When preparing books to be scanned for the Yale Library’s digitization project, staff often discovered surprises hidden between the volumes’ pages.Some of those long-abandoned items are now on view in a new exhibition in the Starr Main Reference Room of...
The evolving form and function of libraries in the digital age will be considered at a symposium being hosted on Saturday, April 4, at the Yale Law School.The “Library 2.0 Symposium” is hosted by the Yale Information Society Project (ISP), which studies...
A renowned filmmaker and educator will showcase the work of his countrymen in “Contemporary Sri Lankan Cinema at Yale,” a film and discussion series that will take place the first two weeks in April.Independent filmmaker Robert Crusz is the guest host of...
Images of and information about the events that transpire in a remote Andean village during Holy Week will be featured in a new exhibition opening on Monday, March 30, at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM).Titled “The Flowering Cross: Holy Week in...
“It Is Daylight,” a collection of poems by Arda Collins that reads as a series of dramatic, private monologues, has been chosen the winner of the 2008 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.The Yale Series of Younger Poets is the longest-running poetry...
The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders will host a visit by Holly Arnold Kinney and Virginia Scharff on Thursday, March 26.Their lecture, titled “From Taos Lightning to Tanka Bars: A Conversation on the Foods, Cultures and...
“The Blessing of a Broken Heart,” a play based on a mother’s award-winning memoir about the murder of her son in Israel, will be presented at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.The play was adapted for the stage and...
For those who tend to view the world through green-tinted glasses, the need to trim budgets because of the rough economy looks like an opportunity as well as a challenge.At least that’s how environmentally-conscious Yale students, staff and faculty see...
Ernesto Zedillo, named as the inaugural Frederick Iseman ‘74 Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, is a noted economist who has been a leading voice on globalization, especially its impact on relations between developed and...
David Joselit, newly designated as the Carnegie Professor of the History of Art, has worked as a scholar and critic on pivotal moments in modern art ranging from the Dada movement of the early 20th century to the emergence of globalization and new media...