Award-winning scholar Peter Dear will deliver the opening lecture in the spring 2014 series of Shulman Lectures in the Science and the Humanities.Titled “Darwin’s Sleepwalkers: Taxonomic Evidence in the Presentation of Darwin’s Species Theory,” Dear’s...
Author, critic, and columnist Michael Kimmelman has been appointed as the 2014 Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center for the spring.Kimmelman will give a lecture titled “The Politics of Public Space” on Wednesday, April 2 at 5 p.m. in Rm...
Since Yale art historian Diana E. E. Kleiner first fell in love with ancient Roman architecture as an undergraduate, she has leaned on many of the world’s oldest buildings, monuments, and ruins.Leaning on a building was a habit she developed after taking...
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is acquiring the papers of author and illustrator Mo Willems, the award-winning creator of some of the most beloved characters in contemporary children’s literature, including Elephant and Piggie, Knuffle...
Music Talks at the Whitney, a new program sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), will feature noted artists from the Yale School of Music in concert and conversation. A distinguished member of the Yale College faculty will introduce each...