Coleman, who earned her A.B. in public policy and East Asian studies from Princeton in 1987, directs a two-year project that examines U.S. policies toward women in traditional societies in the Middle East and Southwest Asia. The project looks at the effectiveness of existing international and local programs that encourage the economic and civic participation of women within their local cultures.

The lecture will mark the launch of the Gender and Development Policy Network at Princeton. The network is a group of students, faculty and alumni who have taken an active interest in gender and development policy. The network is sponsoring the event with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The French Theater Workshop will present "L'Atelier: Cours Public," at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, in the Rockefeller College Common Room.

The workshop offers students a combination of linguistic and dramatic training by rehearsing classical scenes from French theater. Directed by Florent Masse, a lecturer in the Department of French and Italian, the students will perform excerpts from plays including "Tartuffe," "Andromaque," "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme," "Phedre" and "Le Cid."

The event is sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and the Center for French Studies.

Courtillot is the author of "Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinctions" (Cambridge University Press, 1999), which described the two main theories explaining mass extinctions of dinosaurs and other species: asteroid impact and massive volcanic eruptions. In recent years, the impact hypothesis has gained precedence, but Courtillot suggested that cataclysmic volcanic activity could be linked to most of the main mass extinction events in the history of the Earth.

Courtillot's talk is designated as the Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture and is part of the University's Public Lectures Series. It will be Webcast; for viewing information, visit WebMedia online.

Speakers will be: Wang Dan, a student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations who was imprisoned in China; John Kamm, director of the Dui Hua Foundation, a San Francisco-based organization dedicated to improving human rights by dialogue between the United States and China; Xiao Qiang, director of Human Rights in China, an international nongovernmental organization based in New York; and Michael Santoro, assistant professor of international business at Rutgers University and author of the book, "Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China" (Cornell, 2000).

The discussion is sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program.

A new, improved Webmail program has been launched and is ready for use. The new program has additional features and is much faster than the current system.

Webmail allows anyone with a University email account to read and respond to emails through a Web browser. This access works from remote locations as well as on campus.

The old Webmail is scheduled to be replaced by the new system on Jan. 1, 2003. The Office of Information Technology is encouraging members of the University community to begin trying the new Webmail system now, so that it isn't a sudden change for everyone.

During this interim period, the Webmail link on the main Web site will go to an intermediate page that provides access to both the current and new programs, and offers brief information about the new program.

The new version of Webmail is a result of OIT's upgrading its mail server to the latest version of iPlanet Messaging Server on July 27. The new program includes options for customizing the appearance of the list of messages in the "inbox," as well as easier handling of attachments and the ability to save outgoing messages in the "sent" folder.

Hongo is the author of two books of poetry, "Yellow Light" and "The River of Heaven," which was the 1987 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. His memoir, "Volcano," won the Oregon Book Award for nonfiction. His poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Antaeus, Field, New England Review, Ploughshares, Parnassus, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Hawaii Herald and The New Yorker.

Ryan has published five collections of poetry, including "Say Uncle"; "Elephant Rocks"; "Flamingo Watching," which was a finalist for both the Lamont Poetry Selection and the Lenore Marshall Prize; "Strangely Marked Metal"; and "Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends." Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The New Republic and The Best of the Best of American Poetry.

The two will be introduced by Susan Wheeler, lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and creative writing. The event is part of the Program in Creative Writing's Althea Ward Clark Reading Series.

Titled "Beyond Smoke and Mirrors," the symposium will focus on issues raised by Douglas Massey in a book he recently co-wrote, "Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration." Massey earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton in 1978 and currently is a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sharing the podium with Massey will be: Frank D. Bean, professor of sociology at the University of California-Irvine; Doris Meissner, former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and current senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute; Harley Shaiken, director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California-Berkeley; New Jersey Assemblyman Reed Gusciora; and Ohio Congressman Tom Sawyer.

Among the issues to be discussed are the effect of immigration policies on American and foreign workers; the factors behind the deaths of hundreds of undocumented Mexicans who try to enter the United States every year; the repercussions of the North American Free Trade Agreement on immigrant flows and immigration policy; and the future of immigration and immigration laws post-Sept. 11.

The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. To reserve a place, send an e-mail to cmdweb@princton.edu or call 609-258-3612. Co-sponsors of the event are the Center for Human Values, Center of International Studies, Council on Regional Studies, Office of the President, Program in Latin American Studies, Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The book, published by Oxford University Press, examines the reaction of the Islamic world to increasing domination by the West as a military and economic power. He shows striking differences between the Western and Middle Eastern cultures from the 18th to the 20th centuries by comparing such areas as religion, the arts and the position of women.

Retired from teaching at Princeton in 1986, Lewis has remained active in his research and is considered a leading historian and interpreter of the region and the people of the Near East. His early research interests included Islamic history and the contemporary Middle East. More recently, he has researched the history of the Ottoman Empire, and is presently combining his interests by studying the history of the relations between Europe and Islam from early Ottoman to modern times.

In addition to "What Went Wrong?" Lewis is the author of numerous books including "A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History" (2000), "The Emergence of Modern Turkey (Studies in Middle Eastern History)" (2001) and the forthcoming "The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam."

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Revisiting the subject of academic and social life at America's top universities, David Brooks will speak on "You and Your Souls: The Organization Kid Reconsidered," at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, at Whig Hall Senate Chamber.

Brooks wrote the controversial article "The Organization Kid," published in the Atlantic Monthly in April 2001, which took a critical look at students at Princeton, voicing concern about what he perceived as political apathy, a dearth of intellectual discussion and an excessive interest in resume building.

Brooks is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly.

The event is sponsored by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society.

"Black Russians," a feature-length experimental documentary by filmmaker Kara Lynch that investigates the lives of contemporary Afro-Russians aged 10 to 65, will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, in McCosh 64.

Lynch, an assistant professor of video production and criticism at Hampshire College, will introduce the film and be available for questions after the showing.

The film chronicles the intersection of race and communism, exploring the effects of migration, identity and loss on a small, minority community. "Black Russians" is experimental in both content and form. It combines traditional documentary elements such as interview, voiceover and archive with nontraditional forms of montage, anecdote and image manipulation.

Lynch recently won the Planet Out/ifilm Queer Short Movie Award for "Me-Ba . . . I'm Coming: A Travelogue." She was a 1996 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council for the Arts individual artists awards in video and new media.

The event is sponsored by the Department of History and the Program in African-American Studies.

Say will give a slide presentation about an upcoming picture book and talk about his other works, which have won the Caldecott Medal and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, among other prizes.

Say's books depart from traditional children's literature by recounting, through realistic and often melancholy images and text, the experiences of Japanese-American immigrants. His "illustrated talk" is recommended for families with children age 8 and older, and other interested adults. It is open to the public free of charge, but pre-registration is requested.

For more information or to register, call (609) 258-2697.

He will discuss the views of three contemporary thinkers associated with American pragmatism: Richard Bernstein, Richard Rorty and Cornel West. Bernstein, the Vera List Professor of Philosophy and dean of the graduate faculty at the New School for Social Research, is the author of books such as "Beyond Objectivism and Relativism" (1983) and, most recently, "Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation (2002)." Rorty, formerly the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, is currently a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. Rorty's "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature "(1979) did much to revive interest in American pragmatism.

West, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion at Princeton, argued in "The American Evasion of Philosophy" (1989) for a novel interpretation of the pragmatic tradition. He will speak as the respondent to the lecture.

The event, designated as the Malcolm Diamond Memorial Lecture, is sponsored by the Department of Religion.

This charter committee of the Council of the Princeton University Community is charged with reviewing the current University operating budget and recommending a balanced budget for the subsequent academic year.

All members of the University community are invited to attend the meeting and comment on the proposals that have been submitted to the committee.

The International Solidarity Movement is a Palestinian-led initiative working toward Palestinian independence from Israel. Shapiro was one of nine activists arrested in Israel in August 2002 when he and nearly 200 demonstrators marched to protest against Israel's occupation of Palestinian towns.

Earlier in the year, Shapiro, a Jewish American born in Brooklyn, N.Y., gained media notoriety when he was trapped overnight in Palestine leader Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound. A medical aid worker, Shapiro entered the compound in an ambulance following an Israeli tank attack. He helped build a makeshift clinic in one of Arafat's offices and shared a much-publicized breakfast with him in the compound.

Following his arrest and release in August, Shapiro returned to the United States with his wife, Palestinian-American Huwaida Arraf. He is enrolled in the graduate program in international studies at American University in Washington, D.C.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The speaker will be Jacob Olupona, director of the Program in African-American and African Studies and a professor of history of religions at the University of California-Davis. His research focuses on women, gender and African immigrant religious communities. He is the president of the African Association for the Study of Religions and chair of the American Academy of Religion's Committee on International Connections.

The lecture is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and is a component of the Women and Religion in the African Diaspora Project, funded by the Ford Foundation. For more information, contact Anita Kline at (609) 258-5545.

Hector Feliciano will discuss his book "The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art" at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 12 in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

Feliciano researched classified and recently declassified documents, interrogation reports, detailed Nazi inventories, private family archives, museum exhibition, and sales catalogs, and conducted thousands of interviews. His work reveals a conspiratorial international art trade with present links in the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the former Soviet Union.

Since the publication of his book, many rightful owners have recovered their stolen paintings and artwork.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archeology, Accion Puertorriquena y Amigos, Program in Jewish Studies, Department of History, and the Center for Jewish Life. A reception will follow the lecture in Shultz Dinning Hall, Robertson Hall.

This event is part of the Works-In-Progress Lecture Series sponsored by the Program in African American Studies.

Johnson earned a Ph.D. in religion from Princeton in 1968. His research and teaching focus on the historical development and application of moral traditions related to war, peace and the practice of statecraft.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Center for the Study of Religion.

His address, "Good Government and the Competition Principle," will begin at 4:30 p.m. in 008 Friend Center. A reception will follow.

The American Enterprise Institute is an influential think tank based in Washington, D.C. DeMuth studies regulation and its effects on political and economic freedoms. He is former chief of President Reagan's Task Force on Regulatory Relief and former director of the Harvard Project on Regulation. His research and writings focus on the role of competition in fostering democratic governance and economic activity, as well as the role of government in supporting market exchanges.

The America's Founding and Future Lecture Series is sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. For more information, call Reggie Feiner Cohen at (609) 258-6333.

Sigal is the director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council in New York. His book, "Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea," published by Princeton University Press, was one of five nominees for the Lionel Gelber Prize as the most outstanding book in the field of international relations for 1997-98. It also was named 1998 book of distinction on the practice of American diplomacy by the American Academy of Diplomacy.

This event is sponsored by the Global Issues Forum and the Program in Science and Global Security.

Franco was involved in the preparatory process of the International Conference on Financing and Development from 1999-2000. In that capacity, he was responsible for organizing, with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the regional consultation on financing for development that took place in Bogotá, Colombia, in November 2000.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The panel will discuss how tolerance is taught in these communities and will address audience questions. Speakers will include Thomas Breidenthal, dean of religious life; Imam Bekir Aksoy, Muslim scholar; and Rabbi William Plevan, Jewish scholar.

The Rumi Club is a newly funded club to promote dialogue and understanding among different cultures and faiths throughout the campus community. This panel will be the first event sponsored by the club. For more information, contact rumi@princeton.edu.

A 1981 Princeton graduate, Schlosser details the rise of the fast-food industry and its impact on children, schools, ranchers, meatpacking workers and small-business owners. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture.

Sponsors include the Graduate Student Government, the Pace Center for Community Service and Students for Progressive Education and Action.

The Engineering Council and President Shirley Tilghman will present the School of Engineering and Applied Science Excellence in Teaching awards at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Friend Center Convocation Room.

The faculty receiving the award are: Frank Calaprice, professor of physics; Jeffrey Carbeck, assistant professor of chemical engineering; and Ronnie Sircar, assistant professor of operations research and financial engineering.

The teaching assistants receiving the award are: Michael Leung, physics; Alessandra Pantano, mathematics; and Lisa Worthington, computer science.

A reception will follow the awards presentation.

For more information, contact Abhinav Agrawal.

He will discuss "What Makes Proper Names Proper?" on Monday, Nov. 11, in McCosh 62. Then Nunberg will speak on "Language Questions" on Wednesday, Nov. 13, in McCosh 10. And on Thursday, Nov. 14, he will address "The Question of Common Language" in McCosh 10. All talks begin at 4:30 p.m.

Nunberg studies the impact of information technology on language, culture and society, and the effects of language policy on education, politics and the economy. He is a senior researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information and a consulting professor in the linguistics department at Stanford University.

He is the author of "The Way We Talk Now" (2001) and has written numerous articles for publications including The Atlantic, The American Prospect, California Lawyer and major newspapers. Nunberg does a regular feature on language on National Public Radio's "Fresh Air," and he is usage editor and chair of the usage panel of the American Heritage Dictionary.

As a member of the Linguistic Society of America, Nunberg has helped organize opposition to the English-only movement. He also has been a linguistics expert in legal cases, including serving as a witness for the group of Native Americans who successfully petitioned the Trademark Commission to cancel the mark of the Washington Redskins.

The talks are sponsored by the Program in Linguistics and the Council of the Humanities.

The student-run, all-female group Expressions Dance Co. will perform "eX-appeal" at 8 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 14-16, in the Film and Performance Theatre, Frist Campus Center.

Founded in 1970, the dance company is known for its high energy and mix of styles, including hip-hop, jazz, ballet, pointe, modern and tap. The group's choreography is entirely created by students. The "eX-appeal" show features music from the soundtracks of "The Matrix," "Austin Powers," "James Bond: Die Another Day" as well as songs by Janet Jackson, Missy Elliott, Michael Jackson and others.

Tickets are available at $6 for students, $10 for general audience from the Frist Box Office; call (609) 258-1742.

For more information, contact Lucy Milligan.

Directed by hip-hop choreographer and break dancer Daeil Cha '03, this production will feature an innovative approach and will include members of Sympoh, diSiac, Bodyhype, Princeton Shakespeare Company, and several a cappella groups.

Admission is $6 for students, $10 for faculty and staff, and $12 for general admission. Students may also redeem "student events eligible" tickets from the Passport to the Arts program for free admission. To order tickets, call the Richardson Auditorium Ticket Office(609) 258-5000.

The 66-minute excerpt of the movie, titled "Since," is a farcical re-enactment of the Kennedy assassination. It was filmed in 1966 on a couch at Warhol's legendary studio, The Factory. The film is part of a project at New York's Museum of Modern Art to restore hundreds of hours of films made by Warhol. The project's curator, Callie Angell, will introduce the movie.

"It's a very chaotic film," Angell said. "The camera work is very wild." She described the dialogue as "witty and irreverent."

The premiere is part of a conference titled "Art, Architecture and Film in the First Pop Age," that will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at Betts Auditorium in the School of Architecture. The goal of the conference is to look at pop in a broad way by jointly examining artists, filmmakers and architects that are associated with the pop movement.

"There is a lot of renewed interest among different types of scholars in that period, and we're trying to get those different components to talk to each other," said Branden Joseph, a lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and a Cotsen Fellow in the Society of Fellows.

Speakers will discuss artists Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, Richard Hamilton and Gerhard Richter as well as architect John McHale, architectural critic Reyner Banham and writer J.G. Ballard. Princeton faculty members who will participate include Harold Foster in art and archaeology and Beatriz Colomina in architecture. A complete list of speakers and a conference schedule are available online.

The conference is sponsored by the , the Program in Media and Modernity and the School of Architecture.

The service will include reflections by President Shirley M. Tilghman; David Grossman '98; Gregory Paulson '98; the Rev. Thomas Mullelly director of the Aquinas Institute; Robert Accordino '03; the Rev. Dr. Thomas Breidenthal, dean of religious life; and Professor John Gager, the William H. Danforth Professor of Religion. The service will feature performances by the Princeton Tigertones, the Princeton University Wind Ensemble, and the Princeton University Chapel Choir.

Modica starred in the production of "The Fantastiks" with the Princeton University Players, was founder and president of the Princeton University Wind Ensemble, and was music director of the Tigertones. He was a member of Princeton's Orange Key Guide Service, the Aquinas Institute, and the Princeton University Chapel Choir.

On March 22, 1997, the Tigertones were returning home from Spring Tour when the car in which Modica was traveling was hit by a drunk driver.

The engraved Chapel stone will be mounted on an interior wall of the Chapel. A reception at the Prospect House will follow the service.

Speaking will be David Ransom, a 1960 Princeton alumnus who is the former U.S. ambassador to Bahrain, State Department officer in Yemen, Abu Dhabi and Syria and member of the department's Near East Bureau in Washington, D.C.; and Marjorie Ransom, director of the U.S. Information Agency in Syria and Egypt.

The event is sponsored by the International Center and the Princeton Middle East Society.

He will discuss why, in democratic culture, the tradition of self-criticism thrives to sometimes extreme extents. The talk is sponsored by the Faculty Fellows of the Center for Jewish Life.

Fallows has been with The Atlantic Monthly for more than 20 years and has written pieces for several other publications. He also has served as editor of U.S. News and World Report, Washington Monthly and Texas Monthly. His recent books include "Free Flight: Inventing the Future of Travel," "Free Flight: From Airline Hell To a New Age of Travel" and "Breaking the News."

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Department of History and the Center of International Studies.

"Coaching Ira" deals with the author's experiences on a United Synagogue Youth basketball team and covers subjects such as anti-Semitism, interfaith dating and the ideological differences between Conservative and Orthodox Judaism.

Shandler is a senior editor for the college basketball Web site Hoopville.net and a freelance voiceover artist. For more information, call (609) 258-3635.

Previously, Williamson served as a member of President Reagan's senior White House staff as the assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, assistant secretary of state for international organizations and member of the president's general advisory committee on arms control. He is the author or editor of seven books, including "U.S. Foreign Policy and the United Nations System."

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the United Nations Association.

Rohan held a variety of distinguished posts in his 40-year career in the Austrian diplomatic service, including national coordinator for the Central European Initiative and ambassador to Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. In the United States, he served as director of the executive office of the U.N. secretary-general. He also has been a leading member of diplomatic delegations in Belgrade, Kosovo, Iran and other areas of conflict.

Now working as a political commentator and author, Rohan recently published "Diplomat on the Fringes of World Politics." His lecture is sponsored by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, the Center of International Studies and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Eisenberg is the author of three short story collections, "Transactions in a Foreign Currency" (1986), "Under the 82nd Airborne" (1992) and "All Around Atlantis" (1997). The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and four O. Henry Awards, she is consistently acclaimed for her strong portrayal of characters dealing with the confusion of modern life.

Eisenberg will be introduced by Edmund White, professor in the Council of the Humanities and director of the Program in Creative Writing. The event is part of the program's Althea Ward Clark Reading Series.

Cole is a professor of law at Georgetown University, a volunteer staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, a leading civil liberties attorney and a periodic commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."

He also is the author of "No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System," which was named the best nonfiction book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review and the best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by the American Political Science Association.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Program in Law and Public Affairs and the Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding.

Oren, who earned his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies in 1986, is director of the Middle East history project at the Shalem Center in Israel. His book is one of the first works to explore both the military and diplomatic dimensions of the intense Arab-Israeli fighting in June 1967.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

	Andrea di Bartolo's "Madonna and Child," Princeton University Art Museum

The techniques and importance of art conservation is the topic of a slide lecture at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in McCosh 50. The event is sponsored by the University Art Museum.

Bruce Hardin Suffield, assistant conservator of paintings at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, will speak on "Andrea di Bartolo's 'Madonna and Child': Investigations of the Materials, Techniques and Original Effects."

Di Bartolo's painting, which is in the museum's permanent collection, was the central panel of a dispersed altarpiece. It is included in the exhibition "Beyond the Invisible: A Conservator's Perspective," on view at the art museum through Jan. 5, 2003.

In 1992, Suffield, then a conservation intern at the museum, undertook a thorough examination and treatment of the painting.

For more information, call (609) 258-3788.

It will be preceded by a concert by Spider John Koerner, Dave Ray and Tony Glover at 8 p.m. Friday, and followed by a concert by the Handsome Family at 8 p.m. Saturday. Both concerts will be in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall.

The workshops will feature a diverse group of speakers, including: Marybeth Hamilton, historian of the Delta blues; discographer and writer Dick Spottswood; Robert Cantwell, historian of the 1960s folk revival; Dean Blackwood, co-founder of the Revenant label; and critic Greil Marcus. Each lecture will focus on the artistic and historical questions raised by the folk and field recordings of the 1920s and 1930s and will be followed by open discussion.

The events are free and are being sponsored by the Program in American Studies and the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Those interested in attending the workshop should register by contacting Judith Ferszt. For more information, view the schedule of events online.

James Skillen, president of the Center for Public Justice, a Christian policy research group, will hold two upcoming talks: "Is Christianity too Politically Incorrect to be Politically Relevant?" at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, and "Tolerance, Pluralism and the End of Religion?" at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23.

Both lectures will be held in Betts Auditorium in the School of Architecture. They are sponsored by the Manna Christian Fellowship, the USG Projects Board, the Office of the Dean Undergraduate Students and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Skillen's first lecture will cover the current U.S.-Iraq situation and topics such as just wars, international norms of justice and the role of the United States in the world. In his second talk, Skillen will address whether the rise of religion means the end of tolerance and pluralism.

Prior to being named president in September 2000, Skillen had served as the Annapolis, Md.-based center's executive director since 1981. He is the author of several books, including "A Covenant to Keep: Meditations on the Biblical Theme of Justice" (2000).

For more information, call (609) 986-9838.

The Oscar-winning film "No Man's Land," a comedy-drama that explores the Bosnian War, will be shown at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, in McCosh 10.

"No Man's Land" centers around a pair of Bosnian and Serbian soldiers who find themselves trapped together in an abandoned trench during heavy gunfire. It won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for best foreign-language film in 2002.

The event is sponsored by the Global Issues Forum, a student organization that seeks to broaden the understanding of global affairs on campus, as well as the Department of History, the Committee on European Studies and the University Film Organization.

For more information, contact Taufiq Rahim.

The council has organized a series of lectures this fall that precede each home football game. The lectures are free and are open to the public.

The final course this season will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, before the Dartmouth game. William Howarth, professor of English, will discuss "Earth Islands: Darwin and Melville in the Galapagos."

The course will take place in 10 Guyot. For more information, contact Christine Hollendonner at the Alumni Council at (609) 258-5854.

Poet, activist and educator Sonia Sanchez will be the featured reader in "Sex, Words and Rhythm," the Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education (SHARE) Office's annual "Fall Poetry Slam," Saturday, Nov. 23, at 8 p.m. at Caf Vivian in the Frist Campus Center.

Sanchez is the author of more than 16 books, including "Homegirls and Handgrenades," "Does Your House Have Lions?" and "Shake Loose My Skin." Her work covers topics of gender, race, sexuality and relationships. Sanchez was the Laura Carnell Chair in English at Temple University until her retirement in 1999.

The event is co-sponsored by the Black Graduate Caucus, the Women's Center, Frist Campus Center, the Program in African American Studies, the Program in the Study of Women and Gender, the Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, the LGBT Student Services Office and the National Council of Negro Women.

For more information, call (609) 258-3793.

Nineteen distinguished scholars will examine the institutional condition and challenges faced by the study of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures in American universities. Issues to be addressed include the academic relationships and conflict between Spanish and other foreign languages; the institutional placement of Latino studies; and the challenges of graduate and undergraduate studies in Spanish. The colloquium will conclude with a discussion on the institutional future of Latin American and Spanish studies in the North American academy.

For more information, contact Angel Loureiro at (609) 258-7180.

The DiSiac Dance Company will give five performances of "Becoming . . ." Nov. 21-23 at Murray-Dodge Theater.

For its annual fall performance, the company of high-energy student dancers will present various ways of "becoming," such as becoming a pop star, becoming a new identity and becoming confident, elegant or intense.

Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21; 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22; and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23.

Tickets are available for $6 with a University ID or $10 for general admission from the Frist Box Office; call (609) 258-1742.

The nonprofit organization, which was founded by University students and alumni, operates educational programs for urban youth and their families at its center in Blairstown in northwestern New Jersey. The center needs volunteers to help provide maintenance for its trails and grounds, chop and stack wood, and perform other tasks.

The center will provide free lodging and meals for volunteers, who are invited to arrive Friday evening for a social gathering before the service projects begin Saturday morning. Seats are available on a chartered bus that will depart Dillon Gym on Saturday at 7:27 a.m., and a bus will be available for volunteers wishing to return that night.

To volunteer or obtain more information, contact the center's administrative office at (609) 258-3340, or call the Blairstown camp at (888) 344-9763.

Project Match serves the Cabrini-Green and West Haven communities in Chicago. The research portion of Project Match is affiliated with the Erikson Institute, a graduate school and research center for the study of child development, where Herr is a senior research associate and a member of the board of trustees.

In 1999, Project Match was named by the Annie E. Casey Foundation as one of its "Families Count" honorees. This award is given to programs that embody the principles of family strengthening by enhancing opportunities for families and children who live outside the economic and social mainstream.

Herr also currently consults with and provides training to several welfare programs nationwide. Prior to founding Project Match in 1985, she served as an elementary school teacher in Cabrini-Green for nine years.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

At 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25, Nabil Shaath, minister of planning and international cooperation for the Palestinian Authority, will speak. At 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, Yossi Beilin, former minister of justice for Israel and architect of the Oslo Accord, will lecture. Both events will take place in McCosh 10.

They are co-sponsored by the Center for Regional Studies; the Global Issues Forum, the Center for International Studies; and the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia.

Rima Khalaf Hunaidi, U.N. assistant secretary-general, will deliver a lecture titled, "Forging a New Social Contract in the Arab World: The Arab Human Development Report 2002," at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26.

The event, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will be held in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall.

Hunaidi is also the director of the United Nations Development Program's Regional Bureau for Arab States, which has been a driving force behind the Arab Human Development Report 2002. The report, released in July, was prepared by Arab intellectuals from a variety of disciplines, and warns that Arab societies are being crippled by a lack of political freedom, the repression of women and isolation from the world of ideas.

Before her U.N. appointment, Hunaidi served as a senator in the Upper House of the Jordanian Parliament from November 1997 to September 2000. Hunaidi has held several high-ranking governmental positions in Jordan, including minister of industry and trade (1993-95), minister of planning (1995-98) and deputy prime minister and minister of planning (1999-2000).

For more information, contact Dale Sattin.

All will begin at 4:30 p.m. in 104 Computer Science Building. The titles and dates are:

• "God and the First Amendment: The Devilish Truth About Strict Separation Doctrine" on Monday, Nov. 18;
• "God and the 14th Amendment: Why Grassroots Religious Minority Groups Need Equal Protection" on Wednesday, Nov. 20; and
• "God and Man at Yale Revisited: The Coming Religious Revival at Elite Universities" on Monday, Dec. 2.

A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the Brookings Institution, he is author, co-author or editor of a dozen books, including "American Government Institutions and Policies," "What's God Got To Do With the American Experience?" and "Medicaid and Devolution."

The lecture series is sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics. For more information, call Judi Rivkin at (609) 258-5107.

DiIulio, the Frederick Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion and Urban Society at the University of Pennsylvania, was to present the last of three Charles Test, M.D., Distinguished Visiting Scholar Seminars.

The lecture series was sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics. For more information, call Judi Rivkin at (609) 258-5107.

The association is the nation's leading center of policy research and public outreach on the United Nations and multilateral issues. Before joining the organization earlier this year, Scheffer spent 11 months as a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where he wrote and spoke extensively on his experiences in the Clinton administration and on the legal issues arising from the post-Sept. 11 campaign against terrorism.

During the second term of the Clinton administration, Scheffer was ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues with responsibility for coordinating U.S. support for the ad hoc international war crimes tribunals and U.S. responses to atrocities around the world. He was the chief U.S. negotiator in United Nations talks to establish the permanent International Criminal Court. During the first term of the Clinton administration, he served as senior adviser and counsel to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Madeleine Albright.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the United Nations Association.

The exhibition runs through Jan. 15, 2003. It uses plates, photographs and documents to tell the story of the University's two officially commissioned sets of dinnerware: the first produced in 1930, and the second in 1950. The venerable English firm Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. manufactured both.

"Wedgwood Comes to Princeton" can be viewed Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and until 8 p.m. on Wednesdays. For further information, call (609) 258-6345.

The exhibition "Lewis Baltz: 'Nevada' and Other Photographs," is on view from Sept. 14 through Jan. 19, 2003, at the University Art Museum. Highlighting a significant recent acquisition of work by the American photographer, the exhibition includes a complete edition of Baltz's 1978 portfolio "Nevada," as well as selections from two other projects, "The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California" and "Candlestick Point."

Born in 1945, Baltz came to prominence through the 1975 exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape," which recognized a shift in landscape photography away from a heroic vision of the American wilderness toward the often banal character of a growing suburbia, notes Toby Jurovics, associate curator of photography, who organized the Baltz exhibition. Several of Baltz's photographs in "New Topographics" are on display, consisting of images of an industrial warehouse complex in Southern California.

In "Nevada," Baltz traced the incursion of housing developments into the desert valleys surrounding Reno, Nevada, alternating panoramic views of the horizon with photographs of construction sites, trailer parks, and city streets to show an open landscape being devoured. "Nevada" was the first step toward a pictorial methodology of intensely detailed mapping that Baltz explored over the next decade, culminating in "Candlestick Point." Photographed between 1984 through 1988, the series depicts a landscape scraped bare of almost all natural references, pinned between the airport and the ballpark south of San Francisco. Nine photographs are on view from this project.

For more details, read the news release.

Before being named to his current position, Patrick served as the commissioner of the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice. He also has held several positions within the New York City Department of Corrections. In 1998, he was appointed executive director of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's Police/Community Relations Task Force.

While a student at the Woodrow Wilson School, Patrick was selected as a New York City Urban Fellow and worked for a year as a policy analyst in the Office of the Mayor of New York City, and for a year as the program coordinator for the Banana Kelly Community Development Organization in the Bronx.

Ponce is an expert in all areas of human rights in Ecuador, focusing on the impact of militarization of Ecuador under Plan Colombia and the Andean Regional Initiative. He is an outspoken critic of these initiatives, the U.S. military base in Manta, Columbia, and the U.S. fumigation program along the Colombia-Ecuador border.

Plan Colombia is a $1.3 billion military aid package passed under the Clinton Administration that President George W. Bush has furthered as the Andean Regional Initiative. The initiative seeks to combat drug production and trafficking from Central and South America while strengthening democracy, creating regional stability and assisting economic development.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The Center of International Studies, a research arm of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is accepting applications for a new undergraduate fellows program that will begin next spring.

The center supports scholarship in international relations, comparative politics and regional studies. The undergraduate fellows will participate in a variety of activities alongside the center's faculty associates, visiting fellows and graduate fellows, with an emphasis on nurturing intellectual exchange between Princeton faculty and undergraduates.

Applications are due by Friday, Dec. 6, in 114A Bendheim Hall. Princeton undergraduates in all years and departments are invited to apply.

For more information, email Susan Bindig, the center's assistant director, or call (609) 258-5437.

The Office of Information Technology has introduced a filtering service to help manage the increasing amount of "spam" that floods the University e-mail system. Spam is unsolicited e-mail, often advertisements, sent to many addresses.

OIT has posted instructions and questions online for University e-mail users who would like to download the new service.

The service employs a filter called SpamAssassin that identifies possible spam messages and diverts them from a user's inbox into a special folder. Each user can customize the filter settings to determine which unsolicited messages will be classified as spam.

OIT initiated the service after numerous complaints from students, faculty and staff, noting that spam sent into the University e-mail system has increased 600 percent over the past year.

Before coming to Princeton this year, Barron was acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau from January 2001 to March 2002. He also was deputy director and chief operating officer of the Census Bureau, a position he had held since April 1999. In addition, he served in top management posts with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and with the Commerce Department for more than 30 years.

Each year, the president of the United States recognizes and celebrates a small group of career senior executives in the public sector with the Presidential Rank Award. Winners of this prestigious award are strong leaders, professionals and scientists who achieve results and consistently demonstrate strength, integrity, industry and a relentless commitment to excellence in public service. An official White House ceremony honoring all recipients is scheduled for January 2003.

The award honors "outstanding individual contributions to either public awareness of the earth sciences or the scientific resolution of earth-science problems of significant societal concern." According to the award citation, McPhee "has brought geology alive to a public thirsting for more knowledge of Earth. Through his many writings, he has made 'geology' a household word."

McPhee is a lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Ferris Professor of Journalism. He was awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction for "Annals of the Former World," a 696-page chronicle of the geological history of North America.

A member of the class of 1953, McPhee has taught at Princeton since 1975. This year he published his 26th book, "The Founding Fish."

It salutes 18 women in the Princeton community as positive female role models, presenting a photograph of each woman along with an inspiring quote. The women are members of Princeton's administration, faculty, staff and student body.

From Janet Dickerson, vice president for campus life, comes this advice: "Care for yourself; become your own best friend."

Firmiller Ford, an officer in the Department of Public Safety, said, "Whatever your goal may be, reach for the stars and don't stop until you shine."

Jessica Brondo, a member of the class of 2004, said, "Women should not give up their uniqueness and become more masculine, but instead should value their femininity and strive for nothing less than equality."

And President Shirley M. Tilghman said, "In 30 short years Princeton has gone from a place virtually devoid of women to one in which women with wings are soaring. How exhilarating to be a part of this!"

The exhibition was organized by the Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education (SHARE) Office, which offers counseling and information to the University community on sexual harassment, sexual assault or harassment based on sexual orientation. The photographs are the work of Denise Applewhite, photographer in the Office of Communications.

Williams, who divides his time between professorships at Oxford University and the University of California-Berkeley, is considered one of the most influential voices in contemporary moral philosophy. He is the author of books on Plato and Descartes as well as a volume titled "Making Sense of Humanity."

In describing his lecture, Williams said, "Many people think that 'humanity' is an ethical idea, and that it makes a basic moral difference whether a creature they are dealing with is another human being or not.... Some philosophers attack this outlook as a prejudice, similar to racism or sexism. I shall argue that their view is based on a deep misconception, which itself involves an attempt to project human attitudes onto the universe."

Williams' talk is designated as the Walter Edge Lecture and is part of the University's Public Lectures Series. It will be Webcast; viewing information is available online.

The two will present their views on "Transatlantic Relations Are Said To Be the Worst Since 1945.... So What? Does It Matter? European Perceptions of America and American Perceptions of Europe" at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

Kinsman, who earned an A.B. in English from Princeton in 1963, was named to his present post in Brussels earlier this year. Since 2000, he had been Canada's high commissioner (ambassador) to the United Kingdom. From 1993 to 2000, he served as Canada's ambassador to Italy and the United Nations Food Agencies in Rome; to Malta; to Albania; and to Russia and several other republics formerly part of the Soviet Union. Before his European appointments, he was based in Ottawa, serving in a number of roles in the Canadian government.

Reid, who earned an A.B. in classics from Princeton in 1966, has become one of the nation's best-known foreign correspondents through his coverage of global affairs for The Washington Post, his books and his commentary on National Public Radio. He joined the Post in 1977, and has covered the U.S. Congress, national politics and three presidential campaigns. He was the Post's Tokyo bureau chief from 1990 to 1995. He has written four books in English and three in Japanese, and translated one book from Japanese.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Canadian Studies Program.

Dr. Cori Bargmann of the University of California-San Francisco will speak on "Signaling, Specificity and the Development of Neuronal Connections" at 4 p.m. Oct. 15 in the Friend Center, Room 101.

The talk is part of the distinguished lecture series sponsored by the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior. A reception will follow the presentation.

For more information, contact Wendy Morelock at (609) 258-7427.

Ritter joined the United Nations as a member of the weapons inspection team in 1991 and participated in more than 30 inspection missions, including 14 as chief. In 1995, his team discovered missile guidance equipment that Iraq had brought from Russia. Ritter then led a U.N. team into Iraq in January 1998 to perform additional inspections, only to be blocked by Iraqi officials who accused Ritter and the U.N. team of spying.

He is a ballistic missile technology expert with more than a decade of experience in the military intelligence area of the U.S. armed forces, with assignments in the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. A former major in the U.S. Marines, Ritter also spent several months of the Gulf War serving under Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf with Marine Central Command headquarters in Saudi Arabia.

Ritter's experience in searching out weapons of mass destruction within Iraq is the basis for his book, "Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for All" (1999). He explores the shortcomings of American foreign policy in the Persian Gulf region and alternative approaches to handling the Iraqi crisis. He is filming a documentary in Iraq, "Endgame: Closing the File on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction."

The lecture is presented by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Global Issues Forum, a student organization that seeks to broaden the understanding of global affairs on campus, and is co-sponsored by a number of other campus groups.

The author of a dozen books, including "Libra," "Mao II," "Underworld," "White Noise" and "Body Artist," DeLillo is the recipient of an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Prize as well as PEN/Faulkner and National Book awards. In 1997 he won the Jerusalem Prize, awarded to an author whose work explores the role of individuals in society.

DeLillo has said that he became a writer "by living in New York and seeing and hearing and feeling all the great, amazing and dangerous things the city endlessly assembles." Later he spent three years living in Greece and traveling through the Middle East and India, gaining new perspective on America and learning "how to see and hear all over again  more clearly than I could in more familiar places."

DeLillo does not belong to the school of writing he describes as "around-the-house-and-in-the-yard." Rather, he prefers fiction "that is steeped in history, that takes account of ways in which our perceptions are being changed by events around us - global events that may alter how we live in the smallest ways." In his works, often-endearing characters - baseball fans, teachers, families - evolve against a backdrop of terrorism, assassination and "airborne toxic events."

As a Belknap Visitor in the Humanities, DeLillo joins a distinguished roster of eminent writers and artists, including Merce Cunningham, Nadine Gordimer, Arthur Miller, Richard Serra and Maurice Sendak, who have come to Princeton through a program created in memory of Chauncey Belknap of the class of 1912.

The public lecture is being presented by the Humanities Council. Entrance to McCosh 50 will begin at 4:30 p.m. for holders of Princeton University ID cards. General admission will take place at 4:45 p.m. The talk will be simulcast in McCosh 10, 28, 62, 64 and 66.

The American Whig-Cliosophic Society will hold a debate on the topic "Resolved: the United States Government Has Gone Too Far in Restricting Civil Liberties Since September 11." The discussion will take place at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, in the Senate Chamber, Whig Hall.

Christopher Eisgruber, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs, and Kenneth Kersch, assistant professor of politics, will present along with student speakers from the 2001-02 national champion Princeton debate panel. Floor speeches from the audience are encouraged. Food and refreshments will be served.

The event is sponsored by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, the Princeton University Civil Liberties Union, the Princeton Committee Against Terrorism, the College Democrats and the College Republicans.

For more information, contact Andrew Bruck at (609) 968-8566.

William Durch, senior associate at the Henry Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., will give the talk, which is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Durch is co-director of the Future of Peace Operations project at the Stimson Center. The project evaluates and seeks to enhance U.S. policy and policymaking for peace operations, advances United Nations reforms of peace operations, and provides timely and useful information and analysis on ongoing peace operations. He also teaches in the Georgetown University Security Studies Program and previously taught at Johns Hopkins' Nitze School for Advanced International Studies.

Exploring how Jews, Christians and Muslims have imagined each other throughout history and the implications of images of monotheism will be the topic of a colloquium, Oct. 17-18. The event begins with a talk at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, in Betts Auditorium and continues from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Oct. 18 with three talks, respondents and a roundtable discussion in the Senate Room, Whig Hall.

Titled "Monotheism and Its Others: Jews, Christians and Muslims Imagining Each Other," the colloquium will discuss how the three "monotheisms" share overlapping texts and stories, pointing to tensions between the traditions as well as similarities. Using different methodological perspectives -- history, philosophy, theology and ethics -- the colloquium will examine how each tradition then imagines the other two monotheisms.

Participants include Paula Fredriksen, Boston University; Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College; Eugene Rogers, University of Virginia; John Gager, Princeton; Michael Cook, Princeton; Eric Gregory, Princeton; and John Kelsay, Florida State University.

The colloquium is sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies and the Jeanette Krieger and Herman D. Mytelka Memorial Lecture on Jewish Civilization Fund.

For more information, visit the colloquium site.

"Jacques Maritain and America" is the program theme for the 26th annual meeting of the American Maritain Association to be held at Princeton Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 17-19.

Maritain (1882-1973) was a French Thomixt philosopher who wrote on a broad range of areas including metaphysics, aesthetics and theology. He is best known for developing theories of human rights and democracy that became the political philosophies of the postwar Christian Democratic parties in Europe and Latin America. Maritain taught at Princeton from 1941 to 1942 and again from 1948 to 1952, remaining in the area in emeritus status until 1960.

Sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, the plenary sessions will feature papers by: Richard Neuhaus, editor of First Things, at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Frist Campus Center Multipurpose Room B; Jeffrey Stout, professor of religion, at 3:30 p.m. Friday in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall; and a debate on the legacy of Maritain between Paul Sigmund, professor of politics, and Michael Novak, a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Frist Multipurpose Room B.

The University Jazz Ensemble will perform an open-air concert from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, at Scudder Plaza, adjacent to Robertson Hall. The concert is free and sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The ensemble will perform "Sweet Ellington: Music From the Suites of Edward Kennedy Ellington." This event is sponsored by the Music Department. Admission will be charged.

For more information, visit the jazz ensemble Web site or contact Anthony Branker at (609)258-2219.

"Living at Risk: Breast Cancer in Early 20th-Century United States" is the title of a lecture by Dr. Robert Aronowitz to be presented at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21, in 300 Wallace Hall. Aronowitz is completing a book on the history of breast cancer risk from 1900 to the present.

Aronowitz's central research interests are in the history of diseases of the 20th century, epidemiology and population health. He continues to practice medicine, holding a joint appointment with the University of Pennsylvania medical school's family practice and community medicine department. He is the author of "Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease."

Walzer has been a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study since 1980. He has written on a variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy, political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice and the welfare state. His book, "Just and Unjust Wars," is considered by many an indispensable text in ethics and international affairs.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and is part of a speaker series leading up to the Princeton Colloquium on International Affairs. The colloquium, titled "A World of Good and Evil? The Return to Morality in International Affairs," will take place April 25-26. It will address the ethical and policy considerations underlying key foreign affairs issues ranging from homeland security to the confrontation with Iraq and from the Monterrey Declaration to global public health threats.

Grammy award-winning musician and priest Norm Freeman will join a trio of musicians during this service that unites prayer with introspective and exploratory jazz. For more information, visit the Jazz Ministry Web site.

The President's Lecture Series grew out of meetings Tilghman had with faculty shortly after she was named president in 2001. She asked for suggestions for new programs, and faculty responded with the idea for a forum where they could come together and learn about the work other faculty members are doing in a variety of fields.

These lectures are planned for the 2002-03 academic year:

• On Wednesday, Oct. 23, Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History and chair of the Council of the Humanities, will speak on "Technica Curiosa: Technology and Magic in Early Modern Europe." He will discuss how scholars and philosophers began to take an interest in technology and will argue that a temporary union between magic and engineering, which took place in the 15th and 16th centuries, had much to do with this change - and with the rise of what came to be called the "new" or "mechanical philosophy" of the 17th century.
• On Wednesday, Dec. 11, Carol Armstrong, the Doris Stevens Professor in Women's Studies and professor of art and archaeology, will present a talk concerning Manet and Ce4zanne, the "heroics" of modernism and a feminist alternative to the canonical accounts of their art.
• On Wednesday, March 5, Vincent Poor, professor of electrical engineering, will address the recent revolution in wireless communications that has led to a host of applications involving "anytime, anywhere" connectivity for the communication of voice, text and other media. He will explore the social, political and economic issues that are emerging with the new technology as they did with broadcast radio and the Internet in the 20th century.

All lectures will begin at 4:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public. The Oct. 23 address by Grafton will take place in 101 Friend Center; the locations of the other two will be announced.

The events will be Webcast live by WebMedia.

Jane Redmont, former assistant research specialist at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California-Berkeley, will deliver the address, which is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Center for the Study of Religion.

Redmont, a theologian, minister and writer, also has worked as a nonprofit executive and as a consultant in interreligious dialogue, cultural diversity, urban concerns and development. A member of the Episcopal Church and an aspirant for ordination in the Diocese of California, she previously was a Roman Catholic laywoman serving in full-time church leadership, including associate pastor positions in large Roman Catholic faith communities.

She is the author of more than 100 articles in religious and secular publications and of two books, "Generous Lives: American Catholic Women Today" (1992) and "When in Doubt, Sing: Prayer in Daily Life" (1999).

A prolific author, Wideman has written some 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. He is the first writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Award twice, in 1984 for "Sent for You Yesterday" and in 1991 for "Philadelphia Fire." His nonfiction book "Brothers and Keepers" received a National Book Critics Circle nomination, and his memoir "Fatheralong" was a finalist for the National Book Award. His 1996 book "The Cattle Killing" won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction.

Wideman's writing also has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Harper's Magazine and Esquire. He has received the O. Henry Award for best short story of the year for "Weight" (2000), the Rea Prize for short fiction (1998) and a MacArthur Fellowship (1993-98). In 2001, he was appointed a Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he has taught in the English department since 1986.

The event is part of the Program in Creative Writing's Althea Ward Clark Reading Series.

Currently a senior fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, Bork has been in the political limelight on several occasions, both as solicitor general of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1972 to 1977 and as President Reagan's nominee to the Supreme Court in 1987. An outspoken political commentator, he has written several books, including "Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline" (1996) and "The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law" (1989).

Tickets are required for admission to this free event, and all were distributed as of noon Oct. 24. However, the event also will be Webcast live. Viewing information is available online.

The lecture is sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics as part of its Alpheus Mason Lecture Series.

This cult classic has been performed annually at midnight around Halloween, a tradition revived two years ago at Princeton by the Hazards. Audience participation and costumes are encouraged at the free performance, which is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, the Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board and the Trustee Initiative.

Brown will discuss profiles from "The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences," a Web site that he began in 1995 that profiles African-American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.

He also will focus on the role of mentoring in recruiting underrepresented applicants for graduate sciences programs. The event is sponsored by the Library Education and Training Committee.

O'Keefe has been leading NASA since President George W. Bush appointed him to the post in December 2001. Previously, he had been deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget and deputy assistant to the president.

Before joining the Bush administration, O'Keefe was the Louis Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy at Syracuse University. He also served as director of National Security Studies, a partnership of Syracuse and Johns Hopkins University for providing advanced education for senior military and civilian Department of Defense managers. He previously had been a professor of business administration and dean of the graduate school at Pennsylvania State University.

In the administration of the senior George Bush, O'Keefe was secretary of the Navy and held several other positions in the Department of Defense, including chief financial officer.

A reception will follow in Jadwin Hall. Those planning to attend the reception should contact Angela Glenn at 258-0720. A complete obituary is available on the Web.

Exploring the aftermath of human tragedy, Connections Dance Theater will perform a multimedia tribute to the survivors and victims' survivors of Sept. 11 and other disasters. Titled "September 12th," the performance will take place at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, at Frist Film/Performance Theatre at Frist Campus Center.

The work combines modern dance, dance theater, tango choreography, music, photography, video, masks and drama to emphasize positive emotions as a path out of trauma.

The performance is sponsored by the International Center. Tickets are available at the Frist Box Office at no charge for Princeton students; $15 for University ID holders, seniors and children; and $20 for others.

For reservations call (609) 258-1742; for more information call (609) 895-2981.

The Alumni Council is providing another pre-game classroom for Tiger fans and is also offering information for alumni returning to campus for this weekend's Princeton-Harvard football game Saturday, Oct. 26.

Alumni information about the game can be found on Tigernet.

The council continues to offer a series of lectures this fall that precede each home football game. The lectures are free and open to the public.

The remaining courses include:

• Saturday, Oct. 26 (Harvard game): Anthony Appiah, the Laurance Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, "Being Yourself: Race and Individuality," 10 a.m.
• Saturday, Nov. 9 (Pennsylvania game): Lee Mitchell, the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres and professor of English, "Does Reading Good Books Make You Better?," 10 a.m.
• Saturday, Nov. 23 (Dartmouth game): William Howarth, professor of English, "Earth Islands: Darwin and Melville in the Galapagos," 10 a.m.

All will take place in 10 Guyot. For more information, contact Christine Hollendonner at the Alumni Council at (609) 258-5854.

The Princeton Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials (POEM) will host a symposium on bioterrorism and biotechnology research Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 29-30.

Speakers will address a wide range of topics, from advances in molecular imaging to national trends in homeland defense research. Complementary pre-registration is still available to members of the Princeton University community for the Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday sessions.

The full agenda is available in Acrobat format at the POEM Web site.

The symposium is being organized by POEM in collaboration with SMART NJ, a consortium of representatives from government, industry and academia promoting technology research and development in the Middle Atlantic region.

For registration or additional information, contact Joe Montemarano, POEM director for industrial liaison, at (609) 258-2267.

Palmer died June 11 at his home in Newtown, Pa. He was 93.

Matthews' talk will be based on his paper, "What's In a Name? Birth-Related Neurological Injury, No Fault Compensation Programs, and the 'Web of Causation,'" in which he explores the benefits of adopting the view that birth asphyxia is seldom the cause of cerebral palsy. The paper is available in advance of the lecture at 342 Wallace Hall.

Matthews graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1985 with a double major in mathematics and philosophy and subsequently earned a Master's degree and Ph.D. in history from Duke University with a specialization in the history of science and medicine. In 1995, his doctoral dissertation (which traced the history of statistical reasoning in medicine from the end of the 18th century to the emergence of the modern randomized controlled clinical trail) was published by Princeton University Press under the title 'Quantification and the Quest for Medical Certainty.'

In 1997, Matthews earned a Master of Public Policy degree from the College of William and Mary with a focus on health care policy. Later in that year, he worked for the College's Center for Public Policy Research on a project involving Virginia's Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program, a no-fault system that attempted to remove severe cases of cerebral palsy from the tort system. Work on this project, coupled with a longstanding interest in the history of statistical reasoning in the medical and policy arenas, led him to apply for a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health to research the history of epidemiological thinking regarding the etiology of cerebral palsy. He was awarded this fellowship and spent 2001-2002 as a DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Memorial Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology.

Here is the schedule for the coming weeks:

• 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6, Jon Beckwith, professor at Harvard University Medical School, author of "Making Genes, Making Waves: A Social Activist in Science."
• 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and Paul Waldman, authors of "The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists and the Stories that Shape the Political World."
• 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, Peter Dougherty, economics editor at Princeton University Press and author of "Who's Afraid of Adam Smith?: How the Market Got Its Soul."
• 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, George Dyson, historian, futurist and author of "Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship."
• 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, the McPhee sisters: Jenny McPhee, author of "The Center of Things"; Martha McPhee, author of "Gorgeous Lies"; and Joan Sullivan, author of "An American Voter."
• 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, Esther Schor, Princeton associate professor of English and author of "The Hills of Holland."

Curator Scott Husby, the library's rare books conservator, will inaugurate the exhibition with a lecture titled "Bookbinding: Craft and Art" at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10, in Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture.

While conventional wisdom states that books cannot be judged by their covers, visitors will have a chance to do just that -- 160 chances, in fact. Exhibits will range from the most humble of volumes to the most luxurious, from monastic manuscripts of the 12th century to special editions of the 20th century.

The exhibition draws on the library's rich collection of rare books to illustrate both the continuity and the evolution of European bookbinding, especially the work of English, German, French and Italian binderies. National differences are also demonstrated, such as England's partiality for calfskin and Italy's widespread use of goatskin.

Husby also will offer tours of the exhibition at 3 p.m. on the following Sundays: Dec. 8, Feb. 2 and April 6. "Hand Bookbindings" is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, until 8 p.m. on Wednesdays and from noon to 5 p.m. on weekends.

For further information about the exhibition or the tours, call (609) 258-5049.

In September, staff at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory completed the dismantling and removal of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor, which shut down in 1997 following 15 years of operation. During its experimental life, the reactor set records for fusion performance and made major contributions to the development of fusion as a long-term energy alternative. The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory team finished the removal of reactor on schedule and under budget.

"This marks the end of an important chapter in the history of fusion," said Raymond Orbach, director of the Office of Science, which oversees the laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy. "The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor achieved many firsts that brought us closer to an era of fusion power. Now that the decommissioning of TFTR has been completed safely, on schedule and under budget, in keeping with Office of Science best practices, we look forward to continued contributions in fusion power research from PPPL."

"The unprecedented scientific success of TFTR experiments has now been followed by its safe dismantling and removal," said Robert Goldston, director of the laboratory. "Not only did TFTR greatly advance fusion science, but its safe, cost-effective and efficient decommissioning also demonstrates the promise of fusion as an environmentally attractive, economical energy source."

The full story and photos are available on the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Web site.

Originally called the Program in Women's Studies, the academic unit was approved by the University faculty in 1981. Kay Warren, a 1974 Graduate School alumna, was appointed founding director in 1982.

According to its Web site , the program "provides a forum for intellectual exchange on issues of gender relations and sexual politics." It also offers "a variety of courses, lectures, exhibitions and research opportunities relating to questions of gender, sexuality and society."

The events scheduled will feature several women who have taught in the program and were on campus in its early years:

-- "Thinking Back Through Our Mothers," a panel discussion on the origins of women's studies at Princeton, is set for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in 2 Robertson Hall. Participants will be: Maria DiBattista, English and comparative literature; Suzanne Keller, sociology; Christine Stansell, history; Froma Zeitlin, classics, comparative literature and Jewish studies; and Mary Harper, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. The moderator will be Deborah Nord, English, who directs the Program in the Study of Women and Gender. A reception will follow in the Shultz Dining Room.

-- Francine Blau, the Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, will present a lecture on "Reflections on Feminism and Economics" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, in 2 Robertson Hall.

-- A lecture titled "What Difference We Made: Starting Women's Studies" is slated for 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, in 2 Robertson Hall. The speaker will be Natalie Davis, the Henry Charles Lea Professor Emerita at Princeton and adjunct professor at the University of Toronto.

For more information on these events, contact the Program in the Study of Women and Gender at 258-5430 or visit the program's Web site.

Altshuler, a professor of physics, will receive the Oliver Buckley Prize "for fundamental contributions to the understanding of the quantum mechanics of electrons in random potentials and confined geometries, including pioneering work on the interplay of interactions and disorder." The award, which carries a $5,000 prize, was established in 1952 by Bell Laboratories in honor of one of its former presidents and will be bestowed at the Physical Society's March meeting in Austin, Texas.

Socolow, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will be awarded the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award "for leadership in establishing energy and environmental problems as legitimate research fields for physicists, and for demonstrating that these broadly defined problems can be addressed with the highest scientific standards." The award includes a $1,000 prize, plus $2,000 for travel expenses for lectures in the following year. The award was endowed in 1998 by donations from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Energy Foundation, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation and individuals. It will be given at the Physical Society's April meeting in Philadelphia.

Wheeler, the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics Emeritus, will receive the Einstein Prize jointly with Peter Bergmann of Syracuse University "for pioneering investigations in general relativity, including gravitational radiation, quantum gravity, black holes, space-time singularities and symmetries in Einstein's equations, and for their leadership and inspiration to generations of researchers in general relativity." The biennial prize, which includes $10,000, will be given at the Philadelphia meeting. It was established in 1999 by the Physical Society's Topical Group on Gravitation.

Detailed information about the awards is available at the American Physical Society Web site.

A prolific author, Oates has written novels, poetry, drama and literary criticism. She has won the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature (1998), the PEN/Malamud Award for Achievement in the Short Story (1996), the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award in Horror Fiction (1996) and the National Book Award (1970).

Thorme has been coordinator of Princeton's Community-Based Learning Initiative for two years. This summer, she was promoted and joined the staff of the Pace Center as assistant director, still keeping her responsibilities for managing the initiative.