Following on the success of its inaugural program in the summer of 2010, the Yale Publishing Course has announced that the 2011 program, “Leadership Strategies in a Time of Tradition,” will be expanded to two sessions: a July 10th – 15th session focusing...
Judith A. Carney, Siddharth Kara and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff have been selected as co-winners of the 2010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. Carney, professor of geography at UCLA, and...
The Yale Department of Classics will host a talk and symposium Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 16 and 17, that mines ancient history to understand a paradox that has long intrigued economists: the countries richest in natural resources are the poorest in...
Following the launch of New Haven Promise, a Yale-funded college scholarship program for public school students, the City’s long-time chief executive, Mayor John DeStefano Jr., will come to the University as a Chubb Fellow on November 16 and 17 to share...
The 2008 Nobel Prize winner in economics and renowned political columnist and professor of economics Paul Krugman (’74) will return to his alma mater on November 9 to receive The Henry E. Howland Memorial Prize, one of the highest honors that Yale bestows...
Novelist Mark Helprin, whose work has been called “visionary” and “incandescent,” will speak about writing, and his own beginnings as a writer, at a Master’s Tea at Branford College, 80 High St., on Nov. 10 at 4 p.m.Co-sponsored by the Francis Fund and...
Three original members of a joint U.S. military-civilian natural resources counterinsurgency cell in Afghanistan will discuss “Conflict and Natural Resources: Integrated Civilian-Military Perspectives and Approaches” on Monday, Nov. 1, at 5:30 p.m. in...
November 3 will be Doonesbury Day at Yale, when Garry Trudeau (B.A., 1970, M.F.A. 1973) returns to the campus where Bull Tales, the prototype for the satirical strip, first leapt from his imagination onto the pages of the Yale Daily News.The celebration...
Critically acclaimed food writer and memorialist Claudia Roden, who turned the pleasures of eating into a division of cultural anthropology, will give a talk on the worlds contained in a bowl of soup, at 5 p.m. on October 28, in the Whitney Humanities...
In their new book, “Winner-Take-All Politics,” professors Jacob S. Hacker, Yale University, and Paul Pierson, University of California Berkeley, chronicle a systematic redistribution of wealth in the United States over the last 30 years that has greatly...