William C. DeVane Lectures - Ideals Without Ideologies: Yale's Contribution to Modern Architecture Robert A.M. Stern, Dean School of Architecture

[Lectures]

10 September - 10 December 2001

DeVane Lectures/School of Architecture: This series of lectures, given by Robert A.M. Stern, Dean of the School of Architecture and six guest speakers, will examine post World War II architecture through the lens of the Yale School of Architecture, where key issues of architectural modernity, especially the conflicting relationship between European and American modalities of thought and practice, were vividly portrayed and debated in the classroom, studio and in the work of leading faculty and graduates. For more information, please call 203-432-2889 or email jennifer.castellon@yale.edu.

Yale Art Gallery Auditorium, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 7:30 p.m. Enter from High Street.

September 10 - Education for Architectural Practice: The Transfer of Modernism from Europe to America 1930-1948

September 17 - Modernism Historicized: Louis Kahn, Philip Johnson, and the Rediscovery of the Past, 1949-1956

September 24 - The History of the Future: Connections and Transformations - James Polshek M.Arch `55

October 1 - Architecture as Heroic Act: Eero Saarinen, Vincent Scully, Paul Rudolph, 1957-1965

October 8 - Exploring the City - Lord Norman Foster, M.Arch `62

October 22 - The Struggle Over the City idea - Alexander Tzonis, M.Arch `63

October 29 - Architecture & Revolution: From Project Argus to Panther Weekend, 1966-70

November 5 - Architecture as Culture & Counterculture - David Sellers, M.Arch `65

November 12 - Destruction & Reconstruction: The Post-Modernist Devolution, 1971-77

November 26 - The Recuperation of the Traditional Town - Andres Duany, M.Arch '74 & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, M.Arch `74

December 3 - The Continuity of the Art Idea, Maya Lin, M.Ach `86

December 10 - The Promise of the Recent Past, 1978 - 98

Envisioning the World in the Next Century: Challenges to Internationalizing Yale

[Symposia]

13 September -- 14 September 2001

Yale Center for International and Area Studies: Internationalizing the University is one of the major themes identified by President Levin in "Preparing for Yale's Fourth Century." This Tercentennial symposium brings together leading Yale faculty and distinguished graduates who are directly involved in studying and shaping U.S. and world policies to reflect on major global challenges. The symposium gives attention to the way Yale should train the next generation of U.S. and world leaders. Portions of the program repeat for the October 5 - 6 Tercentennial weekend. For additional information, contact YCIAS at 203-432-3410 or visit the web at www.yale.edu/ycias.

African American Studies 30th Reunion/Anniversary

[Reunion/Anniversary Celebrations]

14 September -- 16 September 2001

African American Studies: Yale's Department of African American Studies is among the first and certainly one of the most influential departments in the country. To celebrate its anniversary and the University's Tercentennial, the African American Studies Department will host an alumni reunion in celebration of its founding 33 years ago and its gaining of departmental status in July, 2000. The keynote speaker will be Kurt Schmoke, Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation and a 1971 graduate of Yale College.

Gender Matters: Women and Yale

[Conference]

20 - 21 September 2001

Women Faculty Forum: The 300th anniversary of Yale University offers an opportunity to reflect on the roles women have played in the university and beyond it over the past three centuries. During the last 100 years, women gained admission to Yale as students and now constitute 49.24% of its student body as well as serve on its faculty and in its administration. This conference examines contributions that women have made and how gender affects the subjects women study, the ideas and art women appreciate, the political, social and economic structures that shape women's lives.

Confirmed Speakers:

20/21 Vision: Educating Global Leaders for Business and Society in the 21st Century

[Anniversaries]

14 September -- 15 September 2001 This Event has been postponed

Yale School of Management: The youngest of Yale's schools, SOM invites its 4,000 alumni to celebrate its 25th anniversary and the Tercentennial with a program that includes workshops with faculty on the future of finance, strategic and global competition, and investment management. Visit www.yalesomtwentyfifth.com for more information.

28 September 2001

The Yale Entrepreneurial Society: This panel, moderated by and comprised of successful business people and "change agents," focuses on three subject areas:

For information email, evan.lepatner@yale.edu

For the Love of God: 300 Years of Theological Education

[Convocation/Reunion]

1 October -- 4 October 2001

Divinity School: Every year during the fall semester reading week, Yale Divinity School and Berkley Divinity School at Yale, hold the Annual Convocation which combines and features endowed lectureships. In honor of Yale's Tercentennial, Convocation will be held one week earlier, present and former faculty at the School and University are the Convocation lecturers. For more information, call 203-432-5303.

Friday, October 5 - Democratic Vistas: 9 - 11:30 a.m. - Woolsey Hall

Saturday, October 6 - Global Perspectives: 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

*Speakers to be confirmed.

17 October -- 19 October 2001

18 October 2001

19 October 2001

28 November -- 30 November 2001

ARCHIVES

The Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the New American Administration

[Lectures]

7 November 2000

International Security Studies: Charles Hill, Diplomat-in-Residence. Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.

Luce 103 | 4:30 PM

The Grand Strategy of Comprehensive Development

[Lectures]

8 November 2000

International Security Studies: James Gustave Speth, Dean School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University. Public reception to follow. Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.

Luce 103 | 12-2 pm

The Grand Strategy of United Nations' Peace Operations

[Lectures]

13 November 2000

HGS 211 | 4:00 PM

Israel's Political Situation

[Lectures]

16 November 2000

International Security Studies: Hirsh Goodman, Senior Research Fellow, Jaffa Center Tel Aviv University. Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.

Slifka Center Chapel | 1:15 PM

Waterloo and Social Welfare in Nineteenth Century Britain

[Lectures]

28 November 2000

International Security Studies: Elisa Milkes, History Department, Yale University. Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.

Luce 103 | 4:30 PM

Tea with Sir Kieran Prendergast, Under-Secretary-General, DPA United Nations

[Lectures]

30 November 2000

International Security Studies: Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.

Luce 103 | 4:30 PM

Security and Defense: The EU Dimension

[Lectures]

6 December 2000

International Security Studies: Luncheon discussion with Lord Leon Brittan, Vice President, European Commission (1989-1999). Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.

Luce 103 | 12-2 PM

"And I Looked into the Future..." - The Challenge of Writing an Intellectual History of the United Nations

[Lectures]

6 December 2000

International Security Studies: Paul Kennedy, Director, International Security Studies, Yale University. Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.

Luce 103 | 4:30 PM

Grand Strategy, American Democracy, and U.S. Military Policy

[Lectures]

12 December 2000

International Security Studies: Ashton Carter, John F. Kennedy School, Harvard University will conclude ISS's Grand Strategy Lecture Series with an address on "Grand Strategy, American Democracy, and US Military Policy. Ash Carter is Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs at Harvard and Co-Director, with William J. Perry, of the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project. From 1993-1996 Carter served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy.

He continues to serve in an official capacity as Senior Adviser to the North Korea Policy Review, chaired by William J. Perry. Carter received bachelor's degrees in physics and in medieval history from Yale University and a doctorate in theoretical physics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Please contact Ted R. Bromund, Associate Director ISS if interested in participating.

Luce 103 | 3:00 PM with public reception to follow in Prof. Carter's honor from 4:30 to 5:30 in the Luce Hall Common Room

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

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

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

January 26 Environmental Geochemistry at the Global Scale

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

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

January 26 Environmental Geochemistry at the Global Scale

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

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

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

Symposium on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health

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:

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

14 February --16 February 2001

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

28 March --30 March 2001

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

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

Advocacy

[Lectures]

2 April 2001

ISPS Lecture: Elizabeth Boris, Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropy, and The Urban Institute.

Basement of 77 Prospect

Democracy and the Family

[Lectures]

3 & 5 April 2001

DeVane Lecture: Nancy F. Cott, Stanley Woodward Professor of History and American Studies

The lecture on Democracy and the Family will focus on the national public values associated with private families in the twentieth-century United States. This linkage rose to a new level of emphasis during World War II, when political discourse embraced liberty, privacy, and consent as hallmarks of American families. The U.S Supreme Court set these linkages into constitutional interpretation at mid-century, fusing the protection of marital intimacy to the political principles of American democracy, and thus underpinning contemporary constitutional doctrine on privacy rights. The emotional and material comforts of home have continued to be seen as personally-chosen private freedoms and at the same time as public emblems of the nation, essential to its existence and defense. My lecture will pursue the shifting but persistent invocation of these themes through the second half of the twentieth century, in which, it could be said, American political discourse invokes a particular family form as democracy,s most appealing common denominator. Free and open to the public.

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

Yale, America, and the World, 1701

4 April 2001

International Security Studies: John Demos, Knight Professor of History, Yale University gives this lecture. The first of five lectures in the ISS Tercentennial lecture Series on "Yale, America, and the World." Only the first two hundred arrivals can be seated in the auditorium. Followed by a public reception at the Center for British Art.

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 4:00

Can Religion Tolerate Democracy (and Vice Versa)?

[Lectures]

10 & 12 April 2001

DeVane Lecture: Stephen L. Carter, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law

As we look toward the future of religion in America, we can note three intersecting trends. First, the American people are, and seem likely to remain, by far the most deeply religious people in the Western world, and religious people tend to see their world in religious terms. Second, both political philosophy and elite opinion insist on the view that religious sentiment is a contaminant in politics, and in the public conversation that should characterize liberal democracy. Third, the Supreme Court, often relied upon as the referee, has more or less quit the field.

This lecture will examine strong religious devotion from the point of view of liberal democracy, and liberal democracy from the point of view of strong religious devotion. Some of it will be history, some of it will be theory, and some of it will be constitutional law - but most of it will be practical reality, less what should be than what is, for accurately recognizing the features of the world we inhabit is necessarily prior to deciding whether to try to change them.

The basic thesis is this: As liberal democracy grows increasingly scientistic, its structures of authority will necessarily become less populist, as well as less attuned to modes of belief and of living that depart from scientistic norms. At the same time, religious will find themselves under pressure to accede to the norms of liberal culture. Each will struggle to change the other. But democracy without religion is empty of meaning, and religion without democracy is empty of faith. We fought those battles once already in America, at the dawn of the twentieth century. How appropriate to find ourselves revisiting them at the dawn of the twenty-first. Free and open to the public.

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

Yale, America, and the World, 1801

11 April 2001

International Security Studies: Linda Colley, Leverhulme Research Professor in History, London School of Economics and Political Science gives this lecture. The second of five lectures in the ISS Tercentennial Lecture Series on "Yale, America, and the World." Only the first two hundred arrivals can be seated in the Auditorium. Followed by a public reception at the Yale Center for British Art.

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 4:00 p.m.

Seven Days in November: How the Events of November 18-24, 1963 Shaped the American Courses of Action in Vietnam

[Lectures]

12 April 2001

International Security Studies: Jon Persoff, History Department, Yale. part of the ISS Colloquium in International History and Security.

TBD, Luce Hall Room 103, Hillhouse Avenue

Nonprofit Organizations and Democracy

[Lectures]

16 April 2001

ISPS Lecture: Mark Rosenman, Vice President for Social Responsibility, Union Institute& Jim Riker, Coordinator of the Nonprofit Leadership & Democracy Project at the Union Institute.

Basement of 77 Prospect

Measuring Community Benefit and the Role of Nonprofit Managed Care Organizations

[Lectures]

16 April 2001

ISPS Lecture: Mark Schlesinger, Associate Professor of Public Health & Division Head, Health Policy Administration, Yale University.

Basement of 77 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT

Let Justice Roll Down: Faith and Citizenship in New Haven

[Lectures]

16 April 2001

Democratic Vistas Public Forums: Featuring a national spokesperson on the role of religion in the pursuit of democratic values. Moderated by Rev. Bonita Grubbs, Director, Christian Community Action. With Rev. Dr. Harold Dean Trulear, and a panel of local activists including Dr. Jimmy Jones, Rev. Scott Marks, Pat Speer, Patricia Wallace.

First and Summerfield Methodist Church, On the New Haven Green at Elm & College Streets, 4:30 p.m.

Democracy and Foreign Policy

[Lectures]

17 & 19 April 2001

DeVane Lecture: John Lewis Gaddis, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History

This lecture will begin with a short history of American thinking on the issue of whether the United States should try to spread democracy elsewhere, focusing especially on the tension between the idea that people should determine their own forms of government, on the one hand, and belief in the superiority of American institutions, on the other. It will then examine the actual expansion of democracy throughout the world during the 20th century, with a view to determining the extent to which American actions - deliberate or otherwise - helped to bring about this result. The lecture will conclude with an assessment of prospects for this trend toward global democratisation in the 21st century, and with an evaluation of arguments for and against the proposition that sustaining it is or should be a vital national interest for the United States.

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

Secret State Experiments on Humans

[Lectures]

18 April 2001

Lecture: John Moreno: Korfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics & Director of Center for Medical Ethics, University of Virgina, Charlottsville, Virgina

Slifka Center, Wall Street, New Haven, CT 7:30 p.m

Is the Press part of the Public? Local Media and Local Democracy

[Lectures]

18 April 2001

Poynter Fellowship/Democratic Vistas Public Forums: Featuring a national spokesperson for the "civic journalism" movement, Jay Rosen of NYU, author of "What are Journalists For?," with a panel including regional journalists Dan Barry of The New York Times and Duby McDowell (NBC 30-TV), Mary O'Leary of the New Haven Register, Paul Bass of The New Haven Advocate, and local public official Henry Fernandez, Economic Development administrator for the City of New Haven. Moderated by writer Lincoln Caplan, Knight Senior Journalist at the Yale Law School.

Yale Law School, Room 127, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 4:00 p.m.

Meritocracy and Democracy: The Temptations of Mechanical, "Objective," and Impersonal Measures of Quality

[Lectures]

24 & 26 April 2001

DeVane Lecture: James C. Scott, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology

"Why are nearly all modern democracies, as well as large bureaucracies, inclined to devise impersonal, mechanical, 'objective' measures for what most of us would agree are qualitative judgments? Thus, although we now understand that there are many kinds of intelligence (analytical, aesthetic, imaginative, mechanical, spatial, etc), intelligence is, for the purpose of college admissions, gauged by the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Many of the benefits and burdens of large projects (dams, agricultural colonization, roads) defy measurement. And yet, a single metric called 'cost-benefit analysis' which assumes that all outcomes are commensurable, is typically used to evaluate them, whether by the World Bank, Ministries of Public Works, or development consultants. Why are professors increasingly evaluated by the number of articles, books, and their "social science citation index' scores? Why are school teachers judges by the mean scores of their pupils? What are the consequences of judging the quality of people and their work in this fashion? Why, in other words, do political systems designed to peaceably resolve differences in values actually end up removing so much of the stuff of politics to the realm of technical calculation? Free and open to the public.

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

Pictures of the People: Visual Multiples and their Role as Supporting Tools for the Democratic Process

[Lectures]

1 & 3 May 2001

DeVane Lecture: Richard Benson, Dean of the School of Art, Professor of Photography

The question underlying the lecture will be of the chicken and egg variety did technological innovation precede social developments, and make them possible, or did desire and need drive the development of technology.

This point can be nicely illustrated by examining the origin of printing from moveable type. The development of this invention had nothing to do with a philosophical ideal, such as disseminating knowledge broadly to a previously un-empowered audience; rather printing was invented simply to make cheaper books. Only after its establishment did the possibility of widespread education, through the production of identical multiple copies, become a possibility. Free and open to the public.

I will show pictures that illuminate 5 major technical aspects of pictures:

1 The nature of pictures as representational, symbolic or decorative.

2 The development of pictures that can move (not moving pictures, but rather ones that can travel to widespread audiences)

3 The revolutionary possibilities of identical multiple images.

4 The invention and implications of photography.

5 The steadily decreasing mass of printing matrices and multiple picture forms.

All of this is about the dissemination of knowledge through the power of pictures, and the manner in which systems such as democracy can grow to previously unheard of scales through the efficient spread of identical blocks of information through visual forms that exist in multiple copies. Free and open to the public.

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

Exhibition will be on display through June 1st, at the Yale University Visitor Information Center.

Yale, America, and the World, 1901

[Lectures]

14 June 2001

International Security Studies: Paul Kennedy, Dilworth Professor of History, Yale University, gives this speech. The third of five lectures in the ISS Tercentennial Lecture Series on "Yale, America, and the World." This lecture will be delivered in association with the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.

Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 5:00 p.m.

Yale Center for British Art: This exhibition draws from the Yale Center for British Art's collection and includes works by William Blake, Thomas Gainsborough, and others. Free and open to the public.