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Gidon Bromberg, the co-founder and Israeli co-director of EcoPeace Middle East
Gidon Bromberg, the co-founder and Israeli co-director of EcoPeace Middle East, a unique organization that brings together Jordanians, Palestinians, and Israelis to promote environmental...
From left: Sushant Singh, Sanjay Mitra, and Steven Wilkinson, Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center and Nilekani Professor of India & South Asian Studies
The South Asian Studies Council recently hosted Sanjay Mitra, a former Indian Administrative Service Officer and one of India’s top bureaucrats prior to his retirement this year. In a career that...
On October 23, the European Studies Council of the MacMillan Center held a special screening of the 2017 film, Call Me by Your Name. Following the screening, producer Peter Spears fielded questions...
In the late 19th century, the introduction of movable metal type by Western missionary revolutionized book printing and selling in China. This early collection of Chinese character printing sorts (pieces of type) is from the Haas Family Arts Library.
In June 1849, the Yale College librarian received a three-month-old letter from Canton, China, informing him that the sender, an American missionary printer named Samuel Wells Williams, had...
Complete with question and answer sessions, a networking cocktail event and more, the second annual Yale Africa Film Festival will showcase films of Africa and its diaspora this weekend. Organized by...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking yesterday in the House of Commons in support of election on Dec. 12.
With time running out in the extension to Oct. 31 of the UK’s exit date the EU granted last April, yet another chapter was opened this week in the long-running Brexit saga. On Monday, after several...
From left: David Blight, Raymond O. Arsenault, and Benny Sims Jr.
On October 22, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance (GLC) at the MacMillan Center hosted a book talk with Raymond O. Arsenault, the John Hope Franklin...
Howard Chandler Christy's Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States
For the Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs in October, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale hosted Douglas Rae, Richard Ely Professor of...
Ben Taub reporting from the Old City neighborhood of Mosul, Iraq in 2018. (Photo credit: Moises Saman)
Ben Taub, a staff writer for The New Yorker, will deliver a talk on Thursday, Oct. 31 on the political implications of the United States’ withdrawal from Syria and the current state of Iraq. He will...
The finding that poverty, and not exposure to violence and trauma, worsened working memory, was somewhat unexpected, given the high levels of war exposure in Syrian refugees, but is consistent with recent studies of U.S. children living in adversity, the researchers explained.
Poverty, not war-related trauma, drives cognitive deficits in young people displaced by conflict, according to a new Yale-led study of adolescents affected by the crisis in Syria.  The study,...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
The following article, written by Ella Goldblum, appeared in the October 23, 2019, Yale Daily News: At a Tuesday panel, experts of Canadian studies examined the country’s politics, a topic of...
(Photo credit: Ine Gundersveen)
As a general rule, Yale puts little stock in external rankings. But every now and again, when there’s especially good news, it’s hard not to boast just a little. And so we report that Timothy Snyder...