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Erica Armstrong Dunbar (left) and Tiya Miles
The 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize will be shared by two scholars. The co-winners are Erica Armstrong Dunbar, for her book “Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway...
Marco Buti, Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission
The European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center invited Marco Buti, Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission, to speak about the current state of the world...
Prime Minister Theresa May announcing British cabinet’s collective decision to accept UK-EU withdrawal agreement.
On Mar. 29, 2017, British Prime Minister Theresa May informed European Council President Donald Tusk that, in light of the vote in the June 2016 referendum in which 52 percent said they thought the...
In a technology-enabled classroom in Dow Hall, Kunsang Dorjee ’22 and Andy Archer ’20 M.Div. participate in a course in modern Tibetan language taught by Sonam Tsering at Columbia University through the Shared Course Initiative. (Photo credit: Christian De León)
In a brightly lit classroom on the lower level of Dow Hall, a lone undergraduate sits at a table —textbook spread open in front of him — and speaks in halting Ukrainian. His voice echoes slightly off...
Christopher Andrew (middle) signing copies of his new book "The Secret World: A History of Intelligence" on which his lectures were based.
Christopher Andrew, Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge and former Official Historian of British Security Service MI5, delivered this year’s Stimson...
Margherita Tortora, executive director and founder of LIFFY, introduces the film to the student audience.
More than 200 students from the New Haven public schools attended the 9th annual Latino & Iberian Film Festival at the Whitney Humanities Center on November 8 and enjoyed a private screening of...
The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies invites Yale Students who have conducted academic travel, research, or internship experiences in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, or...
The article below, written by Rianna Turner, appeared in the November 12 issue of the Yale Daily News: The European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center presented a concert featuring Russian...
From left: Dina Siddiqi, Professor of Anthropology at New York University and an expert on Bangladesh; Raza Rumi Ahmed, a Pakistani academic and Director of Park Center for Independent Journalism at Ithaca College; and Ravish Kumar, an award-winning author, and TV anchor in India
Majoritarian Politics in South Asia is a riveting issue, and in 2018, a particularly topical one. The South Asian Studies Council was pleased to host a panel discussion on October 22 with journalists...
Some graduate students who attended Professor Schwarcz's presentation.
On November 7, anthropologist and historian Lilia Moritz Schwarcz offered a talk entitled, “Lima Barreto: A sad visionary in Brazil at the beginning of the XX century” as part of the Council on Latin...
Members of the panel included (left to right) Jamil Anderlini, Jing Tsu, Nuno Monteiro, Peter Salovey, Stephen Roach, and Aleh Tsyvinski. (Photo by Michael Marsland)
President Xi Jinping of China has marked 2049 — the centennial of the founding of the People’s Republic of China — as the date by which his country will be a fully developed and prosperous global...
Daniel Gerlach, editor-in-chief of the German Middle East magazine Zenith
The article below, written by Kelly Wei, appeared in the November 7, 2018, issue of the Yale Daily News. Dozens gathered in Luce Hall on Tuesday to hear from Daniel Gerlach, editor-in-chief of the...