United Nations Studies at Yale – UNSY – has been awarded grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Ford Foundation, announced Gustav Ranis, director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies – YCIAS – and the Frank Altschul...
Yale University’s Whitney Humanities Center – WHC – will hold a conference on the work of philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin on Friday, Sept. 26, and Saturday, Sept. 27. The program, titled “Angelus Novus: Perspectives on Walter Benjamin...
Yale University’s Whitney Humanities Center – WHC – will hold a conference on the work of philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin on Friday, Sept. 26, and Saturday, Sept. 27. The program, titled “Angelus Novus: Perspectives on Walter Benjamin...
The nephew and friends of author Thornton Wilder, Yale Class of 1920, as well as drama students and playwrights influenced by his work, will gather on campus with scholars from the United States and Russia to participate in a free public symposium on...
Yale Divinity School Dean Richard J. Wood announced this week that six New Haven residents have been elected Coffin-Forsberg Fellows for the 1997-98 academic year. The non-monetary Fellowships honor the recipients’ service to the community and engage...
The 1950s in France were years of creative, intellectual, and political ferment. The recent past of the Nazi Occupation, the ongoing struggles for independence in Algeria and Indochina, the onset of the Cold War, and the promises and threats of...
The 1950s in France were years of creative, intellectual, and political ferment. The recent past of the Nazi Occupation, the ongoing struggles for independence in Algeria and Indochina, the onset of the Cold War, and the promises and threats of...
The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences – the nation’s oldest graduate school – marked the beginning of its 151st year with the arrival of 2,300 students in the humanities, social sciences, biological and physical sciences, and engineering....
The Open End Theater, created and coordinated by retired Yale professor Thomas Greene, has received a $6,000 grant from the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. Funding will enable the ensemble to produce a second season of interactive...
Retired Yale University Professor William A. Christian, Sr. died on Saturday, August 9, at his home in Hamden, Connecticut. He was 92 years old. A specialist in the philosophy of religion, he wrote several important books, including “Doctrines of...
