When the Council of Europe defined human rights for research subjects, medical patients and organ donors for the first time this past April, Ludger Honnefelder was on the committee that drafted the “Convention on Biomedical Ethics.” Mr. Honnefelder,...
Secretary of Defense William Cohen will speak at Yale University on Friday, September 26, at 7:30 p.m. His talk,part of the Yale Law School Alumni Reunion dinner, is not open to the public. Members of the media are invited to cover the event. The...
Yale Law School will host a lecture and panel discussion as part of the annual Alumni Weekend, Friday, Sept. 26 and Saturday, Sept. 27. Both events, free and open to the public, will take place at the Law School, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St....
Yale University’s Whitney Humanities Center – WHC – will hold a conference on the work of philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin on Friday, Sept. 26, and Saturday, Sept. 27. The program, titled “Angelus Novus: Perspectives on Walter Benjamin...
The nephew and friends of author Thornton Wilder, Yale Class of 1920, as well as drama students and playwrights influenced by his work, will gather on campus with scholars from the United States and Russia to participate in a free public symposium on...
Yale Divinity School Dean Richard J. Wood announced this week that six New Haven residents have been elected Coffin-Forsberg Fellows for the 1997-98 academic year. The non-monetary Fellowships honor the recipients’ service to the community and engage...
The 1950s in France were years of creative, intellectual, and political ferment. The recent past of the Nazi Occupation, the ongoing struggles for independence in Algeria and Indochina, the onset of the Cold War, and the promises and threats of...
The Open End Theater, created and coordinated by retired Yale professor Thomas Greene, has received a $6,000 grant from the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. Funding will enable the ensemble to produce a second season of interactive...
Retired Yale University Professor William A. Christian, Sr. died on Saturday, August 9, at his home in Hamden, Connecticut. He was 92 years old. A specialist in the philosophy of religion, he wrote several important books, including “Doctrines of...
Yale alumni clubs and associations across America and in Hong Kong are sponsoring 32 Yale students this summer for community service work. Providing the students with summer stipends frees them from having to work at regular jobs, letting them...