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Diplomat who negotiated historic peace accord in Colombia to deliver Coca-Cola World Fund Lecture at Yale

Sergio Jaramillo Caro, former High Commissioner for Peace, Colombia, will give the annual Coca-Cola World Fund Lecture at Yale on Wednesday, October 24. His talk, “Peace and Justice: The Case of Colombia” will start at 4:30 p.m. in Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven....

Slavery and Its Legacies Podcast Episode - Janie Chuang and Joel Quirk on the Impacts of Terminology in the Modern Anti-trafficking Movement

Slavery and Its Legacies Podcast Episode—The impacts of terminology in the modern anti-trafficking movement

Janie Chuang, Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law and Joel Quirk, a Professor of Politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, join GLC’s Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies. Janie and Joel discuss the impacts of terminology in the anti-...

Horst Seehofer, the leader of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union and Minister of the Interior in the German government, reacting to the exit polls after Sunday’s election.

Bavarian Earthquake: Big losses for the CSU and SPD, big wins for the Greens and AfD

On Sunday, voters in Bavaria gave an overwhelming vote of no confidence in the Christian Social Union (CSU), which governs the state and, with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its sister party in the other German states, and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the country. And the voters’...

Vytenis Andriukaitis on European memories: from Soviet Gulag to European Commission

Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, the EU Commissioner for Health & Food Safety, spoke about European memories, his perspective on national and Union politics, and his hopes for Europe’s future at the MacMillan Center on September 28 during a lecture hosted by the European Studies Council....

Kendi on “The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America”

Ibram X. Kendi visited Yale on October 3 for a conversation about his book “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Professor Kendi discussed the book with David W. Blight, Director of the Gilder...

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