YaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books may forward publishers’ book descriptions to us by email.Black Citymakers...
Authors and scholars from around the globe will gather at Yale University on Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30, for an international conference titled “Beyond French: New Languages for African Diasporic Literature.”“Beyond French” will include a...
Horned helmets, furs, high-seas adventure, violence— this popular portrayal of the Vikings has endured for centuries and persists today. But how much is fact and how much fiction?Yale historian, Viking expert, and MacArthur Fellow Anders Winroth unmasks...
Roman Catholics around the world learned yesterday (March 13) that they had a new pope. Among them was Teresa Berger, professor of liturgical studies at Yale Divinity School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, who has a keen interest in Vatican...
Eryn Green, a doctoral candidate at the University of Denver, has been named the winner of the 2013 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, awarded by the Yale University Press.His prize-winning manuscript, “ERUV,” was selected by poet Carl Phillips,...
In the Dwight H. Terry lectures to be delivered at Yale March 26–April 4, Philip Kitcher, a preeminent scholar of the philosophy of science, will defend secular humanism against common criticism and explore its positive benefits.Philip KitcherTitled “...
As a lead-up to the forthcoming History Channel series “Vikings,” Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR’s “On Point,” talked with a foremost authority on the subject — Yale’s Anders Winroth — to de-mystify the legendary raiders of the North.
Winroth is professor and...
Robert (Bob) Eugene Evenson of New Haven, professor emeritus of economics, died on Feb. 2. He was 78 years old.Robert E. EvensonEvenson authored many books and collaborated on numerous publications in the areas of economic agricultural research,...