For many of us, self-reflection marks the turn of the new year, namely in the form of resolution-making. But few of us ever stop to consider, “What exactly is the ‘self’ I am trying to improve?” A new Yale humanities course, “Selfhood, Race, Class, and...
The good life is hard to define and even harder to attain, but three Yale professors came together in a panel discussion on April 2 to propose their own answers to the question: What is the good life, and how do we live it?
Professors Jennifer Herdt (...
Ta-Nehisi Coates — bestselling author and distinguished writer in residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute — confessed to a packed Yale Art Gallery auditorium that he first became aware of Yale historian David Blight around...
In a Feb. 2017 lecture, “What Translation Means: The Extent and Impact of Translation in America” at the Whitney Humanities Center, Harold Augenbraum, a career translator and now acting editor of the Yale Review, outlined an argument for creating a center...
When school let out for summer on Wednesday, close to 100 Yalies left campus with a virtual toolbox in hand — a starter pack of data science methods, excellent for digging into whichever academic fields await them.
These students were enrolled in the...
A beautiful landscape painting, a beautiful piano sonata — art and music are almost exclusively described in terms of aesthetics, but what about math? Beyond useful or brilliant, can an abstract idea be considered beautiful?
Yes, actually — and not just...
You may not know early Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov by name, but perhaps you’ve heard of his most famous film, “Man with a Movie Camera.” Released in 1929, this non-narrative silent film illustrates a day in the life of real Soviet city-dwellers without...