The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale will hold a symposium on the role of the humanities at Yale and in higher education, March 30 and 31 at 53 Wall St. The symposium, “Beginning with the Humanities,” is part of the celebration of the University’s...
Simon Schama, the historian who wrote and narrated the popular BBC “History of Britain” series, will give the 2001 Finzi-Contini Lecture on March 22 at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. A professor of history and art history at Columbia...
The Yale University Library and Elsevier Science announce today a year-long planning process for the creation of a digital archive for the 1,100 journals published electronically by Elsevier Science. Assuring the preservation of digital information is...
A three-judge panel has named Louise Gluck the 2001 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in Poetry, for her 1999 book, “Vita Nova,” published by Ecco Press. The judges wrote, “In the work of no other contemporary American poet is the individual...
Yale University has named architect Cesar Pelli to design a new engineering building that will be built near the corner of Prospect and Trumbull streets. Major funding for the building comes from John Malone (Yale College Class of 1963), whose recent $...
Clipping Cupid’s wings somewhat, Yale professor Nancy Cott presents a less than sentimental view of marriage in her new book, “Public Vows.” Indeed, in her groundbreaking study of marriage, American style, Cott, the Stanley Woodward Professor of History...
The seventh annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference-the nation’s largest student-run public interest law conference-will take place February 16-18, at Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street. Rebellious Lawyering brings together practitioners, law students and...
Yale Repertory Theatre will celebrate Yale University’s 300th birthday by presenting a 300-year-old comic masterpiece, William Congreve’s “The Way of the World,” directed by Stan Wojewodski, Jr., artistic director and dean of the Yale Drama School....
Yale University has chosen internationally renowned architects David M. Childs and Richard Meier to design two projects for its expanding arts area complex. Renovations to 180 York Street, a building designed by Paul Rudolph for the Art and Architecture...
Paul Lawrence, former director of media production and training services at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada, was named director of the Center for Media Initiatives (CMI) at Yale University, effective December 1, 2000. Among other projects,...