“The Resurgence of Religion: A Challenge to the Secular Self-Understanding of Modernity” is the theme of the 2008 Castle Lectures being presented by Juergen Habermas, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, under the auspices of...
Both the well-known and less-celebrated achievements of Noah Webster, creator of the first comprehensive American dictionary, will be celebrated at Yale on October 16–17 in commemoration of his 250th birthday. The two-day fête, titled “Shaping a Language...
Karl Ulrich Mayer, the newly appointed Stanley B. Resor Professor of Sociology, conducts research in the areas of social stratification and mobility, the sociology of aging and the life course, social demography, occupational structures and labor...
Alan S. Gerber, the newly named Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political Science, focuses his research on the application of experimental methods to the study of campaign communications.He has designed and performed experimental...
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair taught his first class at Yale on September 19, marking the start of the “Faith and Globalization Initiative,” a three-year collaboration among Yale’s Divinity School, School of Management and the Tony Blair Faith...
Robert Wayne Harms, the newly named Henry J. Heinz Professor of History and African Studies, is an award-winning scholar of African history, including the slave trade and the continent’s environmental and agrarian history.His 2002 book “The Diligent: A...
Frank M. Snowden, the newly appointed Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of History, is a scholar of Italian history, European social and political history, and the history of medicine.At Yale, Snowden is also chair of the Program in the History of Science...
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will join University President Richard C. Levin for a conversation in Woolsey Hall on September 19 at 4:30 p.m. before an audience of Yale faculty, students and staff. They will discuss Mr. Blair’s tenure as prime...
Stephen L. Darwall, the newly named Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, has focused his research on the foundations of ethics, moral psychology, moral theory and the history of these subjects.Also a visiting lecturer in law at the Yale Law...
David Scott Kastan, newly appointed as the George M. Bodman Professor of English, is a scholar of early modern English literature and culture, especially Shakespeare and Milton, as well as of the history of the book, and editing and editorial theory....
