A letter to Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, written by Yale Law School faculty and students about the use of military tribunals has been circulated among U.S. legal scholars. By the time the...
Naomi Schor, one of the foremost scholars of French literature and critical theory and one of the pioneer feminist theorists of her generation, died suddenly in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 2, 2001 at the age of 58. At the time of her death,...
In the November 16 issue of Science magazine, William D. Nordhaus, the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, provides the first published economic analysis of the Kyoto-Bonn protocol to slow global warming. The protocol, signed by 178 of...
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon Wood will deliver the fourth annual Bosworth Lecture at Yale University on Thursday, November 1, at 4 p.m. Wood, who is a professor of history at Brown University, will discuss the political philosophy of James...
Journalist and Middle East scholar Michael Rubin will give a talk, “Fighting the Taliban… and Iraq? A report from the front,” at Yale’s Battell Chapel on Sunday, October 21, at 7 p.m. The talk is the third event in a weekly lecture and discussion...
Two upcoming lectures at Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High Street, will celebrate the book as an object of art. In both events, prominent masters in the field of hand book-production will offer a unique view of their ancient and...
The history department of Yale University is hosting a symposium, “Historical Perspectives on the September 11 Crisis,” on Friday, October 19. The symposium will begin at 10 a.m with a keynote address, “Islam and the Crisis,” by Francis Robinson,...
Distinguished Chinese poet Wen-tao Cheng has been given the title “writer in residence in the department” of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University in recognition of his literary achievement. Cheng is widely known abroad for his poetry...
Yale professor of history Paul H. Freedman has been awarded the 2001 Otto Grundler Prize for his book “Images of the Medieval Peasant.” Published by Stanford University Press in 1999, the book provides insights about how peasants in the Middle Ages were...
In Beijing yesterday to celebrate Yale University’s 300th anniversary, Yale President Richard Levin formally announced the establishment of The China Law Center at Yale. “The announcement of our China Law Center reflects the special importance that Yale...