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Photo-pastels by Betty Reed on view
"Carnegie Spring" is among the photo-pastels by Betty Reed on view through Jan. 5 in the Women and Gender Studies Lounge, 113 Dickinson Hall. For more than 50 years, Reed has enjoyed a career in oil and pastel painting while serving as exhibition chair on the Art Association boards of Rahway, Westfield, Plainfield and Princeton. She recently retired as a docent after 19 years at the Princeton University Art Museum and now serves on the art committee of the Nassau Club. Gallery hours in November are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call the office at 258-5430 for the December and January schedule.
Nov. 18 program features panel of former Supreme Court clerks
Five former U.S. Supreme Court law clerks will participate in a panel discussion at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, in 16 Robertson Hall.
"The Legacy of Justice Harlan: A Conversation With His Clerks," is being hosted by the Program in Law and Public Affairs in conjunction with the first John Marshall Harlan '20 Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will deliver the lecture on Monday, Nov. 17. A lottery for tickets to the O'Connor lecture has been held, and winners have been notified. The Nov. 18 panel is free and open to the public.
Four former Harlan clerks, including two Princeton alumni, and a former clerk of O'Connor will participate in the panel. The former Harlan clerks are: Norman Dorsen, the Stokes Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union; Marvin Gray Jr., a 1966 Princeton graduate and a partner at Davis Wright Termaine; Kent Greenwalt, a professor at Columbia Law School; and Thomas Stoel Jr., a 1962 Princeton graduate and an environmental attorney and consultant who cofounded the Natural Resources Defense Council. Also participating will be Marci Hamilton, the Paul Verkuil Chair in Public Law and director of the Intellectual Property Law Program at Cardozo Law School, who clerked for O'Connor and is now a Supreme Court litigator.
The John Marshall Harlan '20 Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication honors the 1920 Princeton graduate who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1955 until 1971. Harlan was the eighth and most recent Princetonian to serve on the court.
Islamic scholar to discuss Shi'ite
A lecture on "Who Are the Leaders of the Iraqi Shi'ites?" is planned for 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, in McCosh 50.
Roy Mottahedeh, the Gurney Professor of History at Harvard University, will explain the historical background of the present Shi'ite community in Iraq. He also will discuss the rise of some leading clerics, and will focus on the Shi'ite clergy as an element in the Iraqi political situation.
Mottahedeh's major work is on the pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East. His publications include "Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society" (1980) and "The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran" (1985). He is the faculty adviser of a new journal, The Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review.
Mottahedeh's talk is designated as the Walter Edge Lecture and is part of the University's Public Lectures Series. The event will be Webcast; for viewing information, visit <www.princeton.edu/webmedia>.
Primatologist to deliver Tanner lectures
Primatologist Frans de Waal will deliver two lectures on the theme, "How Close to the Apes? Human Behavior and Primate Evolution," at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 19-20, in Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50. These events are the annual Tanner Lectures on Human Values, sponsored by the University Center for Human Values.
De Waal has been conducting research on primates for nearly 30 years. Since the mid-1980s, he has worked with chimpanzees at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and with bonobos at the San Diego Zoo. In 1991, he accepted a joint position in the psychology department of Emory University and at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, both in Atlanta. His current interests include food sharing, social reciprocity and conflict resolution in primates as well as the origins of morality and justice in human society.
In his Tanner Lectures on Human Values, de Waal will discuss the evolutionary origins of human morality, and the implications of what we know about bonobos for models of human social evolution. De Waal has titled his first lecture "The Two Terrible Toms, or Homo Homini Lupus," and the second "On Anthropodenial, or When a Kiss Is Not a Kiss."
Four visiting scholars will deliver comments following the lectures: Philip Kitcher, professor of philosophy at Columbia University; Christine Korsgaard, the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University; Richard Wrangham, professor of biological anthropology at Harvard; and Robert Wright, an independent scholar and author of "Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny."
A public reception in Prospect House follows both lectures. For more information, visit the University Center for Human Values Web site at <www.princeton.edu/values> or call 258-4798. The events, part of University's Public Lectures Series, will be Webcast; for viewing information, visit <www.princeton. edu/webmedia>.
Playwright, actor performs 'Afghan Woman' on Nov. 20
Bina Sharif, a New York-based Pakistani playwright and actor, will perform her play, "Afghan Woman," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
The play, written in response to the incidents of Sept. 11 and the aftermath, premiered in January 2002 at New York's Theatre for the New City, which has produced many of her other plays. This play has been internationally acclaimed as "a powerful examination of the life of a Muslim woman."
The performance will be followed by a discussion and refreshments. The event is sponsored by the Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, Consortium for International Student Organizations, International Center, Women's Center and Muslim Student Association.
Events celebrating the life and work of Theodore Weiss set for Nov. 21-22
Princeton NJ -- The Program in Creative Writing will honor and celebrate the life and work of the late Theodore Weiss, emeritus professor in the English department, with two events on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 21-22.
Weiss, an award-winning poet, editor and literary critic, died on April 15 at age 86 after a battle with Parkinson's disease. He was editor and publisher of the nationally acclaimed Quarterly Review of Literature for nearly 60 years with his wife Renée.
Weiss' poetry will be read and re-membrances will be shared at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, at the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St. At 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, two documentaries about Weiss and his work will be screened at the theater. In the 1987 work, "Living Poetry: A Year in the Life of a Poem," filmmaker Harvey Edwards followed Weiss for a year and documented the creation and evolution of his poem, "Fractions," from the initial inspiration to the finished piece. Edwards' 1995 follow-up film, "Living Poetry 2: Yes, With Lemon," chronicled subsequent revisions to "Fractions" and included a discussion by a group of Princeton undergraduates and a faculty member about the final version.
Both events are sponsored by the Althea Ward Clark Reading Series in the Program in Creative Writing.
Symposium focuses on Greek art
An international symposium presented by scholars of ancient Greek art will take place Saturday, Nov. 22, in McCosh 10.
"Monsters and Mischwesen: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art" will run from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It is sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Program in Hellenic Studies.
The symposium is in connection with "The Centaur's Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art," the first exhibition in the United States to explore the role of mythical monsters in ancient Greek culture. The exhibition, on view at the University Art Museum through Jan. 18, features 100 pieces from the museum's permanent collection and private collections in the United States, France and Spain. It focuses on the significance composite creatures -- including the half-man, half-horse centaurs -- had for the early Greeks by examining their antecedents in the art of Egypt and the Near East.
"The Centaur's Smile" was conceived in 1998 after the museum acquired a Greek bronze statuette of a centaur dating to about 530 B.C., which is a signature piece in the exhibition. Other items include terracotta statuettes, painted ceramic vases, sculptural reliefs, jewelry, metalwork and engraved gems.
For more information, call 258-3788 or visit <www.princeton artmuseum.org>.
Colin Powell here for February event
U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has accepted an invitation to deliver an opening address during Princeton's upcoming George F. Kennan Centennial Conference, University officials announced Nov. 11. While he is on campus, Powell will be presented with the inaugural Crystal Tiger Award by undergraduates for serving as an "agent of progress."
The University is planning the daylong conference for Friday, Feb. 20, in honor of Kennan's 100th birthday. Kennan, a member of Princeton's class of 1925, was a pre-eminent diplomat who crafted what for many years was the nation's most significant and defining foreign policy tenet. Kennan's strategy, known as "containment," became the cornerstone of American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
"Secretary of State Powell's participation in this event is a fitting tribute to Ambassador Kennan's unparalleled career in U.S. foreign service," said President Tilghman. "We are delighted that Secretary Powell has agreed to honor George Kennan and, indeed, all Princetonians who have served with distinction in the diplomatic corps."
The conference, which will feature academics, diplomats and journalists discussing the Cold War, its end and the future of American diplomacy, is being organized by the University's Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. Powell's talk will be co-hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
In a separate event, students plan to honor Powell by naming him the inaugural recipient of the Crystal Tiger Award. "The award honors an individual who has had a transformative impact on our common exper- ience during our common time," said Rishi Jaitly, a Princeton senior and student coordinator of the recently created award program.
More details related to the visit will be announced closer to the event.
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