Renowned philosopher Jonathan Lear will deliver the opening lecture in the spring 2013 Shulman Lectures in the Science and the Humanities.Jonathan LearTitled “Wisdom Won from Illness: Psychoanalysis, Self-Consciousness, and the Peculiarity of Human...
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, YaleNews asked members of the campus community to share their favorite quote from the civil rights leader or tell us how he inspired them. Here’s what they said: Drew DaysAlfred M. Rankin Professor Emeritus of Law...
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. spoke before more than 2,000 members of the Yale and New Haven community in Woolsey Hall on January 14, 1959, the eve of his 30th birthday. Here are some of his words, read by Yale students.
Charles Wright, hailed as one of the leading American poets of his generation, has been named the winner of Yale’s 2013 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.Inspired to write poetry by the work of Ezra Pound, Charles Wright said, “I always fantasized about...