Franz Rosenthal, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Arabic at Yale University, died on April 8 in Branford, CT., after a long illness. “Franz Rosenthal was a man of total intellectual integrity, a renowned interpreter of Islamic religion and Arabic...
The New England Regional Conference on Medical Anthropology, devoted to anthropological approaches to health research, will take place at Yale University on April 5, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. This one-day symposium includes 16 speakers who will present a variety of...
On March 27, the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities at Yale will host a talk by Gilbert Rose, MD, on the meaning of musical expression, a subject of philosophical inquiry throughout the ages. Titled “How Does Music Mean? What...
Responding to a critical national shortage of academic librarians, Yale University Library and Yale’s Office of Graduate Career Services are sponsoring a symposium on April 11 to inform graduate students in the humanities about professional opportunities...
A three-judge panel has named Adrienne Rich the 2003 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Rich’s “honesty at once ferocious and humane, her deep learning, her continuous poetic exploration and awareness of multiple selves”...
Yale Law School has announced that Knight Fellowships in Law for Journalists for the 2003-2004 academic year will be awarded to Chisun Lee, Village Voice; Daniel Fisher, Forbes Magazine; and Philip Segal, The Asian Wall Street Journal. Lee has been a...
Thomas McLernon Greene, the Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University, whose tenure on the faculty at Yale spanned five decades, died on Monday, June 23, in New Haven. Born in Haddonfield, New Jersey,...
Beginning July 7, Yale’s Programs in International Educational Resources (PIER) of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) will offer four concurrent courses – Summer Institutes – examining the background of particular world issues...
The Yale University Library will participate in a pilot project with the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Rice University and the University of Southern California. Supported by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the...
A memorial service will be held this Sunday, May 4, in the Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School, 127 Wall St., honoring Eugene V. Rostow, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Public Policy and former dean of Yale Law School. Rostow, an...