Indigenous feminist activism and performance will be explored in a campus event on Tuesday, March 8, which is International Women’s Day.At the event, artist Maria Hupfield and scholar and activist Jaskiran Dhillon will present their work on the integral...
The preservation of cultural heritage will be the focus of the eighth Global Colloquium of University Presidents (UNGC) being hosted by Yale on April 12-13, along with a series of related public events from April 6–15. Information about the colloquium and...
“Africa Salon,” Yale University’s annual festival of contemporary African arts and culture, returns to campus March 28 through April 3.Organized by The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, Africa Salon 2016 will...
Citizens of the world must be as fierce in their passion to protect and preserve culture and cultural heritage as extremists are in their desire to destroy it, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told a packed audience at Yale on April 12.“Art, literature...
Of all the accolades she has received as the director-general of UNESCO, Irina Bokova is especially proud of being awarded honorary citizenship of Timbuktu in Mali last summer in recognition of UNESCO’s support in rebuilding mausoleums there that had been...