Twenty first-year students sit around a crowded dining room table in Pauli Murray College, mulling over “A Song on How My Thatched Roof Was Ruined by the Autumn Wind,” a work by the prominent 8th century Chinese poet Du Fu.
The students are part of a new...
“The Secret Life of Radio: Fringe Practices of a Mass Medium” is the topic of the fall 2019 Franke Lectures in the Humanities sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC).
This semester’s lecture series has been organized in conjunction with the Yale...
The transformative process of turning the 87-year-old Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS) into a central home for the humanities on campus was recently recognized with an Excellence in Planning Award for a District or Campus Component from the Society for...
Keller Easterling, architect, writer, professor, and director of the Master of Environmental Design Program at the Yale School of Architecture, was recently named a 2019 United States Artist in Architecture and Design — one of only 45 awarded this honor...
In Yale medical sociologist Alka Menon’s work, she draws on her research in the United States and Malaysia to take a transnational look at cosmetic surgery.
What Menon found is that in addition to enhancing the looks that a patient already has, cosmetic...