In West African art and culture, the image of a long-necked bird with its head turned backwards to take an egg off its back is the symbol of a well-known proverb in the Akan language of Ghana, which teaches that in order to move forward, one must first...
About 200 alumni and 100 Yale College students will gather on campus Friday-Sunday, April 20-22, for the second Yale Latino Alumni Reunion. The theme of this year’s reunion is “Latinos at Yale: Past/Present/Future.”Featured events will include a...
Dr. Paul FarmerDr. Paul Farmer, Harvard Medical School professor and a founding director of Partners In Health (PIH), will deliver a lecture titled “The Corporal Works of Mercy and the 21st-Century Struggle Against Poverty” at Yale Divinity School on...
THESEUSLovers and madmen have such seething brains,Such shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.The lunatic, the lover and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,That is, the...
Three works by graduating playwrights at the Yale School of Drama will be staged May 4-12 during the seventh annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays.There will be 12 performances of the plays — “Fox Play” by Jake Jeppson, “Petty Harbour” by Martyna Majok,...