Sister Helen Prejean, whose work with death-row inmates was the subject of the Tim Robbins film “Dead Man Walking,” and other distinguished lecturers will be featured at the 1997 Annual Convocation of the Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity...
Yale University’s Department of Sociology will host a two-day conference on “Sociology and Public Life,” Thursday, Oct. 9, and Friday, Oct. 10. All sessions will be held in Room 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street. Keynote speaker on...
Anthony T. Kronman, dean of the Yale Law School, announced the establishment of the Robert L. Bernstein Fellowships in International Human Rights at a weekend gathering of Yale Law School alumni. The Fellowships will be awarded annually to two or...
Racism, sexism, and “nativism” are as central to American politics as liberalism and republicanism ever were, argues Yale political scientist Rogers Smith in his newly released book, “Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. Public Law...
On Thursday, October 23, the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University will offer a crash course in the realities of public office to 40 Connecticut school children. Participants in “Students’ Day in Hartford” will be fifth graders from Toquam School...
John S. Saul, professor of social and political science at York University in Toronto, Canada, will speak on “Whatever Happened to African Socialism Now that we Really Need It? Some Recollections and Reflections,” on Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Room 203 of...
Seventy years ago, two Italian immigrants to the United States were executed in Massachusetts’ Charlestown State Prison, despite massive international protest. The official record said Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had committed robbery and...
Edward Zigler, the Sterling Professor of Psychology at Yale University and a national leader in child care, has been invited by President and Mrs. Clinton to attend the White House Conference on Child Care on Thursday, Oct. 23, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m....