On Tuesday, Oct. 14, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale will present honorary degrees to Connecticut’s former Lieutenant Governor Eunice Strong Groark, the Reverend H. Boone Porter, the Reverend Barbara Brown Taylor, and the Right Reverend Herbert...
Sister Helen Prejean, whose work with death-row inmates was the subject of the Tim Robbins film “Dead Man Walking,” and other distinguished lecturers will be featured at the 1997 Annual Convocation of the Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity...
Yale University’s Department of Sociology will host a two-day conference on “Sociology and Public Life,” Thursday, Oct. 9, and Friday, Oct. 10. All sessions will be held in Room 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street. Keynote speaker on...
Anthony T. Kronman, dean of the Yale Law School, announced the establishment of the Robert L. Bernstein Fellowships in International Human Rights at a weekend gathering of Yale Law School alumni. The Fellowships will be awarded annually to two or...
Racism, sexism, and “nativism” are as central to American politics as liberalism and republicanism ever were, argues Yale political scientist Rogers Smith in his newly released book, “Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. Public Law...
How is Hong Kong meeting the challenge of merging with China while retaining its economic identity? The Hong Kong Club, an undergraduate organization at Yale, will host a two-day conference to examine the current and future status of Hong Kong. “One...
A panel discussion titled “After the Summit: The Role of Human Rights in U.S.-China Relations” will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2:30-5 p.m. in Yale Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. The program will address human rights policy and...
On Thursday, October 23, the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University will offer a crash course in the realities of public office to 40 Connecticut school children. Participants in “Students’ Day in Hartford” will be fifth graders from Toquam School...
The Council on Middle East Studies at Yale will host a conference to assess the complex relationship between human beings and nature in a region that is rich in many resources but perennially short of water. Titled “Transformations of Middle Eastern...
John S. Saul, professor of social and political science at York University in Toronto, Canada, will speak on “Whatever Happened to African Socialism Now that we Really Need It? Some Recollections and Reflections,” on Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Room 203 of...