James Woolsey, who was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1992 to 1994, will be speaking in Room 114 of Yale University’s Sheffield, Sterling, Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect Street, on February 13 at 4 p.m. The speech is the inaugural...
To mark African American History Month, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale is showcasing papers from its collections relating to the racial and political turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition, titled “Literature and...
Yale University will celebrate the unique partnership of writer Gertrude Stein and composer Virgil Thomson with a production of “Four Saints in Three Acts,” on February 19-21. Sponsored by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and by Jonathan...
Isobel Coleman, a senior fellow in U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, will speak at Yale on February 13 about the political and economic impact of women in the Middle East. Her talk is titled “The Importance of Women to Economic...
A seminar series hosted by the Women Faculty Forum and the classics department at Yale will shed light on the status of women in the Greek and Roman Empires and reveal some of the distinctly feminine customs and rituals that were common in the...
The Rebellious Lawyering Conference, the nation’s largest student-run public interest law conference, will be held February 21-23 at Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street. Rebellious Lawyering is an annual gathering that brings together practitioners,...
Robert A. Dahl, the Sterling Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Yale University, will deliver the next Henry Kohn Lecture, “Exporting Democracy,” at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale on Wednesday, February 5, at 4:15 p.m. As a...
Jonathan Spence, the Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and a renowned authority on modern Chinese history, has been elected to serve as the president of the American Historical Association for the 2004-2005 term. Recognized as one of...
As a forthcoming exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library testifies, the law has long been a prominent theme in children’s literature. The exhibition, titled “Juvenile Jurisprudence: Law in Children’s Literature,” presents four...
At its meeting in Chicago last week, the American Historical Association (AHA) awarded the J. Russell Major Prize to Yale professor Robert Harms for his book, “The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade.” The J. Russell Major...