Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, director of the Center for Language Study (CLS), could explain the benefits of language study in seven or eight languages. Today, she chose English.“[Studying languages] is not so much about becoming perfect. You’ll never become...
The Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY), sponsored by the Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies, opens on Wednesday, Nov. 9 in Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies...
Jing Tsu, professor of East Asian languages and literatures and of comparative literature, was recently honored as a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow.Professor Jing Tsu shown here teaching her course on “China and the World.”A literary scholar and an expert on the...
Norman Y. Mineta, former secretary of transportation and secretary of commerce, will visit Yale on Wednesday, Feb. 17 under the auspices of the Chubb Fellowship.Mineta will give a talk titled “U.S. Security Concerns from Japanese American Internment to 9/...
Mary Beard, one of Britain’s best-known classicists, will present the ninth annual Rostovtzeff Lecture at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10 in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.Mary BeardHer talk, “The 12 Caesars: Fictions and Fakes, Meanings and...