Last year, Yale University lost a devastating 90 percent of its National Endowment for the Humanities funding. During fiscal year 1995, the NEH had granted Yale $3 million for research, book preservation, and other projects. In 1996 that figure...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $100,000 to Yale University in support of a Sawyer Seminar on “Millennium and Millennialism: Motifs and Movements,” Gustav Ranis, director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies – YCIAS – has...
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of the international best-seller “Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust,” will speak on Tuesday, May 6, at 7:30 p.m. at Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. A reception for Mr....
Yale University will mark the establishment of its graduate school 150 years ago – the first in the United States – with a weekend of scholarship and festivity, from April 25-27. Members of the media are welcome. See the attached schedule for...
The Aston Magna Foundation for the Humanities, Inc. and Yale University are pleased to announce that the 1997 Aston Magna Academy will take place on the Yale campus from June 15-July 6. Major funding for the Academy has been provided by the National...
Noted stage and screen actor Sam Waterston, Yale College Class of 1962, will speak at Yale on Sunday, April 20, at 3:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. The public is invited to attend the free event. Mr....
Russian Orthodox liturgical music will be performed and explained on Thursday, April 17, 7:30 p.m. in Dwight Chapel, 67 High St., by the Yale Russian Chorus and its musical director, Mark Bailey. Hosted by the Common Quest Foundation at Yale and the...
Psychologist Liam Hudson will explore “The Life of the Mind” when he presents this year’s Tanner Lectures on Human Values on Monday and Tuesday, April 14 and 15. The topic of the April 14 talk will be “Strangely Familiar: The Psychological...
Nationally renowned lawyers, academics and civic leaders will discuss emerging visions of public service in its many manifestations at a symposium titled “The Recovery of the Public World: Reviving Democracy” on Wednesday and Thursday, April 9 and 10,...
As people grow old, they may become forgetful and confused, frail and frightened. Just when they most need spiritual comfort, they are often isolated from the support of organized religion. This is especially true when Alzheimer’s Disease is a factor...
