George Todd was one of five alumni of the Yale Divinity School, YDS, given Awards for Distinction at the Fall Convocation on October 9. Honored this year were Talitha Arnold ‘80, Earl Harrison ‘59, Stanley Hauerwas ‘65, G. Scott Morris ‘80, and Mr....
Earl G. Harrison was one of five alumni of the Yale Divinity School YDS given Awards for Distinction at the Fall Convocation on October 9. Honored this year were Talitha Arnold ‘80, Mr. Harrison ‘59, Stanley Hauerwas ‘65, G. Scott Morris ‘80, and...
The Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale has won a $250,000 grant to fund Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowships in the Humanities for the coming three years. The fellowships will be used to bring two “public intellectuals” from Third World...
The achievements and contributions of Manuel Duran during his 36-year career at Yale will be celebrated at a symposium on the novelist, poet and dramatist Cervantes. Scholars from throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, including Professor Duran...
Novelist Ann Beattie will read from her work on Monday, November 4, at 8:30 p.m. in the Common Room of Yale University’s Byers Hall in Silliman College, 505 College Street in New Haven. Her reading, one in a series featuring authors from “The Yale...
Murder and mayhem are on the program when the Yale Symphony Orchestra takes to the Woolsey Hall stage at midnight on Thursday, October 31, wrapping up Halloween with a dramatic musical flourish. The orchestra, in costume, will provide musical...
Want to learn a few tips from a master of seduction? Come watch Faust perform his Gallic magic on Marguerite, putting Don Juan and Casanova to shame. Yale Opera will present Act II of Charles Gounod’s “Faust,” one of the most popular operas in...
Graduate students at the Yale School of Drama will direct four plays this season at University Theatre on York Street. The productions will be “The Pope and the Witch” by Dario Fo, directed by Stephan Genn; “Troy Women,” an adaptation of Euripides’ “...
The Richard U. Light Foundation of Kalamazoo, Michigan, working with Yale University faculty, has established a program to enable Yale students to study East Asian languages in East Asia. During 1997-1998, approximately 12-16 students will be...
Human beings, contended German philosopher Ernst Cassirer, are essentially characterized by their symbolizing activity, that is, their ability to use concepts to give shape to the natural world. An international and interdisciplinary array of...