Ukrainian history and world history have been linked for thousands of years, from the spread of what would become Indo-European languages by the Yamna culture to the global consequences of today’s Russo-Ukrainian War.
An international team of scholars led...
Marc Robinson, a longtime member of the Yale faculty and a leading theater critic whose work has illuminated the history of drama and performance in the United States, has been named the next dean of humanities for Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS...
As an undergraduate at Oberlin College and Conservatory, Daniel Walden spent a lot of time playing music written before 1900, sometimes on instruments dating back to the same period. One day he sat down at a harpsichord that was tuned in what’s called...
By the time he was entering his senior year of high school in New Haven, in 2017, Henry Seyue already knew that he wanted to study law, preferably constitutional law. One of his teachers, recognizing his academic seriousness, recommended that he attend...
In 1925, Sigmund Freud wrote what is now a fairly well-known essay, “A Note on the ‘Mystic Writing-Pad.’” The Mystic Writing-Pad was a relatively simple device that enabled the instant erasure of any markings on its surface. The pad’s foundation layer was...
Shortly after Pericles Lewis became a full professor in Yale’s Departments of English and Comparative Literature, in 2007, he was recruited by Martin Puchner, a Harvard professor and author, to help edit the third edition of the Norton Anthology of World...
Since the publication of his 2018 bestseller, “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,” Yale’s Jason Stanley has become a familiar presence on radio and television news broadcasts. The Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy in Yale’s Faculty of...