2009 News Archive: Humanities & Social Sciences

November 
11/20/09Adorno Named to National Council on the Humanities
11/20/09Alice Kaplan Is Appointed the John M. Musser Professor
11/20/09Harold Koh Is Named the First Martin R. Flug ’55 Professor
11/20/09Christina Kraus To Serve as the Thomas A. Thacher Professor
11/13/09Kang-i Sun Chang Is Inaugural Chace Professor
11/13/09Michael Della Rocca Named the Orrick Professor
11/13/09Joseph Manning Appointed the Simpson Professor
11/09/09MEDIA ADVISORY: Yale Law School Conference Nov. 13-14 on the Future of Journalism
11/09/09Yale Department of Classics Hosts Talk on Ancient History
11/09/09Marriage Equality Advocacy Organization Deeds Records to Yale Library
11/06/09Babylonian Collection Celebrates Centennial
11/02/09Yale Researcher Co-Authors Book on the Digital Revolution and the Law

 

October 
10/30/09Reading Will Revive Play Once Scorned As Too ‘Salacious’
10/30/09SOM Event Explores the Origins of Shareholder Activism Around the World
10/30/09Private Capital Is Topic of Conference
10/27/09CNN Anchor and Special Correspondent Soledad O’Brien to Speak at Yale
10/23/09Yale Law School Conference on the Future of Journalism
10/23/09In Memoriam: Melvin Ember, Helped Foster Comparative Study of Culture
10/23/09Former Law Dean and His Wife Are Recognized as ‘Community Champions’
10/23/09‘Freedom of the Seas’ Exhibit Explores International Law
10/16/09Polish Poet Piotr Sommer Is This Year’s Franke Fellow
10/08/09Yale Library Gets Grant to Create Virtual Gallery of Islamic Manuscripts
10/08/09Yale University Library Awarded Grant to Continue Arabic Digitization Efforts
10/08/09Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale University Celebrates 40th Anniversary
10/08/09Composer John Adams to Present Tanner Lectures at Yale University
10/06/09Beinecke Exhibition Documents French Spirit of Rebellion 1945–1980

 

September 
09/29/09Gilder-Lehrman Center at Yale Announces Winner of Frederick Douglass Book Prize
09/28/09Yale University Names Head of New Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
09/28/09Yale University Graduate School to Honor Four Alumni
09/23/09Chubb Fellowship to Host Israeli Political Leader
09/15/09NBC Special Correspondent Tom Brokaw to Speak at Yale
09/01/09Yale And Fudan Universities Launch Chinese Edition of Global Magazine

 

August 
08/08/09Marriage, Family on the Decline for Highly Educated Black Women
08/06/09Historic Supreme Court Appointment -- Sonia Sotomayor ’79

 

July 
07/29/09Finalists Announced for the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
07/13/09Yale Institute of Sacred Music Announces International Fellowship

 

June 
06/22/09Robert C. Post ’77 J.D. Named Dean of Yale Law School
06/22/09India’s Parliamentarians Focus on Global Issues and Leadership Challenges in Yale University Program
06/12/09Jacob Hacker returns to Yale as Stanley Resor Professor

 

May 
05/20/09Harold W. Attridge appointed first Henry L. Slack Dean of Yale Divinity School
05/15/09J.D.-M.B.A. Program Looks at Intersection of Law, Business
05/15/09Teens Learn Some Lessons About Justice To Prepare for Their Court
05/15/09Law Students’ Work on Refinance Project Keeps Shaw’s Plaza Open
05/15/09In Memoriam: Edwin McClellan, Noted for Translations of Japanese Literature
05/01/09Beinecke Curators Offer Peek Inside a Virtual ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’

 

April 
04/24/09Former Black Panthers To Discuss Group’s 1971 Visit to People’s Republic of the Congo
04/24/09Event To Examine How the book ‘All Our Kin’ Shaped Understanding of Inequality in U.S.
04/24/09Marc Brackett Is Chosen as Outstanding Young Researcher of the Year for Work on Learning
04/24/09Memorial Service for Huynh Sanh Thong
04/23/09Nandan Nilekani to Speak at Yale
04/21/09Yale University a Partner in Newly Launched World Digital Library
04/20/09Yale To Host Conference on the Psychology of Anti-Semitism
04/17/09Newly Acquired Archive Traces Scholar’s Work on Egypt’s Religious Symbolism
04/16/09Health Care Experts Will Meet at Yale To Discuss Policy Reform
04/13/09Noted Scholar Will Give Talk on Implications of California’s “Prop 8”
04/13/09Japan’s Ambassador To Speak at Yale
04/13/09New Yorker Staff Writer to Discuss China in the Age of Obama
04/10/09Yale Law Students Honored as 2009 Soros New American Fellows
04/10/09Law School Conference Will Examine Current State of Critical Race Theory
04/10/09In Memoriam: Martin J. Klein, Historian of Modern Physics, Edited Einstein Papers
04/08/09Memoir Writer To Speak at Yale About Race and Identity
04/07/09First African Woman President to Speak at Yale
04/07/09Edward Jones, Author of “The Known World,” To Read from His Work at Yale
04/06/09Former President of Brazil to Speak at Yale
04/06/09Avant-Garde Chinese Author Can Xue To Visit Yale
04/03/09Law School Clinic Has Been a Champion On Behalf of Those Being Held Without Charge
04/03/09Yale Law School Students Fighting for Justice for Guantánamo Detainees

 

March 
03/31/09Zbigniew Brzezinski Will Give Public Talk at Yale
03/27/09Gorton Named First Frederick Frank Professor
03/27/09Metrick Is the Inaugural Nierenberg Professor
03/27/09‘Beyond Borders’ To Examine Debate Over Immigration Policy
03/27/09Changing Nature of Libraries in Digital Age To Be Discussed
03/27/09Memorial Service for Dr. Jay Katz
03/24/09Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin To Speak at Yale
03/23/09Kate Stith Named Acting Dean of Law School Upon Nomination of Harold Hongju Koh to State Department
03/23/09Environmental Activist and Writer Bill McKibben Will Speak at Yale
03/18/09Yale Scholars and New Haven Residents Bear Witness to Historic Inauguration
03/12/09Yale Professor Named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum
03/12/09Best-Selling Author Gay Talese To Give Public Reading at Yale
03/10/09Yale University and Hastings Center Create Joint Bioethics and Health Policy Program
03/05/09Yale World Fellows Alumni Honored by The World Economic Forum
03/05/09Award-winning Novelist to Deliver Terry Lecture Series at Yale
03/03/09Seminal Study on Urban Violence by Yale Professor Adopted by U.S. Justice Department

 

February 
02/24/09Yale Divinity School Expands Student Exchange Programs to Asia
02/23/09Former U.N. Under-Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor To Speak at Yale
02/19/09Allen Grossman Wins Bollingen Prize in American Poetry
02/17/09Public Panel on the Financial Crisis
02/16/09Gift from Arcadia Will Boost Global Access to Rare Yale Library Materials
02/12/09Robert J. Shiller Receives Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics 2009
02/10/09Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to Speak at Yale Dinner for Black History Month
02/05/09Yale Celebrates Darwin
02/02/09Poet J.D. McClatchy Named President of Academy of Arts and Letters

 

January 
01/26/09Yale Urban Studies Course Offers Series of Public Events and Lectures
01/21/09Historian to Present Lectures on Judaism and Christianity
01/21/09Ambassador Negroponte Joins Yale Faculty
01/16/09In Memoriam: Isidore Dyen, Was a Specialist in Austronesian Languages
01/16/09In Memoriam: Henry Turner, Helped Shape Way History Is Taught at Yale
01/08/09Yale to Honor the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.