Christine E. Hayes, a scholar of Talmudic studies and Judaism in late antiquity, has joined the faculty as the Robert F. and Patricia R. Weis Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica, President Richard C. Levin has announced. Ms...
She was raised in Connecticut and now lives in California, but her vivid descriptions of the Brazilian jungle are what won Talvikki Ansel the 1996 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Ms. Ansel’s manuscript, “Teatro Amazonas,” is named for an...
The Yale University Russian Chorus will soon release its first CD for international distribution. “Chants and Carols,” on Epiphany Recordings, will be available at HMV, Tower Records, Borders, Barnes and Noble, and other major outlets later this...
Distinguished religious leaders from across the country and abroad will converge on Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale for the Annual Convocation, October 7-9. “An important aspect of Yale Divinity School’s mission is to...
Affirmative action is under attack. In recent decisions, the judicial system has rejected its claims and politicians are asking, why? for whom? and how long? The recent ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Hopwood v. Texas...
John Polkinghorne, president of Queens’ College at the University of Cambridge, will explore belief in God in a scientific age in a lecture series at Yale University titled “Science & Religion: Patterns of Collegiality.” The four Dwight H....
The following talks at Yale University during the week of Sept. 29-Oct. 5 are free and open to the public. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist will be guest at master’s tea William Kennedy, who won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle...
Human beings, contended German philosopher Ernst Cassirer, are essentially characterized by their symbolizing activity, that is, their ability to use concepts to give shape to the natural world. An international and interdisciplinary array of...
Even as Mother Nature is exchanging her shimmering summer finery for the golds, reds, and tans of her autumn wardrobe, Yale’s Norfolk Music Festival is preparing to launch its fourth annual “Indian Summer” series. An extension of Norfolk’s award-...
Images of the wooden houses, farms, chapels, mosques and monastic buildings that dotted the pre-war landscape of the former Yugoslavia will be on view through Oct. 11 in the front gallery of the Art & Architecture Building on York Street. “...