Henry Louis (Skip) Gates, Jr., the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, will visit Yale University as the next Chubb Fellow. He will give a public...
Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) will visit Yale University as a Chubb Fellow on Thursday, Feb. 19. He will present a public lecture, “Investment-Based Social Security and Medicare,” at 4:30 p.m. in Room 127 of Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. The talk is free...
A lecture and exhibition at Yale will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by a Hindu fanatic on Jan. 30, 1948. “Mahatma Gandhi’s Dialogues with Americans” will be the topic of this year’s Gandhi Lecture, presented by...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin today announced the appointment of Jock Reynolds as the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery, effective September 1, 1998. Reynolds replaces Helen Cooper, the Holcombe T. Green...
Champagne and high spirits bubble over in Johann Strauss’s comic operetta, “Die Fledermaus,” to be performed by Yale Opera at the Shubert Performing Arts Center, 247 College St., Feb. 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. The story is a tangled...
Yale President Richard C. Levin will announce the appointment of a new director for the Yale University Art Gallery at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5, in the gallery’s Sculpture Hall, 1111 Chapel St. Journalists are welcome to attend the event and meet...
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...
