A special award will be given in memory of Suzanne N. Jovin at this year’s Elm and Ivy luncheon on Thursday, May 6, at noon in the Presidents Room of Woolsey Hall, Yale University. The event will be open for print reporters and correspondents, but pool...
Reflecting transformations on the global stage, the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) is merging two of its councils – one devoted to the study of Western Europe and the other to Russia and Eastern Europe – into a single Council for...
Opening tomorrow: a collection of books newly acquired by Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library that reflect the status and role of women in 16th century Europe. The collection features 138 rare books by and about women that...
An original composition by David Amram, drawing heavily on Native American musical traditions, will have its Connecticut debut at the Peabody Museum in New Haven on Saturday, April 10 at 1 p.m. The performance, which will feature members of the New Haven...
Betty Friedan, a founder of the feminist movement, and celebrated author Grace Paley will be among the speakers at a four-day conference, titled Cherut: Jewish Women and Freedom, to be held at Yale University April 15 to 18. More than 200 students and...
Two Yale juniors are among a distinguished group of undergraduates nationwide who have been elected as 1999 Truman Scholars by the Washington, D.C.-based Harry Truman Scholarship Foundation. Dalia Hochman of Lexington, Mass., and Kimberly Jones of New...
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will speak on “The Moral Authority of the Presidency” when she delivers the Gary Fryer Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. on April 6 in Yale Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall Street. Goodwin’s talk,...
The director of the Genocide Studies Program at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Professor Ben Kiernan, has announced the appointment of Susan E. Cook as director of Yale’s Cambodian Genocide Program (CGP), an independent program...
Yale University political scientist Rogers M. Smith, whose scholarly work has focused on civil rights and liberties, constitutional law, and modern and ancient political theory, has been appointed the Alfred Cowles Professor of Government by vote of the...
Margot E. Fassler, director of the Institute for Sacred Music (ISM) and a professor at both the Yale Divinity School and the Yale School of Music, has been appointed the Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History by vote of the Yale Corporation....