The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded to Yale University Press an $840,000 grant to establish a new electronic portal on which curated and customizable art and architectural history content will be made available to consumers and institutions.The...
Dipesh Chakrabarty, the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Law at the University of Chicago will deliver the 2015 Tanner Lectures on Human Values Feb. 18-20. The theme of...
Carolyn Abbate, the Paul and Catherine Buttenweiser University Professor of Music at Harvard University, has been appointed as the 2015 Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC).Abbate will give a lecture titled “Sound Object Lessons”...
Thread at Yale — a new summer program for writers, radio journalists, and other storytellers — is now accepting applications for its first session, June 7–10.“Storytelling today moves from one platform to another,” write the organizers. “The best...
“Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace,” a new, interactive exhibition opening at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, will bring to life the many-layered history of the samurai and those they ruled. A Kawarikabuto helmet — a 17th- to 19th...
“Decapitating the Past: ISIS and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq and Syria” is the topic of a discussion among Yale faculty members taking place on Tuesday, March 31.The panel discussion, sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages...