Yale University: Humanities

Nuland talks about four landmark books that helped shape medical thought and teaching: Vesalius, "On the working of the human body"; Harvey," On the circulation of blood," Morgagni, "causes of disease as shown by anatomy," and Gray's Anatomy.

Terrence W. Deacon delivers a lecture on the neuroscience and development of the human capacity for language and musical perception.

Celebrating the Bollingen Prize for Poetry at Yale, nearly all the living winners of this prestigious prize are brought together for a group reading sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Whitney Humanities Center.

A conversation reflecting on thirty years of Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center with Peter Brooks, Founding Director, and Founding Fellows Kai Erikson, Geoffrey Hartman, and Robert Shulman is held as part of the Whitney’s 30th Anniversary celebration.

Mark A. Peterson discusses Galileo’s study of mathematics in relation to the arts. Prof. Peterson argues that Galileo the mathematician, steeped in the art and literature of his day, needs to be better known, separate from his work as an astronomer.

In this lecture, cognitive neuroscientist Jamshed Bharucha discusses the ways that music creates emotion and how these emotions work within human interactions and relationships.

Samuel Bowles gave three public lectures where he presented evidence that explicit incentives and constraints often diminish ethical motivations. This is the second lecture of a three-part series.

Mark Turin, research scholar in the South Asia Studies Council, talks about the World Oral Literature Project to preserve endangered languages by recording living speakers and digitizing records that have already been collected.

Samuel Bowles gave three public lectures where he presented evidence that explicit incentives and constraints often diminish ethical motivations. This is the third lecture of a three-part series.

Samuel Bowles gave three public lectures presenting evidence that explicit incentives and constraints often diminish ethical motivations. This is the first lecture of a three-part series.

Professor An-Na’im presented and defended a framework for the constant theoretical and political contestation of the relationship between Islam, the state, politics and society.

Michael W. Doyle gave three public lectures where he examined the legal and ethical arguments supporting nonintervention. This is the first lecture of a three-part series.

Michael W. Doyle gave three public lectures where he examined the legal and ethical arguments supporting nonintervention. This is the second lecture of a three-part series.

Michael W. Doyle gave three public lectures where he examined the legal and ethical arguments supporting nonintervention. This is the third lecture of a three-part series.

In this discussion, Rebecca Goldstein, Harry Frankfurt, and Michael Cunningham discuss the ways in which novelists do and do not write philosophically. The panel is chaired by Amy Hungerford.

In this lecture, Michael Ryan discusses the relationship between animal aesthetic preferences, sexual selection, and evolutionary biology.

Jessica Kenty-Drane discusses the complex relationship between community wealth and public schools.

Dr.Mary Young discusses how knowledge from neuroscience, social science and economics on the importance of early experiences can be used to support early childhood development programs

In the first of her two Tanner Lectures, Rebecca Goldstein discusses the overlap and conflict between philosophy and the literary arts, and whether novels can be philosophically justified.

In the second of her two Tanner Lectures, Rebecca Goldstein discusses the overlap and conflict between philosophy and the literary arts, and whether novels can be philosophically justified.

Danny Meyer discusses the role and concept of hospitality in the context of the restaurant industry, and how hospitality contributes to an excellent dining experience and thus to a successful restaurant business.

Jessica Sager and Janna Wagner, of All Our Kin, discuss how their program works to create high-quality, sustainable family child care programs in New Haven, CT

Writers Adina Hoffamn and Peter Cole discuss the recovery of a cache of Hebrew manuscripts from a Cairo geniza (repository for sacred text), whose discovery and analysis have shed light on 900 years of Jewish life.

A multi-disciplinary panel of evolutionary biologists, joined by a philosopher and an artist, discuss how and why we order and describe the natural world the way that we do now and possible alternatives.

Mary Louise Hemmeter, Associate Professor of Special Education, Vanderbilt University, describes the Teaching Pyramid model for addressing preschool children's challenging behaviors.

Angelica Ponguta, Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Child Study Center, discusses developing a national early childhood program in Kosovo, done in collaboration with Pia Rebello Britto and Jan van Ravens, in partnership with UNICEF Kosovo.

In his lecture, Gary Tomlinson discusses the complex co-evolution of human music making in relation to language, technology, and cognitive and imaginative development.

Claudia Roden, critically acclaimed food writer and the 2010 Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, shares the ingredients of her successful career chronicling, memorializing, and reconstructing cultural worlds through cooking.

John Donatich, director of Yale University Press, delivers the keynote address of “Why Books Still Matter,” a conference commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the Press

Susan Tucker, Curator of Books and Records at the Newcomb Center for Research on Women, Tulane University, gives the third Franke lecture in the series “History of Food and Cuisine.” Her talk is entitled “Inscribing Food/Talking Life: New Orleans Past.”

Joanna Waley-Cohen of New York University delivers the first Franke lecture in the 2011 series, “History of Food and Cuisine.” Her talk is titled “Banquets and Politics in China.”

Jan Golinski discusses how early 19th century popular science lecturers evoked the discourse of the sublime, thereby continuing to advance Enlightenment claims about progress in human reason and culture, despite the rise of conservative Regency values.

Music at the Whitney presents songs and chamber music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert performed by Yale undergraduate music students in conjunction with a week-long series of events on intellectual circles.

In her 2010 Franke Lecture, Alyce Jordan speaks about the Sainte-Chapelle as an activated liturgical and royal space and how and why Louis the Ninth’s chapel proved such a successful vehicle for the articulation of his own monarchic agenda.

In her lecture, Jacqueline Jung talks about the material aspects of Gothic art and architecture and how they made the church precisely not a pure and abstract vision of heaven but a strange space partaking of both earthly and heavenly worlds.

A presentation given at the French in Action Reunion on October 30-31, 2010. The reunion brought together the stars and creators of French in Action, including Pierre Capretz, Valérie Allain, and Charles Mayer.

A panel discussion featuring veteran French instructors talking about their experiences teaching with French in Action.

Pierre Capretz is presented with a Yale Presidential Commendation in recognition of his 50 years of service to the university, as well as the creation of the groundbreaking French in Action program.

Tim Shea, foreign language acquisitions editor at Yale University Press, discusses the forthcoming third edition French in Action textbooks and workbooks.

Cathleen McGuigan, former architecture critic for Newsweek magazine and newly appointed editor of Architectural Record discusses architectural journalism and the role of architectural criticism in the built environment.

Music at the Whitney and Yale College New Music present chamber works composed by Yale College students and faculty, performed with members of the Yale Percussion Group.

Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center presents “The Founders of Modern Physics,” a panel discussion among eminent scientists exploring the revolution in quantum mechanics and its intellectual milieu.

Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center presents “Science Building(s) Collaboration,” a panel discussion considering Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute and what makes buildings work for science.

Music at the Whitney presents songs and chamber music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert performed by Yale undergraduate music students in conjunction with the 2008 Tanner Lectures on Human Values and a series of events on intellectual circles.

The Whitney Humanities Center presents William Bailey and Mark Strand in conversation. The artist and the poet joined in discussion to celebrate the opening of the exhibition “William Bailey Works on Paper: Temperas, Drawings, and Prints.”

: In her lecture, Jacqueline Jung talks about the material aspects of Gothic art and architecture and how they made the church precisely not a pure and abstract vision of heaven but a strange space partaking of both earthly and heavenly worlds.

In her 2010 Franke Lecture, Alyce Jordan speaks about the Sainte-Chapelle as an activated liturgical and royal space and how and why Louis the Ninth’s chapel proved such a successful vehicle for the articulation of his own monarchic agenda.

Professor Darnell talks about recent discovery in the Western Egyptian desert of a 3,500-year-old settlement

Jon Butler, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Science and Howard R. Lamar Professor of History, Yale University, gives the keynote address to the Seventh Annual Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education.

Jay Rubenstein discusses the 11th century monk and autobiographer, Guibert de Nogent, and works to place him in the particular intellectual and built environments of his time and location, though only fragmentary evidence from these environments survive.