Three leading activists for urban food reform in New York and New Haven will meet at Yale on January 28 in a public panel discussion on educating youngsters about the importance of good food and making affordable healthy food available to urban residents....
Multimedia journalist Farai Chideya will visit Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism on Monday, February 1.Chideya’s talk, “Be the Media You Want to See: How Social Media and Citizen Journalism Are Changing the World,” will take place at...
David Shipley, deputy editor of The New York Times’ Editorial Page and editor of its Op-Ed Page, will visit Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism on April 12. His lecture, “The Art and Science of the Op-Ed,” is free and open to the public, and will take...
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, whose novel “Things Fall Apart” is the most widely read book in African literature, will speak at Yale on April 14, as a guest of the Chubb Fellowship.Free and open to the public, his talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the...
The democratization of Turkey will be the topic of a lecture at Yale by Turkish news anchor Banu Güven, who will visit Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. Güven’s talk, “Turkey: A ‘One Of A Kind’ Democracy and its Challenges,” will take place at 4 p.m...
Gareth Evans, Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND), will present a lecture titled “Eliminating Nuclear Threats” on April 27 at 1:00 p.m.The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take...
A Yale team led by Professor of Egyptology John Coleman Darnell has unearthed a lost city — the site of a massive bread-making industry — that flourished more than 3,500 years ago in the Western desert of Egypt.
The discovery of the remains of this mud-...
Three widely respected financial experts—Wall Street Economist Stephen Roach, Yale Professor Robert Shiller and former Dean of the Stern School of Business at NYU Thomas Cooley—will join the Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and...
As UN personnel, diplomats, and representatives of NGOs gather in New York next week for the summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for addressing compelling world issues from poverty to clean water, Yale Divinity School (YDS) will host a...
University Professor of Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Yeshiva University, Suzanne Last Stone, will explore Talmudic law in modern secular, religious and political contexts in the 2010 Franz Rosenzweig Lectures on October 10, 11 and 12 at...