Scholars and grass-roots activists from more than 15 countries will gather at Yale University, Oct. 8-10, to examine how policy makers have used cost-benefit analysis to justify controversial development projects and environmental decisions. The...
Princeton University Professor of Philosophy Bas van Fraassen will deliver the Dwight H. Terry Lectures at Yale this fall. The talks, collectively called “The Empirical Stance,” will take place on Oct. 19, 21, 26 and 28, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of...
New York State Governor George Pataki will speak at Yale as the next Chubb Fellow on Thursday, Oct. 7, at 5:30 p.m. in the Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. Pataki will speak on “The Role of Government in America’s Post-Industrial...
The following talks at Yale University May 5P13 are free and open to the public. James F. Childress, formerly vice chair of the national Task Force on Organ Transplantation, will address some of the complicated issues raised by the distribution of...
Yale University will hold a symposium exploring the consequences of a merger of three major media outlets – broadcast television, cable and the Internet – on Thursday, April 29, 9:45 a.m.-4 p.m. in the auditorium of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The...
A dialogue between those who help set policy for the child protective system and those who implement that policy will be the substance of a panel discussion on Friday, April 30, at the New Haven Free Public Library. Co-sponsored by Yale Law School’s...
The following talks at Yale University April 26P30 are free and open to the public. George Fletcher, the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at the Columbia University School of Law, will deliver the 1999 Robert M. Litowitz Lecture in Ethics and Public...
On Thursday, April 22, at 4 p.m., Yale University’s Center for International and Area Studies will sponsor a panel discussion, “Perspectives on the Kosovo Crisis.” The event, organized by the councils on Russian and East European and on West European...
The following talks at Yale University April 19-27 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Maryland state legislator to describe his ‘political journey’ Kumar Barve, a delegate to the Maryland General Assembly and the first person of...
Life in Connecticut in the 1880s compared with life in the state today will be the focus of a conference at Yale this weekend, April 17 and 18. Members of the media are invited to attend this event, titled “Connecticut: Past, Present and Future,” which...