Rita Dove, the first African-American poet to serve as the nation’s Poet Laureate, will read from her poetry on November 30, 4 p.m., at Yale’s Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and...
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Halberstam will speak at Yale University on November 10 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 127 of Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, as the next Chubb Fellow. The lecture, “Iraq and the Shadow of Vietnam,” is free and open to the...
Yale’s Women Faculty Forum will hold a colloquium titled “Gender: A Useful Category of Analysis 1988/2004” on October 20, 6- 9 p.m. at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, Room 208. Taking its title from Joan Scott’s 1988 essay, “Gender as a...
Yale University announced today that The Starr Foundation of New York City has made a $5 million award to Yale over three years in support of the University’s World Fellows Program. Each year the World Fellows Program brings 16 to 18 highly...
Jorg Schlaich and Rudolf Bergermann, structural engineers who are pioneers in sustainable and ecological construction, will be the subject of an exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture, November 15, 2004, to February 4, 2005. “leicht weit Light...
Yale President Richard C. Levin has appointed Andrew Hamilton, who is currently the deputy provost for science and technology, as provost of the University effective October 18, 2004. “Andy was my first choice all along for this new assignment, but it...
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of Yale University announces the third in its series of discussions intended to broaden understanding of the current situation in Iraq on October 19, 8 p.m., in Room 102 Linsly-Chittenden Hall,...
Yale University will host a panel featuring the leaders of all four major Jewish denominations to discuss “Envisioning the Future of American Judaism” on October 13 at 8 p.m. in the Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street. The event is...
In conjunction with its current exhibition on the Philadelphia landmark building PSFS, the Yale School of Architecture will host a symposium October 1-2 exploring the distinctly American form that developed from European modernism of the 1930s. Titled...
Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh will give a talk September 27 titled “Yellow in a White World,” to launch the year-long celebration of the 150th anniversary of the graduation of Yale’s first Chinese student, Yung Wing. Yung Wing was the first Asian to...