Isabel Wilkerson, journalist and author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,” will be the first featured speaker in the 2011 Poynter Fellowship in Journalism Lecture Series at Yale.The event, co-sponsored by the...
Joanna Waley-Cohen of New York University will deliver the first Franke Lecture at Yale on January 31 in a series focusing on the history of food and cuisine. Free and open to the public, all Franke lectures take place in Room 203 of the Whitney...
Distinguished cultural historian Gary Tomlinson will deliver the opening 2011 Shulman Lecture in Science and the Humanities on February 3, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street. His talk, “Paleolithic Formalism and the Emergence of Music,” will...
Renowned novelist, philosopher, and professor Rebecca Newberger Goldstein will explore the ancient battlefield where philosophy and literature have long contended to solve the meaning of life in this term’s Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the Whitney...
Imam Feisal Rauf, founder and chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, will give a talk on religious tolerance and interfaith cooperation at Yale on March 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Sheffield-Sterling Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect Street. The discussion, organized by...
“Journey of the Universe,” a documentary exploring the wonders of the cosmos through the double lens of religion and science, will premiere at Yale on March 25 and 26.The one-hour documentary, which will be shown on PBS stations in the fall, will have...
The Yale Library has announced that it is providing online access to scholars and students of the 64 reel-to-reel tapes of noted Guinean scholar, Djibril Tamsir Niane. Made in the 1970s, the tapes include field recordings, interviews, ceremonies and...
The Secular Student Alliance at Yale presents Jesse Bering, Director of the Institute of Cognition and culture at Queens’s University, Belfast, on the psychology of souls, destiny and religious belief in his novel “The Belief Instinct”There will be...
In the days after the 9/11 attacks, makeshift memorials began appearing around New York City, notes 2011 Divinity School graduate Judith Dupré in an essay in America.”Unlike permanent monuments that are built to outlast the people who built them,...
A Yale team headed by Professor Laura Wexler has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to design an interactive website to display some 160,000 Depression-era images taken by U.S. government photographers.The grant is the first made to...