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Remembering ‘Amnesia’: digital preservationists reboot classic video game

September 19, 2024

A new exhibit at Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library examines “Amnesia,” a groundbreaking video game released in 1986, and the library’s efforts to preserve it.

Yale’s Daniel HoSang named 2024 Freedom Scholar

September 18, 2024

HoSang is one of four scholar-activists selected by the Marguerite Casey Foundation for $250,000 prizes in recognition of work advancing justice and equity.

National Science Foundation awards grant to Yale filmmaker

September 17, 2024

Professor Thomas Allen Harris will use the award to write, direct, and produce a PBS documentary about the joys and challenges faced by Black people in STEM.

Panel at International African American Museum confronts Yale and slavery

September 17, 2024

At a Sept. 14 event, Yale’s David Blight and William Barber extolled the value of honestly examining history, including its most painful living legacies.

Black revolution and victory in a lost — and found — play

September 17, 2024

In a Q&A, Yale lecturer Alex Gil discusses his work bringing to light and translating the original version of a dramatic retelling of the Haitian...

Four Graduate School alumni awarded 2024 Wilbur Cross Medals

September 16, 2024

Yale GSAS alumni James Scott, Anne Ferguson-Smith, John Guillory, and Kai Li will be recognized for their exceptional scholarship, teaching, and public service.

PODCAST: Sharing sacred spaces and ‘radical’ hospitality

September 13, 2024

Vanessa Avery ’02 M.A.R. discusses lessons from her decades of interfaith peacebuilding work and how architecture can be a tool to bring people together.

In new book, Yale scholar explores medieval roots of Western antisemitism

September 13, 2024

In a Q&A, Yale historian Ivan G. Marcus explains the rise of a confrontation in medieval Europe that set the stage for modern antisemitism.

Daniel Botsman named Sumitomo Professor of History

September 13, 2024

A member of Yale’s faculty since 2010, Botsman is an historian of Japan whose interests span the period from the 17th century to the present.

Cartoonist Bechdel brings lessons from a ‘curious’ career to Yale

September 13, 2024

Acclaimed cartoonist Alison Bechdel, now a professor in the practice at Yale and 2024 Chubb Fellow, talks queerness, comics, and the classroom.