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On March 4-5, 2022, the Council on African Studies will host a conference on African Epistemologies for the 21st Century to discuss novel conceptual frameworks in epistemology studies and the academy...
Last Monday, after Russia’s 30-member Security Council discussed the situation in eastern Ukraine – specifically, the continuing conflict between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists...
A demonstrator holds an EU flag with a Crimean Tatar symbol in its center, Kyiv, Nov. 29, 2013. PHOTO: SERGEI CHUZAVKOV/ASSOCIATED PRESS
On Feb. 24, Russia invaded Ukraine. In the early morning hours, before dawn, Russian artillery began bombarding Kyiv, Odessa and Kharkiv.   A few weeks earlier, as Vladimir Putin  was ostentatiously...
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking to the Russian people this morning as the invasion of Ukraine began.
by David R. Cameron, Professor Emeritus of political science and the former director of the MacMillan Center’s Program in European Union Studies. Frustrated by the continuing refusal of the U.S....
Photo by Ishan Tankha
Yale University today officially announced the launch of a new research initiative to promote inclusive institutions, economies, and societies. Inclusion Economics (IE) at Yale University will work...
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In 2017 and 2018, researchers evaluated a pilot program to improve early childhood development and education in two rural districts in Ghana. The results were promising, including marked gains in...
The European Court of Justice, which on Wednesday rejected Hungary and Poland’s request to annul the EU’s rule-of-law conditionality regulation.
The attention of the EU and its citizens has, quite understandably, been focused in recent weeks on the buildup of Russian troops and equipment near its border and that of Belarus with Ukraine. But...
Executive Summary Fathers are agents of change, influencing family dynamics, wellbeing, and collective social action across generations. Concrete examples of community-level interventions...
The Spring 2022 Gender and Policy Forum kicked off on Friday, February 11, with its first session titled “Women and Development: Empowering Individuals, Building Communities.” The Forum is a working...
From left: Ed Hendrickson, Akua Agyei-Boateng, and Charlotte Bednarski
In the midst of the COVID pandemic, a group of African Studies MA students decided it was the perfect time to launch a podcast featuring conversations and stories by the students of African Studies....
Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron at their meeting in Moscow on Monday.
As the buildup of Russian military forces in Belarus continued in preparation for the 10-day Allied Resolve 2022 joint military exercise that began yesterday, and as fears continued to mount that...
The MacMillan Center congratulates Jing Tsu, John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures and Comparative Literature, whose book Kingdom of Characters: The Language...