For more than two decades, Louis Dupre, the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor in Religious Studies, has enthralled Yale students with his insights into phenomenology, the philosophy of religion and modern culture. This week Dupre takes the podium for his...
How a small group of people from all over the world banded together to convince more than 100 countries to outlaw landmines – and won the Nobel Peace Prize in the process – is the subject of a Yale Law School panel on Thursday, April 23 at 4 p.m. in the...
Former Chinese prisoner Wei Jingsheng will give the inaugural Robert L. Bernstein Lecture on “Human Rights in China: Challenges Ahead” on Tuesday, April 28, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School at 127 Wall Street. Wei...
“Witness: Voices from the Holocaust,” a documentary film composed of first-person accounts of the Holocaust, will have its first public preview, free of charge, on Sunday, April 26, 7 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St...
Third-graders at Timothy Dwight Elementary School and their tutors from Yale University will celebrate a successful year of participation in the America Reads Challenge Thursday, April 16, at 3 p.m. at the school at 130 Edgewood Avenue in New Haven. Tim...
The American Bach Society will hold its biennial meeting at Yale University, April 24-26. The conference will explore the topic “J. S. Bach and the Musical Instruments of his Time,” and will be hosted by the Yale department of music, School of Music,...
An opera written by concentration camp inmate Viktor Ullmann, who died in Auschwitz soon after composing the work, will be performed at Yale University on Friday, April 24, and Saturday, April 25, at 8 p.m. “The Kaiser of Atlantis” (or “Death Abdicates...
The 1998 Peace Games at Yale Festival will take place Saturday, April 4, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The media are invited to cover this highly visual town/gown event that emphasizes cooperation instead of competition. The festival will bring students from nine...
John Hollander, the Sterling Professor of English at Yale, will be this year’s recipient of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for his 1997 book, “The Work of Poetry” (Columbia University Press). The award will be presented during a ceremony...
The Council on Latin American Studies of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese will host a festival of films from and about Brazil. The films, in Portuguese with English subtitles, will be shown...