Plays, old and new, and scholarly papers about the theater will combine at a Yale University conference on “Staging Brazilian and Portuguese Theater,” November 10-11. Students from the Yale School of Drama will perform a staged reading in English of “...
Peter Singer, among the most influential and controversial living philosophers, will deliver the Dwight Terry Lectures at Yale this year from October 31 to November 9. Titled “One World: The Ethics and Politics of Globalization,” the series comprises...
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University is hosting the following series of events throughout this academic year on the theme of “Emancipation and Abolition.” October 19 Peter Hinks, Hamilton...
The Program for Humanities in Medicine at Yale University is sponsoring a symposium on Sunday, October 22, at the Yale Medical School on the nature of creativity in medicine and art. The symposium, which will gather health care professionals and artists...
Renowned pianist Boris Berman, professor at the Yale University School of Music, will deliver a lecture and demonstration titled “The Making of a Pianist, the Making of a Musician” on October 27 at 5:30 p.m. in Sudler Lecture Hall, William L. Harkness...
Yale University will hold a memorial event celebrating the life and work of recently deceased Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai on October 24 at 4:30 p.m. in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. At the “Homage to Amichai,” Benjamin Harshav, the...
Richard J. Wood, dean of the Yale Divinity School since 1996, will leave the University to become president of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia in January 2001. “Dean Wood has been an outstanding leader of the Yale Divinity School...
In her recently published “Harems of the Mind,” Yale professor Ruth Bernard Yeazell examines how a mysterious Middle Eastern institution captivated the Western imagination and put its mark on European culture. From the defeat of the Ottomans by the...
Bishop Martin Lind of Linkoping, Sweden, and Manas Buthelezi, lately retired bishop of the Central Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of South Africa, will be featured guests at a two-day colloquium at the Yale Divinity School on October 23-24....
Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition will hold a public forum on October 3 to commemorate the 200th birthdays of Nat Turner and John Brown, two of America’s most controversial fighters against slavery. Chaired...