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Winfried Kretschmann, leader of the Greens and Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, and Mrs. Kretschmann voting in the state election Sunday.
On Sunday, voters in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate in western Germany went to the polls to elect their Landtag, the state assembly. With the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its...
On February 23 and 24, the Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) in collaboration with the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale hosted a double panel entitled...
People attending a LGBT pride parade on June 30, 2013 in Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey.
In the following interview, Yale’s Evren Savcı, a scholar of transnational sexualities, discusses her new book, “Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam,” and the fight for LGBT...
European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič commenting on UK violation of Protocol, March 3, 2021.
Last week, the UK unilaterally extended a number of temporary grace periods agreed by the UK and EU in December that had exempted for several months a wide range of goods arriving in Northern Ireland...
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President George H W Bush
The following opinion piece written by Bradley Woodworth, Coordinator of Baltic Studies at the MacMillan Center and Associate Professor of History at the University of New Haven, and Matthew Schmidt...
The Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) welcomes Achim Steiner, Administrator, UN Development Programme, as its first guest for their spring Conversation Series. Steiner will discuss Planet,...
Professor Alberto Vital, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
The following interview is part of the European Studies Council and Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies collaborative collection titled “On the Ground Perspectives.” This new series...
John Campbell
On March 3, the Council on African Studies hosted career foreign service officer John Campbell, who currently serves as the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on...
Nicholas A. Christakis
Over the past year, Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis has strived to help others understand the COVID-19 pandemic. The Yale physician and sociologist has penned op-ed columns and popular Twitter threads...
On February 26, the Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network (LAIGN) launched a special webinar series slated to be held on the last Friday of every month. Co-sponsored with the Council on...
Alexei Navalny in a Moscow courtroom on February 20.
On January 17, Alexei Navalny returned to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been treated after having been poisoned with Novichok, a deadly chemical nerve agent, while campaigning in Tomsk in August...
On February 22, the Hellenic Studies Program hosted a talk on “Population Movements Under Lockdown: Refugees and Migrants in Greece and Lebanon.” Kaveh Khoshnood from the Yale School of Public Health...