Twelve years ago, the Yale Law School hosted a conference bringing together many of the founding members of critical race theory, an approach to civil rights that challenges the ability of conventional legal strategies to deliver social and economic...
Martin Jesse Klein, a historian of modern physics and former senior editor of “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein,” passed away on March 28. He was 84 years old.At Yale, Klein was the Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of the History of Physics and...
Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki will speak at Yale on April 22 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 101, Linsley-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street. His talk is titled, “Closer Cooperation: Economy, Energy, Environment.” The event, hosted by the Council on East Asian...
Evan Osnos, a staff writer for The New Yorker based in Beijing, will discuss “China in the Age of Obama: Democrats, Identity, and Style” on Monday, April 27 at Yale.This lecture, sponsored by The Council on East Asian Studies and the Poynter Fellowship in...
Cathy Cohen, who will receive the 2009 Brudner Prize for activism and scholarship concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) issues, will give a lecture at the award ceremony on “Prop 8: Race and Sexuality in the Age of Obama,” at 5 p.m....
“Health Care Reform: The State of the Debate,” a symposium exploring one of the most complex and controversial issues facing America today, will take place April 28, 3–5 p.m. in the Winslow Auditorium of Yale School of Public Health, 60 College St.The...
An archive tracing the life and work of a woman who was a dancer, set designer and the wife of film star Rudolph Valentino before becoming a renowned Egyptologist was recently donated to the Yale Egyptological Institute in Egypt, part of the Department of...
The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) will host a conference on “The Psychological Impact of the Threat of Contemporary Genocidal Antisemitism: From Denial and Paralysis to Understanding the Challenge” on April 28....
Yale University Library joined with UNESCO, the Library of Congress and 30 international institutions in Paris today to launch the World Digital Library, a website that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives around the world.The...
Nandan Nilekani, Co-Chairman of the Board of Infosys Technologies, will speak at Yale University on May 1 at 3 p.m. in the auditorium of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. The event is free and open to the public.Nilekani’s talk, “India at the Crossroads:...