John Hollander, the Sterling Professor of English at Yale, will be this year’s recipient of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for his 1997 book, “The Work of Poetry” (Columbia University Press). The award will be presented during a ceremony...
The Council on Latin American Studies of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese will host a festival of films from and about Brazil. The films, in Portuguese with English subtitles, will be shown...
The music of Charles Ives, one of this century’s greatest composers, will be celebrated in a three day festival-conference at Yale University, April 3-5. The festival, marking the centenary of Ives’ graduation from Yale College in the spring of 1898,...
U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley will visit the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven, 444 Orange St., tomorrow, Thursday, March 19. His visit celebrates the partnerships between New Haven Public Schools and Yale University...
Mary Ellen Miller, an expert on the art of Mesoamerica, has been named the first Vincent J. Scully Professor of the History of Art by vote of the Yale Corporation. The new chair was established in January in honor of Vincent J. Scully Jr., the longtime...
The 1998 Peace Games at Yale Festival will bring together students from nine New Haven area schools for a day of activities that explore cooperative problem-solving techniques. The media are invited to attend this lively, highly visual event on...
Mary Ellen Miller, an expert on the art of Mesoamerica, has been named the first Vincent J. Scully Professor of the History of Art by vote of the Yale Corporation. The new chair was established in January in honor of Vincent J. Scully Jr., the longtime...
U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley will visit the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven, 444 Orange St., on Thursday, March 19. His visit celebrates the partnerships between New Haven Public Schools and Yale University,...
Yale University’s Center for International and Area Studies will inaugurate a pioneering program with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., to promote scholarly and public policy research on Mexico. Sharing a $300,000 grant from the Hewlett...
Harvard University Professor Elaine Scarry will deliver the 1998 Tanner Lectures on March 25 and 26 at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The talks will focus on “Beauty and its Relation to Justice.” The first...