On Wednesday, Feb. 3, Alberto Manguel, internationally acclaimed essayist, novelist, anthologist, translator and editor, will deliver the Finzi-Contini Lecture under the auspices of the Whitney Humanies Center (WHC).Manguel’s talk, titled “Borges and the...
Yale Law School professor emeritus and alumnus Daniel J. Freed, a pioneer in the criminal justice process and a key figure in the development of clinical education at the Law School, died Jan. 17 in New York. He was 82.Freed was clinical professor...
Multimedia journalist Farai Chideya will visit Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism on Monday, February 1.Chideya’s talk, “Be the Media You Want to See: How Social Media and Citizen Journalism Are Changing the World,” will take place at...
Three leading activists for urban food reform in New York and New Haven will meet at Yale on January 28 in a public panel discussion on educating youngsters about the importance of good food and making affordable healthy food available to urban residents....
John Edwin Smith, an early champion of the tradition of American philosophy who taught at Yale for nearly 40 years, died on Dec. 7 while visiting his daughter in Arlington, Virginia. He was 88 years old.Smith’s many publications include “Reason and God,...