The Vinland Map, a source of curiosity and controversy since it entered the public consciousness a half-century ago, is spread out on a table at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) underneath a geodesic-dome cage.
An array of...
For many of us, self-reflection marks the turn of the new year, namely in the form of resolution-making. But few of us ever stop to consider, “What exactly is the ‘self’ I am trying to improve?” A new Yale humanities course, “Selfhood, Race, Class, and...
When conflicts arise over issues of free speech, “universities owe it to themselves and their students to avoid taking the path of least resistance,” said Allison Stanger of Columbia University, one of four participants in a panel on free speech sponsored...
Yale University today announced the 2018 recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes. The eight recipients, honored for their literary achievement or promise, will receive a $165,000 individual prize to support their writing.
The 2018 recipients of the...
Award-winning author and poet Claudia Rankine will speak on campus on Thursday, March 8 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
“A Conversation with Claudia Rankine,” will begin at 4 p.m. in the Grace Hopper head of college house, 434 College St. It is open to...
While being honored March 8 by the International Festival of Arts & Ideas with its eighth Visionary Leadership Award, poet Claudia Rankine described an encounter that she said is not all that uncommon for her. A white man approached to her to tell her...