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Alice Kaplan (Photo credit: Photo Editions Gallimard, Catherine Helie)
Alice Kaplan, a leading scholar of 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature and history, has been named the next director of the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC). Her three-year term...
A member of Iraqi security forces walks past the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, January 2020 (Thaier Al-Sudani / Reuters)
The following article written by Emma Sky appeared Foreign Affairs on January 3: The assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani on the outskirts of Baghdad was a major escalation in the...
People light candles at a mourning ceremony for Qasem Soleimani in Tehran, January 2020 (Ahmad Halabisaz / Redux)
The following article written by Nahid Siamdoust appeared in Foreign Affairs on January 6: With the United States and Iran on the brink of war, regime change advocates are celebrating the...
Isabel Mares
Imagine entering a polling place on Election Day concerned that local government officials or your employer will punish you for supporting the wrong candidate. This is a dilemma facing voters in...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking in the House of Commons Friday in support of the revised EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost no time after Thursday’s Queen’s speech opening the new session of Parliament in moving forward with the process of approving the European Union (Withdrawal...
Dîvân-ı Halîm, Turkish MSS Suppl 48, is collection of poetry by Halim Giray Sultan, who lived from 1772 to 1824 and was a member of the Crimean Khanate, a Turkic state that existed from 1441 to 1783. The illuminated and gilded manuscript is one of 568 Ottoman Turkish manuscripts housed at the Beinecke Library. (Photo credit: Michael S. Helfenbein)
Since last summer, Ozgen Felek has passed many illuminating hours in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s reading room poring over Yale’s collections of Ottoman Turkish manuscripts,...
The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS) and the European Studies Council (ESC) invites Yale Students who have conducted academic travel, research, or internship experiences in...
Legal aid: US Attorney General William Barr is siding with President Donald Trump, as is Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell.
The article below was co-published with YaleGlobal Online and Just Security on December 17, 2019.     Summary:  The United States is severely divided over impeachment, with a Senate trial...
Ambassador Milica Pejanović-Djurišić speaks with conference participants at the reception after her keynote remarks.
The inaugural conference for European Studies Graduate Fellows, titled “Europe in Flux,” brought together young scholars from across the globe on December 6-7 to discuss some of the most pressing...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanking voters in Sedgefield Saturday for their support and trust.
It had been apparent for some time to those who followed the polls throughout the election campaign that Boris Johnson’s Conservatives would in all likelihood win a majority in the House of Commons...
On December 12, the Common Room on the second floor of Luce Hall was filled with the sound of laughter, ping pong balls ringing, and sprinkles pouring as the MacMillan Center enjoyed a respite...
Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History at Harvard University
The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University invited Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History at Harvard University, to deliver the 2nd Annual Seong-Yawng Park GRD ‘65 and...