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‘Uncovered, unknown, and uncertain’: Guiding ethics in the age of AI

February 21, 2024

Luciano Floridi, director of Yale’s new Digital Ethics Center, describes his approach to creating ethical frameworks for AI and other new technologies.

Conductor Sam Hollister, on programming ‘magic’

February 19, 2024

Hollister ’18, ’28 D.M.A. shares how a “magical” marimba concerto sparked his inspiration when choosing repertoire for this Friday’s Yale Philharmonia concert.

Yale’s Steinfeld hosts ‘Wellness Concerts’ at Carnegie Hall

February 16, 2024

Yale psychiatrist Matthew Steinfeld helped develop and implement the venue’s inaugural season of classical music concerts featuring mindfulness exercises.

Politics of Language: Jason Stanley on speech as ‘hustle’

February 15, 2024

Yale’s Jason Stanley argues that all speech is imbued with subtle meanings. In a Q&A, he discusses the devious — often harmful — ways that speech is used.

Visit by acclaimed poet invites engagement with an artist’s many dimensions

February 14, 2024

Poet, musician, and playwright Cornelius Eady, whose papers are at the Beinecke Library, visits next week for a series of performances and class discussions.

Jing Tsu appointed Spence Professor

February 13, 2024

Tsu is a cultural historian and literary scholar of modern China.

The real-life romance behind an operatic fantasy

February 13, 2024

Igor Stravinsky’s opera “The Rake’s Progress, which Yale Opera performs this weekend, features a libretto by poets and lovers W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman.

Yale Schola Cantorum presents ‘Holy is the True Light’ this weekend

February 13, 2024

On Saturday, Feb. 17, in Woolsey Hall, David Hill will conduct Yale Schola Cantorum in a performance of works by Howells, Buxtehude, and Shaw.

PODCAST | ‘Beyond the Ivy’: Taking theological education to wider public

February 12, 2024

Yale’s Joel Baden discusses his leadership of Center for Continuing Education at YDS, his scholarship, and the need to avoid “scholarly evangelism.”

Combining art and data to spur climate action

February 12, 2024

YSE alumna Allyza Lustig ’17 M.E.M. led the Art x Climate project, the first-ever gallery of visual art featured in the National Climate Assessment.