A symposium examining the work of 1981 Pritzker Prize laureate James Stirling will take place May 9–10 at the Yale School of Architecture, where the influential architect taught in 1959 and from 1966 to 1984.Titled “James Stirling, Architect and Teacher...
In the autumn of 1609, the Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Gallilei turned his telescope to the heavens, deciphering the cratered face of the moon, the four satellites of Jupiter and other features of the sky.The discoveries Galileo made 400...
The work of noted photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) will be highlighted in an exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.Titled “Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten’s Color Photographs of African Americans 1939-1964,” the...
Academy award-winning actress and Yale alumna Jodie Foster will visit the campus on Wednesday, April 29, when she will be honored by the University’s Film Studies Program and take part in a conversation with members of the Yale community.The conversation...
The Gitameit Voices, the choir of the only community music school in Burma, will give a concert with Yale student groups on April 27 at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 292 Orange St.According to concert organizers, Gitameit Voices is the first...
Yale University Bands and Rap Group 4PEACE are soliciting high school students from Connecticut schools to submit lyrics over backbeats provided by hip-hop artists 4PEACE.The student who writes the best rap with a positive message will perform at Yale...
Yale University will hold its fourth annual Italian film festival, “Italian Cinema: New Directors, New Directions,” April 23–26, in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St. All screenings are free and open to the public.The films, in Italian...
Yale University Library joined with UNESCO, the Library of Congress and 30 international institutions in Paris today to launch the World Digital Library, a website that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives around the world.The...
Two performances of “Giasone,” the best-known opera by Italian composer Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676), will be the centerpiece of an international Cavalli conference taking place at Yale April 30–May 2. The opera and conference are presented by the Yale...
Led by conductor Simon Carrington, Yale Schola Cantorum, the chamber choir of the Institute of Sacred Music, will give two performances of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor, on April 24 and 25.Both performances, the choral group’s final concerts of the season,...