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An 1842 daguerréotype of Honoré de Balzac by the photographer Louis-Auguste Bisson (via Wikimedia Commons)
Fueled by endless cups of coffee, French author Honoré de Balzac produced more than 90 novels and short stories peopled by 2,400-plus characters during his lifetime (1799-1850). “Balzac’s Lives...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaking in Brussels after yesterday’s European Council videoconference.
Yesterday the leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union, meeting via video conference as the European Council, discussed, as they had last month, the EU’s response to the Covid pandemic....
Ian Shapiro (Photo credit: Mara Lavitt)
When Joe Biden assumes the presidency on Jan. 20, he will lead a deeply polarized nation facing historic challenges. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to surge, with more than 11 million U.S. cases...
Jurados/Jury: Bea Gallardo, Víctor Gaviria, Cynthia Sabat. Categoría Largometraje de Ficción/ Feature Fiction Films Category MEJOR PELÍCULA -BEST FEATURE FILM Malpaso, de Héctor Valdez (República...
Kaveh Madani, the Henry Hart Rice Senior Fellow at the MacMillan Center, has been awarded the American Geophysical Union’s Ambassador Award for 2020. The award is given annually to one to five...
Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, looking for level playing fields in London yesterday.
Last Saturday, after two weeks of intensified negotiation of an agreement about their future relationship after the UK leaves the EU’s internal market and customs union at midnight on December 31,...
From left: Bonnie Weir, Hira Jafri, and Senator George Mitchell at the “Understanding Brexit” Conference organized by Irish Central in New York City. Photo credit: Nuala Purcell
Last spring, the Program on Peace and Development, an interdisciplinary initiative aimed at bringing academics and practitioners together to discuss creative solutions to problems in civil conflict...
Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, arriving Wednesday to brief EU ambassadors and MEPs on the EU-UK negotiation.
On October 15, the leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union, meeting as the European Council, took stock of the stalled negotiation between the EU and the UK that aims to conclude an...
Professor S. Deborah Kang
On October 23, the MacMillan Center convened a group of distinguished academics to discuss Professor S. Deborah Kang’s award-winning book The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico...
On October 23, 139 people Zoomed in to the conference Industrial Livestock Production, Fish Farming, Global Climate Change, and Global Health. Sponsored by Yale’s Program in Agrarian Studies and the...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing the UK’s new lockdown Saturday evening.
Europe is in the midst of a second wave of Covid-19 infections—one that is much worse, in terms of numbers, than the first wave that began in late February and early March and peaked, after a number...
For Yale scholar Hazel Carby, one of the gratifications of winning the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding is that this year’s honor recognizes the importance...