At a conference to be held on March 29-30 at Yale University’s Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, poets and scholars will meet to ponder the ways in which beauty can be judged and described. Titled “The Future of the Aesthetic,” the conference...
James Tobin, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in economics, honored professor at Yale University and one of the most influential economists of his times, died March 11 at the age of 84. The Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale, Tobin was...
An exhibition of the current work of the internationally acclaimed architect and designer Zaha Hadid will run at the Art and Architecture Gallery of the Yale School of Architecture, 180 York Street, from March 25 to May 10, 2002. The London-based, Iraqi...
Joan Wexler will deliver the next lecture in the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities on Thursday, March 7, at 8 p.m. An assistant clinical professor of psychiatry in social work at Yale School of Medicine, Wexler will give a...
In response to the increasing use of new technologies in the field of architecture, a symposium on digital mapping, “Cartography in the Age of Digital Media,” will be held at the Yale School of Architecture on Friday, April 5. In the past few years,...
President Richard C. Levin has named Amy Meyers, curator of American Art at the Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, as director of the Yale University Center for British Art, and professor of the...
The 2002 Federalist Society National Student Symposium on “Law and Truth” will be held at Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, on March 1 and 2. Speakers include Theodore Olson, solicitor general of the United States; Anthony Kronman, dean of Yale Law...
Washington D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, a 1979 Yale College graduate, will deliver a University lecture as part of the second annual Eustace D. Theodore ‘63 Fellowship on March 4, 4 p.m., in Yale’s Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets. Born...
Internationally acclaimed author Salman Rushdie will deliver a lecture in two parts titled “Step Across This Line” as this year’s Tanner lecturer, focusing on the theme, “The Virtues of Tolerance and the Crossing of Lines: Islam in the History of Western...
Internationally acclaimed author Salman Rushdie will deliver a lecture in two parts titled “Step Across This Line” as this year’s Tanner lecturer, focusing on the theme, “The Virtues of Tolerance and the Crossing of Lines: Islam in the History of Western...