2008 News Archive: Humanities & Social Sciences

December 
12/19/08Yale Professor Elizabeth Alexander Named Inaugural Poet
12/08/08Professor Rolena Adorno Wins MLA’s Kovacs Prize
12/05/08Yale Historian Wins $75,000 International Prize
12/05/08In Memoriam: Huynh Sanh Thong, Noted Translator of Vietnamese Literature
12/01/08Tony Blair Faith Foundation Malaria Relief Concert Organized by Yale Grad Student

 

November 
11/26/08In Memoriam: Huynh Sanh Thong
11/18/08Anthropologist To Discuss ‘Emergencies’ at Whitney Humanities Center
11/17/08THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED: Samantha Power to Speak for Globalization Center
11/17/08Initiative to Transform Yale University’s Engagement with India
11/14/08Chair Pays Tribute to Economist William Brainard’s Leadership
11/14/08Benjamin Polak Is the Inaugural William C. Brainard Professor
11/14/08Joseph Britton Is Appointed the First Adjunct McFaddin Associate Professor
11/12/08Anonymous Gift in Honor of SOM Dean Sharon Oster Celebrates Student–Faculty Connection
11/12/08Pastor of University Church at Yale to Be Installed in Special Service on Sunday
11/07/08Akhil Amar Appointed Sterling Professor of Law
11/07/08Heather Gerken Named J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law

 

October 
10/29/08Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist to Deliver Tanner Lectures on Human Values
10/28/08Kennedy Adviser to Speak at Yale
10/17/08Yale’s Collection on Babylonia Is Part of International Project
10/13/08President of Harvard to Speak at Yale
10/10/08Inuit Culture Is the Focus of Three-Day Celebration of Indigenous Peoples
10/10/08Works of Jonathan Edwards Online Launches Phase 2
10/10/08“Speaking of Faith” Host To Be Among Divinity Convocation Speakers
10/10/08Exhibit Explores Webster as Patriot, Historian and ‘Yale Man’
10/06/08‘Participatory Journalist’ Ted Conover to Speak at Yale
10/06/08University of Washington, Seattle, Professor Wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
10/03/08Michael Warner Is Named the Seymour H. Knox Professor
10/03/08Series of Events Mark the 50th Anniversary of Cuban Revolution
10/03/08‘The Resurgence of Religion’ To Be Explored in Castle Lectures
10/02/08Noah Webster Fêted for 250th Birthday

 

September 
09/26/08Karl Mayer is Designated as the Resor Professor of Sociology
09/26/08Political Scientist Alan Gerber To Hold the Dilley Professorship
09/25/08Yale School of Management Cosponsors NYC Panel Discussion on the Financial Crisis
09/19/08Videos: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair — Opening remarks to the class on Faith and Globalization and a Talk at Woolsey Hall
09/19/08Robert Harms is Designated as the Henry J. Heinz Professor
09/19/08Frank Snowden is Named the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor
09/18/08Yale and Tony Blair Launch Faith and Globalization Initiative
09/18/08Firing of U.S. Attorneys Subject of Yale Symposium
09/17/08Yale University Library Celebrates 80th Anniversary of the Oxford English Dictionary
09/17/08Academics and Policy Analysts To Discuss Major Upheavals in the Middle East
09/17/08Yale Divinity School to Host Conference on Nuclear Disarmament
09/15/08Poets Louise Glück and Henri Cole Give Public Reading at Yale
09/15/08Yale Celebrates Life and Work of African-American Novelist Richard Wright
09/12/08Media Advisory: A Talk with Tony Blair at Yale
09/12/08Stephen Darwall Named the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor
09/12/08David Kastan Appointed the George M. Bodman Professor
09/11/08Jordanian Reformer To Speak at Yale University
09/08/08“Irrational Exuberance” Author Explains Real Estate Crisis And How to Avoid Another

 

July 
07/29/08Yale Law School Receives $3 Million Gift from the Robina Foundation to Support Human Rights Fellowships
07/18/08Alastair Minnis Appointed the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor
07/18/08Robert Shiller Designated as the Arthur M. Okun Professor
07/18/08In Memoriam: William R. Bennett Jr., Laser Inventor and Collector of Data
07/18/08In Memoriam: Rulon S. Wells III, Renowned Linguist and Philosopher
07/15/08 Muslim and Christian Leaders Meet at Yale for Historic “Common Word” Conference

 

June 
06/13/08Larry Samuelson Named the Inaugural Melamed Professor
06/13/08Ebonya Washington Appointed the Henry Kohn Assistant Professor

 

May 
05/30/08Tony Blair Discusses Academic Partnership with Yale At Foundation Launch
05/16/08Political Scientist Ian Shapiro Chosen to Join American Philosophical Society
05/16/08Ten appointed members of American Academy of Arts & Sciences
05/16/08Technology Policy ’08 Conference May 20–23; Clay Shirky to be Featured Speaker
05/16/08Professor Miroslav Volf will Co-Teach Class with Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
05/01/08Penelope Lively and David McCullough to Speak at Yale

 

April 
04/28/08Yale Screens Documentary about Endangered Languages
04/25/08Understanding the Challenge of Iran Is Focus of Yale Conference
04/21/08Yale Law School Expands Public Interest Program, Increases Financial Support for Graduates
04/21/08Winners of Yale's Younger Poets Competition Will Read from Their Work
04/18/08In Memoriam: George K. Hunter, Shakespeare Scholar
04/18/08Christopher Hill will offer "Pacific Perspectives" in Talk at Yale
04/14/08Author Michael Pollan to Give Talk and Public Reading at Yale
04/14/08Former Harvard President Summers to Speak at Yale
04/11/08Statement by Yale University on FOI and the Yale Police Department
04/07/08Yale Historian Named Carnegie Scholar
04/03/08Yale University People Volunteer for Community Service Day
04/03/08Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff to Speak at Yale
04/03/08Renowned Journalist Riz Khan to Deliver Lecture and Broadcast his International Television Show Live from Yale
04/01/08Forum on Legislation to Create a Commission on Indian Affairs in Connecticut

 

March 
03/31/08Modern Artists' Illustrated Passover Seder Books on Display at Yale
03/27/08Linda Greenhouse Returns to Yale Law School in 2009 as Journalist-in-Residence
03/25/08Regional Conference on Social Studies to Take Place at Yale
03/24/08British Critic Terry Eagleton To Speak on "Faith and Fundamentalism" at Yale
03/20/08Yale Conference Commemorates Visionary Statesman Joaquim Nabuco
03/13/08Three Yale Alumni Tell How They Became Journalists
03/13/08New Haven School Children Sing "Black National Anthem" in Celebration of Songwriter James Weldon Johnson
03/07/08Prime Minister Blair to Teach at Yale
03/06/08Former Yale V.P. "Role Model" To Discuss Importance of Public Service
03/04/08Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and Humanities Announces Spring Events
03/04/08Kurt Schmoke to Speak at Yale Graduate School Diversity Conference
03/03/08Yale Law School's 11th Annual Liman Colloquium

 

February 
02/28/08Religious Scholar Speaks of God and Humanities, Church and State at Yale
02/28/08The Mitchell Report and Beyond: Steroids, HGS and the Future of Baseball
02/23/08Statement from Senior Fellow of the Corporation Mr. Roland Betts
02/22/08Author Michael Chabon To Speak At Yale
02/21/08Yale University Properties Announces New Restaurant Coming to the Broadway District in New Haven
02/20/08Talk by CT Environmental Commissioner to Explore Connecticut's Leadership on Climate Change and the Need for a National Partnership
02/20/08New Center at Yale To Support Study of Greek Heritage and Culture
02/15/08Symposium at Yale School of Architecture To Ask Fundamental Questions about Sustainable Design
02/14/08Yale Conference To Examine Synergy of Religion and Environmentalism
02/13/08Yale Center for the Study of Globalization to Host Conference on Nuclear Weapons Abolition
02/11/08Two New Additions to the Audubon Arts & Retail District – Merchants Show Continued Confidence in New Haven
02/11/08Yale Welcomes Three Stores to the Broadway District – New Haven Sees Growth in Retail Base
02/07/08Renowned Architect to Speak at Yale
02/04/08Yale University Properties Welcomes Two New Eateries to Chapel Street

 

January 
01/31/08Irish Poet Eavan Boland to Give Reading at Yale
01/31/08Yale to Host Program on Preserving the Heritage of Iraq
01/29/08Yale Ensemble Will Demonstrate That It Takes a Class To Tango
01/28/08Award-Winning Iranian Author Azar Nafisi To Lecture at Yale
01/28/08"Law vs. Religion" Topic of Lecture at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center
01/28/08Yale Hosts Conference on Holocaust Writer Primo Levi
01/25/08Yale Hosts Model UN Conference
01/25/08In Memoriam: Yale Professor H. Bradford Westerfield
01/23/08Yale School of Drama Receives $3.235 Million Gift for Scholarships
01/23/08Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Paula Vogel Joins Yale School of Drama
01/23/08Art and Engineering Construct a Self-Destructive Chair
01/22/08New Endowed Chair Honors Professor Marie Borroff
01/21/08Yale Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 17%
01/16/08Yale Professor Peter Brooks Wins Prestigious Mellon Award
01/14/08Yale Cuts Costs for Families and Students
01/14/08Yale Law School Clinic Argues Case in U.S. Supreme Court, January 15
01/14/08Yale-Abu Dhabi Research Team Finds Evidence of Ancient Subtropical Environment in the Arid Emirate
01/10/08Tibetan Lama and Filmmaker Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche Will Visit Yale
01/10/08Yale University Honors the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
01/10/08Sustainability, University Patronage Among Topics to be Explored at Yale School of Architecture Events
01/10/08Yale University Increases Benefit for Employee Homebuyer Program
01/07/08Yale To Increase Endowment Payout to Expand Access and Advance Science