The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School will hold a panel discussion on the ongoing genocide in Sudan on November 30, 6-7:30 p.m., in Room 127 at the Sterling Law Building, 127 Wall Street. The Darfur region...
The French department and Whitney Humanities Center of Yale will hold an international conference December 3-4 to commemorate the bicentennial of the coronation of Napoleon, which took place at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on December 2, 1804. Titled “...
On November 10, the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., with the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, will host the second of a series of four lectures on 100 years of psychoanalysis by renowned author Elisabeth Young-Bruehl...
Brian W. Dippie, professor of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, will deliver the fourth annual Betts Lecture at the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale on November 5. The lecture, titled “ ‘Its...
Rita Dove, the first African-American poet to serve as the nation’s Poet Laureate, will read from her poetry on November 30, 4 p.m., at Yale’s Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and...
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Halberstam will speak at Yale University on November 10 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 127 of Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, as the next Chubb Fellow. The lecture, “Iraq and the Shadow of Vietnam,” is free and open to the...
Yale’s Women Faculty Forum will hold a colloquium titled “Gender: A Useful Category of Analysis 1988/2004” on October 20, 6- 9 p.m. at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, Room 208. Taking its title from Joan Scott’s 1988 essay, “Gender as a...
Jorg Schlaich and Rudolf Bergermann, structural engineers who are pioneers in sustainable and ecological construction, will be the subject of an exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture, November 15, 2004, to February 4, 2005. “leicht weit Light...
Yale President Richard C. Levin has appointed Andrew Hamilton, who is currently the deputy provost for science and technology, as provost of the University effective October 18, 2004. “Andy was my first choice all along for this new assignment, but it...
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of Yale University announces the third in its series of discussions intended to broaden understanding of the current situation in Iraq on October 19, 8 p.m., in Room 102 Linsly-Chittenden Hall,...