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… Locust Bean (ALB), that grows across West/Central Africa. My research is based out of Mali in a rural 1,200 person … of fermentation. Soumbala has huge economic value for some women, as women are almost exclusively involved in preparing … Traditional hunters in rural Mali explained their long-standing role as the protecting “eyes” of the forest. …

… to redress by those laws until the contrary appears. ‘It would be running the slavery question into the ground,’ said … the color of the two races, and which must always exist so long as white men are distinguished from the other race by … of their civil rights solely upon the basis of race. In my opinion, the judgment this day rendered will, in time, …

… Leader Mitch McConnell’s effort to ram repeal through that night having failed to find a replacement bill that could … Budget Office had estimated that the McConnell bill would cost 17 million Americans their insurance in the coming … gave more than a dozen Republican states a green light to go back into court, again challenging the law’s …

… they brought to bear on the coronavirus crisis. How do we get politicians to treat climate change with the same sense … this crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed striking, long-standing health disparities in our nation. President … and calls for justice we ask: What is to be done? This is My Generation’s Civil Rights Movement Valerie Strauss, …

… in the Department of African American Studies and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University. … Her research and teaching interests include hemispheric Black feminist politics, Black diasporic women’s art, and the … gendered, and territorial dispossession with the centuries-long struggle for autonomy on the Miskitu Coast, she …

… different from all other men, The world is studying you. My grandfather cursed my father, For Noah cursed Ham, you … know; Therefore, my father’s children, The rocky road must go. We can’t turn here, We can’t turn there, Because the world’s in doubt, What we would do, Where we would go, What we would be about. I’m …

… the Working Conditions of Chinese Food-Delivery Drivers”? My essay considers food-delivery labor in contemporary China. … drivers who rely on gig work for their main income. What would you say was the most interesting finding of your … If so, where and when, and what type of program? Did you go on a Light Fellowship? Thankfully, yes! COVID interrupted …

… portrayals of war, real and staged “ Before the Event/After the Fact: Contemporary Perspectives on War ,” an … are photographs by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, An-My Lê (Yale M.F.A. ’93), and Peter van Agtmael (Yale B.A. … Games.” Farocki directed more than 120 films over his long career, many of which combine filmed and appropriated …

… Liturgical Levitation of Douceline of Digne Please join us for a lunchtime talk with Institute of Sacred Music … their lives of prayer. Despite this lacuna, scholars have long recognized the centrality of liturgical practice to … and levitations. This talk will provide an introduction to my current book project, The Practice of Ecstasy: Liturgical …

… Governor’s Distinguished Service Award. Jim contacted us shortly after we began our research and has been an … with an Irish paternal grandfather. I’ve been tracing my Irish roots. The results are shaping up to be one of the … it is a history that should be built on solid ground. I would not want to see us suffer from the Thomas Jefferson …

… the Conservatives in the two polls is, of course, still a long way from the 42 percent the party won in the 2017 … Labour Party, by a substantial margin: 38 percent said he would make the best prime minister, compared to 17 percent … by the House, 45 percent of the voters think he should go ahead with Brexit on Oct. 31 even if it means leaving with …

… Music: Poland in its European Context” in Warsaw, Poland My talk was scheduled on a panel dedicated to Romantic song … and European contexts, so it was crucially helpful to get this variety of perspective in feedback on my paper. I … Historical musicology is a far narrower discipline in the US than it is in Germany, and it was inspirational to …