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...
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...
Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new “Open Access” policy that the University announced today. Yale is the...
From providing open access to Yale’s vast collection of digital images to establishing a new literary prize, from the earliest discovery of rock art in Egypt to the creation of a center for preserving cultural heritage, here are 10 stories that made...