Peter Ammon, German ambassador to the United States since August 2011, will give a talk on “Strategies in Times of Crisis: New Opportunities for German-American Cooperation” on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 4 p.m. in Rm. 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.Sponsored...
Yale historian Beverly Gage will be an eyewitness to history when she provides live coverage of President Obama’s second inauguration for “PBS NewsHour” on Monday, Jan. 21.Beverly GageGage has often provided commentary on the evening program, and she is...
Renowned philosopher Jonathan Lear will deliver the opening lecture in the spring 2013 Shulman Lectures in the Science and the Humanities.Jonathan LearTitled “Wisdom Won from Illness: Psychoanalysis, Self-Consciousness, and the Peculiarity of Human...
Yale University will honor the life and work of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. with celebrations and services on campus and in the New Haven community.The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in New Haven in June, 1964, when he received an honorary Doctor of...
Elijah Anderson, the William K. Lanman Professor of Sociology at Yale, has received the prestigious Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA).Elijah AndersonAnderson was “unanimously and enthusiastically” chosen for the...
Richard Blanco, who gained national renown when he read his poem “One Today” at President Obama’s second inauguration, will be at Yale on Tuesday, Feb. 5, for a tea hosted by Stephen Pitti, master of Ezra Stiles College.The event, which is Blanco’s first...