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I Gusti Putu Sudarta, Shadow Master

Watch "Sutasoma," a Balinese shadow play by Gusti Sudarta

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A supplemental reading packet, with translation and transcription of...

Whitney MacMillan

Whitney MacMillan, longtime friend of Yale, and namesake of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, dies at the age of 90

Whitney MacMillan, former chairman and CEO of Cargill, died on March 11 at the age of 90. In April 2006 the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale was named for he and his wife in recognition of a transformative gift they made to support international...

Mitja Velikonja

A pioneering study of political graffiti

Despite the increasing global digitization, graffiti remains widespread and popular, providing with a few words or images a vivid visual indication of cultural conditions, social dynamics and power structures in a society, and provoking a variety of reactions. Mitja Velikonja, who is here at...

Kathryn Lofton

Yale leaders talk about COVID-19: Dean of the Humanities Kathryn Lofton

 

This interview is part of a running series.

How are faculty in the humanities responding to the effects of the COVID-19 crisis?

Yale humanists are creative and conscientious. They are also, like...

French President Emmanuel Macron participating from the Elysée in yesterday’s European Council video conference.

After lengthy and heated debate about responses to pandemic, EU leaders delay action

Yesterday the European Council, the heads of state and government of the European Union, met via videoconference for the third time in less than three weeks to discuss the EU’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Meeting a week after the European Central Bank announced a new Pandemic Emergency...

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