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...
Best-selling novelist and social commentator Tom Wolfe will speak about his life as a graduate student at Yale, on Wednesday, October 11, at 4 p.m. in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall Street. Wolfe’s talk is titled “Maggie, a Girl of the...
Vincent Ilardi, a visiting fellow and emeritus faculty member in the history department at Yale University, will be delivering two lectures on Renaissance vision on September 28 and October 5 this fall. Ilardi’s lectures, titled, “Renaissance Vision...
The Yale Physician’s Building Art Place will kick off a second exhibit with the work of Kosovo Refugee, Burim Myftiu and13 other artists on Friday, September 22 from 5 to 7 p.m. at 800 Howard Avenue. Myftiu, who arrived in the United States with just...
Sarah Maza, a professor of history from Northwestern University, will speak at Yale on September 25 about social class and the French Revolution. An award-winning scholar and author, Maza is best known for her work on the social history of France,...
While Yale student Taylor Krauss is in China this semester, he will be blazing new trails in virtual travel, perhaps even initiating the first virtual junior year abroad. Armed with a portable kit of video equipment and laptop computer, Krauss will...
The Yale School of Architecture will hold a cross-disciplinary symposium on the future of cities, titled “Next Cities: Paradoxes of Post-Millennial Urbanism,” October 6 and 7 in Hastings Hall of the A&A Building, 180 York Street. Keynote speaker and...
Two recent books by Yale faculty members shine a spotlight on a neglected stage of African American theater history. “Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910” by David Krasner, explores the development of...
The Chubb Fellowship at Yale University will honor Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko as its first Fellow of the 2000-01 academic year on October 4 and 5. Yevtushenko will give a free, public reading and discuss his poetry at 4 p.m. on October 4 in the...