of the Darwin Lectureship and Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The capability to operate telescopes from space has brought about a revolution in our view of the universe. The electromagnetic spectrum has been opened up, from long radio waves to high energy gamma rays, and atmospheric limitations on imaging have been removed. As a consequence, we have all been privileged to vicariously share in a thrilling voyage of discovery--a modern counterpart to the great sea-faring voyages of the past and the mythical adventures of Odysseus. As was the case with the Mediterranean and the Earth, the Universe has consequently become a smaller and more intimate place, replete with exotic environments that stretch our imagination. Many of the most surprising, recent discoveries made with space--and ground-based telescopes have involved black holes and neutron stars. These can efficiently transform gaseous fuel into explosive bursts of radiant energy and outflows moving almost as fast as light, and allow us to witness extreme physics experiments that are impossible in terrestrial laboratories.

5:15 p.m. Davies Auditorium, Becton Center, 15 Prospect Street

Feb 15 The Master's Tea "A Conversation with Robert Blandford"

4:00 p.m., Jonathan Edwards College, The Masters House, 70 High Street.

Feb 16 "New Horizons in Black Hole Astrophysics"

The Physics Club: Roger Blandford, R.C. Tolman Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech

4:00 pm, 57 Sloane Physics Lab, Preceded at 3:30 by coffee, Sloane Lounge 3rd Floor SPL, 217 Prospect Street.

Theatricality and Anti-theatricality in the Eighteenth Century

[Conferences/Concert]

16 February --18 February 2001

As part of a series of activities celebrating Yale's Tercentennial, the Lewis Walpole Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Yale Center for British Art - in cooperation with the Department of English, the Program in Theater Studies, and the School of Drama - are hosting an international conference on aspects of theater "and the anti-theater prejudice" in the eighteenth century. Fourteen scholars will share their perspectives on a wide-ranging paradox of eighteenth-century life (one that was locally manifest in the early history of Yale College): amid religious and moral attacks on the stage, and despite denunciations and persecutions, performances of all kinds not only endured but actually flourished.

The conference begins on Friday afternoon, February 16, with the Eighth Annual Lewis Walpole Library Lecture, entitled "Et in Arcadia ego: The Eighteenth Century of the 1920s," by Professor Terry Castle, Walter A. Haas, Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. It concludes on Sunday, February 18, with a concert of eighteenth-century theater music performed by Margaret van Dijk and other distinguished artists. It also features a special performance of William Congreve's The Way of the World (1700) by the Yale Repertory Theatre and a brief staging of selected scenes from other Restoration plays - in fact, the very ones denounced most vociferously by Jeremy Collier in A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698).

Two thematically related exhibitions are on view during the conference: The Spectacle of Painting: Theater and the Painted Image in Eighteenth-Century English Art, curated by Julia Mariari Alexander, Assistant Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, and Theater and Anti-Theater in the Eighteenth Century at Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, curated by Vincent Giroud, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at the Library, in consultation with Joseph R. Roach, Charles C. & Dorathea Professor of Theater at Yale.

The symposium is free and open to the public. Conference attendees may reserve complimentary tickets for the Saturday evening performance of The Way of the World. For Further information, call 860-677-2140 or e-mail walpole@yale.edu or view the web site.

February 16-18, 2001

Exhibit

Spectacle of Painting: Theater and the Painted Image in Eighteenth-Century English Art, curated by Julia Mariari Alexander, Assistant Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, and Theater and Anti-Theater in the Eighteenth Century at Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, curated by Vincent Giroud, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at the Library, in consultation with Joseph R. Roach, Charles C. & Dorathea Professor of Theater at Yale.

Yale University Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111Chapel Street

16 February 2001

Annual Lewis Walpole Library Lecture: "Et in Arcadia ego: The Eighteenth Century of the 1920s." Terry Castle, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University. Followed by a reception at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and "A Short, Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage," selected scenes from Restoration plays, directed by Joseph R. Roach, Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater, Yale University

4:00 p.m. Yale University Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111Chapel Street

17 February 2001

Conference Plenary Sessions

9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Lecture Hall, Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street

Special performance of William Congreve's The Way of the World (1700)

8:00 p.m. Yale Repertory Theatre, Corner Chapel & York Streets

18 February 2001

Conference Plenary Sessions

9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Lecture Hall, Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street

Et in Arcadia ego: The Eighteenth Century of the 1920s

[Lecture]

16 February 2001

The conference Theatricality and Anti-theatricality in the Eighteenth Century will begin on Friday afternoon, with this Eighth Annual Lewis Walpole Library Lecture by Professor Terry Castle, Walter A. Haas, Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University

9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Yale University Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street

Concert of Eighteenth-Century Music

[Concert]

18 February 2001

As part of a series of activities celebrating the Yale Tercentennial, the Lewis Walpole Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Yale Center for British Art - in cooperation with the Department of English, the Program in Theater Studies, and the School of Drama - are hosting an international conference on aspects of theater "and the anti-theater prejudice" in the eighteenth century.

2:30 p.m. Lecture Hall, Center for British Art,

The Death of Citizenship?

[Lectures]

20 & 22 February 2001

DeVane Lecture: Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science

While philosophers debate the nature of democratic citizenship, the practice of citizenship is disintegrating before our eyes. Vietnam killed the citizen army. Television killed the political party as a popular institution. The citizen jury is on the fringe of everyday life -- while jury duty has not yet completely disintegrated in manner of service in the citizen militia, it is nothing more than a momentary nuisance. The only significant institution that still invites involvement by ordinary people is the public school, and it too is under attack.

The rituals of citizenship have been stripped down to a precious few -- besides the formal act of voting, perhaps the most significant ordinary act of citizenship is to show one's passport at the border, and thereby gain admission to this land of peace and plenty. But it is quite possible to live life in America today without ever dealing with others as fellow citizens - fellow workers or professionals, yes; fellow religionists or union members, yes; but fellow citizens, focusing on our common predicament as Americans, no -- that's for TV pundits.

Within this setting, the disagreements between so-called communitarians like Mike Walzer and so-called liberals like myself pale into insignificance. For both of us, the foundation of legitimate politics is an ongoing conversation among citizens; and such a conversation presupposes that people recognize each other as the sorts of creatures who meaningfully engage in such conversations. This recognition does not emerge magically from a state of nature. While it might have evolved spontaneously under the conditions of the Greek polis or the Italian city-state, this is definitely not true today. It is perfectly possible for us to live in mass market society without ever taking citizenship seriously.

Rather than engaging in meta-speculation about the foundations of such a project, I will summarize three initiatives of mine that exemplify it. Each is a book I am writing in collaboration with a different co-author, and each gets on with the business of making a practical proposal which, if adopted, would create a new and meaningful context in which ordinary Americans would think of themselves as citizens, as opposed to mothers and fathers, workers or bosses, Catholics or Jews.

All three books adopt a stance that I will playfully call realistic utopian. Beginning with the realistic side of this oxymoron, each works out its particular proposal with all the tools of modern public policy analysis and aspires to the (undoubtedly unattainable) ideals of rigorous empirical demonstration prized in the Kennedy School and like institutions throughout the land. The task, in short, is to establish -- as well as such things can be established-- that the proposal will actually operate effectively as a functioning part of contemporary American society. But unlike most policy work, my focus is not on relatively minor modifications of the status quo, as defined by existing political forces and understandings. Instead, my aim is unabashedly driven by philosophical concerns: How might we change the world so as to create meaningful contexts for liberal citizenship? If something is doable, and pushes us in the right direction, then it should be added to the next liberal agenda. For God knows, we need a new liberal agenda, one more inspiring than subsidized prescriptions for the elderly and the elimination of the national debt by 2012.

I will end by taking a step back to the meta-level : suppose, heroically, that my three proposals seem both practical and desirable, what does that teach us about the daunting question I left dangling about the art of political invention: Is there anything generalizable to be learned from these three particular exercises in citizenship construction?

4:00pm, Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets

Discrete Mathematics: Methods and Challenges

[Lectures]

21 February 2001

Professor Noga Anon of Tel Aviv University will deliver the Tercentennial Lecture on Discrete Mathematics: Combinatorics is an essential component of many mathematical areas, and its study has experienced an impressive growth in recent years. I will discuss two of the main general techniques that played a crucial role in the development of modern combinatorics; algebraic methods and probabilistic methods. Both techniques will be illustrated by examples, where the emphasis is on the basic ideas, the connection to other areas, and the related open problems.

4:30 pm to 5:30 pm, Davies Auditorium, Dunham Lab, 15 Prospect Street

Globalization and the Environment: The Problem of Global Public Goods

[Lectures]

21 February 2001

School of Forestry and Environmental Studies: William Nordhaus, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics and former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, speaks on "The Problem of Global Public Goods."

Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY

The Bioethics of Children's Rights

[Seminar]

21 February 2001

ISPS Bioethics Seminar: Forum on Bioethical Issues in Society featuring Dr. Albert J. Solnit, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Former Director, Yale Child Study Center and former Commissioner, CT. State Department of Health Services

7:30 pm Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street

Reflections on International Security and Human Rights

[Lectures]

21 February 2001

International Security Studies: Harold H. Koh, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and Assistant Security of State of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US Department of State. Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.

4:30 pm Luce Hall Auditorium

Gordon Grand Lecture

[Lectures]

22 February 2001

Gordon Grand Fellowship: Paul Tagliabue, Commissioner of the National Football League (NFL), will speak on campus. He will deliver the Gordon Grand Lecture, "Pro Sports in the New Millennium."

4 pm President's House, 43 Hillhouse Avenue

Leadership in Religious Nonprofits

[Lectures]

22 February 2001

Institution for Social & Policy Studies: Sponsored by the Program on Non-Profit Organizations at ISPS, with William L. Sachs, Director of Research, Episcopal Church Foundation, Visiting Fellow, PONPO, Yale University

Basement of 77 Prospect Street

Struggling to Stay Human in Medicine: American Medical Students and Radical Health Movements in the 1960's

[Lectures]

22 February 2001

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Naomi Rogers, PhD. Director of Undergraduate Studies, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Yale University; Lecturer History of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine. Reception will follow.

5 pm, Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street

Theatrical Production

[Theater]

23 February - 24 February 2001

School of Medicine: Annual medical student show.

Harkness Hall

The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rev. Dr. Robert L. Johnson

25 February 2001

[Faith]

Chaplain's Office: Rev. Dr. Robert L. Johnson, Director Cornell United Religious Work, Cornell University, New York.

VIDEO

11:00 am Battell Chapel, Corner of Elm and College Streets

Professors and Policy Makers: Yale Law School in the New Deal and After

[Lectures]

26 February 2001

Law School: History of the Law School Series. Robert Gordon speaks on "Professors and Policy Makers: Yale Law School in the New Deal and After."

4:30 pm Yale Law School Room 127, 127 Wall Street

American Democracy and the Origins of the Biomedical Revolution

[Lectures]

27 February & 1 March 2001

DeVane Lecture: Joan A. Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

The biomedical revolution started in 1953 with the discovery of the structure of DNA, the genetic material, by Watson and Crick. This led to the growth of a new discipline called molecular biology. The resulting development in the mid-1970s of recombinant DNA spawned the biotechnology industry, advances in the prevention and treatment of disease (diagnostic tests, monitoring the blood supply), genetically modified foods and now the human genome. Why has this spectacular revolution in understanding and application occurred primarily in the US rather than in other nations equally competent in science?

We will discuss how diversity both in the structure of higher education in the US and in the funding of basic biomedical research has contributed. The decision of the American government after World War II to invest in basic research, leading to the founding of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and expansion of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was important. However, the non-hierarchical structure of faculties at research universities (both public and private) and the disproportionate representation of graduates of liberal arts colleges (which do not exist elsewhere in the world) in science are also major factors. Likewise, the plurality of funding sources that have supported pursuit-of-knowledge rather than strategic research goals has been critical. Both governmental agencies (NIH and NSF) and private foundations, such as the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), have relied on peer review, markedly increasing the probability of funding truly innovative ideas. Finally, the American scientist is not a passive recipient, but much more of an activist engaged in shaping research policy than scientists elsewhere.

4:00 pm Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets

Medicine at Yale, 1901 - 1951

[Exhibits]

Through March 2001

Yale School of Medicine: This photographic exhibit chronicles the history of the Yale Medical School. Free and open to the public.

Sterling Hall of Medicine, Medical Library Rotunda, 333 Cedar Street

Neighbors: Working Together for a Healthy New Haven

[Exhibits]

Through - March 2001

Yale School of Medicine: Tercentennial Photograph Exhibit. Free and open to the public.

Sterling Hall of Medicine, Medical Library Rotunda, 333 Cedar Street

Yale's Legacy of Inventors - Gibbs' Regulator

[Exhibits]

4 March 2001

Eli Whitney Museum: In honor of Yale's 300th Birthday, we will celebrate Yale's legacy of inventors. This month we'll construct a motor that thinks for itself about speed. Batteries included. Appropriate for children 11 and above.

Pre-reservation is advised: the materials are unusual and limited. All begin at 3 p.m.

Fee: $18, $15 for members *add $5 for materials

Eli Whitney Museum 915 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT Call 203- 777-1833

History of New Haven Medicine

[Lectures]

8 March 2001

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. Clinical Professor of Surgery and Gastroenterology Yale School of Medicine. Reception will follow.

5 pm, Medical History Library, 333 Cedar Street

Democracy and Voluntarism

[Lectures]

8 March 2001

Yale Club/Dwight Hall: Robert Putnam, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and author, Bowling Alone; with a local panel.

1:00 pm

Creative Arts Workshop Celebrates Yale's Tercentennial: Yale School of Art Graduates at the Hilles Gallery

[Exhibits]

16 March - 22 April 2001

This exhibit features artwork by seventy-five graduates of the Yale School of Art. Free and open to the public.

Mon - Fri, 9 - 5, Sat 9 - noon

Hilles Gallery, Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT

History of Yale Law School

[Lectures]

19 March 2001

Yale Law School: Gaddis Smith, Larned Professor Emeritus History, speaks on" Law, Politics, and the University in the 20th Century." Free and open to the public.

4:30 pm Battell Chapel, Corner of Elm and College Streets

Private Foundations as a Federally Regulated Industry

[Lectures]

19 March 2001

Institution for Social & Policy Studies: John G. Simon, Augustus E. Lines Professor of Law, Yale Law School. For more information call 432-6297. Free and open to the public.

12 noon, Basement of 77 Prospect Street

New Research on the Vietnam War

[Lectures]

21 March 2001

International Security Studies: Lien-Hang Nguyen, History Department, Yale. Part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security. For more information, visit www.yale.edu/iss/events_series_colloquium.htm.

4:30, Luce Hall, Room 103, Hillhouse Avenue

Boola, Boola . . . Yale Goes Coed

[Film]

20 & 22 March 2001

Women Faculty Forum sponsors a series of events to mark transformations that women at and from Yale have brought about.

This hour long documentary is about the early days of co-education at Yale. Filmmaker Julia Pimsleur made the film as an undergraduate in 1990, receiving the Sudler Prize for artistic achievement for her work.

Prior to each showing, faculty and administrators, who were involved in the beginnings of coeducation here at Yale, share brief personal recollections with the audience.

Confirmed speakers: Deans Richard Brodhead and Anthony Kronman, Professors Margaret Homans, Charles Musser, Cynthia Russett, and Gaddis Smith. Free and open to the public.

7 pm Yale University Art Gallery Lecture Hall (use High Street entrance)

Democracy and Computers -- Pitfalls, Possibilities

[Lectures]

20 & 22 March 2001

DeVane Lecture: David Gelernter, Professor of Computer Science. Are computers good or bad for democracy? (Or are they just irrelevant?) We need to ask first: what's good for democracy in general? Citizens who are well-informed, thoughtful, and feel responsible for the community. On that basis we might easily guess that computers are no good for democracy. They are said to make people well informed, but ARE Americans well informed? (About what? We aren't even well-informed about computers.) It seems unlikely that computers make us thoughtful. (The kind of thoughtfulness that is most useful to a democracy centers, presumably, on experience, knowledge -- especially of history -- and common sense. Computers haven't contributed much in any of these departments.) And it seems possible that, in the long run, computers and the internet diminish our sense of responsibility to the community, insofar as they tend to connect us directly to the things we want instead of requiring that we work through human intermediaries.

We might even guess that computers are not merely no good for democracy, that they are actively bad for it. Computers and the internet, we might guess, have become American society's Big Theme (having lucked into the role when the Cold War retired). This topic more than any other is covered relentlessly in the press, fretted-over in the schools and discussed endlessly by everyone everywhere.

American society shows alarming signs of being molded around computers like limp plastic around a metal form. And we might easily guess that, as Big Themes go, this is a bad one -- because it is morally, spiritually and intellectually empty. Not that computers are intrinsically a vacuous topic, not at all; it's just that we like to treat them as if they were.

But this story doesn't have to be wholly negative. There are many things computers might do for democracy, in principle. They might diminish our sense of responsibility to the community, but they might also reconnect the community. Eventually they might in fact make citizens better informed. They might help us recover from the plague of passive reliance on professionals and experts that has afflicted us for so long. They might improve our schools. We make such developments more likely when we refuse to take the goodness of computers for granted, and insist on approaching them with the critical skepticism for which we are so highly celebrated. Free and open to the public.

4:00 pm Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets

Science, Technology and Politics

[Lectures]

22 March 2001

Engineering Department: Dr. D. Allan Bromley, Sterling Professor of the Sciences and Former Dean of Engineering will be visiting the Faculty of Engineering as a Sheffield Fellow. His talk is entitled "Science, Technology and Politics."

D. Allan Bromley is the first Sterling professor of the Sciences at Yale University and from 1989 to 1993 was the Assistant to the President of the United States for Science and Technology; from 1994 to 2000 he was Dean of Engineering at Yale. A member of the Yale faculty since 1960, he is the founder of the Nuclear Structure Laboratory that from 1963 to 1989 graduated more nuclear scientists than any other institution world wide. He has served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and of the American Physical Society. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1988 was awarded the US National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, by President Regan. Free and open to the public.

4:00 pm Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, Room 114, Corner of Grove and College/Prospect

Globalization and the Environment: The Nexus and the Neem Tree

[Lectures]

22 March 2001

School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Robert Kates, former Professor at Brown University, speaks on "The Nexus and the Neem Tree." Free and open to the public.

5:00 pm Bowers Auditorium, 205 Prospect Street

Democracy and Social Justice: International Perspectives

[Lectures]

22 March 2001

Democratic Vistas: Rev. Bryan J. Hehir, Chair of the Executive Committee of Harvard Divinity School and a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Center for International Affairs, presents the annual More House Lecture in conjunction with Yale's Tercentennial. He discusses issues of social justice from international vantage points. The event is part of the Democratic Vistas program.

Bruce Russett, Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations and Political Science Director of United National Studies, will respond.

Professor Hehir's writing and research address issues of ethics, foreign policy and international relations as well as Catholic social ethics and the role of religion in world politics.

The public is invited to attend this engaging and inspiring lecture to learn more about the important developments that continue to shape the foundations of Catholic social justice teaching and its impact on democracy in the modern world.

7:30 p.m. Saint Thomas More Chapel and Center, 268 Park Street, New Haven, CT

Yale Lesbian, Gay Bi & Trans Pride Week

[Theater]

23 March - 31 March 2001

Performance artists, playwrights, filmmakers, comedians and more. The LGBT Co-op plans a school-wide Pride Week inviting people throughout New Haven, Connecticut and the Yale community to attend. Events will be on campus and open to all. Please contact Laura Horak at laura.horak@yale.edu for more information and updates.

Reinventing the Melting Pot

[Conference/Symposium]

23 March 2001

Democratic Vistas Public Forum: Today, as at the turn of the twentieth century, few issues loom larger for the future of America than the influx of new immigrants arriving on its' shores. Counting both legal and illegal migrants, roughly a million people now enter the country each year, and by 2050, if today's projections are correct, a third of all Americans will be either Asian or Latino. Yet for a variety of reasons - both economic and cultural - many fear that the melting pot will not work for this great wave as it worked in the past for other newcomers. In the face of today's realities - everything from multiculturalism to cheap international air travel to deindustrialization, residential segregation, and the rise of the knowledge economy - scholars and social critics alike are rethinking the concept of immigrant absorption.

The first panel, from 1 to 3:30 pm, "Assimilation: Toward a New Definition," will consider ways to reframe the concept of assimilation to take account of today's realities. This session will be moderated by journalist Tamar Jacoby, Yale '76, a Senior Fellow at The Manhattan Institute. Guest participants will include David A. Hollinger, professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley; Michael Lind, senior fellow at the New America Foundation; Douglas S. Massey, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania; Orlando Patterson, professor of sociology at Harvard; and Alejandro Portes, professor of sociology at Princeton.

The second panel, from 3:45 to 6 p.m., "Immigration and the Urban Experience: New Haven and Elsewhere," will be moderated by Yale Professor of Political Science Rogers Smith, and will address the concrete implications of assimilation for cities like New Haven, comparing the experience of today's migrants with those, both black and white, who came in an earlier era. Professor Stephan Thernstrom of Harvard will offer a historical perspective, comparing conditions "then" and conditions "now," with some reference to the existing scholarship on the New Haven experience. Yale Professor of Management and Political Science Douglas Rae will discuss how the issues raised in the first panel are playing out in America's cities, including New Haven, in view of the altered economic and political conditions since the time of the first great wave of immigration. Local leaders Patricia McCann Vissepo (executive director of Casa Otonal, a senior citizens center, former President of the Board of Education, and a columnist for the New Haven Register) and Lyndon Pitter (executive director of Highville Mustardseed Community Development Corporation and founder of a charter school) will offer comments based on the New Haven experience. Professor Smith moderates. This event is free and open to the public.

1-6 p.m. Yale Law School Auditorium, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT.

American Society of Church Historians

[Alumni/AYA/Reunions]

23 March --24 March 2001

Divinity School: Meeting of the American Society of Church Historians, hosted by the Divinity School. The movie "Amistad" will be shown followed by a panel discussion.

The Tercentennial Preaching Series: The Rev. Dr. Jewelnel Davis

25 March 2001

[Faith]

Chaplain's Office: Rev. Dr. Jewelnel Davis, Chaplain, Columbia University, New York. Free and open to the public.

11:00 am, Battell Chapel, Corner of College and Elm Streets

Yale: Crossing International Boundaries - A Tercentennial Retrospective

26 March - 4 May 2001

[Exhibits/Lectures]

Sterling Memorial Library, Manuscripts and Archives: This retrospective entitled "The Near East, Africa and Yale: Archival Collection from Cairo to Cape Town," also includes two lectures:

March 26, Ben Foster, Professor of Assyriology lectures on "Yankees in Eden: Yale and the Beginnings of Arabic Study in the United States," 3 - 5 p.m. A reception follows.

March 28, David Apter, Professor Emeritus Sociology, lectures on "Perspectives on Africa," 3 - 5 p.m. A reception follows.

Exhibit: Manuscripts and Archives Memorabilia Room, Wall Street, 8:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Lectures: Take place in adjoining lecture hall in Sterling Memorial Library 3 - 5 p.m.

Democracy and Education

[Lectures]

27 & 29 March 2001

DeVane Lecture: Richard Brodhead, Dean of Yale College and A.Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English and Professor of American Studies

This lecture takes note of the fact that, while our political democracy has long looked to the schools as a training ground for citizens, the relation between democracy and schooling has been complex and tension-ridden throughout this country's history. In almost every generation, American schools have found inspiring new missions as they have been asked to make new dreams of democratic community come true. At the same time, in giving them institutionalized form, schools have also displayed the limitations of these visions and highlighted their unforeseen social implications-with the result that the school has also been a special site of controversy in America, the home at once of democracy's special hopes, fears, frustrations, and inner struggles. The lecture will explore the complexities of this relation by looking at three notable chapters in the history of American education: Thomas Jefferson's plan for schools for post-revolutionary Virginia; the movement, associated with Horace Mann, that pressed for compulsory universal public education in the antebellum era; and the democratization of college and university admissions-at Yale and elsewhere-in the century just closed. Free and open to the public.

4:00 pm Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets

A Hero for Daisy

[Film]

28 March 2001

Women Faculty Forum: This one-hour documentary is about two-time Olympian Chris Ernst, who galvanized her rowing team to storm the Yale Athletic Director's office in 1976 protesting the lack of proper locker room facilities for women. The incident did much to alert the nation about the inequities that persisted after the passage of Title IX legislation. Free and open to the public.

7pm Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102, High Street, New Haven, CT

Genes and Individuality - Tetelman Lectures

[Lectures]

28 March --30 March 2001

Sciences & Engineering: The Tetelman Lectures, which bring distinguished scientists and engineers to campus, will feature Sidney Brenner and will be hosted by Yale Professor Sydney Altman. Gary Haller, Becton Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Master of Jonathan Edwards College, is organizing this series. Free and open to the public.

March 28 - 5:15 p.m. Yale Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street

March 30 - 12:30 p.m. 226 Osborn Memorial Laboratory, 165 Prospect Street

Women at Yale and Beyond (WAY Beyond)

[Seminars/Panels]

29 March 2001

Women at Yale Series: This panel discussion invites distinguished alumnae of Yale College to reflect on their experiences at Yale and also on their lives since graduation. Each panelist shares with the audience (many of who will be current undergraduates) her views on how being a woman influenced her years at Yale and later career. Free and open to the public.

Confirmed speakers:

7:00 pm, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102, High Street

U.S. Postal Card and U.N. Commemorative Cancellation Ceremony

[Ceremonies]

30 March 2001

Connecticut Hall: In honor of Yale's Tercentennial, the U.S. Postal Service will dedicate a postal card featuring Connecticut Hall, Yale's (and New Haven's) oldest building. Remarks by Douglas Lewis ('60 B.A., '63 M.A., '67 PhD), Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art and for over twenty years Vice Chair of the U.S. Postal Service's Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee. The United Nations Postal Administration will dedicate a commemorative cancellation featuring Harkness Tower and the Tercentennial logo. Remarks by Joseph Verner Reed ('61 B.A.), Under Secretary-General, United National.

11:30am Connecticut Hall, 344 College Street, Old Campus

Beginning with the Humanities

[Symposia]

30 March - 31 March 2001

Whitney Humanities Center: This symposium is devoted to examining the relations of humanistic thinking and methods of interpretation to the emergent research paradigms in the biological and physical sciences, in the social sciences, in law, architecture, theology, and other fields which, at Yale, have been and will continue to be important interlocutors in the definition of the university of the twenty-first century. Topics for panel discussion include Enlightenments: Moments of Renewal at Yale; Epistemology & Certainty in Sciences & the Humanities; and The Public Face of the Humanities.

30 March 2001

Enlightenments: Moments of Renewals at Yale

10 am - 12:15 pm 53 Wall Street

Defining Moments - Moderator: Margaret Homans

This panel will address three defining moments from Yale's past:

3:45-5:45pm: 53 Wall Street

31 March 2001

53 Wall Street

Yaledancers Spring Concert

[Music/Student]

30 March -- 31 March 2001

Yaledancers Spring Concert: Yaledancers, the University's oldest dance group founded in 1973, will honor dance at Yale with two performances at New Haven's Palace Theater. The company is dedicated to the choreography and performance of a wide variety of dance styles. Please contact Tara Sugiyama at (203) 436-4328 or email tara.sugiyama@yale.edu for more information. For tickets ($8 students, $15 for adults), call The Palace Theater box office at (203) 789-2120.

8 p.m., The Palace Theater, 246 College Street, New Haven