Arts & Humanities

The Week Ender appears every Thursday in YaleNews and offers highlights of the many activities taking place at the university.

The latest “Project Pitch” event at the Department of Statistics and Data Science featured presentations on topics as diverse as linguistics and public health.

Emily Coates, associate professor of theater studies, and Sarah Demers, the Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics (Yale University Press)

The new exhibit “Bibliomania” aims to illuminate the cycle of accumulation, dispersal, and reassembly that lies behind many of the world’s greatest libraries.

The Yale Dance Theater and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will be collaborating on a re-staging of Jones’ seminal work “D-Man in the Waters” (1989).

The library will display copies of the first and revised editions of C. Vann Woodward’s book “The Strange Career of Jim Crow” Jan. 14-27.

“Keywords in the Environmental Humanities” will take place on Jan. 16, 4:15-5:15 p.m. at the Whitney Humanities Center. The talk is free and open to the public.

In “A View of the Empire at Sunset,” Caryl Phillips imagines the life of the famed author from her early days living on Dominica through her time in Europe.

Insler, the Edward E. Salisbury Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at Yale, died on Jan. 5 at Yale New Haven Hospital. He was 82.

Kathryn Tanner, the Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology (Yale University Press)