The Yale Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) will host two public events with acclaimed Chinese novelist, critic and short-story writer Can Xue later this month: a reading from her work at 5 p.m. on April 16, and a panel discussion with scholars about her...
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, two-term president of Brazil, will speak at Yale University as a Chubb Fellow, a Downey Fellow and a visiting fellow of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.Fernando Henrique Cardoso, two-term president of Brazil, will...
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edward P. Jones will give a public reading from his work at Yale on April 16, at 7 p.m. The free event will take place in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street. Part of the John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting...
Author Bliss Broyard will read from and discuss her memoir, “One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets,” on April 16 at 8 p.m. in the Master’s Residence at Branford College, 80 High St.The event, which is free and open to the...
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia will speak at Yale as a Chubb Fellow on April 23 at 4 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets.The talk is free and open to the public. Sirleaf is the first woman to head an African country. She...
Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki will speak at Yale on April 22 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 101, Linsley-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street. His talk is titled, “Closer Cooperation: Economy, Energy, Environment.” The event, hosted by the Council on East Asian...
Evan Osnos, a staff writer for The New Yorker based in Beijing, will discuss “China in the Age of Obama: Democrats, Identity, and Style” on Monday, April 27 at Yale.This lecture, sponsored by The Council on East Asian Studies and the Poynter Fellowship in...
Cathy Cohen, who will receive the 2009 Brudner Prize for activism and scholarship concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) issues, will give a lecture at the award ceremony on “Prop 8: Race and Sexuality in the Age of Obama,” at 5 p.m....
“Health Care Reform: The State of the Debate,” a symposium exploring one of the most complex and controversial issues facing America today, will take place April 28, 3–5 p.m. in the Winslow Auditorium of Yale School of Public Health, 60 College St.The...
The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) will host a conference on “The Psychological Impact of the Threat of Contemporary Genocidal Antisemitism: From Denial and Paralysis to Understanding the Challenge” on April 28....