Yale Humanities

Presentation and discussion with Ambassador Susan Rice, United States National Security Advisor at the Yale Law School on October 27, 2015 at 4:00pm. This event is sponsored by the Chubb Fellowship at Timothy Dwight College and is open to the Yale and broader community.

Audio recording of Richard's lecture "The Angel's Song: Nino Rota, Music and Film"

Briant is the leading figure in the study of Achaemenid Persian History and has written widely on the Persian empire both from the point of view of Greek and Persian history. He taught in Toulouse for many years before being appointed Professor at the College de France in Paris, where he is the Chair in the History and Civilization of the Persian empire and of the empire of Alexander the Great. He was the Founder of the influential achemenet.net online resource for Persian history and archaeology. He received a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Chicago in 1999 and is the author of ten monographs, including the standard history of the Persian empire, and more than 100 articles.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her work promoting international human rights and democratic government, presented a public address at Yale on Thursday, Sept. 27. Her talk is sponsored by the Chubb Fellowship at Yale.

Research Scholar Mark Turin discusses his work with the World Oral Literature Project, which seeks to collect, preserve and disseminate records of rare languages and oral traditions that are becoming extinct. Also talks about his Digital Himalaya Project, which is specifically concerned with the languages and cultures of the indigenous people of Nepal and the broader Himalayan region, including ethnic groups in Bhutan, India, and Tibet. Both projects aim to digitize and catalogue records of diverse materials, from audio and video tapes to written reports and maps, that already exist in libraries, universities and other collections around the world.

Janice Carlisle explains why we should celebrate the birthday of Charles Dickens, how his novels reflected his views on social conditions, why he was popular in his lifetime, and why he continues to be an important figure in popular culture the world over.

Richard Deming, lecturer in the Department of English at Yale University, describes the 1929 silent film "Monkeys' Moon" assumed to be lost until the Beinecke Library acquired a copy in 2008.

"Lost" city is oldest in region, which was thought to have been uninhabited. Dates to Second Intermediate Period. Functioned as administrative center and industrial bakery. Suggests a previously unknown group, maybe allied with Thebes.

Dean Jon Butler urges Bouchet conference attendees to consider two milestones in African American history as models for their own commitment to shaping academic institutions that look more like America and the world—W.E.B. DuBois’s, The Souls of Black Folk, and the resolve of the Fisk Jubilee Singers whose tours helped keep Fisk University alive in its infancy.

Gloria Steinem currently studies the shared origins of sex- and race-based caste systems, gender roles and child abuse as roots of violence, non-violent conflict resolution, the cultures of indigenous peoples and organizing across boundaries for peace and justice.

Marie Borroff, Sterling Professor of English, delivers a lecture entitled "Humanities Tomorrow" as part of the Yale Tomorrow campaign launch.

Karin Gosselink, lecturer in English at Yale, speaks about the interconnectedness of the humanities—especially writing and literature—and globalization. She talks about how she brings the two together in her classes.