The United Way of Greater New Haven has honored former Law School dean Guido Calabresi and his wife, Anne Calabresi, with the Herbert H. Pearce Award as “community champions for justice, equality and benevolence.”The couple received the award at the...
In 1609, a little pamphlet touched off a big debate that shaped modern international law. The Lillian Goldman Law Library marks the 400th anniversary of this event with its exhibition “Freedom of the Seas, 1609: Grotius and the Emergence of International...
Cultural anthropologist Melvin Ember, who helped foster the comparative study of culture during his more than 20 years of service as president of Yale’s Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), died on Sept. 26 after a 10-year battle with prostate cancer. He...
Polish poet and translator Piotr Sommer has been appointed by the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) as the Franke Visiting Fellow for the fall semester.On Tuesday, Oct. 20, Sommer will give a public reading, “Overdoing It and Other Poems,” at 4:30 p.m. in...
Yale University Library and the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) have received a joint grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom...
A multi-year grant to Yale University Library from the U.S. Department of Education’s Technological Innovation Program will support “Gateway to Gazettes” (G2G), a new project that will digitize and make available the gazettes of independent Syria and...
Alumni from around the world will gather in New Haven to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, 211 Park Street, October 16-18.The weekend will include a conference titled “Charting a Course for the Next Generation of...
American composer John Adams will deliver the 2009 Tanner Lectures on Human Values on October 28 and 29 at Yale University.Free and open to the public, both talks will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.Adams will present...
An exhibition of memorabilia, posters, manuscripts, prints, books and manifestos at Yale’s Beinecke Library, through December 19, chronicles the spirit of revolution that enthralled France from the end of the German occupation to the turbulent “events of...
The Gilder-Lehrman Center (GLC) for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale is pleased to announce that Annette Gordon-Reed has been selected as the winner of the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in...