American composer John Adams will deliver the 2009 Tanner Lectures on Human Values on October 28 and 29 at Yale University.Free and open to the public, both talks will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.Adams will present...
Distinguished cultural historian Gary Tomlinson will deliver the opening 2011 Shulman Lecture in Science and the Humanities on February 3, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street. His talk, “Paleolithic Formalism and the Emergence of Music,” will...
The parliamentary governments that developed in Western Europe and North America during the 17th and 18th centuries are the subject of an international conference at Yale, April 7–9. The three–day conference will span three locations, and the sessions...
Celebrated writer Caryl Phillips, whose novels and non-fiction work relate to the long-lasting legacy of the African slave trade, will speak at Yale on February 9 and 10. A native of the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, brought up in Leeds, England,...
On Tuesday, August 19, many of the rare books damaged in the Law School explosion in May will be removed from the freezer where they have been stored. Head of the Yale Library preservation department, Bobby Pilette, and colleagues will exhibit the Law...
Members of the news media are invited to a guided tour of the Langston Hughes (1902-1967) exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on Thursday, January 31, at 2 p.m. Titled “My Soul Has Grown Deep like the Rivers: Langston Hughes...
Author and New York Times columnist Frank Rich will visit Yale Thursday, February 8 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. Rich will deliver the annual Gary Fryer Memorial Lecture on the topic “Journalism Unplugged: The Triumph of 24/7 Media.” The talk...
A Yale team headed by Professor Laura Wexler has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to design an interactive website to display some 160,000 Depression-era images taken by U.S. government photographers.The grant is the first made to...
Early in 1842 , on the eve of his 30th birthday, Charles Dickens made his first trip to America. The author at that time of “Pickwick Papers,” “Oliver Twist,” “Nicholas Nickleby,” and “The Old Curiosity Shop, ” the young novelist was celebrated on both...