Africa Salon, a festival celebrating contemporary African arts and culture, returns to Yale for its third year this April 21-22.Through live performances by acclaimed artists, discussions with academics, screenings of documentaries, food tastings, and...
Professors David Bromwich and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak have received 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowships to fund their research projects.They are among 35 recipients of this year’s awards, given by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Each fellow will receive...
The “old goddess” is a paradoxical character in Maya mythology. She is the grandmother who raised the infant gods, but in most accounts, she hated them, and finally tried to kill them. Despite her significance, she rarely appears in ancient Maya art.In...