Author, critic, and columnist Michael Kimmelman has been appointed as the 2014 Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center for the spring.Kimmelman will give a lecture titled “The Politics of Public Space” on Wednesday, April 2 at 5 p.m. in Rm...
Award-winning scholar Peter Dear will deliver the opening lecture in the spring 2014 series of Shulman Lectures in the Science and the Humanities.Titled “Darwin’s Sleepwalkers: Taxonomic Evidence in the Presentation of Darwin’s Species Theory,” Dear’s...
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library has acquired two “Tyndale Bibles” — the first printed English translations of biblical texts — which are among the rarest and most influential works in the English language.The Tyndale New Testament (left)...