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Arina Mikhalevskaya, a Ph.D. Candidate in Yale's History Department, conducting an interview at the Zhuge Liang Temple. Bhamo, northwestern Myanmar, July 2019

Following in the steps of the Chinese hero Zhuge Liang: From southwest China into Myanmar

Why do the majority of Burmese people, both women and men, wear skirts rather than trousers? Because this is what the renowned Chinese military strategist Zhuge Liang (AD 181–234) taught them to do during his military campaign in southwestern China and Myanmar in AD 225—or at least so the...

Additional book awards for Bojanowska's "A World of Empires"

In September 2019 Edyta Bojanowska, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Chair of the European Studies Council, was awarded the Gustav Ranis International Book Prize for best book by the MacMillan Center for A...

Mary Lou McDonald, the leader of Sinn Féin, celebrating the party’s vote at the counting center Sunday evening.

After dramatic increase in Sinn Féin vote, Ireland awaits a new government

On Saturday, the voters in Ireland returned to the polls for the first time since 2016 and the results were stunning. Sinn Féin, which for many years was the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, won 24.5 percent of the First Preference Votes in the country’s Single Transferable Vote...

Brazil Activities Fair draws crowd

The Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies hosted its second Brazil Activities Fair on Friday, January 24, 2020 from 4 - 6pm. More than 100 people came to Luce Hall to learn more about the diverse array of...

A Palestinian doctor examines a patient’s eyes at a medical center in a refugee camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, on May 7, 2012. Ammar Awad/Reuters

Fox Fellow addresses chronic health needs of refugee population

Jude Alawa, a Fox Fellow at the University of Cambridge, recently coauthored an article in the Council on Foreign Relations titled, “A Silent Crisis: The Rise of Noncommunicable Diseases in Refugee Settings.” In November, Alawa attended a...

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February 12, 2020, 11:30am - Living with Owning
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