Genevieve LeBaron and Kevin Bales, members of the Gilder Lehrman Center’s Modern Slavery Working Group, joins Thomas Thurston to discuss forced labor and modern slavery. Listen to their...
On Monday, February 26, the Hellenic Studies Program at the MacMillan Center hosted a presentation by Dimitri Gutas, Professor of Arabic and Graeco-Arabic, Yale University, on “Hellens, Romans,...
When he announced the Yale African Initiative (YAI) during his inaugural address in 2013, President Peter Salovey promised to “foster new directions in research on Africa, identify new partnerships...
On Sunday, Europe breathed a collective sigh of relief when the German Social Democratic Party announced its members had approved its coalition agreement with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic...
Sarah Chayes has spent her career examining how corruption can lead to terrorism, revolutions, environmental degradation and more.
A senior fellow in the Democracy and Rule of Law program of the...
President Salovey will visit Africa this month. Here is a look at the scholarship, research, and collaborations between Yale and partners across Africa. Link to full article
While Europe contemplated the stunning and troubling results in Sunday’s election in Italy, it could take some comfort in knowing there will soon be, more than four months after the September...
There was a time when Albert Laguna thought his father was the funniest man in the world. Until, that is, he began to research the topic of popular culture in Cuba for his recently published book...
Sarah Chayes, a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Democracy and Rule of Law program and the author of Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, will give the annual Coca-Cola World Fund...
On December 12, 2017, the Yale Art Gallery hosted a performance of Barikan, a ritual drama of Indonesia, using shadow puppets (wayang kulit - a dramatic form involving puppetry - derived from a...
True to Yale’s mission as a liberal arts university, every undergraduate student is required to gain proficiency in a new language before graduating. Although Yale offers over 50 languages ranging...
On February 16, the Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies at the MacMillan Center held a round-table discussion entitled “Rebuilding Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.” The discussion...
