President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia will speak at Yale as a Chubb Fellow on April 23 at 4 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets.The talk is free and open to the public. Sirleaf is the first woman to head an African country. She...
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, two-term president of Brazil, will speak at Yale University as a Chubb Fellow, a Downey Fellow and a visiting fellow of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.Fernando Henrique Cardoso, two-term president of Brazil, will...
The Yale Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) will host two public events with acclaimed Chinese novelist, critic and short-story writer Can Xue later this month: a reading from her work at 5 p.m. on April 16, and a panel discussion with scholars about her...
President Richard C. Levin announced today that Yale has received a $50 million gift to establish the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. “The Jackson Institute will become a signature program, marking Yale’s global aspirations. Its teaching programs...
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, will give the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture in International Studies at Yale on April 9.His talk, titled “A Historically Relevant Foreign Policy,” will be held at 4 p.m...
Noted China Central Television (CCTV) news anchor and commentator Bai Yansong will visit the campus as a Poynter Fellow on Tuesday, March 31.Bai will discuss “American Dream — Chinese Dream: The Future of U.S./China Relations Under the Obama...
John Middleton, professor emeritus of anthropology and an internationally renowned Africanist scholar, died on Feb. 27 after a brief hospitalization. He was 87 years old.Middleton’s field work and major ethnographic writings on African cultures forged new...
Faculty members shared their expertise, students showcased their music talents and alumni demonstrated their spirit of service March 9-13 in Mexico City and Monterrey.Public lectures and performances highlighted the Yale Week in Mexico program, while...
A renowned filmmaker and educator will showcase the work of his countrymen in “Contemporary Sri Lankan Cinema at Yale,” a film and discussion series that will take place the first two weeks in April.Independent filmmaker Robert Crusz is the guest host of...
Ernesto Zedillo, named as the inaugural Frederick Iseman ‘74 Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, is a noted economist who has been a leading voice on globalization, especially its impact on relations between developed and...