If you think all there is to sign language is spelling out letters digitally, check out the first signed translation of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” now in progress at Trumbull College at Yale. A troupe of professional translators/performers, who are...
In his recently published book, “Being Black, Living in the Red,” Yale Professor Dalton Conley argues that accumulated wealth is the overlooked but single-most powerful determinant of class-based racial inequality in America. Though occupation, income...
The Yale School of Architecture has appointed four internationally distinguished visiting professors of architectural design for the fall 1999 semester, Dean Robert A.M. Stern has announced. Daniel Libeskind, Demetri Porphyrios, Cesar Pelli, and Frank...
Yale University’s School of Architecture will hold an open house at 212 Winthrop Ave., on Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30 p.m., to give the public an opportunity to explore a house designed and built by its students. Members of the media are welcome to cover...
Two Yale professors, Jon Butler and Harry Stout, are assembling the first series of textbooks on the history of religion in America designed expressly for secondary schools. The reference books are intended for high school teachers, to enhance their...
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition will announce the winner of its first annual $25,000 prize for the most outstanding book published on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition on...
The Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) will celebrate the inauguration of its Council on European Studies with a symposium titled “Europe Beyond 2000” on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 17 and 18. The conference, which is free and open to...
The Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale is hosting an exhibition by artist Deborah Rosenthal. “Eve’s Vocabulary,” an exhibit of 15 canvases, develops the theme of Eve as the embodiment of nature’s fecundity and the eternal feminine spirit, according...
Yale University unveiled a modified $38 million plan today to renovate, restore, and improve its historic Divinity School, enabling the School to best fulfill its academic mission. The plan, by architects Robert Kliment and Frances Halsband, is...
A CD-Rom on the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes edited by Professor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria of Yale University has received Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Book Award for 1998. The multi-media reference work about Spain’s most...