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The Honors Program’s fall luncheon series is off to a great start!
On September 7th, we held our first luncheon of the semester, a Welcome Luncheon, where students gathered to hear about our plans for the semester and got to share their ideas as well. New students and old enjoyed pizza and heard from the […]
On Thursday, May 24th, we celebrated the accomplishments of our seniors who graduated this month at the Honors Year-End Dinner. Seniors, their families, representatives of the Honors classes of 2017 to 2020, faculty members, and trustees from the university enjoyed dinner while hearing brief remarks from Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, the Honors Program Committee Chair; Dr. […]
On Sunday, April 3rd, the Honors Program went to see A Long Day’s Journey into Night on Broadway on its very first day at the American Airlines Theater. This emotionally intense production of the highly autobiographical play by Eugene O’Neill ran for a full three hours and 45 minutes long, making this one of the […]
As part of our extracurricular cultural activities, the Honors Program had the pleasure of going to the opera not once but twice this semester.
In March, we took our students to see Le Nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera. Set in 1930s Seville, this comedy of manners and morals is one of the […]
Dr. Erin Graff Zivin visited the Honors Program to talk about her book, Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic. Dr. Erin Graff Zivin is the Chairperson of the Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature Department at the University of Southern California, and is an expert on Marrano culture.
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Our first luncheon of the semester took place on February 17th, where Professor of Hebrew Dr. Sam Schneider spoke about the intriguing case of Yosef Haim Brenner (1881-1921), the forerunner and father of modern Hebrew Literature. Yosef Haim Brenner, who immigrated to Palestine in 1909 and dramatically lost his life during the Yaffa riots, left […]
On December 2nd, Honors students were treated to a special reading by Prof. Christina Chiu, who will be teaching a course on Creative Fiction in the Spring 2016 semester. During this joint event with the English Department in the Honors Lounge, Prof. Chiu read a chapter from her new novel The Ultimate Closet, a coming […]
As part of our calendar of cultural events for Honors students, on November 19th the Honors Program took a trip down to Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, home of the NY Philharmonic, to hear a selection of works by Rachmaninoff as part of Lincoln Center’s Rachmaninoff Philharmonic Festival. This performance was conducted by Neeme Järvi and featured […]
On Sunday, November 15th and Sunday, November 22nd, the Honors Program took our first year students, a long with a few upperclassmen, to see see Ivo Van Hove’s new production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge at the Lyceum Theatre. This production, straight from a sold out run in London, won the 2015 […]
Dr. Ethan Katz, Assistant Professor of History and Affiliated Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati, recently visited YU to speak to the Honors Program about his new book, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France, out this fall from Harvard University Press. The book describes the history […]
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