Following the launch of New Haven Promise, a Yale-funded college scholarship program for public school students, the City’s long-time chief executive, Mayor John DeStefano Jr., will come to the University as a Chubb Fellow on November 16 and 17 to share...
The Yale Department of Classics will host a talk and symposium Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 16 and 17, that mines ancient history to understand a paradox that has long intrigued economists: the countries richest in natural resources are the poorest in...
Judith A. Carney, Siddharth Kara and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff have been selected as co-winners of the 2010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. Carney, professor of geography at UCLA, and...
Isabel Wilkerson, journalist and author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,” will be the first featured speaker in the 2011 Poynter Fellowship in Journalism Lecture Series at Yale.The event, co-sponsored by the...
Joanna Waley-Cohen of New York University will deliver the first Franke Lecture at Yale on January 31 in a series focusing on the history of food and cuisine. Free and open to the public, all Franke lectures take place in Room 203 of the Whitney...
Distinguished cultural historian Gary Tomlinson will deliver the opening 2011 Shulman Lecture in Science and the Humanities on February 3, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street. His talk, “Paleolithic Formalism and the Emergence of Music,” will...
Imam Feisal Rauf, founder and chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, will give a talk on religious tolerance and interfaith cooperation at Yale on March 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Sheffield-Sterling Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect Street. The discussion, organized by...
Farmington, Conn. – The Lewis Walpole Library has announced that it will seek to record recollections by contemporaries of the Library’s founders, Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895-1979) and Annie Burr Lewis (1902-1959), to round out the portrait of an...
The pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942), who refuted the basic principles of racist ideology in a book once described as the “Magna Carta of race equality,” will be the subject of a symposium at Yale, Sept. 15-17.“Indigenous Visions:...
President Richard C. Levin today announced that Dr. Henry A. Kissinger will donate his papers to Yale University. The collection, which consists of approximately one million documents and objects covering Dr. Kissinger’s extraordinary life as a diplomat,...
