Koerner Center publishes 5th volume of Intellectual Trajectories talks

May 31, 2024
The Koerner Center is delighted to announce the publication of its fifth volume of Intellectual Trajectories talks. Edited by Richard H. Brodhead, the book contains twenty-four autobiographical talks by Koerner Fellows, Yale emeriti whose disciplines span the entirety of the university. 
 
In his introduction, titled “Yale: The Inside Story,” Brodhead writes: “The five volumes of Koerner Center trajectories are no mere collection of personal reminiscence. Taken together they form an inside history of a great American university in the last three decades of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first—a history more revealing for being personal and particular, not a mass of institutional generalities, and for capturing the lifeblood of great universities: the play of curiosity that drives the life of the mind.”
 
Since the Koerner Center’s inception in 2003, one hundred and fifteen talks have been transcribed and are available as a free digital download or in hard copy for purchase through the center. 
 
Volume 5 (2024) contributors:
 
Rolena Adorno; Dudley Andrew; Dana Charmian Angluin; Charles Baltay; Victor Bers; Peggy Johnson Bia; Peter Brooks; Kang-i Sun Chang; Steven D. Fraade; Harvey Goldblatt; Margaret Grey; Francesco Iachello; Barbara K. Kinder; Richard Levin; Roderick James McIntosh; Brigitte Peucker; Susan Rose-Ackerman; James C. Scott; Robert J. Shiller; Lorraine D. Siggins; Frank M. Snowden; Robert Burns Stepto; Harry Stout; and Fred Strebeigh.
 
To read the digital version of the volume, click here, and to inquire about purchasing a hard copy, contact emeritus@yale.edu or 203-432-8227.