“The Work of Daniel Libeskind: Two Museums and a Garden” will be exhibited in Yale School of Architecture’s Main Gallery, 180 York St., Oct. 25-Nov. 19. In conjunction with the gallery show, Libeskind will deliver a public lecture titled “The Ethics of...
Treasures from Yale’s libraries will be on display for the media at a Special Collections Fair on Thursday, Oct. 7, 1-5 p.m., in the mezzanine of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. In addition to millions of books, the libraries at Yale...
Artist and alumnus Ivan Chermayeff will speak on Oct. 26 at 6 p.m. in the Yale University Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel St. His lecture, titled “What Design is and What Design is Not,” is free and open to the public. Chermayeff’s work has been...
Throughout this academic year the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University is hosting a series of talks on different aspects of slavery. The series is organized around the two themes of “Slavery and...
An international conference and an exhibit of rare documents are among the events that will take place at Yale this October in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the “Shakespeare” of the German...
Yale University, in cooperation with the Centre for Brazilian Studies at University of Oxford (England), will host a symposium, “On Transcreation: Literary Invention, Translation, and Poetics,” dedicated to prize-winning poet Haroldo de Campos in his...
A new, annual $25,000 prize for the most outstanding book published on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition has been awarded for the first time to Ira Berlin, author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery, and Philip D...
Marina Warner will deliver Yale University’s 1999 Tanner Lectures on “Spirit Visions” on Wednesday, Oct. 20, and Thursday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St. The first talk, “The Inner Eye: Figuring the...
A CD-Rom on the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes edited by Professor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria of Yale University has received Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Book Award for 1998. The multi-media reference work about Spain’s most...
The Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) will celebrate the inauguration of its Council on European Studies with a symposium titled “Europe Beyond 2000” on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 17 and 18. The conference, which is free and open to...