Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives contain vast troves of cultural and scientific heritage that fire curiosity and fuel research worldwide. Now there’s a simple new way to make astonishing connections among millions of objects.
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Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) last week honored four professors who made valuable contributions to the campus community and beyond during the 2022-23 academic year.
Claire Bowern, a professor of linguistics; Alicia Schmidt Camacho, professor...
Four junior faculty members in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been honored for scholarly achievements in their respective fields.
Jill Jarvis, an assistant professor of French, received The Samuel ’60 and Ronnie ’72 Heyman Prize, which...
In the painting, a doll-like figure dressed in ruffles and jewels, wearing heavy rouge, and carrying a bloodied knife, stares with piercing green eyes into the abyss. Nude dancing women surround him, neon-colored grass at their feet. Behind them, a figure...
Igor Stravinsky’s seminal ballet, “The Rite of Spring,” famously caused an uproar when it debuted in Paris in 1913. Stravinsky’s dissonant score and Vaslav Nijinsky’s staccato choreography struck a nerve and even provoked rioting in the Paris streets....
Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the depths of hell.
A copy of the beautifully illuminated...
