On March 27, the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities at Yale will host a talk by Gilbert Rose, MD, on the meaning of musical expression, a subject of philosophical inquiry throughout the ages. Titled “How Does Music Mean? What...
Yale University will host a free, public conference on “Genocide and Terrorism: Probing the Mind of the Perpetrator” on April 11 in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., 9 a.m.-6:15 p.m. Keynote speaker will be Matthias Kuntzel, a political...
Reporters and Editors seeking experts on the war in Iraq and related issues may contact Yale faculty through the Office of Public Affairs. Below is a list of some of the many members of the faculty with relevant expertise. Bruce Ackerman, professor of...
Responding to a critical national shortage of academic librarians, Yale University Library and Yale’s Office of Graduate Career Services are sponsoring a symposium on April 11 to inform graduate students in the humanities about professional opportunities...
Klaas Zwanepol, professor of Lutheran theology at the University of Utrecht, will deliver a lecture on “Luther’s Christology” on March 25 at 7 p.m., in the Latourette Lecture Hall at Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. Zwanepol has written...
A symposium about the portrayal of women and their response to war in Greek tragedy, sponsored by the Women Faculty Forum (WFF) at Yale, will take place on April 21 in Room 309 of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. “Terrorism and Tragedy: Women at...
Henry Adams-his life, work and influence-is the subject of a colloquium and two lectures by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Garry Wills at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), 53 Wall St., March 3-5. Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) was the great-...
When a capacity crowd attended Dr. Ben Carson’s appearance at Yale University last April, it was clear that his influence spanned many generations, thereby spawning the idea for creating the Ben Carson Yale University Book Club to encourage children and...
The Sixth Annual Arthur Liman Public Interest Colloquium, “Portraying the Public Interest: Clients, the Mass Media and Public Policy,” will be held at Yale University on March 6-7 in the New Haven Hotel, 229 George St. This year’s program will focus...
A three-judge panel has named Adrienne Rich the 2003 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Rich’s “honesty at once ferocious and humane, her deep learning, her continuous poetic exploration and awareness of multiple selves”...