Yale University, in cooperation with the Centre for Brazilian Studies at University of Oxford (England), will host a symposium, “On Transcreation: Literary Invention, Translation, and Poetics,” dedicated to prize-winning poet Haroldo de Campos in his...
A new, annual $25,000 prize for the most outstanding book published on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition has been awarded for the first time to Ira Berlin, author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery, and Philip D...
Marina Warner will deliver Yale University’s 1999 Tanner Lectures on “Spirit Visions” on Wednesday, Oct. 20, and Thursday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St. The first talk, “The Inner Eye: Figuring the...
A CD-Rom on the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes edited by Professor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria of Yale University has received Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Book Award for 1998. The multi-media reference work about Spain’s most...
The Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) will celebrate the inauguration of its Council on European Studies with a symposium titled “Europe Beyond 2000” on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 17 and 18. The conference, which is free and open to...
The Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale is hosting an exhibition by artist Deborah Rosenthal. “Eve’s Vocabulary,” an exhibit of 15 canvases, develops the theme of Eve as the embodiment of nature’s fecundity and the eternal feminine spirit, according...
Two Yale professors, Jon Butler and Harry Stout, are assembling the first series of textbooks on the history of religion in America designed expressly for secondary schools. The reference books are intended for high school teachers, to enhance their...
Electrical engineering Professors A. Stephen Morse and Peter Belhumeur are recipients of a $2.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the second largest 1999 award among 31 national research grants to study knowledge and distributed...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin delivered the following opening statement today during testimony in Washington before the Science and Technology Caucus of the United States Senate: Members of the Caucus, thank you for inviting me to discuss...
Marian Wright Edelman, an alumna of Yale Law School and the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, will be the featured speaker during worship service on Oct. 10 in Battell Chapel at 11 a.m. Immediately following the service at 12:30 p.m...