When conflicts arise over issues of free speech, “universities owe it to themselves and their students to avoid taking the path of least resistance,” said Allison Stanger of Columbia University, one of four participants in a panel on free speech sponsored...
Award-winning author and poet Claudia Rankine will speak on campus on Thursday, March 8 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
“A Conversation with Claudia Rankine,” will begin at 4 p.m. in the Grace Hopper head of college house, 434 College St. It is open to...
While being honored March 8 by the International Festival of Arts & Ideas with its eighth Visionary Leadership Award, poet Claudia Rankine described an encounter that she said is not all that uncommon for her. A white man approached to her to tell her...
Yale’s Digital Humanities Lab, a space where Shakespeare meets Silicon Valley, will have a new home in Sterling Memorial Library.
A renovation of the library’s Franke Family Reading Room now under way will create a cutting-edge campus hub for applying...
Africa Salon, Yale’s contemporary African arts and culture festival, returns to New Haven Thursday-Saturday, April 5-8.
The fourth annual Africa Salon festival will bring artists, poets, dancers, comedians, writers, and photographers to Yale and New Haven...
Filmmaker, journalist and critic Kevin B. Lee will speak at Yale on Saturday, March 31, as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
Lee’s talk, entitled “THEORY/PRACTICE: Expanding Scholarship in the Age of Digital Media” and subtitled “Dreams and Terrors of...
Historian Abbas Amanat and economist Andrew Metrick were appointed to endowed professorships.
Amanat, named as the William Graham Sumner Professor of History, is a historian of the modern Middle East, early modern and modern Iran, and Shi’ism and the...