Humanities & Social Sciences News
Yale Researcher Co-Authors Book on the Digital Revolution and the Law
In a world where video cameras are ubiquitous and PhotoShop can rewrite the past, the influence of the digital revolution in the courtroom is profound.
Adorno Named to National Council on the Humanities
Rolena Adorno, the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has been appointed to the National Council on the Humanities, part of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Alice Kaplan Is Appointed the John M. Musser Professor
Alice Kaplan, newly named as the John M. Musser Professor of French, is an award-winning author whose research interests include World War II and post-war France, literature and law, biography and autobiography, and French cultural studies.
Harold Koh Is Named the First Martin R. Flug ’55 Professor
Harold Hongju Koh, recently designated as the inaugural Martin R. Flug '55 Professor of International Law, is a leading expert on public and private international law, national security law and human rights.
Christina Kraus To Serve as the Thomas A. Thacher Professor
Christina S. Kraus, the newly appointed Thomas A. Thacher Professor of Latin, has research interests in ancient narrative (especially historiography and tragedy), Latin prose style and the theory and practice of commentaries.
Kang-i Sun Chang Is Inaugural Chace Professor
Kang-i Sun Chang, the inaugural Malcolm G. Chace '56 Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, is a scholar of classical Chinese literature with interest in women writers of traditional China, comparative studies of poetry, literary criticism, gender studies, hermeneutics, and cultural theory/aesthetics.
Michael Della Rocca Named the Orrick Professor
Michael Della Rocca, newly designated as the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, is an authority on the history of early modern philosophy (particularly rationalism) and metaphysics, who is also interested in philosophy of mind and epistemology.
Joseph Manning Appointed the Simpson Professor
Joseph G. Manning, the newly named William K. and Marilyn Milton Simpson Professor of Classics and History, specializes in Hellenistic history with a particular focus on the legal and economic history of Ptolemaic Egypt.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Yale Law School Conference Nov. 13-14 on the Future of Journalism
Journalists are invited to explore and report on the future of their own industry at a conference at Yale Law School on November 13 and 14, titled “Journalism and the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?”
Yale Department of Classics Hosts Talk on Ancient History
The Yale Department of Classics has announced that Ian Morris, the Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics at Stanford University, will deliver the second annual Michael I. Rostovtzeff Lecture, titled “What is Ancient History?” at 5 p.m. on November 17 at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street.
Marriage Equality Advocacy Organization Deeds Records to Yale Library
Having achieved its mission of winning same-sex couples the right to marry in the state of Connecticut, the organization Love Makes a Family is donating all its records to the Yale University Library as it terminates its operations.
