The Kon-Tiki expedition – when Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, five crew members, and a Spanish-speaking parrot journeyed by raft across the Pacific Ocean in 1947 – was inspired by his conviction that people from South America settled in...
Experimental, narrative, and documentary films created at Yale and around the world will be featured Thursday-Saturday, April 12-14 at the Yale Student Film Festival (YSFF).
“The Yale Student Film Festival’s two main goals have always been to showcase the...
Documentary filmmaker Gaspar González ’99 Ph.D. will speak at two events on Thursday and Friday, April 12 and 13 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
González’s first talk, “A Serious Game: Sports, Race, and Documentary,” will take place 7-9 p.m. on April...
Africa Salon is Yale’s signature African arts and contemporary culture festival. Held every year in April, this year’s event featured panels on the politicization of black hair, African representation in superhero comics and movies, a performance by a...
This article originally appeared in Music at Yale magazine.
Vijay Gupta ’07 M.M. spends a lot of time on Skid Row, the neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles where thousands of homeless people sleep on the streets every night. It is not far from the Walt...
Mark Baldwin, a member of the Brothertown Indian Nation, had what he describes as a “transcendent experience” during a recent visit to Yale.
For the first time in his life, he heard hymnal music composed by one of his tribal ancestors and sung in the...
A look back at The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper days, a town hall-styled meeting on racial inequality, and community “Big Read” discussions of Yale faculty member Claudia Rankine’s award-winning poetry collection “Citizen” are among the highlights of this year’s...