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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...

Yale holds first-ever Arab conference

The following article appears in the April 23 Yale Daily News.

As a first year, Shady Qubaty ’20, the first Yemeni undergraduate at Yale, felt there was a need on campus for an accessible...

Short film debut: "Forced Labor and Workers’ Rights"

“Forced Labor and Workers’ Rights,” a short film about forced labor in global supply chains, features the research of Genevieve LeBaron, co-chair of the GLC Modern Slavery Working Group. Along with other media resources, the film can be viewed on the...

Marci Shore awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Marci Shore, associate professor of history and a member of the European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center, has been awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 

Professor Shore focuses her work on the...