Peter Demetz, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Germanic Language and Literature at Yale University, recently received a Medal of Merit in the fields of scholarship and culture from the Czech Republic. The award was presented to Demetz, a native of...
Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University, will host a meeting to explore an emerging issue in architecture and historic preservation: what to do about public buildings constructed 30-40 years ago. The “Architecture of the...
Tamar Alexander, the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale, will deliver a free, public lecture on “The Dybbuk: Spiritual Possession in Jewish Tradition” on November 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at...
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale will hold its Second Annual International Conference, “The Arming of Slaves from the Classical Era to the American Civil War,” on November 16-18. Drawing scholars from...
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...