Anyone who attends the Special Collections Fair at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on October 6, noon–4, will realize that it’s not just about books at Yale’s renowned libraries.It’s about cuneiform tablets you can hold in your hand, as a...
One of the leading literary theorists in the world, Benjamin Harshav, the Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Yale, has won the EMET Prize 2005 for literature.Harshav, who also teaches in the comparative literature...
Caryl Phillips Celebrated writer and professor of English at Yale, Caryl Phillips, will read from his latest novel at St. Anthony Hall at Yale, 483 College Street, on October 24, 4:30 p.m.Recently appointed to the Yale faculty, Phillips is a...
Ruth Reichl Gourmet editor and celebrated writer Ruth Reichl will deliver the 2005 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), 53 Wall Street, October 26–27.Reichl is an award-winning prolific author whose...
A film festival on the theme of food, a screening of the documentary “My Architect” and a panel discussion with autobiographical writers on the faculty at Yale will complement the Tanner Lectures delivered this year by Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl at Yale’s...
The South Asian Studies Council at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies will host a panel discussion on art and politics in contemporary Pakistan on October 19, 4–6 p.m. at Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St., Room 102. Titled “Aesthetics...
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition will hold its seventh annual international conference, titled “Repairing the Past: Confronting the Legacies of Slavery, Genocide and Caste,” October 27–29 at Luce...
Learning to speak French with the classic film “Jules et Jim” as teacher— the revolutionary language-learning approach developed by Yale innovator Pierre J. Capretz 25 years ago— has just made a quantum digital leap with the release of a new interactive...
Robert Penn Warren On November 1, Harold Bloom, John Hollander, Rosanna Warren and others will hold a public discussion at Yale on the great novelist, poet, teacher and critic Robert Penn Warren in honor of the centenary of his birth.Best known...
Harry Belafonte, performer and political activist, will be the next Chubb Fellow, speaking at Yale University on November 1 at 3:30 p.m., in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets. The talk is free and the public is welcome. Belafonte has...