Twenty first-year students sit around a crowded dining room table in Pauli Murray College, mulling over “A Song on How My Thatched Roof Was Ruined by the Autumn Wind,” a work by the prominent 8th century Chinese poet Du Fu.
The students are part of a new...
“The Secret Life of Radio: Fringe Practices of a Mass Medium” is the topic of the fall 2019 Franke Lectures in the Humanities sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC).
This semester’s lecture series has been organized in conjunction with the Yale...
The transformative process of turning the 87-year-old Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS) into a central home for the humanities on campus was recently recognized with an Excellence in Planning Award for a District or Campus Component from the Society for...
Keller Easterling, architect, writer, professor, and director of the Master of Environmental Design Program at the Yale School of Architecture, was recently named a 2019 United States Artist in Architecture and Design — one of only 45 awarded this honor...
Imagine for a moment, what it would be like to not have access to conventional ways of documenting your own life experiences. What if — as a marginalized person — it was illegal for you to learn how to read and write? What if you didn’t have the resources...
Appreciation of a beautifully written text is but one of the skills that students taking courses in English at Yale will learn. Among the others, says Yale English professor Stephanie Newell, is the skill of rhetoric.
Sometimes, when she sees students...
Three Yale faculty members — Anne Eller and William Rankin in the Department of History and Anna Zayaruznaya in the Department of Music — were awarded the 2018 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research by untenured...
In celebration of the introduction of American Sign Language (ASL) to Yale’s curriculum, the Department of Linguistics is hosting a panel discussion on Friday, Nov. 9.
Titled “Sign Languages and the Mind: Their History, Science, and Power,” the event will...
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, which was founded with the goal of publishing the definitive edition of Franklin’s writings, will celebrate the birthday of its namesake with an open house on Wednesday, Jan. 17 showcasing its work and the collection in...