Journalist Janet Malcolm wrote an email in March 2004 to scholars Ulla Dydo, Edward Burns, and William Rice recounting a recent trip to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where she was exploring the archives of Gertrude Stein and Alice B....
Four turntables are arranged on a table at a zoo by the bear enclosure. Play a record and the bears stand up and boogie. Turn around and Pegasus hovers over another enclosure. Toss an apple into the pen, and you will be astride the winged steed, poised...
A dozen volumes on display at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library are shelved side-by-side with their fore edges, not their spines, facing out. It is not a case of curatorial malpractice — far from it. Those exposed fore edges form a gallery...
Last spring, Kishwar Rizvi, professor of the history of art, led a group of eight graduate students to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of her seminar “Museum and Nation.” Rizvi’s students conducted fieldwork there and later hosted a symposium on...
While enduring daily cruelty and deprivation in labor camps in central Ukraine, survivor Liubov N. and her fellow prisoners documented their struggle in song and verse.
Recounting her experiences in a two-hour interview for the Fortunoff Video Archive for...
Subhashini Kaligotla, assistant professor of art history, points to a photograph on her computer screen of elaborate sandstone towers at Pattadakal, a medieval temple complex in northern Karnataka, India.
“I always ask my students if they see different...
A symposium at Sterling Memorial Library on Thursday, Nov. 29, will honor the life and legacy of Dr. Dori Laub, co-founder of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and Yale’s Genocide Studies Program.
Yale and Columbia economists are building a massive dataset to better understand the role immigrants played in transforming the United States from its rural origins into a global economic power.
The researchers will merge individual level data from the...
Scholars have a new space at Yale to explore the humanities in detail using digital tools and STEM-related methods.
The Franke Family Digital Humanities Laboratory will open in Sterling Memorial Library on Tuesday, Oct. 9, as part of the university’s...