Japanese alumni of the Yale School of Architecture, Eyebeam Atelier’s international competition for a new museum, the Arverne project of the Architectural League of New York and the current work of international designer Zaha Hadid will be the subjects...
Scholars from a variety of disciplines will gather for a symposium at Yale on Friday-Sunday, February 1-3, to explore ways in which Dutch optical inventions of the 17th century have shaped modern visual perception. Titled “Visual Culture in Early Modern...
The work, life and spirit of poet and cultural icon Langston Hughes (1902-1967) are the subject of a major public exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University opening February 1, the 100th anniversary of Hughes’ birth....
Michael Holquist, professor of Slavic languages and literatures and chairman of the department of comparative literature at Yale, has been awarded an honorary doctoral degree by Stockholm University in Sweden. Holquist is closely associated with the...
Recently completed reproductions of the ancient Maya murals of Bonampak will be exhibited to the public at Yale’s Saybrook College, 242 Elm Street, on Friday, January 11, 1-5 p.m. Discovered by archaeologists in 1946, the 1,200-year-old wall paintings...
One hundred million Americans should not have to pay income tax, according to Michael J. Graetz, the Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law at Yale University and a former deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for tax policy. In his essay, “100...
On December 5, U.S. Representative Christopher Shays and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh will be among distinguished panelists at a symposium examining the relationship between news organizations and American security agencies as they...
In his new book, “Predicting Presidential Elections and Other Things” (Stanford University Press), Yale economist Ray C. Fair teaches the basics of social science methodology and provides ways to apply the lessons-from forecasting election outcomes and...
The Yale Divinity School has received a grant of over $1.5 million from Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. to participate in a national program called “Sustaining Pastoral Excellence.” The program is a new effort of the Endowment to focus...
The Yale Divinity School Annual Convocation Lecture Series will take place October 14-17. The following are highlights of the series: The series begins on October 14 at 4 p.m. with “A Dearth of Delight,” the first of three Beecher Lectures, “Poetry,...