Arts & Humanities

Stories

Understanding civics, from the classroom to the city

February 7, 2024

Yale’s Citizens Thinkers Writers summer program introduces New Haven high school students to foundational texts — and connects their ideas to the present.

Freedom to be ‘beautiful and Black’: Yale Black Seminarians at 55

February 6, 2024

Current YBS president The Rev. Andre Cortez Gilford Jr. ’24 M.Div. reflects on the organization’s past and future, lessons from Black churches, and more.

A collaborative chorus: The Yale Camerata, 1985–2024

February 6, 2024

For nearly forty years, the Yale Camerata has forged musical connections between the New Haven and Yale communities.

Yale to move forward with new dramatic arts building

February 6, 2024

Yale has committed to developing a landmark theatrical arts building that will bring faculty, staff, students, and guest artists under one roof.

Office Hours with… Todne Thomas

January 23, 2024

Yale’s Todne Thomas discusses why ethnography is so important to her as a citizen and a scholar, and its power to challenge our assumptions about religion.

Leander E. Keck, 1928–2024

January 19, 2024

Internationally recognized New Testament scholar and former Yale Divinity School dean Leander E. Keck ’57 Ph.D. died earlier this week at age 95.

Office Hours with… Daniel Walden

January 19, 2024

Yale’s Daniel Walden discusses his fascination with the history of tuning systems, his own tinkering with tuning, and the joy of restoring old instruments.

Creating art as a climate solution

January 18, 2024

An interdisciplinary partnership supported by Yale Planetary Solutions is inspiring local awareness — and local solutions — in the face of the climate threat.

Yale Schwarzman Center’s spring season highlights cross-cultural artists

January 18, 2024

Lonnie Holley & Mourning [A] BLKstar, Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn, Lorelei Ensemble and Sonia De Los Santos are just a few of the incredible performers...

Marc Robinson appointed FAS humanities dean

January 17, 2024

Robinson, a longtime member of the Yale faculty, is a leading theater critic whose work has illuminated the history of drama and performance in the U.S.