Novelist Ann Beattie will read from her work on Monday, November 4, at 8:30 p.m. in the Common Room of Yale University’s Byers Hall in Silliman College, 505 College Street in New Haven. Her reading, one in a series featuring authors from “The Yale...
Murder and mayhem are on the program when the Yale Symphony Orchestra takes to the Woolsey Hall stage at midnight on Thursday, October 31, wrapping up Halloween with a dramatic musical flourish. The orchestra, in costume, will provide musical...
Want to learn a few tips from a master of seduction? Come watch Faust perform his Gallic magic on Marguerite, putting Don Juan and Casanova to shame. Yale Opera will present Act II of Charles Gounod’s “Faust,” one of the most popular operas in...
Graduate students at the Yale School of Drama will direct four plays this season at University Theatre on York Street. The productions will be “The Pope and the Witch” by Dario Fo, directed by Stephan Genn; “Troy Women,” an adaptation of Euripides’ “...
The Richard U. Light Foundation of Kalamazoo, Michigan, working with Yale University faculty, has established a program to enable Yale students to study East Asian languages in East Asia. During 1997-1998, approximately 12-16 students will be...
Human beings, contended German philosopher Ernst Cassirer, are essentially characterized by their symbolizing activity, that is, their ability to use concepts to give shape to the natural world. An international and interdisciplinary array of...
Even as Mother Nature is exchanging her shimmering summer finery for the golds, reds, and tans of her autumn wardrobe, Yale’s Norfolk Music Festival is preparing to launch its fourth annual “Indian Summer” series. An extension of Norfolk’s award-...
Images of the wooden houses, farms, chapels, mosques and monastic buildings that dotted the pre-war landscape of the former Yugoslavia will be on view through Oct. 11 in the front gallery of the Art & Architecture Building on York Street. “...
The following talks at Yale University during the week of Sept. 29-Oct. 5 are free and open to the public. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist will be guest at master’s tea William Kennedy, who won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle...
John Polkinghorne, president of Queens’ College at the University of Cambridge, will explore belief in God in a scientific age in a lecture series at Yale University titled “Science & Religion: Patterns of Collegiality.” The four Dwight H....