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Yale, A place for poetry: The Bollingen Prize for Poetry at Yale, 1949-2002

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.

Humanities

enJuly 23, 2012

poetry

yale

whitney humanities center

beinecke library

bollingen prize

Map of a Vanished Town: Recollecting the Palestinian Past through Biography

In her 2008 Franke Lecture, essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman talks about the relation between the life of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali and the “erased landscape” of his former village, what Robert Frost calls “a town that is no more a town.”

enSeptember 08, 2010

Golden Eras of Scientific Institutions

In the second of his two Tanner Lectures, Prof. Steven Chu draws on his experience at Bell Labs and Stanford’s Bio-X to discuss what best enables institutions to support effective interdisciplinary collaboration and scientific progress.

enSeptember 08, 2010

Doctor Faustus and His Composition: Reflections on Thomas Mann's Fictional Composer

In this first Tanner Lecture, Adams discusses how Thomas Mann uses the Faust myth to show obsession with order and objectivity leads to creative sterility and cultural barbarism. Adams also examines his own compositional practices in this context.

enSeptember 08, 2010

whitney humanities center

Sublime Science in the Late Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion

Prof. Golinski discusses the links between public science and aesthetics at the turn of the 19th century by focusing on inventor Adam Walker's device for projecting "sublime" astronomical effects on a screen.

enJuly 27, 2010

How the Victorians Learned about Darwin’s Theories: Popularizing Evolution

Bernard Lightman’s research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science. In speaking about the popularization of and attacks upon Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection, he draws on his 2007 study Victorian Popularizers of Science.

enJune 30, 2010

Darwin and the Challenge of Biography

Janet Browne, a leading specialist on Charles Darwin and his life’s work, is the author of the multiple prize-winning, two-volume biography, Charles Darwin: Voyaging (1995) and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (2002).

enJune 29, 2010

A Universe of One's Own: Cosmology, Theology and Atheology

Prof. Taede Smedes explores cosmology, theology and atheology in his talk as first lecturer for the Shulman Lectures at the Whitney Humanities Center.

enMay 12, 2010

Heaven or Heat Death? Christian and Scientific Perspectives on the End of the Universe

Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ, distinguished guest and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory, discusses religious and scientific views of the end of the Universe at the second Shulman Lecture of 2008 at the Whitney Humanities Center.

enMay 12, 2010

Cross-Cultural Reflections on Religion and Science

Joseph Prabhu, a Professor at California State University, Los Angeles, speaks on cross-cultural reflections on religion and science at the third Shulman Lecture of 2008 at the Whitney Humanities Center.

Humanities

enMay 12, 2010

hinduism

hegel

whitney humanities center

shulman lecturs

dualism