The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale will celebrate the lifestyles and traditions of native peoples in a three-day event focusing on Inuit culture.The Indigenous Peoples Weekend will take place Friday-...
The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale has unveiled a next-generation digital online text collection of the works of its namesake, the 18th-century preacher and thinker often identified as America’s premier theologian.For three years, the Works of Jonathan...
Krista Tippett, creator and host of public radio’s “Speaking of Faith” program, will be among the noted scholars and theogians who will give free public lectures during the Yale Divinity School’s Convocation and Reunions 2008 program, to be held Monday-...
In conjunction with Yale’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Noah Webster (see related story), Sterling Memorial Library is hosting an exhibition about the renowned lexicographer.Titled “Noah Webster: American Patriot and Yale Loyalist...
Celebrated writer Ted Conover, known for going “undercover” to get firsthand experience about the topics he covers, will read from and discuss his works on October 23 at Yale University, as part of Yale College’s series of “Francis Conversations with...
Stephanie E. Smallwood, associate professor of history at the University of Washington-Seattle, has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. The Frederick...
Michael Warner, who has been designated as the Seymour H. Knox Professor of English, has a range of interests that include American literature of the Colonial and Antebellum periods; social theory; media studies; the history of the book; queer theory and...
The significance, impact and legacies of the Cuban Revolution will be explored in a series of events on campus on the eve of its 50th anniversary.The series, “50 Years of Revolution in Cuba,” began Oct. 2 and will run through Dec. 3. It brings together...
“The Resurgence of Religion: A Challenge to the Secular Self-Understanding of Modernity” is the theme of the 2008 Castle Lectures being presented by Juergen Habermas, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, under the auspices of...
Both the well-known and less-celebrated achievements of Noah Webster, creator of the first comprehensive American dictionary, will be celebrated at Yale on October 16–17 in commemoration of his 250th birthday. The two-day fête, titled “Shaping a Language...