A symposium titled “Photography, Memory and the Black Panther Party’s Visit to the People’s Republic of the Congo, 1971” will be held April 30-May 1 at the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale (AACC).The event marks the 10th anniversary of the...
This spring marks the 35th anniversary of the publication of “All Our Kin,” Carol Stack’s path-breaking ethnography of the survival strategies of African-American women living in poverty in urban America. A conference honoring the legacy of Stack’s work...
Marc Brackett, a research scientist in psychology and deputy director of the Health, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory at Yale, has been honored as the outstanding young researcher of the year by the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning...
There will be a memorial service for Huynh Sanh Thong, former director of the Yale Southeast Asian Refugee Project, on Saturday, May 2, at 1 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. A reception will follow at 2:30 p.m. in the Yale...
Yale University Library joined with UNESCO, the Library of Congress and 30 international institutions in Paris today to launch the World Digital Library, a website that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives around the world.The...
An archive tracing the life and work of a woman who was a dancer, set designer and the wife of film star Rudolph Valentino before becoming a renowned Egyptologist was recently donated to the Yale Egyptological Institute in Egypt, part of the Department of...
Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki will speak at Yale on April 22 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 101, Linsley-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street. His talk is titled, “Closer Cooperation: Economy, Energy, Environment.” The event, hosted by the Council on East Asian...
Evan Osnos, a staff writer for The New Yorker based in Beijing, will discuss “China in the Age of Obama: Democrats, Identity, and Style” on Monday, April 27 at Yale.This lecture, sponsored by The Council on East Asian Studies and the Poynter Fellowship in...
Three Yale Law School students have been named Paul & Daisy Soros New American Fellows for 2009. Carel Alé, Andres Idarraga and Alexandru Iftimie — all first-year law students — are among 31 accomplished young people chosen for the honor this year....
Twelve years ago, the Yale Law School hosted a conference bringing together many of the founding members of critical race theory, an approach to civil rights that challenges the ability of conventional legal strategies to deliver social and economic...