Michael Holquist, professor of Slavic languages and literatures and chairman of the department of comparative literature at Yale, has been awarded an honorary doctoral degree by Stockholm University in Sweden. Holquist is closely associated with the...
Recently completed reproductions of the ancient Maya murals of Bonampak will be exhibited to the public at Yale’s Saybrook College, 242 Elm Street, on Friday, January 11, 1-5 p.m. Discovered by archaeologists in 1946, the 1,200-year-old wall paintings...
The producers of a television documentary on Benjamin Franklin, whose papers are housed at Yale University, will present a preview of their series on January 19. The Franklin project, which is being produced by Twin Cities Public Television and...
Two events taking place this coming week will finish the Yale lecture and discussion series “Democracy, Security and Justice: Perspectives on the American Future” for this term. On Sunday, December 9, Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor...
The Yale Whitney Humanities Center has canceled “Man and Beast,” a symposium scheduled for December 7-8, owing to the sudden death on December 2 of the symposium’s originator, Naomi Schor. The symposium was to have gathered scholars from many...
Yale University theologian Miroslav Volf has won the 2002 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book “Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation.” Volf, who is the Henry B. Wright Professor...
Yale University professors James C. Scott and Dale Basil Martin have been awarded Fulbright grants to lecture and pursue academic research in Europe. Scott is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and holds a joint appointment in the...
Yale faculty member Robert P. Forbes recently received an award from the Connecticut chapter of the National Association of Multicultural Education for his role promoting diversity in higher education. Forbes teaches in the American studies and history...
“Man and Beast,” a symposium that will take place at Yale University, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, December 7-8, will gather scholars of many disciplines from Europe and across the nation to examine a subject that has preoccupied mankind...
Donald Kagan, The Hillhouse Professor of Classics and History and author of the book “While America Sleeps,” will give a talk, “Reflections on the Present Crisis,” at Yale’s Battell Chapel on Sunday, November 4, at 7 p.m. The talk is the sixth event in...