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Locals express their support for Ukraine at a rally in Southport, Conn. Photo by Ulyana Yosypiv
There is broad support in the U.S. for Ukraine and global outcry over Putin’s increasingly hostile attacks on civilians. This hour, hear more about the geopolitical backdrop and Ukraine’s...
Día Internacional de la Mujer 8 de Marzo: orígenes del feminismo, significado y otras respuestas El 8 de marzo registra la dolorosa historia de las luchas de las mujeres y todas las personas que se...
Encountering the Sacred Rock of the Athenian Acropolis has signaled for numerous historical personalities nodal processes of self-reflection conveyed autobiographically. Confronting the Parthenon...
Malinowski family in Oberbozen (South Tyrol) in 1923
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) recently sat down for an interview with Daniela Salvucci (biography below), who is currently conducting research at the Sterling Memorial Library...
James Scott, Ph.D., Yale University, 1967, is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. He is co-director of the Agrarian Studies Program...
This past Friday, March 4, a group of scholars chatted jovially as they prepared to begin the second session of the Spring 2022 Gender and Policy Forum. The session, titled “Equality and Civil...
The REEES Program at the MacMillan Center hosted a panel discussion titled “The War Next Door: Society and Conflict in Ukraine and Russia” on February 18, 2022. Four guest speakers were invited to...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to justify the invasion of Ukraine with a number of reasons, but we’re going to focus on one with a very deep stem. In essence, he argues that...
On March 4-5, 2022, the Council on African Studies will host a conference on African Epistemologies for the 21st Century to discuss novel conceptual frameworks in epistemology studies and the academy...
Last Monday, after Russia’s 30-member Security Council discussed the situation in eastern Ukraine – specifically, the continuing conflict between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists...
A demonstrator holds an EU flag with a Crimean Tatar symbol in its center, Kyiv, Nov. 29, 2013. PHOTO: SERGEI CHUZAVKOV/ASSOCIATED PRESS
On Feb. 24, Russia invaded Ukraine. In the early morning hours, before dawn, Russian artillery began bombarding Kyiv, Odessa and Kharkiv.   A few weeks earlier, as Vladimir Putin  was ostentatiously...
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking to the Russian people this morning as the invasion of Ukraine began.
by David R. Cameron, Professor Emeritus of political science and the former director of the MacMillan Center’s Program in European Union Studies. Frustrated by the continuing refusal of the U.S....