Rwanda. Congo. Somalia. Violent regional and ethnic tensions have erupted in Africa in recent years, leaving thousands dead, wounded and driven from their homes. The first step in preventing a repetition of these tragedies is to understand them...
Social studies teachers from around the country and across town have converged on Yale to study Africa, China, Russia and other nations in the news. The goal is to give educators the latest and most complete information about what they cover in their...
The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival will take a breather from classical music to celebrate George Gershwin’s 100th birthday on Friday, July 17, and Saturday, July 18, at the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate in Connecticut’s Litchfield Hills. The Norfolk...
Vincent Scully, the Sterling Professor Emeritus and lecturer in the history of art at Yale University, will deliver the opening address for the International Festival of Arts and Ideas’ three-day symposium, “Cities of the Future: Dinosaurs or Dynamos...
On Friday, June 26, 6-8 p.m., Interim Sites will stage an event at 1156 Chapel Street, former home of the Jewish Community Center and future home of the Yale School of Art. To accommodate the celebration, two lanes of Chapel Street will be closed. The...
A conference titled “The Silk Road Project: Reuniting Turfan’s Scattered Treasures” will be held at Yale, July 10-12, marking the culmination of three years of research by an international team of archaeologists, historians, art historians and religious...
Yale University’s School of Art will host a one-woman exhibition of works by Carol Schlosberg, former student and faculty member who was murdered in Mexico on March 29. The show will run from Monday, June 15, through Saturday, June 27, in the Art and...
A grant of $220,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow Yale to expand its Librarian-in-Residence program, which brings talented minority librarians to New Haven for a two-year term. Thanks to the new funding just announced by the Mellon...
His All Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree at Yale University’s 297th Commencement on May 25. His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is the 270th successor to the...
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale has acquired the archive of Witold Gombrowicz, one of the great names of 20th century European modernism. Gombrowicz was born in Maloszyce, Poland, in 1904 and studied philosophy and law at the...