This term will see the first conference hosted by the recently established Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA), an interdisciplinary enterprise that embraces the humanities and social sciences to understand the history and contributing...
Critically acclaimed Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan and award-winning poet and translator Dr. Fady Joudah will give a poetry reading on campus on Monday, Oct. 15.Ghassan ZaqtanThe reading of Zaqtan’s most recent collection, “Like a Straw Bird It Follows...
In the Dwight H. Terry lectures to be delivered at Yale Oct. 9–18, distinguished historian of science and former dean of Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Keith S. Thomson will explore how two of the most acclaimed thinkers of the 18th and 19th...
The Jewish “eruv” practice, which reconciles the Talmudic injunction against carrying objects from private to public space on the Sabbath with the biblical command to make the Sabbath a joyous occasion, is explored in three exhibitions taking place in...
Moshe Halbertal, the Gruss Professor of Law at New York University, will present the Franz Rosenzweig Lectures this fall.Moshe Halbertal, the Gruss Professor of Law at New York UniversitySponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies, the lecture series will...
The Fortunoff Archive at Yale, which has collected the personal stories of thousands of survivors and first-hand witnesses of the Holocaust, is marking its 30th year with an exhibition at Sterling Memorial Library on view through Nov. 6 and a conference...
A new program dedicated to promoting cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration — the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities — will launch in November with a lecture and panel discussion on the topic of violence, a central issue for both fields....
Rolena Adorno, recently designated as the Sterling Professor of Spanish, studies Colonial Spanish American literature and history and the 19th-century origins of Hispanism in the United States.The Sterling Professorship is the highest honor bestowed on...
Gary Tomlinson, recently designated as the John Hay Whitney Professor of Music and the Humanities, is a musicologist and cultural theorist.Tomlinson’s teaching and scholarship range across a diverse set of interests, including the history of opera, early-...
