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Dr. Augustus Casely-Hayford
“African art has become cool,” Dr. Augustus Casely-Hayford declared to a packed audience in Henry R. Luce Auditorium on March 4. “But as ever, the main beneficiaries are collectors and institutions...
Sterling Professor of Political Science, Professor of Management, and Henry R. Luce Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
The following article with video appears in the March 12 Yale Insights: While diplomats are the ones who sign peace deals, Yale’s Ian Shapiro sees businesses as critical to creating the pre-...
Pericles Lewis
Pericles Lewis, newly named as the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature, is a scholar of modern literature and a member of Yale’s leadership team, responsible for global strategy....
Ira Katznelson
The Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs was given by Ira Katznelson in a series of three lectures under the theme of “Exigencies: From Impermanent Emergencies to Enduring Exceptions.”...
Stephanie Newell
The following podcast was posted on How To Read on March 1: We tend to have a visceral response to someone we think is dirty. But Stephanie Newell,  Professor of English at Yale University, argues...
Prime Minister Theresa May addressing the House of Commons.
In a dramatic reversal of her recent defeats in the House of Commons, on Wednesday British Prime Minister Theresa May won overwhelming support for a motion noting her statement to the House the day...
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In a Feb. 2017 lecture, “What Translation Means: The Extent and Impact of Translation in America” at the Whitney Humanities Center, Harold Augenbraum, a career translator and now acting editor of...
Aruna Roy
The following article written by Siddarth Shankar appeared in the Feb. 26 issue of the Yale Daily News: Though India may be the largest democracy in the world, its democratic norms and values are...
Emily Erikson
Emily Erikson, associate professor of sociology and the school of management (by courtesy), has been appointed by Ian Shapiro, Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for...
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale will offer fellowships to students for language study beginning in Summer 2019. The MacMillan Center Summer Language...
Hannah Dreier
The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at the MacMillan Center and the Poynter Fellow in Journalism hosted a conversation with Hannah Dreier on “Reporting in the Era of Fake News in...
The following article written by Jose Davila IV appeared in the Feb. 20 Yale Daily News: On Tuesday night, the smells of ful mudammas, znoud el sett, mantu and sambosa wafted through the second floor...