Last week, world-renowned chef René Redzepi leaned over a 17th-century volume in the Beinecke Reading Room and studied a recipe for pickling an “old, fat goose”. He later visited the Babylonian collection, whose cuneiform tablets bear some of the oldest recipes in the world. The visit was with a...
Dr. Harvey Cushing, a path-breaking neurosurgeon and Sterling Professor of Neurosurgery at Yale, had books on his mind when he wrote to his friend Dr. Arnold Klebs on Oct. 4, 1936. Cushing, a passionate bibliophile, had amassed over his career a vast collection of rare and historical medical and...
"Heuristic Evaluation for Digital Humanities Projects"
June 21 at 2:00pm in the DHLab (SML 316)
During DHLab Office Hours, Alexandra Provo presented on the evaluation of digital humanities projects, with Photogrammar as her case study. Borrowing from user experience research methods, Alex conducted...
"Locating the Literary History of Word Processing
(Hint: It's Not in Special Collections)"
June 20 at 10:30-11:30am in Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall
Matthew Kirschenbaum will discuss what it means to do scholarship at the intersection of literary and technological history, working with...
The 21st International Festival of Arts & Ideas descends on New Haven for a 16-day celebration of arts and culture. This year’s festival, held from June 10th-25th, is comprised of performances, lectures, and exhibitions from a diverse and dynamic lineup of participants. The festival’s mission...
“Senators, Sinners, and Supermen: The 1950s Comic Book Scare and Juvenile Delinquency,” a new exhibit in the Sterling Memorial Library Exhibition Corridor, tells the story of the 1950s comic book scare and the Tennessee senator who led the crusade against comic books. Student curator Stephanie...
Join us on Thursday, June 9 at 1pm in the SML Lecture Hall, for a talk on "Connecting the Dots and Dotting the Eyes" by Susan H Forster, MD, Chief of Ophthalmology at Yale Health. The talk will focus on understanding visual processing when observing a piece of visual art.
Dr. Susan Forster is a...
