On October 1 and 2, the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University will hold its fourth annual symposium on the “The Suburban Frontier.” Kenneth T. Jackson, the dean of American urban historians and the Jacques...
Award-winning writer Tony Kushner will speak about his life, his religion and his work at Yale on September 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. The talk, “Jewish In America,” sponsored by Joseph Slifka Center for...
Acclaimed poet Adrienne Rich, the most recent recipient of the prestigious Bollingen Prize for poetry, will read from her work at Yale’s Battell Chapel (corner of Elm and College streets) on September 30 at 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the...
Yale University will hold a conference, September 23-24, “Regarding Michael Jackson: Performing Racial, Gender and Sexual Difference Center Stage.” Co-sponsored by the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies and the Department of African...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Richard Pound will be the first Chubb Fellow of the 2004-05 academic year at Yale, speaking on “Ethical Issues and the Olympics” in the British Art Center Auditorium, 1080 Chapel Street, at 4:30 p.m. on...
On October 6, the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., with the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, will host the first of a series of four lectures on 100 years of psychoanalysis by renowned author Elisabeth Young-Bruehl....
The Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities at Yale University will present the following lectures this fall: September 9 “Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: The Shaping of a Self and Object World,” Harry Trosman, M.D., professor of...
The 1,312 members of the Yale College Class of 2008 will arrive on campus August 28 for orientation activities. This year’s class was chosen from the largest number of applicants Yale has ever had: 19,682 in all. That number represents an increase of...
Yale College news reporters will hold a week-long Summer Journalism Program for 30 local high school students who want to experience the life of a journalist and hone their news skills, August 22-28. The program aims to teach “the tricks of the trade”...
Yale University will host a conference to mark the 800th anniversary of the death of the renowned medieval Jewish philosopher, legal scholar and community leader Moses ben Maimon (1138-1204), also known as Maimonides and the Rambam, on September 12....