On April 21, 1971, a little-known Maya manuscript — a calendar for calculating the cycles of Venus — went on view at the Grolier Club in Manhattan as part of an exhibition on Maya writing.Each page of the Grolier Codex features a fearsome deity to...
Harold Augenbraum, former executive director of the National Book Foundation, which presents the National Book Awards, has been named the 2017 Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC).Harold Augenbraum, former executive director of...
“Posthuman, All Too Human” is the theme of the 2017 Tanner Lectures on Human Values that will be delivered this spring by philosopher Rosi Braidotti of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Rosi Braidotti of Utrecht University in the Netherlands will...
A look inside “Other Minds” is the theme of the 2017 Shulman Lecture in Science and Humanities presented by the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC).The opening lecture — titled “What Is It Like To Be A Dog?” — will be given by Alexandra Horowitz, New York...
From 1952 to 1981, South Africa’s apartheid government operated a training school for art teachers in the Bantu Education system — the school system for black South Africans.Magaziner’s book tells the story of Ndaleni, which for many years was the only...
Yale senior Simone Seiver is among the 36 U.S. citizens who have been selected to be part of the 2017 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge.
These 36 individuals from 34 universities will join 54 scholars from other parts of the...