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Patricia Evangelista speaking in front of an image of her book "Some People Need Killing"
Award winning Filipino journalist Patricia Evangelista visited Yale as an Associate Research Scholar at the Council on Southeast Asia Studies (CSEAS) in the fall of 2023. Her appointment was timed...
A view of Luce Hall in the autumn and a photo of Melissa Brown Goodall
Melissa, many of us at Yale know you from your work at the Yale Office of Sustainability… What drew you to the Yale MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies? When I was with Yale...
A film screen projecting the film festival poster
The Latino & Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY) celebrated its fourteenth edition Oct. 30-Nov. 5, with in-person screenings of more than 45 films from 17 different countries at various...
A close-up of Venerable Jeongmok speaking in front of a microphone
On October 26, Venerable Jeongmok visited Yale to give a lecture “Crossing the River of Fear: Lessons from the Life of a Korean Buddhist Female Monk,” hosted by the Council on East Asian Studies (...
New Haven, Conn.— Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the twenty-fifth annual Frederick Douglass Book...
A new volume edited by Yale’s Eduardo Fernandez-Duque synthesizes what researchers have learned about owl monkeys, the Americas’ only nocturnal primate.
Bird fly over a courtyard and historic building in India at sunset
Among the most ubiquitous features of modern India is the QR code. From trendy boba shops and bustling vegetable bazaars in megacities to roadside tea stands and ramshackle corner stores in barely-...
In the fall of 2022, Colby College, where I teach fiction writing, held a three-day conference on Václav Havel. Marci Shore and Timothy Snyder, a married couple who are both professors of history at...
Artist Stephanie García speaks to the audience about her work after her performance
The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month with “Ofrenda,” a performance art piece by award winning Mexican artist and choreographer Stephanie García...
As we watch the violence taking place in Israel and Gaza, we deeply mourn the loss of life. Our hearts are with the millions of people who are suffering in the region and globally, and, especially,...
Oh Se-hoon, the mayor of the Republic of Korea’s capital city of Seoul, visited Yale on Thursday. He met with Yale President Peter Salovey, toured the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and...
Ayesha Ramachandran and a poem in Shikasta script, 1779 (Yale University Art Gallery). Shikasta, a Persian calligraphic poetric style, “favours beauty over legibility” — an aestheticised, highly symbolic form of poetry.
As convenor of the Franke Lecture series this fall, Ayesha Ramachandran is inviting audiences to dive into lyric poetry — across time, cultures, and languages.