Panel explores history of hate
Academically focused discussion is first in series following recent acts of intolerance
More than 100 students, faculty members and other Yale affiliates packed into Sudler Hall on Tuesday night for “The History of Hate,” the first of at least four panels planned by administrators to analyze hate from various academic perspectives.
For 90 minutes, the audience members listened as four University history professors explored the origins of hate speech and its implications for American society, drawing on their personal scholarship to analyze historical motivations and intellectual ideas behind intolerance.
The panel, which comes a month after dining-hall workers...
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By (Anonymous)
4:20p.m. on December 7, 2007
I wish Yale hosted more events like this! Great collaboration between the Grad School and Dean's Office. I hope there are plans to do more once this series wraps up.
what an amazing panel - they all shared incredibly interesting perspectives... i'm really looking forward to the next one!