Twelve years after the Revolutionary War, members of the Mashpee tribe in Massachusetts petitioned the state’s General Assembly to demand their share of the freedom and liberty achieved in the hard-fought victory over the British monarchy.“At the close of...
There will be a memorial service on Wednesday, March 16 for Geoffrey Hartman, professor emeritus of comparative literature and of English, who died on March 14.Geoffrey HartmanThe service will take place at 11 a.m. at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at...
Geoffrey Hartman, a renowned literary scholar and co-founder of the Fortunoff Video Archives for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, died on March 14 at his home in Hamden. He was 86 years old.Geoffrey HartmanHartman, who was Sterling Professor Emeritus of...
“Interpreting Non-Violence” will be the theme of the 2016 Tanner Lectures on Human Values, which will be delivered by Judith Butler, a noted philosopher and gender theorist.Her first talk — “Why Preserve the Life of the Other?” — will be on Wednesday,...
What does computer-generated poetry look like? How can EEG experiments inform our understanding of musical compositions? These questions and more will be explored in “Beyond Boundaries: A Symposium on Hybrid Scholarship at Yale University,” taking place...
Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, author of the novels “Brooklyn,” “The Master,” and “Nora Webster” and of the short novel “The Testament of Mary,” among other works, will speak on the topic “Imagining Mary” on Thursday, April 7, as part of the Institute of...