Last spring, Kishwar Rizvi, professor of the history of art, led a group of eight graduate students to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of her seminar “Museum and Nation.” Rizvi’s students conducted fieldwork there and later hosted a symposium on...
In his newest novel, “A View of the Empire at Sunset,” Yale English professor Caryl Phillips imagines the life of famed author Jean Rhys — from her early days living on the island of Dominica, through her days feeling like an outsider while she was a...
Around the Yale campus, C. Vann Woodward’s name is often associated with the Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale, which he chaired in 1974. A new exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library explores how an earlier work...
“At a time when the world seems crazy for lots of wrong reasons, the Beinecke Library is happy to offer active counter-measures for a good cause, as we celebrate all who are mad for books with our new exhibition, ‘Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A...
It was standing room only for the latest “Project Pitch” event at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, in which faculty members outlined research projects that could use a helping hand from a young data scientist.
The topics came from across the...
Subhashini Kaligotla, assistant professor of art history, points to a photograph on her computer screen of elaborate sandstone towers at Pattadakal, a medieval temple complex in northern Karnataka, India.
“I always ask my students if they see different...