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… graduate student in history department, spoke with Bhaskar about her work. An edited version of the conversation … Ira Bhaskar, is a professor and scholar of film studies. How have these encounters, both personal and more … of cinema, and your work as an actor? Well, I think I have a pretty schizophrenic relationship to films. I …

… Geographical Review. She is currently working on a book about the local food and community self-governance ordinance … the global economy, most recently Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match. He led the effort to detail a … Called one of the country’s �most established food think tanks� by the New York Times, the Institute for Food …

… energies in developing countries, mainly Latin America and Southeast Asia, in the context of initiatives managed and directed by …

… capitalism has meant in turn that we know more and more about the domestic slave trade whose agents forcibly moved nearly one million enslaved people from the southeast to the southwest over the course of the first sixty … about those agents themselves or about the logistics of how exactly they located, purchased, moved, and then …

… connected to the natural world. So much of the past was about these relationships between humans and nature. Part of … the economy. For me, environmental history allows me to think differently about the Ottoman Empire, as well as to … lives, we are thinking and having conversations about how we live with our changed world. Although the physical and …

… about this year’s festival and its importance to Yale. How did Africa Salon originate? Awachie: In 2014, when I was … Professor Veal and other stakeholders to discuss an event where we would bring together a number of African … to the most interactive elements of the salon — and I think of it as a festival. It was sort of academic in its …

… Rory Stewart, OBE This is “everything that is wrong about how we think about international development,” said Rory Stewart, … and complex as the communities it wishes to serve.  The event was sponsored by the Program on Ethics, Politics, and …

… and the Archives Symposium This symposium will ask about the status of ephemera in African literary and cultural studies. How useful is “ephemera” as a category for thinking about African art forms? How do definitions of ephemera change when materials are …

… In academic year 2018-19, for example, students learned how coffee, first popularly used by mystical Islamic orders … election, this was a great opportunity for young people to think about the U.S. political system and what about its own … When asked post-workshop to share their thoughts on the event, one student wrote “I found it very interesting to be …

… Wittekind is a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale’s Council on Southeast Asian Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Social … of the nineteenth century. In particular, it focuses on how the transnational sharing of conceptions of local custom … history, and constitutional law. Please direct inquiries about the Program in Agrarian Studies to her at …