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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel in their video conference today with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
When the EU and UK concluded their fourth week-long round of negotiation of an agreement about their future relationship on June 5, it appeared the negotiation was stalemated. Michel Barnier, the EU’...
The following article on Islamophobia then and now was written by historian Alan Mikhail. It was featured on June 15 in Literary Hub. Susan Sontag implored us some 40 years ago to resist empowering...
David Blight
On June 9, New England Public Radio spoke with David Blight, professor of history, African American studies and American studies and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,...
Dr. Kaveh Madani
The Program in Iranian Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale is pleased to announce its new Contemporary Iran Forum. Its goal is to facilitate a...
At the Gilder Lehrman Center we want to express our continued commitment to using history, and knowledge more generally, as well as our teaching and our imaginations to face the current crises in...
View of Marina Bay Sands and the Singapore central business district taken from Swissotel the Stamford hotel during the government-mandated and funded quarantine
Two current and one incoming anthropology PhD students affiliated with the Council on Southeast Asia Studies have published an article in City & Society titled “The Singaporean State and...
EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier, holding a copy of the EU-UK Political Declaration and speaking today after the conclusion of this week’s negotiations with the UK.
This week the EU and UK teams led by Michel Barnier for the EU and David Frost for the UK met again, via videoconference, in their fourth week-long round of negotiation aimed at concluding an...
The Council on African Studies community at Yale strongly condemns the murder of George Floyd by members of the Minneapolis Police Department, which followed the recent shooting deaths of...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presenting the Commission’s recovery plan to the European Parliament yesterday.
On April 23, the European Council, the heads of state or government of the 27 member states of the European Union, approved a €540 billion package of assistance for workers, firms, and euro area...
Frank Snowden
335 new diseases emerged between 1960 and 2004. Why weren’t we ready for this one? The following article was written by Frank Snowden, Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History and History...
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Governments across the globe have imposed strict lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19. These measures have reduced infection rates, but also triggered the most severe economic collapse since the...
Jacob Hacker
The following opinion article written by Jacob S. Hacker, a professor of political science at Yale University, and Paul Pierson, a professor of political science at the University of California at...