“Endangered Play, Endangered Development: Why Play Is Even More Important in the 21st Century” is the title of a lecture that will be given by children’s play expert Diane Levin on Wednesday, May 4.Diane LevinLevin’s talk will take place 6:30-8:30 p.m. in...
Two Yale faculty members — William Nordhaus and Vesla M. Weaver — are among 33 scholars awarded fellowships from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to advance research in social sciences and humanities.The 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellows were selected from...
Donald Trump will have more voter support in the presidential election than most people would have expected if he is the Republican nominee, and Hillary Clinton is likely to be the Democratic presidential nominee, National Public Radio (NPR) political...
Citizens of the world must be as fierce in their passion to protect and preserve culture and cultural heritage as extremists are in their desire to destroy it, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told a packed audience at Yale on April 12.“Art, literature...
Of all the accolades she has received as the director-general of UNESCO, Irina Bokova is especially proud of being awarded honorary citizenship of Timbuktu in Mali last summer in recognition of UNESCO’s support in rebuilding mausoleums there that had been...
Mara Liasson, the national political correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR), will discuss “The 2016 Elections” on Friday, April 15, as a guest of the Yale Poynter Fellowship in Journalism.Her talk will take place at 3 p.m. in Sudler Hall of William...
“Interpreting Non-Violence” will be the theme of the 2016 Tanner Lectures on Human Values, which will be delivered by Judith Butler, a noted philosopher and gender theorist.Her first talk — “Why Preserve the Life of the Other?” — will be on Wednesday,...
The preservation of cultural heritage will be the focus of the eighth Global Colloquium of University Presidents (UNGC) being hosted by Yale on April 12-13, along with a series of related public events from April 6–15. Information about the colloquium and...