James Scott (“Scotty”), a revered scholar whose pathbreaking work crossed intellectual boundaries, died on July 19 at his home in Durham, Connecticut, after a long illness. He was 87.
On June 13-16, Yale hosted the 2024 conference of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), the world’s largest scholarly association for study of the Baltic region. ...
The plight of refugees around the world is growing: the number of refugees increased by nearly 9 million people from 2022 to 2023. Yet entrepreneurship can empower refugees to build new lives after...
Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis recognized six recipients of the college’s annual teaching prizes during a reception on April 29.
In June 2022, Dom Phillips, a British journalist working for The Guardian, and Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian indigenist and employee of Brazil’s National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples (FUNAI), were...
Spencer Lee-Lenfield is the winner of the MacMillan Center’s William J. Foltz Journalism Award for 2023. Their submission, “Mysterious Displays of Will: Nadine Hwang—a queer Chinese lawyer who joined...
Students enrolled in Council on Southeast Asia Studies-affiliated classes can take a deep dive into the performance art of courts of Central Java in the 19th and early 20th centuries with Ruth Barnes...
The Council on African Studies at the Yale MacMillan Center celebrated Earth Day 2024 with an afternoon of environmentally themed events centered around “‘Nature’s Sanctuary’: Ethiopian Church...
Marci Shore, professor of history and director of graduate studies for the Yale MacMillan Center’s master’s degree in European and Russian studies, traveled to Kyiv, Ukraine in March to attend the...
Seven Yale faculty members have received 2024 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
In a semester-long lecture series open to the public, Yale’s David W. Blight will explore the history of slavery and its continued effects.
On March 14-15, 2024, the Council on African Studies at the Yale MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies convened the “Yale Africa-China Symposium: Cultural Dimensions” at Eduardo...
