In the November 16 issue of Science magazine, William D. Nordhaus, the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, provides the first published economic analysis of the Kyoto-Bonn protocol to slow global warming. The protocol, signed by 178 of...
Key Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiator Martin S. Indyk, immediate past U.S. Ambassador to Israel, will present his observations and analysis of the conflict in the Middle East in a talk titled “Israel and the Intifadah After September 11” on December 6...
“Man and Beast,” a symposium that will take place at Yale University, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, December 7-8, will gather scholars of many disciplines from Europe and across the nation to examine a subject that has preoccupied mankind...
Yale University professors James C. Scott and Dale Basil Martin have been awarded Fulbright grants to lecture and pursue academic research in Europe. Scott is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and holds a joint appointment in the...
Yale faculty member Robert P. Forbes recently received an award from the Connecticut chapter of the National Association of Multicultural Education for his role promoting diversity in higher education. Forbes teaches in the American studies and history...
Yale University theologian Miroslav Volf has won the 2002 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book “Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation.” Volf, who is the Henry B. Wright Professor...
Naomi Schor, one of the foremost scholars of French literature and critical theory and one of the pioneer feminist theorists of her generation, died suddenly in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 2, 2001 at the age of 58. At the time of her death,...
The Yale Whitney Humanities Center has canceled “Man and Beast,” a symposium scheduled for December 7-8, owing to the sudden death on December 2 of the symposium’s originator, Naomi Schor. The symposium was to have gathered scholars from many...
Two events taking place this coming week will finish the Yale lecture and discussion series “Democracy, Security and Justice: Perspectives on the American Future” for this term. On Sunday, December 9, Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor...
A letter to Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, written by Yale Law School faculty and students about the use of military tribunals has been circulated among U.S. legal scholars. By the time the...