Carlos Fuentes, one of the most renowned literary and political figures in the Spanish-speaking world, will present a lecture at Yale on Monday, April 26, as a guest of the Chubb Fellowship.His talk, titled “The Birth of Latin American Culture,” will take...
Yale Divinity School (YDS) will host a conference May 6–7 titled “Money and Morals after the Crash,” addressing some of the critical ethical questions people face as the recession brings economic issues front and center.The conference coincides with...
Professor Carlos Eire, who teaches in the Religious Studies Department of Yale University, will be featured in a documentary about Operation Pedro Pan, a secret U.S. airlift of Cuban children to the United States following the Castro Revolution.Titled “...
Yale University Library has received a grant of $250,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support “The New England Indian Papers Series: The Connecticut Colony Collection, 1603–1783,” an online compendium of important and rare...
Yale University’s Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, 180 York Street, will host the exhibition “Material Meets Metaphor: A Half Century of Book Art by Richard Minsky” from August 2 through November 29.The exhibition covers 50 years of Minsky’s work —...
Jeffrey Prescott, Deputy Director of The China Law Center and Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, has been named a White House Fellow, one of the country’s most prestigious programs for leadership and public service.Prescott is...
Yale faculty member J.D. McClatchy has received the 2010 Ambassador Book Award for Poetry from the English-Speaking Union of the United States for his book of poems “Mercury Dressing” (2009).The Ambassador Book Awards recognize important literary works...
Fifteen teachers from the U.S. and nine from Ghana have convened on the Yale Campus for a seminar hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition about the Transatlantic Slave Trade.For more information see the...
The U.S. Dept of Education has awarded more than $9 million to the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale for expansion and development of five of its studies councils in the areas of Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin...
A Yale team led by Professor of Egyptology John Coleman Darnell has unearthed a lost city — the site of a massive bread-making industry — that flourished more than 3,500 years ago in the Western desert of Egypt.
The discovery of the remains of this mud-...