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Yale Humanities Quadrangle
April 1, 2021
When he first visited the newly refurbished Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) at 320 York St. — known until recently as the Hall of Graduate Studies — faculty member Kevin van Bladel’s thoughts returned to his days as a...
Astrolabe (© stock.adobe.com), Egypt mummified animal (© wikimedia commons)
October 10, 2017
How to mummify something. How to build an astrolabe. Those are topics that one would not normally think of when reading a Yale course catalogue, but in each of these courses, these new faculty members in the...
Professor Kevin van Bladel joins Yale-NELC
August 17, 2017
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University is delighted to announce that Kevin van Bladel, a specialist in Arabic, Iranian languages, and Syriac, will begin teaching at Yale in...