Alumni from around the world will gather in New Haven to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, 211 Park Street, October 16-18.The weekend will include a conference titled “Charting a Course for the Next Generation of...
American composer John Adams will deliver the 2009 Tanner Lectures on Human Values on October 28 and 29 at Yale University.Free and open to the public, both talks will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.Adams will present...
A multi-year grant to Yale University Library from the U.S. Department of Education’s Technological Innovation Program will support “Gateway to Gazettes” (G2G), a new project that will digitize and make available the gazettes of independent Syria and...
Yale University Library and the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) have received a joint grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom...
A dramatic shift in the way Americans receive news and information, stimulated by the growing dominance of the Internet and other electronic media, is the focus of the conference “Journalism and the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?” at Yale...
Soledad O’Brien, anchor and special correspondent for CNN Worldwide, will visit Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism on Tuesday, November 10.O’Brien’s lecture, “Diversity in the Media: Behind the Scenes & in Our Lives,” will take...
In a world where video cameras are ubiquitous and PhotoShop can rewrite the past, the influence of the digital revolution in the courtroom is profound, as Christina Spiesel, a professional artist and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School, and...
The Yale Department of Classics has announced that Ian Morris, the Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics at Stanford University, will deliver the second annual Michael I. Rostovtzeff Lecture, titled “What is Ancient History?” at 5 p.m. on...
Having achieved its mission of winning same-sex couples the right to marry in the state of Connecticut, the organization Love Makes a Family is donating all its records to the Yale University Library as it terminates its operations.Among the materials the...
Journalists are invited to explore and report on the future of their own industry at a conference at Yale Law School on November 13 and 14, titled “Journalism and the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?”At the two-day conference, scholars,...