Two recent books by Yale faculty members shine a spotlight on a neglected stage of African American theater history. “Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910” by David Krasner, explores the development of...
The Chubb Fellowship at Yale University will honor Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko as its first Fellow of the 2000-01 academic year on October 4 and 5. Yevtushenko will give a free, public reading and discuss his poetry at 4 p.m. on October 4 in the...
The latest issue of Perspecta, Yale School of Architecture’s groundbreaking journal, has just been published. “Reading Structures,” Perspecta 31, examines the relationship between architectural design and structural engineering. The 12 contributing...
The Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at Yale School of Medicine will present the “Neurotherapeutic Effects of Music,” on Saturday, September 9 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar Street. The symposium will explore recent...
Yale University will inaugurate the Howard Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders on September 8 and 9, with a conference on America’s national parks. Participants range from anti-timber advocates to “free market environmentalists.” Robin...
.– Paolo Valesio, professor of Italian language and literature and chair of the Italian department at Yale, received first prize in a national poetry contest in Italy. The National Prize for Published and Unpublished Poetry – sponsored by the arts...
Six internationally renowned architects will hold visiting endowed professorships at Yale University’s School of Architecture during the fall semester, Dean Robert A.M. Stern has announced. They are Demetri Porphyrios, Douglas Garofalo, Tod Williams,...
The Yale School of Architecture opens a new academic year with a salute to one of its own: an exhibition of the work of Cesar Pelli. “Cesar Pelli: Building Designs 1965-2000” is a retrospective of the work of one of the world’s great contemporary...
Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University will exhibit visually dazzling and intellectually challenging books by 16 contemporary Latin American artists, from September 14 through November 27. The exhibition, titled “Poetics, Politics, and Song:...
Visitors can watch rehearsals of the American Sign Language (ASL) translation of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”-a collaboration of mime, dance, body movement and facial expression, all without sound. Rehearsals are taking place Monday through Friday from...