Policymakers, scholars and global leaders in business and diplomacy will gather at Yale Divinity School on September 18–19 for a conference on nuclear disarmament, titled “Are We Safe Yet? Vulnerability and Security in an Anxious Age.”Sergio Duarte,...
Yale faculty and distinguished poets Louise Glück and Henri Cole will give a reading from their work on September 29 at 6 p.m. in Saint Anthony Hall, 483 College St.Louise Glück, who has taught at Yale University since 2004, is one of the country’s most...
Renowned scholars and authors will discuss the legacy of writer Richard Wright at a centenary celebration taking place September 23, 4 to 6 p.m., at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Facsimile documents and photographs from the Richard Wright...
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will join University President Richard C. Levin for a conversation in Woolsey Hall on September 19 at 4:30 p.m. before an audience of Yale faculty, students and staff. They will discuss Mr. Blair’s tenure as prime...
Stephen L. Darwall, the newly named Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, has focused his research on the foundations of ethics, moral psychology, moral theory and the history of these subjects.Also a visiting lecturer in law at the Yale Law...
David Scott Kastan, newly appointed as the George M. Bodman Professor of English, is a scholar of early modern English literature and culture, especially Shakespeare and Milton, as well as of the history of the book, and editing and editorial theory....
Marwan Muasher, former ambassador to the United States, author and political reformer, will deliver the Henry L. Stimson Lecture on World Affairs on September 16 at 4 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The title of his Stimson Lecture is “Moderation and...
If the current real estate crisis is to be resolved and a recurrence prevented, there need to be major changes both in the marketplace and in the behavior of individual investors, explains Yale economist Robert J. Shiller in his new book, The Subprime...
Yale Law School will educate the next generation of human rights leaders, with the help of a $3 million gift from the Robina Foundation. The gift, to be administered over the next three years, will create the Robina Foundation Human Rights Fellowship...
William R. Bennett Jr., the C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science and Physics, who in 1960 co-invented the first gas (helium-neon) laser, died of esophageal cancer on June 29 at his home in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He was...