The African Studies Program of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies will host a Spring Lecture Series, “The Political Economy of Contemporary Africa,” on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. in Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The first speaker will...
The DeVane Lecture Series, “Marriage: Thought, Practice and Politics over Two Centuries in the U.S.,” has been moved to Room 114 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and Prospect streets, for the remainder of the academic year. The...
In honor of the Year of the Tiger, the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale will host a festive gathering on Saturday, Jan. 31, 7-11:30 p.m. in the McDougal Graduate Student Center at Yale University, 320 York St. Photographers and...
Yale University will host a three-day conference, “Searching for Memory and Justice: The Holocaust and Apartheid,” Sunday, Feb. 8, through Tuesday, Feb. 10. The conference will be jointly hosted by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies...
The Charles H. Revson Foundation has made a one-year, $250,000 grant to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale. The grant will enable the archive to begin preserving its collection of tapes and develop a documentary film...
Four Yale faculty members – including two new recruits and a recently tenured professor in the English department – were honored for their latest books by the Modern Language Association (MLA) during its annual convention in December. The Yale scholars...
Laura King has been named the Sarai Ribicoff Assistant Professor of English by vote of the Yale Corporation. She is the first incumbent of the chair, which honors the memory of the late Sarai K. Ribicoff, a member of the Class of 1979, who died a year...
The turn of the 21st century and the advent of the third Christian millennium is a moment of symbolic relevance for many societies, even those with different calendars and time reckonings. In response to the approach of the Year 2000, the Yale Council...
The changing views and meanings of marriage in the United States from the 1770s to the 1970s will be explored in the next series of DeVane Lectures, which will be given this semester by Nancy F. Cott, the Woodward Professor of History and American...
Since the emergence of Native American Studies as an academic field in the 1960s, scholars have debated how to represent Native cultures to various audiences. What needs to be taught about the diversity of Native cultures in the Americas? What purpose...