The Yale Babylonian Collection will celebrate its 100th year with a series of events on Saturday, Nov. 14, that include a concert of music with Mesopotamian themes, a symposium, a film screening and two exhibitions showcasing selected holdings.The program...
“Expanding Horizons” is the theme of the ninth annual Yale School of Management (SOM) Private Equity Conference being held on Friday, Nov. 6, at the Hyatt hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut.This year’s program will focus on the trends and opportunities for...
The English Department’s 14th annual staged reading will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 5:15 p.m. in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.The event is free and open to the public; it will run for about 75 minutes.The play is “A School for...
Corporate executives are paying themselves bloated bonuses while they squander shareowner value; a crony board of directors refuses to pay investors dividends and is keeping key financial accounts secret; the firm’s stock price is plummeting.This story...
The United Way of Greater New Haven has honored former Law School dean Guido Calabresi and his wife, Anne Calabresi, with the Herbert H. Pearce Award as “community champions for justice, equality and benevolence.”The couple received the award at the...
In 1609, a little pamphlet touched off a big debate that shaped modern international law. The Lillian Goldman Law Library marks the 400th anniversary of this event with its exhibition “Freedom of the Seas, 1609: Grotius and the Emergence of International...
Cultural anthropologist Melvin Ember, who helped foster the comparative study of culture during his more than 20 years of service as president of Yale’s Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), died on Sept. 26 after a 10-year battle with prostate cancer. He...
Polish poet and translator Piotr Sommer has been appointed by the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) as the Franke Visiting Fellow for the fall semester.On Tuesday, Oct. 20, Sommer will give a public reading, “Overdoing It and Other Poems,” at 4:30 p.m. in...
Jacob S. Hacker, who will return to teaching at Yale as the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science, is an expert on the politics and character of U.S. social policy and on American political institutions.Hacker, who taught from 2002 to 2007 at...
Edwin McClellan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of East Asian Language and Literature, whose translation of Natsume Soseki’s “Kokoro” helped make its Japanese author known in the West, died in Hamden, Connecticut on April 27. The cause was lung cancer. There...