An exhibition of recent paintings by Italian artist Francesco Clemente will open at the Yale School of Art on Monday, April 1. Francesco Clemente’s “Actors of the Terreiro XXVI,” 2007 (Photograph by Beth Phillips)Titled “Clemente > Brazil > Yale,”...
Horned helmets, furs, high-seas adventure, violence— this popular portrayal of the Vikings has endured for centuries and persists today. But how much is fact and how much fiction?Yale historian, Viking expert, and MacArthur Fellow Anders Winroth unmasks...
Authors and scholars from around the globe will gather at Yale University on Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30, for an international conference titled “Beyond French: New Languages for African Diasporic Literature.”“Beyond French” will include a...
As a lead-up to the forthcoming History Channel series “Vikings,” Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR’s “On Point,” talked with a foremost authority on the subject — Yale’s Anders Winroth — to de-mystify the legendary raiders of the North.
Winroth is professor and...