James Woolsey, who was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1992 to 1994, will be speaking in Room 114 of Yale University’s Sheffield, Sterling, Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect Street, on February 13 at 4 p.m. The speech is the inaugural...
To mark African American History Month, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale is showcasing papers from its collections relating to the racial and political turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition, titled “Literature and...
A three-judge panel has named Adrienne Rich the 2003 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Rich’s “honesty at once ferocious and humane, her deep learning, her continuous poetic exploration and awareness of multiple selves”...
The Sixth Annual Arthur Liman Public Interest Colloquium, “Portraying the Public Interest: Clients, the Mass Media and Public Policy,” will be held at Yale University on March 6-7 in the New Haven Hotel, 229 George St. This year’s program will focus...
When a capacity crowd attended Dr. Ben Carson’s appearance at Yale University last April, it was clear that his influence spanned many generations, thereby spawning the idea for creating the Ben Carson Yale University Book Club to encourage children and...
Henry Adams-his life, work and influence-is the subject of a colloquium and two lectures by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Garry Wills at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), 53 Wall St., March 3-5. Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) was the great-...
A symposium about the portrayal of women and their response to war in Greek tragedy, sponsored by the Women Faculty Forum (WFF) at Yale, will take place on April 21 in Room 309 of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. “Terrorism and Tragedy: Women at...
Klaas Zwanepol, professor of Lutheran theology at the University of Utrecht, will deliver a lecture on “Luther’s Christology” on March 25 at 7 p.m., in the Latourette Lecture Hall at Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. Zwanepol has written...
Responding to a critical national shortage of academic librarians, Yale University Library and Yale’s Office of Graduate Career Services are sponsoring a symposium on April 11 to inform graduate students in the humanities about professional opportunities...
The New England Regional Conference on Medical Anthropology, devoted to anthropological approaches to health research, will take place at Yale University on April 5, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. This one-day symposium includes 16 speakers who will present a variety of...