Readings from the works of Harlem Renaissance writers, concerts featuring African-American music and a forum about the true nature of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, will be among the events taking place at...
Robert White Creeley has been named the winner of the 1999 Bollingen Prize in Poetry, called “America’s top poetry award” by the New York Times. The Bollingen Prize, established by the late Paul Mellon in 1949, is awarded biennially by the Yale...
The Yale School of Music has opened its doors to students from the Cooperative High School for the Arts and Humanities for three days of intensive music-making, Feb. 15-17. The program, called “Winter Musical Immersion eXperience,” or Winter MIX, for...
Yale University will host a panel discussion on “Issues and Challenges Confronting Faith-Based Organizations Involved in Community Development Initiatives” on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 4-6 p.m., in the Common Room at Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect St....
On Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26 and 27, former CIA officials, historians, novelists and scholars will discuss the shadowy world of the spy at a conference hosted by Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Members of the media are welcome to attend...
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Oscar Arias Sanchez will deliver a Chubb Fellowship address at Yale on Wednesday, March 24, at 8 p.m. in the Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Arias’s talk, “Peace in the Age of Globalization: Confronting Poverty,...
Novelist and critic A. S. Byatt will deliver the Finzi-Contini lecture at Yale University on Monday, April 5, at 4:30 p.m., in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Her topic will be: “Old Tales and New Forms: Storytelling in...
The Yale School of Architecture will host a public program to explore the University’s immediate and long-term plans for its physical facilities, April 9, 10 and 11. The program, called “Yale Constructs: Planning and Building for the University’s...
Martin Price, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English, and Fred C. Robinson, who is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, were each awarded the William Clyde DeVane Medal by the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on March 2. The medals were...
Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) will celebrate the publication of an important new book, “To Glorify God,” on Thursday, March 25, at Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, 409 Prospect St. “To Glorify God” is a collection of essays comparing...