The 21st annual faculty staged reading will be a concert performance of John Gay’s “ballad opera,” “The Beggar’s Opera” of 1728, generally considered the first musical. It will be held in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art on Tuesday,...
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...
Yale undergraduate Maya Juman spent four weeks this summer at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) cleaning up a scientific mess concerning a species of tree shrew.
Juman, a junior majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology, is...
“It’s nothing less than the most democratic deed the world had ever seen, and the world would never be the same.”
Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Akhil Amar discusses what makes the U.S. Constitution unique and why we celebrate...
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).