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”...
The Yale InterAsia Initiative’s promotion of collaborative research, scholarly networking, and public policy connections across Asia has been recognized by the Carnegie Corporation of New York with a renewal grant of $500,000. The Carnegie Corporation...
A conversation with Sergei Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States since 2008, will be the first event hosted by the interdisciplinary Russian Studies Project recently launched at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and...
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...
John Githongo, one of Kenya’s most prominent anti-corruption activists and CEO of INUKA Ni Sisi!, an NGO that does work on citizen empowerment and good governance, will give the annual Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 11.Titled “...