Racism, sexism, and “nativism” are as central to American politics as liberalism and republicanism ever were, argues Yale political scientist Rogers Smith in his newly released book, “Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. Public Law...
Michael P. Dombeck, chief of the USDA Forest Service since January and former acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, will speak at Yale on the role of the Forest Service in helping private landowners manage non-federal lands. The talk, which...
How is Hong Kong meeting the challenge of merging with China while retaining its economic identity? The Hong Kong Club, an undergraduate organization at Yale, will host a two-day conference to examine the current and future status of Hong Kong. “One...
A panel discussion titled “After the Summit: The Role of Human Rights in U.S.-China Relations” will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2:30-5 p.m. in Yale Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. The program will address human rights policy and...
The following talks at Yale University Oct. 27-Nov. 2 are free and open to the public. Award-winning writer to discuss her recently published novel Blanche McCrary Boyd, a professor of English and writer-in-residence at Connecticut College, will...
On Thursday, October 23, the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University will offer a crash course in the realities of public office to 40 Connecticut school children. Participants in “Students’ Day in Hartford” will be fifth graders from Toquam School...
American child care regulations are mediocre or poor in every state because state legislators are setting standards far too low, thus posing a threat to children’s development. That is the finding of a Yale University study, which joins a spate of...
Edward Zigler, the Sterling Professor of Psychology at Yale University and a national leader in child care, has been invited by President and Mrs. Clinton to attend the White House Conference on Child Care on Thursday, Oct. 23, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m....
The Council on Middle East Studies at Yale will host a conference to assess the complex relationship between human beings and nature in a region that is rich in many resources but perennially short of water. Titled “Transformations of Middle Eastern...
John S. Saul, professor of social and political science at York University in Toronto, Canada, will speak on “Whatever Happened to African Socialism Now that we Really Need It? Some Recollections and Reflections,” on Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Room 203 of...