September 2023 News

Oh Se-hoon, the mayor of the Republic of Korea’s capital city of Seoul, visited Yale on Thursday. He met with Yale President Peter Salovey, toured the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and...
Ayesha Ramachandran and a poem in Shikasta script, 1779 (Yale University Art Gallery). Shikasta, a Persian calligraphic poetric style, “favours beauty over legibility” — an aestheticised, highly symbolic form of poetry.
As convenor of the Franke Lecture series this fall, Ayesha Ramachandran is inviting audiences to dive into lyric poetry — across time, cultures, and languages.
An aerial view of the coastal city of Beirut, Lebanon, alongside headshots of Myers and Saab
They overlapped in their time as doctoral candidates at Yale—Robert Myers ’95 PhD in the Spanish and Portuguese department, and Nada Saab ’92 MPhil, ’03 PhD in the Departments of Near Eastern...
Large group photo outdoors in front of the Yale Divinity Marquand Chapel
On May 8-10, 2023, about 100 current Fox Fellows, alumni, and friends attended the 4th Fox International Fellowship Reunion at Yale University to discuss recent lessons learned on the importance of...
A view of a historic street in Vilnius, with Lithuanian flags hanging on either side of the doorway
The European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale continues to expand its Baltic Studies Program, an interdisciplinary forum for the study of the Baltic...