Several noted Irish directors and actors will participate in a symposium on issues in contemporary Irish film, February 1-4, in the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, 53 Wall St. The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will include panels,...
Acclaimed writer and advocate for the Haitian-American community Edwidge Danticat will visit the Yale campus and give a reading from her works on February 6 and 7. Born in Port au Prince, Haiti, in 1969, Danticat came to the United States in 1981. Two...
An exhibition of paintings by David Gelernter is on view at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall Street, now through March 23. The art, primarily a mix of acrylic and pastel or watercolor and pastel, occasionally employs liquid iron, metal...
The Yale University Art Gallery has received an ownership claim regarding an 1864 painting by Gustave Courbet on loan to the Art Gallery since 1981. The claim was made by the son of the late Josephine Weinmann, a Jewish citizen who left Germany before...
Yale University will host a symposium on issues in contemporary Irish film, February 1-4, in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will feature panels, lectures and discussions with 21 prominent...
Rolena Adorno, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, has won the American Historical Association’s J. Franklin Jameson Award for her three-volume tour de force, “Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of...
Edmund S. Morgan, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale and a leading scholar of American colonial history, was among 12 recipients of the National Humanities Medal for 2000. Cited on the certificate he received at the award ceremony on Dec...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin today announced the appointment of Barbara A. Shailor as the new director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Since 1996, Shailor has been dean of Douglass College at Rutgers, The State...
The Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will host a lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy on February 2 at 4 p.m., Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. Kennedy’s talk, “A Tale of Three Cities: How the United States Won...
Yale University has received two grants totaling more than $1.1 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. in support of projects at the Institute of Sacred Music and the Divinity School. The grants will help fund the study of liturgical practices at the...