In West African art and culture, the image of a long-necked bird with its head turned backwards to take an egg off its back is the symbol of a well-known proverb in the Akan language of Ghana, which teaches that in order to move forward, one must first...
Kamari Maxine Clarke of Yale’s Department of Anthropology was recently awarded a highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in the amount of $260,000 for her project, titled “The International Criminal Court, Africa, and the Pursuit of...
The recently inaugurated Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism will host an international conference on Friday, Oct. 5, focusing on antisemitism as it is distinctly manifested in France.“Antisemitism in France” is the first international conference...
This term will see the first conference hosted by the recently established Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA), an interdisciplinary enterprise that embraces the humanities and social sciences to understand the history and contributing...
Columbia, Cornell, and Yale universities have joined forces on an innovative education initiative to increase access to less-commonly taught languages.(Illustration by Michael Helfenbein)What started as a pilot project has attracted a two-year $1.2...
Peter Ammon, German ambassador to the United States since August 2011, will give a talk on “Strategies in Times of Crisis: New Opportunities for German-American Cooperation” on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 4 p.m. in Rm. 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.Sponsored...
North Korea, which just conducted its third nuclear test, is using its weapons program to deter the United States by holding its allies “hostage,” according to Paul Bracken, who teaches management and political science at Yale.The spread of the atom bomb...
