Former Prime Minister Tony Blair taught his first class at Yale on September 19, marking the start of the “Faith and Globalization Initiative,” a three-year collaboration among Yale’s Divinity School, School of Management and the Tony Blair Faith...
Alan S. Gerber, the newly named Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political Science, focuses his research on the application of experimental methods to the study of campaign communications.He has designed and performed experimental...
Karl Ulrich Mayer, the newly appointed Stanley B. Resor Professor of Sociology, conducts research in the areas of social stratification and mobility, the sociology of aging and the life course, social demography, occupational structures and labor...
Both the well-known and less-celebrated achievements of Noah Webster, creator of the first comprehensive American dictionary, will be celebrated at Yale on October 16–17 in commemoration of his 250th birthday. The two-day fête, titled “Shaping a Language...
Michael Warner, who has been designated as the Seymour H. Knox Professor of English, has a range of interests that include American literature of the Colonial and Antebellum periods; social theory; media studies; the history of the book; queer theory and...
The significance, impact and legacies of the Cuban Revolution will be explored in a series of events on campus on the eve of its 50th anniversary.The series, “50 Years of Revolution in Cuba,” began Oct. 2 and will run through Dec. 3. It brings together...
“The Resurgence of Religion: A Challenge to the Secular Self-Understanding of Modernity” is the theme of the 2008 Castle Lectures being presented by Juergen Habermas, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, under the auspices of...
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale will celebrate the lifestyles and traditions of native peoples in a three-day event focusing on Inuit culture.The Indigenous Peoples Weekend will take place Friday-...
The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale has unveiled a next-generation digital online text collection of the works of its namesake, the 18th-century preacher and thinker often identified as America’s premier theologian.For three years, the Works of Jonathan...
Krista Tippett, creator and host of public radio’s “Speaking of Faith” program, will be among the noted scholars and theogians who will give free public lectures during the Yale Divinity School’s Convocation and Reunions 2008 program, to be held Monday-...
