Arts & Humanities

Stories

Correcting the record on Canada's civil rights movement

October 15, 2014

Graduate student Wendell Adjetey (history, African American studies) is studying Canada as an active contributor to the civil rights struggle, and African...

Legendary bassist Ron Carter and his trio to perform

October 14, 2014

The Ron Carter Trio will perform on Friday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. The legendary bassist Carter will play with Russell Malone, guitar, and Donald Vega, piano.

Orion String Quartet and Windscape perform Bach's 'Art of Fugue'

October 14, 2014

The Yale School of Music presents the Orion String Quartet and the woodwind quintet Windscape in a performance of J. S. Bach’s "Art of the Fugue"...

In 'Near and Far,' Yale engineer exhibits his love of watercolor

October 14, 2014

In 1976, Dan Rosner’s cover article for the interdisciplinary AAAS journal Science suggested that the bony plates prominently lining the stegosaurus’s back...

Yale Graduate School to honor four distinguished alumni

October 13, 2014

The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will award Wilbur Cross Medals — the school’s highest honor — to four alumni on Tuesday, Oct. 14.

Don’t miss out: Panel, concert with composer John Adams to be livestreamed

October 13, 2014

Watch world-renowned composer/conductor John Adams participate in a panel discussion and conduct a concert on the School of Music’s livestream during his...

Campus events featured founders of Cave Canem

October 10, 2014

Celebrated poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, founding members of the literary organization Cave Canem, gave a talk and poetry reading during a recent...

In conversation: Verity Harte on a decade-long project devoted to reading Plato’s 'Republic'

October 10, 2014

Each year, faculty and graduate students in the field of ancient Greek philosophy gather at Yale or King’s College London to read one of the 10 books of the...

Book: Rhyme’s Reason: A Guide to English Verse

October 9, 2014

YaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the...

Yale Press to publish newly named Nobel laureate’s novellas

October 9, 2014

The newest winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, French novelist Patrick Modiano, is among the Yale University Press' soon-to-be-published authors.