NHdocs, a one-day film festival featuring documentaries created by New Haven filmmakers — including a member of the Yale faculty — will take place on Sunday, June 29.The event, which will include screenings of four documentaries, will begin at 1 p.m. in...
Members of the Yale community and beyond are invited to celebrate the life and contributions of the late Professor Robert Alan Dahl at 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 29 in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. A reception at the Graduate Club will...
Jonathan Schell, a journalist, best-selling author, and anti-war activist who taught several courses at Yale, died on March 25 at his home in Brooklyn. He was 70 years old.Schell was author of the acclaimed books “The Village of Ben Such,” about the...
Conservation scientist and professor Stefan Simon has been named director of the newly established Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) at Yale’s West Campus. The IPCH serves as the overarching international hub directing the various...
Yale political scientist Susan Hyde will discuss “Does Democracy Promotion Promote Democracy?” in the next In the Company of Scholars lecture on Tuesday, March 25.Susan HydeThe talk will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 119 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320...
Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, the first woman to serve as president of Tehran’s city court, will deliver the Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Global Justice on Monday, March 3 at 4:30 p.m. in the Levinson Auditorium of the Yale Law School, 127 Wall St....
John McWhorter, a writer and associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, will speak at Yale on Thursday, Feb. 27 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.John McWhorterMcWhorter will give a talk titled “Is the Creole...
Before an audience of roughly 100 Yale students, faculty, and staff on Feb. 4 in Battell Chapel, Nina Davuluri — Miss America 2014 — shared her goal of spreading cross-cultural understanding and combating ignorance. Last September, 24-year old Nina...