The English Department’s 14th annual staged reading will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 5:15 p.m. in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.The event is free and open to the public; it will run for about 75 minutes.The play is “A School for...
American composer John Adams will deliver the 2009 Tanner Lectures on Human Values on October 28 and 29 at Yale University.Free and open to the public, both talks will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.Adams will present...
An exhibition of memorabilia, posters, manuscripts, prints, books and manifestos at Yale’s Beinecke Library, through December 19, chronicles the spirit of revolution that enthralled France from the end of the German occupation to the turbulent “events of...
If you think of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library as a tomb for old “dead” books where only the most somber of scholars conduct research, curators Nancy Kuhl and Timothy Young hope a visit to their “Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities” might make...
Yale University Library joined with UNESCO, the Library of Congress and 30 international institutions in Paris today to launch the World Digital Library, a website that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives around the world.The...
A talk by “NYPD Blue” and “Deadwood” creator David Milch and a performance of bachata and merengue music are among the weekly free and public events that will be offered in a new urban studies course at Yale.Yale art historian Sandy Isenstadt, who teaches...
Elizabeth Alexander, an award-winning poet and Yale professor of African American studies and English literature, has been selected to compose and read an original poem at the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. Click here for more...