The Council on Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese will present a festival of films from and about Brazil, beginning Tuesday, February 25. All films will be shown in Mason Lab, 9 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 211, at 7:00 p.m...
Yale’s Council on African Studies and Film Study Center will jointly sponsor a series of recent films that take a look at African life and culture from an African perspective. All films will be shown at 7 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse...
President Richard C. Levin announced today that David A. Kessler, the Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will become dean of the Yale University School of Medicine, effective July 1, 1997. Dr. Kessler is a graduate of the Harvard...
Members of the print and electronic media are invited to attend a Yale community meeting at 2 p.m. today, Thursday, Feb. 13, at which Yale President Richard C. Levin will announce a major appointment of interest to the Yale and New Haven-area...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $100,000 to Yale University in support of a Sawyer Seminar on Genocide Studies, according to a recent announcement by Gustav Ranis, director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies – YCIAS. The...
A conference titled “Images and Empires: Visual Representations in and of Africa” will take place Feb. 14-16 in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public. Twenty scholars from Africa, North America and Europe...
Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will speak on “What Risks Must a Nation Take for Peace?” tomorrow, February 11, 4-5 p.m. in Yale University’s Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. Mr. Peres’ visit to...
An exhibition of art by students from five New Haven area colleges and universities will open at Artspace on Audubon Street tonight with a reception, 5-7 p.m. The show, featuring work from Yale, Southern Connecticut State, Albertus Magnus, Quinnipiac,...
Yale University will celebrate Black History Month all through February with films, readings, lectures, and concerts that are free and open to the public. A dramatic reading of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech” on Friday, Feb. 7, will...
Gary Snyder has been awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library, one of the nation’s most prestigious literary honors. The $50,000 prize was announced January 27 by Scott Bennett, librarian of the University. The Bollingen...
