Both the well-known and less-celebrated achievements of Noah Webster, creator of the first comprehensive American dictionary, will be celebrated at Yale on October 16–17 in commemoration of his 250th birthday. The two-day fête, titled “Shaping a Language...
Stephanie E. Smallwood, associate professor of history at the University of Washington-Seattle, has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. The Frederick...
Celebrated writer Ted Conover, known for going “undercover” to get firsthand experience about the topics he covers, will read from and discuss his works on October 23 at Yale University, as part of Yale College’s series of “Francis Conversations with...
Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University, longtime scholar of the American South, and author of “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War” (Knopf, 2008), will talk about her book at 4:30 p.m. on October 29, at Luce Hall...
Theodore C. Sorensen, former special counsel, speechwriter and adviser to President John F. Kennedy, will speak at Yale University on November 12, 4:30 p.m., in the Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School as a Chubb Fellow. The talk is free and open to the...
Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, will deliver the 2008 Tanner Lectures on Human Values on October 29 and 30, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.His talks — “The Epistemology of Physics and Scientific Revolutions” on October 29 and “...
The Yale Babylonian Collection is participating in an international research project that is examining human interaction with the environment in Mesopotamia, specifically salinization in Umma, an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia.Max Bichler from the...
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale will celebrate the lifestyles and traditions of native peoples in a three-day event focusing on Inuit culture.The Indigenous Peoples Weekend will take place Friday-...
The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale has unveiled a next-generation digital online text collection of the works of its namesake, the 18th-century preacher and thinker often identified as America’s premier theologian.For three years, the Works of Jonathan...
Krista Tippett, creator and host of public radio’s “Speaking of Faith” program, will be among the noted scholars and theogians who will give free public lectures during the Yale Divinity School’s Convocation and Reunions 2008 program, to be held Monday-...