In ancient Egypt, rituals honoring the goddess Hathor could be noisy affairs. Worshippers shook sistrums — rattle instruments — to mimic the sound of the solar deity moving through rushes and grass as she strode to her temple.
A dazzlingly blue sistrum...
Popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt toppled autocratic regimes during the 2011 Arab Spring, but the countries’ fates diverged after the revolutions ended. While Tunisia has established a stable democratic government, Egypt’s shift to democracy was...
A symposium at Sterling Memorial Library on Thursday, Nov. 29, will honor the life and legacy of Dr. Dori Laub, co-founder of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and Yale’s Genocide Studies Program.
The Department of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale have launched a pre-doctoral research assistant program that will provide college graduates considering scholarly careers the opportunity to work alongside faculty on data-driven...
Speaking at the 50th anniversary celebration of Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), Yale President Peter Salovey acknowledged that producing policy-relevant, data-driven research in the social sciences — the work at the heart of ISPS’...
Zoologist Katharine Jeannette Bush published a scholarly article in 1899 “based on a small, but very interesting, collection of gastropods belonging to the genus Turbonilla” that a “Mr. Pilsbry” had loaned to her for study.
Bush, a protégé of the renowned...
Subhashini Kaligotla, assistant professor of art history, points to a photograph on her computer screen of elaborate sandstone towers at Pattadakal, a medieval temple complex in northern Karnataka, India.
“I always ask my students if they see different...
While enduring daily cruelty and deprivation in labor camps in central Ukraine, survivor Liubov N. and her fellow prisoners documented their struggle in song and verse.
Recounting her experiences in a two-hour interview for the Fortunoff Video Archive for...
Yale economist Fabrizio Zilibotti’s career has taken him across the globe. Born and raised in Italy, he has lived in the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Switzerland before arriving in New Haven. He regularly travels to China. Over the years, he says, he has...