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...
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the modern state of Israel, Yale University will exhibit treasures from the Holy Land that are part of the University’s collections, now through April 30. The exhibition will include books about...
A $1.3 million grant has been given to Yale by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to strengthen the teaching of foreign languages throughout the University. Yale President Richard C. Levin, in thanking the Foundation, commented: “The command of foreign...
Yale Law School and the Whitney Humanities Center will host a conference, “Postmodernism/Postmodernity: Politics, Law, Culture, Aesthetics,” Friday and Saturday, Feb. 27-28. All sessions will take place at the center, 53 Wall St., and are free and...
Brett Beemyn, an assistant professor of African American Studies at Western Illinois University, will present a talk on “A Queer Capital: Black and White Lesbigay Life in Washington, D.C., 1920-1960” on Monday, Feb. 23, at 4 p.m. in the Romance...
John. J. Collins, a leading scholar on the history of Judaism and Jewish thought on the apocalypse, will present a lecture, “Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” on Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 4 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. His talk is part of the...
Lawyers get a lot of mean-spirited teasing these days, but they don’t all deserve the bad rap. A group of attorneys, advocates, law students and community organizers from around the nation will gather this week at Yale Law School to discuss how to use...
“Arab Women Make Movies” is the title of a film festival being held at Yale University Friday and Saturday, Feb. 20-21. It is just one of several cinematic celebrations of foreign cultures taking place on campus in upcoming weeks. Japanese “Outsiders”...