So intense was her grief after her husband’s sudden death that noted poet Elizabeth Alexander ’84 could only produce what she calls “animal sounds” when she first put pen to paper to write of her experience.
Those “sounds” eventually became sentence...
Joe McConnell ’82, research professor of hydrology in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, will visit Yale to give a talk as part of the Yale Nile Initiative Lecture Series.
McConnell’s talk, titled “...
A panel discussion featuring one or more of the members of the Grammy Award-winning Mexican band Café Tacvba will take place on campus on Sunday, Sept. 23.
Archives at Yale, a new software tool launched in early September, allows students, faculty, and other researchers to search more precisely across and within more than 5,000 collections held by 10 Yale libraries and museums. The new tool is based on a...
In conjunction with the celebration of Founders Day, which commemorates the establishment of the university by an act of the Connecticut Colony on Oct. 9, 1701, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will display three documents of early Yale...
German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s “Being and Time” is the topic of the fall Franke Lectures in the Humanities sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC).
Scholars have a new space at Yale to explore the humanities in detail using digital tools and STEM-related methods.
The Franke Family Digital Humanities Laboratory will open in Sterling Memorial Library on Tuesday, Oct. 9, as part of the university’s...
“Medicine and health sciences don’t exist in isolation from their broader social, cultural, and political contexts,” said Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, and adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia University Mailman School of...
Following a screening of their documentary “Survivors,” filmmakers Arthur Pratt and Lansana “Barmmy Boy” Mansaray will be joining the Yale community as Poynter Fellows for a conversation about their work. The event will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 7...