Thomas L. Friedman, foreign affairs reporter and Op. Ed. page columnist for The New York Times, will speak on “Globalization and U.S. Foreign Policy” on Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The...
Yale University’s academic course titled “New Haven and the Problem of Change in the American City” is expanding its scope this spring and inviting students and faculty from Albertus Magnus College, Quinnipiac College, and Southern Connecticut State...
Since the emergence of Native American Studies as an academic field in the 1960s, scholars have debated how to represent Native cultures to various audiences. What needs to be taught about the diversity of Native cultures in the Americas? What purpose...
Auschwitz. The Killing Fields. Ethnic cleansing. Armenia. Rwanda. Over and over in the 20th century, tribal identity, religion, language, race and culture have been employed to isolate one group of people from their neighbors. Isolation has led to...
The turn of the 21st century and the advent of the third Christian millennium is a moment of symbolic relevance for many societies, even those with different calendars and time reckonings. In response to the approach of the Year 2000, the Yale Council...
The changing views and meanings of marriage in the United States from the 1770s to the 1970s will be explored in the next series of DeVane Lectures, which will be given this semester by Nancy F. Cott, the Woodward Professor of History and American...
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...
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...
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...