“Pig-Out: Hogs and Humans in Global and Historical Context,” an international conference being hosted by the Yale Program in Agrarian Studies Oct. 16-18, will examine the role of pigs in human society.The conference is an interdisciplinary and cross-...
Last week the Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming one of a handful of women and the first nonfiction writer to do so since 1953. The Nobel committee cited her “polyphonic writings” as a “monument to suffering...
Summer has given way to autumn, but for Yale undergraduate Alexandra Leone ’18, memories of July and August sunsets, stars, and ocean winds are vivid reminders of an experience that felt to her like “a dream come true.”Leone was one of a dozen...
During an Oct. 19 visit to campus, noted investigative journalist Bob Woodward ’65 asked the members of his audience at Yale Law School to name the most worrisome issue facing America and the nation’s future.Gun violence, Syria, global warming, a...
As the Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2016, a new exhibition will explore the relationship between teaching architecture and the spaces in which that education takes place.“Pedagogy and Place: Celebrating...
Russia has been a major force in the world’s oil market since the Soviet era. Last year, it ranked third behind the United States and Saudi Arabia in oil production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.Discussion of Russian oil often...
A tough question was asked of the panelists who took part in the Veterans Day discussion “From Rifles to Laptops: Combat Veterans Covering Conflicts”: Why — after seeing firsthand the horrors of war — would anyone want to risk his or her life to write...