In 1609, a little pamphlet touched off a big debate that shaped modern international law. The Lillian Goldman Law Library marks the 400th anniversary of this event with its exhibition “Freedom of the Seas, 1609: Grotius and the Emergence of International...
Cultural anthropologist Melvin Ember, who helped foster the comparative study of culture during his more than 20 years of service as president of Yale’s Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), died on Sept. 26 after a 10-year battle with prostate cancer. He...
A dramatic shift in the way Americans receive news and information, stimulated by the growing dominance of the Internet and other electronic media, is the focus of the conference “Journalism and the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?” at Yale...
Soledad O’Brien, anchor and special correspondent for CNN Worldwide, will visit Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism on Tuesday, November 10.O’Brien’s lecture, “Diversity in the Media: Behind the Scenes & in Our Lives,” will take...
“Expanding Horizons” is the theme of the ninth annual Yale School of Management (SOM) Private Equity Conference being held on Friday, Nov. 6, at the Hyatt hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut.This year’s program will focus on the trends and opportunities for...
The English Department’s 14th annual staged reading will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 5:15 p.m. in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.The event is free and open to the public; it will run for about 75 minutes.The play is “A School for...
Corporate executives are paying themselves bloated bonuses while they squander shareowner value; a crony board of directors refuses to pay investors dividends and is keeping key financial accounts secret; the firm’s stock price is plummeting.This story...
In a world where video cameras are ubiquitous and PhotoShop can rewrite the past, the influence of the digital revolution in the courtroom is profound, as Christina Spiesel, a professional artist and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School, and...
The Yale Babylonian Collection will celebrate its 100th year with a series of events on Saturday, Nov. 14, that include a concert of music with Mesopotamian themes, a symposium, a film screening and two exhibitions showcasing selected holdings.The program...
The Yale Department of Classics has announced that Ian Morris, the Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics at Stanford University, will deliver the second annual Michael I. Rostovtzeff Lecture, titled “What is Ancient History?” at 5 p.m. on...