The Whitney Humanities Center has appointed three scholars as 2016–2017 Andrew W. Mellon Mid-Career Research Fellows: Andrew Douglas of Morehouse College, Lida Maxwell of Trinity College, and Robyn Spencer of Lehman College.Launched in 2015, this...
Professor Kathryn Lofton of Yale has been named the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) deputy dean for diversity and faculty development for the 2016-2017 academic year.Kathryn LoftonThe creation of the new post was announced by President Peter Salovey in...
There will be a concert reading of John Milton’s masque “Comus” at the Yale Center for British Art’s newly refurbished lecture hall, on Wednesday, April 20, at 5:30 p.m. This will be the 19th annual staged reading by members of Yale’s English Department. ...
Pierre Saint-Amand, newly named as the Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French, focuses his research on 18th-century literature, especially the libertine novel, the philosophy of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and literary criticism and theory....
Citizens of the world must be as fierce in their passion to protect and preserve culture and cultural heritage as extremists are in their desire to destroy it, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told a packed audience at Yale on April 12.“Art, literature...
According to a recent poll by Quinnipiac University, a majority of registered voters believe that, to some degree, America has lost its identity. Sixty-four percent of those surveyed said that some degree of “radical change” is needed to make America...
Of all the accolades she has received as the director-general of UNESCO, Irina Bokova is especially proud of being awarded honorary citizenship of Timbuktu in Mali last summer in recognition of UNESCO’s support in rebuilding mausoleums there that had been...