The Yale Center for International and Area Studies’ Council on African Studies will host a lecture series on “What Happened to African Socialism?” All sessions are free and open to the public. The lectures will be held in Room 203 of Luce Hall, 34...
When the Council of Europe defined human rights for research subjects, medical patients and organ donors for the first time this past April, Ludger Honnefelder was on the committee that drafted the “Convention on Biomedical Ethics.” Mr. Honnefelder,...
Heinrich von Staden, a long-time member of the Yale University faculty whose specialties include classical philosophy and literature, mythology, and ancient medicine and science, has been named the William Lampson Professor of Classics and Comparative...
Judith Resnik, the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, has joined the Yale Law School faculty as the first Arthur Liman Professor of Law. She resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Professor Resnik’s teaching and...
Robert Pinsky, poet laureate of the United States; Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet; and John Hollander, poet and the Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, will join together for a public symposium, “Poetic Responsibilities,” Monday, Oct. 6, at...
The office of Deborah Berke Architect has been selected to design a building for Yale University’s School of Art, to be located at 1156 Chapel St. The site, formerly occupied by the Jewish Community Center, was purchased by the University in December...
Anthony T. Kronman, dean of the Yale Law School, announced the establishment of the Robert L. Bernstein Fellowships in International Human Rights at a weekend gathering of Yale Law School alumni. The Fellowships will be awarded annually to two or...
Yale University’s Department of Sociology will host a two-day conference on “Sociology and Public Life,” Thursday, Oct. 9, and Friday, Oct. 10. All sessions will be held in Room 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street. Keynote speaker on...
Sister Helen Prejean, whose work with death-row inmates was the subject of the Tim Robbins film “Dead Man Walking,” and other distinguished lecturers will be featured at the 1997 Annual Convocation of the Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity...
On Tuesday, Oct. 14, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale will present honorary degrees to Connecticut’s former Lieutenant Governor Eunice Strong Groark, the Reverend H. Boone Porter, the Reverend Barbara Brown Taylor, and the Right Reverend Herbert...