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Second CLAIS graduate & professional student conference

On Saturday, April 21, the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies held its second Graduate & Professional Student Conference. The conference was coordinated by Reinaldo Funes Monzote, a visiting professor in the Department of History, and Hannah Greenwald, a second-year PhD student in...

Conservatism in the age of Trump

On April 5, the Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions at the MacMillan Center hosted a panel discussion with James Ceaser, William Kristol, Eliana Johnson, and Ross Douthat on “Conservatism in the Age of Trump,” chaired by Yale’s Steven B. Smith. Each panelist is a noted...

China uses ‘softer tools’ of repression, says Yale political scientist

China’s reemergence as a global power has coincided with policies, including urbanization measures and family planning initiatives, that sometimes pit the Chinese state’s interests against those of individual citizens.

Daniel Mattingly, assistant professor of political science, studies...

Professor M. Nazif Shahrani, Indiana University, Bloomington, and Professor Thomas Barfield, Boston University

Conference discusses emerging identities in Afghanistan

On April 13 and 14, the Yale Program in Iranian Studies—operating under the auspices of the MacMillan Center’s Council on Middle East Studies—hosted the Conference on Identities in Contemporary Afghanistan (CICA). The conference, organized by Naysan Adlparvar (Rice Faculty Fellow, Yale...