Nassau Notes
Lectures address health care, Arab-Israeli peace
Stuart Altman will address the question "Will the U.S.
Loosen Its Purse Strings on Health Care?" and Aaron Miller
will give a talk titled "In Pursuit of Arab-Israeli Peace"
at 4:30 pm on October 18 in 1 and 2 Robertson Hall,
respectively.
Altman is chair of the Council on
the Economic Impact of Health System Change, a private
nonpartisan group sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation. Former president of the Foundation for Health
Services Research, he is Sol C. Chaikin Professor of
National Health Policy at Brandeis University's Florence
Heller Graduate School for Social Policy.
Now Deputy Special Middle East
Coordinator for Arab-Israeli Negotiations for the US
Department of State, Miller has served as adviser to four
Secretaries of State since 1985. Author of three books on
the Middle East, he was appointed by President Clinton to
serve on the US Holocaust Memorial Council.
WWS holds talks on October 19
At 4:30 pm on October 19, Susan Lautze will speak
on "Privatizing Humanitarian Relief Operations: A Case Study
from Sudan" in 1 Robertson Hall, and David Scheffer will
discuss "War, Crime, and Punishment: Precedents for the 21st
Century" in 8 Robertson Hall.
Lautze is director of the
Livelihoods Initiatives Program at Tufts University's
Feinstein International Famine Center. She has done
extensive relief and development work in Africa and Asia and
worked for various UN organizations and the US Agency for
International Development. She earned a master of public
affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School in 1995.
Scheffer is US ambassador at large
for war crimes issues, reporting directly to Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright. He coordinates support for the
Yugoslav and Rwandan War Crimes Tribunals and leads US
participation in UN negotiations for the establishment of a
permanent International Criminal Court. He has taught at
many institutions, including the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, Columbia University and Harvard
University's Center for International Affairs.
Hollywood writer, producer visits Princeton
Writer and producer John Romano will be an Eberhardt L.
Faber Fellow on campus during the week of October 18. His
schedule includes a lecture and discussion on "Writing and
Producing for Film and Television" at 4:30 pm on October
19; a sneak preview of a film he has cowritten with
Richard Vetere, The Third Miracle, at 7:30 pm on October
20; and a seminar entitled "Third Miracle, Third Watch:
From Page to Screen" at 10:30 am on October 22. All
events, held in 185 Nassau St., are sponsored by the Council
of the Humanities and the Department of English.
Upon completion of his PhD at Yale
in 1975, Romano was an assistant professor of English at
Columbia University before moving to Los Angeles to join the
staff of Hill Street Blues.
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James Kugel |
James Kugel will lecture on "The Bible's Most Ancient
Interpreters" at 4:30 pm on October 21 in Dodds
Auditorium, Robertson Hall. A reception will follow in
Schultz Dining Room.
At Harvard University, Kugel is
Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and
Hebrew Literature, professor of comparative literature,
director of the Center for Jewish Studies and a member of
the Divinity School faculty. He is also professor of Bible
at Bar Ilan University in Israel.
Recipient of numerous awards and
prizes, he is the author of The Bible As It Was, In
Potiphar's House: The Interpretive Life of Biblical Texts in
Early Judaism and Christianity, Poetry and Prophecy
and On Being a Jew.
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Adrienne Rich |
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Adrienne Rich, poet, essayist and MacArthur Fellow, will read from her work at 5:00 pm on October 21 in Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50. The reading is sponsored by the Council of the Humanities. (Photo by Gypsy Ray)
Gallucci speaks on weapons of destruction
Robert Gallucci will speak on "Proliferation of Weapons
of Mass Destruction: The New Threat" at 4:30 pm on
October 20 in 1 Robertson Hall.
Gallucci was named dean of
Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in 1996, after
completing 21 years of government service, including two
years as ambassador at large. In March 1998 the State
Department named him the special envoy to deal with the
proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass
destruction. He was previously deputy executive chair of the
UN Special Commission overseeing the disarmament of
Iraq.
Gallucci is the author of Neither
Peace nor Honor: The Politics of American Military Policy in
Vietnam.
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WildeGeorges de Ménil will give a lecture titled "Will
Capital Mobility Put Pressure on Euroland to Deregulate Its
Labor Markets?" at 4:30 pm on October 21 in 1
Robertson Hall.
Economic adviser to the Prime
Minister of Romania, de Ménil is coordinator of the
Romanian government's private pension reform and cofounder
of the Romanian Center for Economic Policy. He is also a
professor of economics at the Ecole des Haute Etudes en
Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Cofounder and senior editor of
Economic Policy, he is the author of Bargaining: Monopoly
Power vs. Union Power and Stabilization Policy in France and
the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Watercolors"View of Capo Ducato, or Sappho's Leap, Leucas," by Edward Lear is one of the works to be discussed by Rare Book Conservator Barbara Meierhusby in a gallery talk entitled "Now You See It, Now You Don't: Watercolor Conservation" at 12:30 pm on October 22 and 3:00 pm on October 24. |
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Silent phantomLon Chaney appears in Phantom of the Opera (1925), to be shown in the University Chapel at 9:00 pm on October 22. The film will be presented with live music performed by David Messineo, formerly of Radio City Music Hall, on the chapel organ. Tickets are available at the door. |
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