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...
One of the most moving experiences journalist April Ryan has had during her 28 years of covering the White House happened while attending an art exhibition with former First Lady Laura Bush.Bush had invited Ryan to walk from the White House across the...
April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, will speak at Yale on Thursday, Feb. 25 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.Her talk, titled “The Presidency in Black and White,”will take place at 2 p.m. in the School of Management’s...
The story of American abolitionism is often told in a way that discounts the significance of slave resistance in the antislavery movement and is unnecessarily divided along racial lines, historian Manisha Sinha said in a Feb. 18 panel discussion on campus...