After mapmaker Judah Ben Zara was banished from Spain in 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled their kingdom’s Jewish population, the exiled cartographer continued plying his craft in the Middle East. His only surviving maps — two made in Egypt and...
Robert Blocker, who has helped transform the Yale School of Music during nearly three decades as the Henry and Lucy Moses Dean, will retire from the position on Aug. 31, 2023, Yale President Peter Salovey announced today.
An esteemed academic leader,...
In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, a new novel casts a man with a stutter in the lead role, a digital project helps readers visualize the legacy of plantation in the Caribbean, and an astronomy-...
The Windham-Campbell Prizes’ annual literary festival returns to campus Sept. 19 to Sept. 22 with a special lineup of events to mark its 10th anniversary, including a keynote address by former United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey.
The eight...
During her career, Lindsay Wright has taught music in public schools, as a private instructor of violin, and as the director of a youth symphony. Today she is an assistant professor in the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Music.
Wright,...
