Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development, will deliver two talks at Yale on Tuesday, Feb. 10. At 2 p.m., he will speak in Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. on “The East Asian Financial Crisis.” At 4 p.m., his...
Yale University’s Summer Language Institute will offer – for the first time – a program in Nahuatl, an indigenous language spoken from northern Mexico to El Salvador. Yale is the only place in the United States where Nahuatl will be taught this summer...
Award-winning social critic Barbara Ehrenreich will speak at Yale on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 208 of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Her talk, “From Carnival to Revolution: Some Questions about the Politics of Ecstasy,” is a...
The African Studies Program of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies will host a Spring Lecture Series, “The Political Economy of Contemporary Africa,” on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. in Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The first speaker will...
The DeVane Lecture Series, “Marriage: Thought, Practice and Politics over Two Centuries in the U.S.,” has been moved to Room 114 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and Prospect streets, for the remainder of the academic year. The...
In honor of the Year of the Tiger, the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale will host a festive gathering on Saturday, Jan. 31, 7-11:30 p.m. in the McDougal Graduate Student Center at Yale University, 320 York St. Photographers and...
Yale University will host a three-day conference, “Searching for Memory and Justice: The Holocaust and Apartheid,” Sunday, Feb. 8, through Tuesday, Feb. 10. The conference will be jointly hosted by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies...
The Charles H. Revson Foundation has made a one-year, $250,000 grant to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale. The grant will enable the archive to begin preserving its collection of tapes and develop a documentary film...
Four Yale faculty members – including two new recruits and a recently tenured professor in the English department – were honored for their latest books by the Modern Language Association (MLA) during its annual convention in December. The Yale scholars...
Laura King has been named the Sarai Ribicoff Assistant Professor of English by vote of the Yale Corporation. She is the first incumbent of the chair, which honors the memory of the late Sarai K. Ribicoff, a member of the Class of 1979, who died a year...
