The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded to Yale University Press an $840,000 grant to establish a new electronic portal on which curated and customizable art and architectural history content will be made available to consumers and institutions.The...
Dipesh Chakrabarty, the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Law at the University of Chicago will deliver the 2015 Tanner Lectures on Human Values Feb. 18-20. The theme of...
Carolyn Abbate, the Paul and Catherine Buttenweiser University Professor of Music at Harvard University, has been appointed as the 2015 Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC).Abbate will give a lecture titled “Sound Object Lessons”...
Nathaniel Mackey has been named the winner of Yale’s 2015 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, joining a list of past winners that includes such luminaries as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, E.E. Cummings, and Marianne Moore.Nathaniel Mackey, photo by Gloria...
David Pizarro, associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University, will deliver the opening 2015 Shulman Lecture in Science and the Humanities. His talk, titled “Understanding the Moral Mind,” will take place on Monday, Feb. 9.David...