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Ayesha Ramachandran and a poem in Shikasta script, 1779 (Yale University Art Gallery). Shikasta, a Persian calligraphic poetric style, “favours beauty over legibility” — an aestheticised, highly symbolic form of poetry.

As convenor of the Franke Lecture series this fall, Ayesha Ramachandran is inviting audiences to dive into lyric poetry — across time, cultures, and languages.

An aerial view of the coastal city of Beirut, Lebanon, alongside headshots of Myers and Saab

They overlapped in their time as doctoral candidates at Yale—Robert Myers ’95 PhD in the Spanish and Portuguese department, and...

Large group photo outdoors in front of the Yale Divinity Marquand Chapel

On May 8-10, 2023, about 100 current Fox Fellows, alumni, and friends attended the 4th Fox International Fellowship Reunion at Yale University to discuss recent lessons learned on the importance of international coordination and to reconnect with...

A view of a historic street in Vilnius, with Lithuanian flags hanging on either side of the doorway

The European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale continues to expand its Baltic Studies Program, an interdisciplinary forum for the study of the Baltic Sea countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania...

Professors Cécile Fromont and Didac Queralt

Cécile Fromont, Professor, History of Art, and Didac Queralt, Assistant Professor, Political Science, have been awarded the 2023 international book prizes by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale...

In the Media

Yale News
Tina Lu is Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Head of Pauli Murray College and Member of the Council on East Asian Studies
The Economist
A new study by Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale Daniel Mattingly shows how and where China's message resonates.