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”...
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...