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The South Asian Studies Council will be hosting a virtual panel about harnessing research for response in Pakistan against the backdrop of the COVID-19 outbreak on Friday, April 10 at 10am. To join...
Eurogroup President Mário Centeno speaking this morning after the all-night video conference.
Two weeks ago, the European Council, the heads of state or government of the European Union, met in a video conference for the third time in less than three weeks to discuss the EU’s response to the...
Idled boats on the shore of Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 31. Photo: Ahmed Salahuddin/NurPhoto via Getty Images.
The mass social distancing strategy being used to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the United States and Europe doesn’t easily translate to a developing country like Bangladesh, which lacks the...
More than 165 leaders from over 70 countries have sent an urgent letter to the governments of the G20 nations. It is an appeal for internationally coordinated action to address the global health and...
Robert Shiller
Robert J. Shiller, a 2013 Nobel laureate in economics and professor of economics at Yale University, wrote the following article that appeared in The Guardian on April 1, 2020: We are feeling the...
 I Gusti Putu Sudarta, Shadow Master
WATCH FULL PERFORMANCE ON YALE YOUTUBE. A supplemental reading packet, with translation and transcription of the dialogue, is here. Viewers are encouraged to read through this during the 15 minute...
Whitney MacMillan
Whitney MacMillan, former chairman and CEO of Cargill, died on March 11 at the age of 90. In April 2006 the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale was named for...
Kathryn Lofton
  This interview is part of a running series. How are faculty in the humanities responding to the effects of the COVID-19 crisis? Yale humanists are creative and conscientious. They are also, like...
Mitja Velikonja
Despite the increasing global digitization, graffiti remains widespread and popular, providing with a few words or images a vivid visual indication of cultural conditions, social dynamics and power...
French President Emmanuel Macron participating from the Elysée in yesterday’s European Council video conference.
Yesterday the European Council, the heads of state and government of the European Union, met via videoconference for the third time in less than three weeks to discuss the EU’s response to the COVID-...
The following article written by David Blight, Sterling Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan...
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde announcing the bank’s emergency program last Wednesday.
In late July 2012, several months after the European Union, with the International Monetary Fund, concluded a second bailout for Greece and only a few days after the EU agreed to provide up to €100...