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Prime Minister Theresa May speaking outside 10 Downing Street Wednesday evening after the vote of no confidence was rejected.
On Tuesday (1/15), the British House of Commons rejected by an overwhelming margin – 432 against, 202 for – the motion to accept the withdrawal agreement and political declaration about the future...
Ian Shapiro
After 15 years of service as the Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, Ian Shapiro has announced his intention to step down from...
Professor Underhill with replicas of Longshan period vessels made by a Rizhao area potter: left:  gui 鬶  tripod thought to be used for heating liquids and/or soups, and right: dou 豆 stemmed dish thought to be used for serving food).
Professor Anne Underhill, who is chair of the Anthropology Department, has collaborated with archaeologists at Shandong University, China, on regional surveys and excavation work since 1995—...
It is with great saddness that we announce the sudden death of Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School, and Director of the Project on...
Theresa May reporting to the House of Commons Monday on the European Council meeting and the timing of the vote on the withdrawal agreement.
After a week of high drama in the Brexit saga, on Monday Prime Minister Theresa May told the House of Commons the vote on the UK-EU withdrawal agreement, originally scheduled for Dec. 11 but “...
The following article written by Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale and a Commander of the Order of Merit of the French Republic, appeared in Le Monde on December...
Opening comments are made by these four esteemed guests. From left to right: Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, Kenneth Jackson, Felipe Sartori Sigollo, Claudia Valeggia.
As part of an effort supported by UNESCO to increase collaboration with Brazilian institutions among U.S. universities on the topic of studies of Brazil, the Council on Latin American and Iberian...
This fall, the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) partnered with Yale’s La Casa Cultural (the Latino Cultural Center at Yale) and Center for Latin American and Iberian...
David Blight (left) and Ta-Nahesi Coates on stage at the Yale University Art Gallery. (Photo credit: Daniel Vieira)
Ta-Nehisi Coates — bestselling author and distinguished writer in residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute — confessed to a packed Yale Art Gallery auditorium that he...
British Prime Minister Theresa May informing the House of Commons Monday that the vote on the EU-UK withdrawal agreement was being deferred.
On Monday, at the start of the fourth of the five days scheduled for debate in the British House of Commons on a motion to approve the 585-page withdrawal agreement and 26-page political declaration...
On November 30, the MacMillan Center, in conjunction with Queen’s University Belfast, hosted a conference commemorating and reflecting on twenty years of the Good Friday Agreement, titled “Twenty...
Ambassador Luis C.deBaca (retired), Robina Fellow in Modern Slavery, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, & Resistance at the MacMillan Center
Ambassador Luis C.deBaca (retired) Ambassador Luis C.deBaca, Robina Fellow in Modern Slavery, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, & Resistance at the MacMillan Center,...