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Photo by Carly Wanna
The article below was written by Carly Wanna for the Yale Daily News (Nov. 5, 2018): Many of Yale’s language programs offer opportunities for students to practice their language skills with others...
Abbas Amanat
Abbas Amanat, the William Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale, poured decades of research into “Iran: A Modern History,” his new book charting five centuries of Iranian history and its...
“China 2049 — New Era or New Threat” will feature panelists (left to right) Peter Salovey, Nuno Monteiro, Stephen Roach, Jing Tsu, and Aleh Tsyvinski.
Discussions about U.S.-China relations often focus on the latest headlines — a new round of tariffs or fluctuations in financial markets — while overlooking the need to develop a broader strategy...
Anne Eller, William Rankin, and Anna Zayaruznaya
Three Yale faculty members — Anne Eller and William Rankin in the Department of History and Anna Zayaruznaya in the Department of Music — were awarded the 2018 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for...
The following article, written by Ayumi Sudo, appears in today’s Yale Daily News: The MacMillan Center’s Council on African Studies, in partnership with Yale African Graduate & Professional...
On Thursday, October 11, the European Union Studies Program at the MacMillan Center hosted João Rodrigues, Senior Legal Adviser to the European Parliament Liaison Office with the U.S. Congress and...
Ambassador Karen Pierce, the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations
Ambassador Karen Pierce, the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations, discussed multilateralism in the UN and Europe after Brexit at...
Angela Merkel announcing on Monday that she will step down as CDU leader in December.
On Sunday, voters in the German state of Hesse went to the polls and elected a new Landtag. And as happened in the state election in Bavaria two weeks ago, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and...
Photo from “Tras la sierra (Behind the Hills)” by Juan Pablo Sasiain (Argentina)
The Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY), sponsored by the Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies,...
Christopher Andrew, touted as the doyen of intelligence historians, will give a series of three lectures in November on “The Lost History of Global Intelligence—and Why It Matters” for the Henry L....
Sergio Jaramillo Caro, Colombia’s Former High Commissioner for Peace
Sergio Jaramillo Caro, Colombia’s Former High Commissioner for Peace and who is known for negotiating the historic peace accord that ended a decades-long armed conflict in his country, gave the Coca-...
David Jackson (right), director of undergraduate studies for Portuguese at Yale and one of the key organizers of the conference, “Brazilian Studies in the United States: The Road Ahead.”
The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale will join with the Brazilian Ministry of Education to...