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Thien-An Bui, Yale College Class of 2022, Morse College
Thanks to funding from the Southeast Asian Studies Fellowship from the Southeast Asian Studies Council at the MacMillan Center, Leitner International Research and International Fellowship from the...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Council President Donald Tusk.
When he spoke in front of 10 Downing Street for the first time as prime minister on July 24 after returning from Buckingham Palace, Boris Johnson made it clear the UK will leave the EU on Oct. 31,...
July 23, 2019. New Haven, Conn.—Yale University is hosting a one-day conference on the future of the Greek economy titled “Towards a New Greek Miracle: Growth Policies for the Decades to Come.” The...
Yale announces 2019 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
New Haven, Conn.— Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the 21st annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one...
Some of my interviewees in Notsé, Togo: Left, Abla Vokuyibor (my Grandmother) Right, Ablagbue Vokuyibor (my Great Aunt) June 2019
In the United States, we often think of history as a collection of stories about individuals. Tropes such as “Columbus discovered America in 1492” and “Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves” are common...
The group of K-12 teachers that participated in the Summer Institute for Teachers.
The Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center welcomed participants to its three-day Summer Institute for Teachers (SIT), “Refugees in Recent History,” from June 26-28. The diverse group...
Deena Mousa (YC ‘20) walks customers through treatment surveys in a Carrefour grocery store in Doha, Qatar.
Thanks to the generous funding from the Libby Rouse Grant I received through the Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center, I spent several weeks this summer in Doha, Qatar. I had the...
Margherita Tortora is Senior Lecturer of Spanish and Latin American studies at Yale, and founder/executive director of The Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale. She’s been instrumental in bringing Latin America cinema to Yale, New Haven, and the greater New England region.
To commemorate its 10th year, the Latino & Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY) invites Yale student artists to submit a poster design for the festival’s poster. All university students, ...
Peter Rothpletz
Peter Rothpletz is the winner of the MacMillan Center’s William J. Foltz Journalism Award. His submission, “Killing Children: Reflections on Sierra Leone’s Civil War,” appeared in The Politic, a Yale...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon meeting yesterday in Edinburgh.
After the high drama of last week, in which Boris Johnson won the leadership of the British Conservative Party, entered 10 Downing Street as Theresa May’s successor as prime minister, and in short...
Danielle standing in front of Parliament before going to sit in on the Department of Home Affairs Portfolio Committee Elections and meeting.
Danielle Harris is a junior in the undergraduate Human Rights Program and studies history and political science. This summer, she worked for ten weeks with the Legal Advocacy program at the...
Sinjar Town, December 2015
The Genocide Studies Program at Yale University has released “Before It’s Too Late,” a timely report that addresses the genocide of the Yazidis in Iraq and demonstrates the ongoing need to protect...