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"The Common Room" with Stephanie Newell

Professor Stephanie Newell is featured in The Common Room,  a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. She talks about how she became interested in African literature, and how a nine-year-old girl in Lagos transformed the way she researched...

The Diada (National Day) demonstration in Barcelona, September 11, 2012.

Despite low turnout & volatility, Catalan pro-independence parties retain narrow majority

On February 14, voters in Catalonia went to the polls to elect a new parliament. Not surprisingly given the continuing Covid pandemic, turnout dropped sharply from 79.1 percent in the previous election in December 2017 to 51.1 percent and, perhaps for that reason, the shares of the vote obtained...

Ernesto Zedillo ’81 Ph.D.

Return to the past? Ernesto Zedillo on trade in a post-Trump world

U.S. trade policy is at a crossroads. Will President Biden make a clean break from his predecessor’s protectionist policies and embrace the trading system that Americans helped create last century?

“Trade...

Britain’s role in Great Power Competition post Brexit: “Very well, alone”

Britain’s role in Great Power Competition post Brexit—a panel discussion between Hamish Falconer, Visiting Fellow, European Studies Council, Professor Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University, Shashank Joshi, the Defense Editor of The Economist, and...

Cajetan Iheka

Novel perspective: How literature helps us re-think environmental threats

Yale faculty member Cajetan Iheka was an undergraduate in his home country of Nigeria at the height of unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta in the 2000s. Militants were setting fire to oil installations and kidnapping oil workers in the region — one of the least developed parts of the country — in...

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