The Yale University Council on East Asian Studies will sponsor a series of landmark films by Japanese directors Yasujiro Ozu and Juzo Itami. The movies will be screened in Japanese with English subtitles on Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities...
Beatrice Bartlett, professor of history at Yale, will give a lecture on the horror and heroism of the Nanking Massacre, its historical context and the current controversies about it, on Friday, January 31, at 4 p.m. in the Marquand Chapel of the Yale...
Abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and other life-and-death issues will be explored in the next DeVane Lecture series at Yale University, presented by federal judge and former Yale Law School Dean Guido Calabresi. In the 12-part series, “Life...
Anthropologist and Yale alumnus Richard Pearson, Ph.D. 1966 will be the next guest in the Yale Council on East Asian Studies spring colloquium series, speaking on “Archaeological Perspectives on the Rise of the Ryuku Kingdom, 1100-1600 A.D.” His talk...
Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, will speak on “What Risks Must a Nation Take for Peace?” on Tuesday, February 11, at 4 p.m. in Yale University’s Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. His visit to...
The Cambodian Genocide Program at Yale University will release information on the Internet today that details atrocities committed under the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, 1975-79. Approximately 1.7 million Cambodians are believed to have perished...
Yale University’s newest science building – the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Center for Molecular and Structural Biology – recently received The American Institute of Architects 1997 Honor Award for Architecture. The red-brick building, which is located...
John M. Merriman has been appointed the Charles Seymour Professor of History, by vote of the Yale Corporation. A renowned historian, Professor Merriman is known particularly for his expertise on the economic, social and political history of France...
An exhibition of art by students of five New Haven area colleges and universities will open at Artspace on Audubon Street, Friday, February 7, 5-7 p.m. The show, featuring work from Yale, Southern Connecticut State, Albertus Magnus, Quinnipiac, and the...
Gary Snyder has been awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library, one of the nation’s most prestigious literary honors. The $50,000 prize was announced January 27 by Scott Bennett, librarian of the University. The Bollingen...