Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh gave a scathing assessment of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama in a Nov. 12 campus talk, during which he discussed secret military initiatives, the...
“Africa 360: a panoramic perspective of the continent” is the theme of this year’s Africa Week, Nov. 11–17, sponsored by the Yale African Students Association (YASA).The entirely student-run program is aimed at raising awareness of topical issues...
William J. Foltz, the H.J. Heinz Professor Emeritus of African studies and political science at Yale University, died on Oct. 27 at his home in New Haven.William J. FoltzFrom 1983 to 1989, Foltz was also the director of the Yale Center for International...
To help Americans better understand China’s rapid development and the dynamic relationship between that nation and the United States, there will be a live webcast address by Madeleine Albright, the 64th U.S. secretary of state, followed by a panel...
Half a century after they helped Yale refine a new method of language study, 28 retired Air Force personnel who learned Chinese at the university during the 1950s and 1960s returned to campus on Sept. 25, many for the first time since their student days....
Last summer, archaeologists from the University of Michigan, Yale, and other institutions digging at a site near Rome known as Gabii unearthed a monument that dates back 300 years before the Coliseum. Among the researchers working on the Gabii Project was...
Leading scholars from Europe, Israel, and North America will gather at Yale to discuss the circumstances surrounding one of the largest mass migrations in modern history at a conference hosted by the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA). The...
The newest class of Yale World Fellows will congregate for an informal discussion with members of the wider campus community on Thursday, Sept. 12 at 5 p.m. at the Greenberg Conference Center, 391 Prospect St.Yale World Fellows Night offers an opportunity...
Yale sociology professor Immanuel Wallerstein has received the inaugural Excellence in Research and Practice Award from the International Sociological Association (ISA).Immanuel Wallerstein, senior research scholar, Department of SociologyThe award,...
