Yale in London

Yale in London continues to offer dynamic courses taught by distinguished academics from Yale, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the United Kingdom. The programme continued to accept applications from Yale’s sister campus, Yale-NUS.

Spring Term

15 January–17 April 2018

There were six students enrolled in the spring term, four of whom were from Yale and two from Yale-NUS. They were housed in flats near Paddington. Four courses were taught during the spring term: British Art and Landscape by Martin Postle, Deputy Director for Grants & Publications at the Paul Mellon Centre; Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, and Common Law and Other Law in England, both taught by Anders Winroth, Forst Family Professor of History, Department of History, Yale University; and Modern British Theatre taught by Mark Wheatley, a freelance lecturer and playwright.

The spring term saw the students participate in a wide variety of activities and visits, including visiting key London destinations as part of their studies. For the British Art and Landscape course, the students visited various locations in Wales, such as Mount Snowdon, Cader Idris and Tintern Abbey. As part of the courses on Anglo-Saxon and Viking England, the students visited York and Winchester. Their course on Common Law took the students to the Palace of Westminster and the British Library. This spring a theatre course was introduced, and the students went to see a variety of plays at theatres in the West End and on the Fringe, including Glengarry Glen Ross at the Playhouse Theatre, Mary Stuart at the Duke of York’s Theatre and The Brothers Size at the Young Vic.

Summer Session One

4 June–13 July 2018

There were thirteen students enrolled in Summer Session One. They were housed in flats in Paddington. During this session the students undertook two courses: London Theatre: The Contemporary Scene taught by Paul Walsh, Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of

Drama; and Monuments and Memory, 1600–2018, taught by Roger Bowdler, a freelance lecturer.

The students participated in a wide variety of activities and visits, including visiting key London destinations as part of their studies. For their course on monuments, the students visited the Cenotaph, Westminster Abbey and Runnymede, and took a longer trip around Wiltshire and Oxfordshire to visit the standing stones at Avebury and the Rhodes sculpture in Oxford. For the theatre course, students saw Translations at the National Theatre, Machinal at the Almeida Theatre, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives at the Arcola Theatre and many other productions.

Summer Session Two

2 July–9 August 2018

There were seven students enrolled in Summer Session Two. They were housed in flats near Waterloo. During this session the students took two courses: Exhibiting History: British Art & Culture at the Royal Academy, 1769–2018, taught by Sarah Victoria Turner, Deputy Director for Research, Paul Mellon Centre; and Mapping Multicultural London taught by Amy Hungerford, Dean of the Humanities Division, Bird White Housum Professor of English, and Professor of American Studies, Yale University.

The students participated in a wide variety of activities and visits, including visiting key London destinations as part of their studies. The course on the Royal Academy took the students to the Academy itself, as well as many non-Londonbased museums such as Kettle’s Yard and the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge and the Henry Moore Foundation. Mapping Multicultural London brought with it the opportunity to visit sites tied to the novels being read as part of the course, such as Brick Lane and Willesden Junction; a visit to Hampton Court Palace coupled with a riverboat tour from Hampton Court to Westminster; and a couple of visits to the theatre to see The Jungle at the Playhouse Theatre and Spun at the Arcola Theatre.