The producers of a television documentary on Benjamin Franklin, whose papers are housed at Yale University, will present a preview of their series on January 19. The Franklin project, which is being produced by Twin Cities Public Television and...
On December 1, 2001, the “Ignazio Silone International Prize” was awarded to Giuseppe Mazzotta, the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Italian and Chairman of the Department. A native of southern Italy, Mazzotta grew up in Toronto and...
A letter to Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, written by Yale Law School faculty and students about the use of military tribunals has been circulated among U.S. legal scholars. By the time the...
Two events taking place this coming week will finish the Yale lecture and discussion series “Democracy, Security and Justice: Perspectives on the American Future” for this term. On Sunday, December 9, Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor...
The Yale Whitney Humanities Center has canceled “Man and Beast,” a symposium scheduled for December 7-8, owing to the sudden death on December 2 of the symposium’s originator, Naomi Schor. The symposium was to have gathered scholars from many...
Naomi Schor, one of the foremost scholars of French literature and critical theory and one of the pioneer feminist theorists of her generation, died suddenly in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 2, 2001 at the age of 58. At the time of her death,...
Yale University theologian Miroslav Volf has won the 2002 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book “Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation.” Volf, who is the Henry B. Wright Professor...
Yale University professors James C. Scott and Dale Basil Martin have been awarded Fulbright grants to lecture and pursue academic research in Europe. Scott is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and holds a joint appointment in the...
Yale faculty member Robert P. Forbes recently received an award from the Connecticut chapter of the National Association of Multicultural Education for his role promoting diversity in higher education. Forbes teaches in the American studies and history...
“Man and Beast,” a symposium that will take place at Yale University, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, December 7-8, will gather scholars of many disciplines from Europe and across the nation to examine a subject that has preoccupied mankind...