Yale environmental historian Joseph Manning goes to great lengths to emphasize the lessons that he teaches his students — even as far as taking them to Nevada.
Manning, the William K. and Marilyn Milton Simpson Professor of Classics and History, is the...
Embracing the idea that human engagements with the natural world are profoundly shaped by culture, ethics, history, politics, and the arts is one of the central tenets of a new collaborative initiative at Yale.
Launched by faculty and graduate students,...
Noted activist and author Wendell Berry recently traveled from his farm in Kentucky to New Haven, where he visited the campus as a guest of the Chubb Fellowship.Wendell Berry chats with students during a visit to the Yale Farm. (Photo by Michael Marsland)...
Twenty first-year students sit around a crowded dining room table in Pauli Murray College, mulling over “A Song on How My Thatched Roof Was Ruined by the Autumn Wind,” a work by the prominent 8th century Chinese poet Du Fu.
The students are part of a new...
“The Secret Life of Radio: Fringe Practices of a Mass Medium” is the topic of the fall 2019 Franke Lectures in the Humanities sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC).
This semester’s lecture series has been organized in conjunction with the Yale...
The transformative process of turning the 87-year-old Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS) into a central home for the humanities on campus was recently recognized with an Excellence in Planning Award for a District or Campus Component from the Society for...
Keller Easterling, architect, writer, professor, and director of the Master of Environmental Design Program at the Yale School of Architecture, was recently named a 2019 United States Artist in Architecture and Design — one of only 45 awarded this honor...
The many facets of the world of ancient Mesopotamia — a culture in some respects distant and alien but in others strangely similar to ours today — will be on display in a new exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
“Ancient Mesopotamia...
Imagine for a moment, what it would be like to not have access to conventional ways of documenting your own life experiences. What if — as a marginalized person — it was illegal for you to learn how to read and write? What if you didn’t have the resources...