Members of the news media are invited to a guided tour of the Langston Hughes (1902-1967) exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on Thursday, January 31, at 2 p.m. Titled “My Soul Has Grown Deep like the Rivers: Langston Hughes...
Scholars from a variety of disciplines will gather for a symposium at Yale on Friday-Sunday, February 1-3, to explore ways in which Dutch optical inventions of the 17th century have shaped modern visual perception. Titled “Visual Culture in Early Modern...
The work, life and spirit of poet and cultural icon Langston Hughes (1902-1967) are the subject of a major public exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University opening February 1, the 100th anniversary of Hughes’ birth....
The director of Yale University’s Center for the Study of Globalization, Strobe Talbott, will join Yale professors Paul Bracken, Charles Hill and Harold Koh Thursday, January 17 at the Boston Public Library’s Rabb Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston St., Boston,...
The intersection of love and the law in works by Spain’s most famous author, Miguel de Cervantes, will be explored in the spring series of DeVane Lectures, to be presented by Roberto Gonz‡lez Echevarr’a, the Sterling Professor of Comparative and Hispanic...
Michael Holquist, professor of Slavic languages and literatures and chairman of the department of comparative literature at Yale, has been awarded an honorary doctoral degree by Stockholm University in Sweden. Holquist is closely associated with the...
Recently completed reproductions of the ancient Maya murals of Bonampak will be exhibited to the public at Yale’s Saybrook College, 242 Elm Street, on Friday, January 11, 1-5 p.m. Discovered by archaeologists in 1946, the 1,200-year-old wall paintings...
Susan E. Lederer, assistant professor of the history of medicine at Yale, will present a lecture on Thursday, January 17, on the ways in which public health policies concerning blood transfusions have reflected prevalent attitudes about race and...
Six Yale University scholars joined by two other leading scholars in international relations, security and science analyze the implications of September 11 in America and beyond in their book, “The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11...