Eric Aeschimann, a senior reporter for the French general interest weekly magazine Nouvel Observateur, will visit the Yale Department of French as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism on Tuesday, April 23.Eric AeschimannAeschimann will give a free and public...
Authors and scholars from around the globe will gather at Yale University on Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30, for an international conference titled “Beyond French: New Languages for African Diasporic Literature.”“Beyond French” will include a...
Horned helmets, furs, high-seas adventure, violence— this popular portrayal of the Vikings has endured for centuries and persists today. But how much is fact and how much fiction?Yale historian, Viking expert, and MacArthur Fellow Anders Winroth unmasks...
As a lead-up to the forthcoming History Channel series “Vikings,” Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR’s “On Point,” talked with a foremost authority on the subject — Yale’s Anders Winroth — to de-mystify the legendary raiders of the North.
Winroth is professor and...
