Two Yale Law School students are among 30 students who have been awarded Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, which are given to “extraordinarily creative and accomplished young immigrants or children of immigrants.”The two — Isra Bhatty...
Martin Price, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and one of the 20th century’s most distinguished scholars of the Augustan Age and the history of the novel, died on April 10. He was 90 years old.Price’s preeminence as an authority on 18th-century...
Charles Walton, assistant professor of history, has been awarded the 2010 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize by the MacMillan Center for his book “Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny & the Problem of Free Speech...
Gareth Evans, Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND), will present a lecture titled “Eliminating Nuclear Threats” on April 27 at 1:00 p.m.The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take...
A week-long workshop and a one-day symposium on the history and culture of the Jews of North Africa will take place at Yale April 21-28.A group of 12 scholars from Israel, France, Morocco and the United States will come to campus on Wednesday, April 21,...
The democratization of Turkey will be the topic of a lecture at Yale by Turkish news anchor Banu Güven, who will visit Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. Güven’s talk, “Turkey: A ‘One Of A Kind’ Democracy and its Challenges,” will take place at 4 p.m...
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, whose novel “Things Fall Apart” is the most widely read book in African literature, will speak at Yale on April 14, as a guest of the Chubb Fellowship.Free and open to the public, his talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the...
David Shipley, deputy editor of The New York Times’ Editorial Page and editor of its Op-Ed Page, will visit Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism on April 12. His lecture, “The Art and Science of the Op-Ed,” is free and open to the public, and will take...