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...
On December 1, 2001, the “Ignazio Silone International Prize” was awarded to Giuseppe Mazzotta, the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Italian and Chairman of the Department. A native of southern Italy, Mazzotta grew up in Toronto and...
A letter to Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, written by Yale Law School faculty and students about the use of military tribunals has been circulated among U.S. legal scholars. By the time the...
Naomi Schor, one of the foremost scholars of French literature and critical theory and one of the pioneer feminist theorists of her generation, died suddenly in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 2, 2001 at the age of 58. At the time of her death,...