Yale University will celebrate the memory of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) with a week of special events, January 15–23, dedicated to the theme “Because of His Dream: ‘Yes, We Can.’” The events are free and open to the public. To launch...
Elizabeth Alexander, an award-winning poet and Yale professor of African American studies and English literature, has been selected to compose and read an original poem at the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. Click here for more...
Isidore Dyen, an emeritus professor of linguistics at Yale who is known for his seminal work on Austronesian languages and Proto-Austronesian (the ancestral language of languages from Indonesia to Madagascar and across the Pacific Ocean), died on Dec. 14....
Henry Ashby Turner, the Charles J. Stille Professor Emeritus of History, died at Yale-New Haven Hospital on Dec. 17 from complications of melanoma.A leading scholar of modern German history, Turner was the author of several books and many articles, among...
Ambassador John D. Negroponte, YC’60 has been appointed the Brady-Johnson Distinguished Senior Research Fellow in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in International Affairs at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale....
Prize-winning author Jeremy Cohen will deliver three Arffa Lectures at Yale University in February on “Myth, History and Prophecy in Christian-Jewish Relations.” Each of the lectures, which are free and open to the public, will take place in Joseph Slifka...
A talk by “NYPD Blue” and “Deadwood” creator David Milch and a performance of bachata and merengue music are among the weekly free and public events that will be offered in a new urban studies course at Yale.Yale art historian Sandy Isenstadt, who teaches...