Yale’s Council on African Studies and Film Study Center will jointly sponsor a series of recent films that take a look at African life and culture from an African perspective. All films will be shown at 7 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $100,000 to Yale University in support of a Sawyer Seminar on Genocide Studies, according to a recent announcement by Gustav Ranis, director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies – YCIAS. The...
A conference titled “Images and Empires: Visual Representations in and of Africa” will take place Feb. 14-16 in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public. Twenty scholars from Africa, North America and Europe...
Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will speak on “What Risks Must a Nation Take for Peace?” tomorrow, February 11, 4-5 p.m. in Yale University’s Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. Mr. Peres’ visit to...
An exhibition of art by students from five New Haven area colleges and universities will open at Artspace on Audubon Street tonight with a reception, 5-7 p.m. The show, featuring work from Yale, Southern Connecticut State, Albertus Magnus, Quinnipiac,...
Yale University will celebrate Black History Month all through February with films, readings, lectures, and concerts that are free and open to the public. A dramatic reading of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech” on Friday, Feb. 7, will...
Gary Snyder has been awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library, one of the nation’s most prestigious literary honors. The $50,000 prize was announced January 27 by Scott Bennett, librarian of the University. The Bollingen...
John M. Merriman has been appointed the Charles Seymour Professor of History, by vote of the Yale Corporation. A renowned historian, Professor Merriman is known particularly for his expertise on the economic, social and political history of France...
An exhibition of art by students of five New Haven area colleges and universities will open at Artspace on Audubon Street, Friday, February 7, 5-7 p.m. The show, featuring work from Yale, Southern Connecticut State, Albertus Magnus, Quinnipiac, and the...
The Cambodian Genocide Program at Yale University will release information on the Internet today that details atrocities committed under the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, 1975-79. Approximately 1.7 million Cambodians are believed to have perished...