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… poet, Du Fu (712–770) came of age at the height of the Tang dynasty, in an era marked by confidence that the … philosophical transitions from the late-medieval into the early-modern period and laid the template for a new and …

… conference entitled “The Caspian in the History of Early Modern and Modern Eurasia.” In addition to the Iranian … the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Emily O’Dell of Yale Law School. These papers focused on Central Asia and the … issues relating to the meaning of the Caspian for Russia’s empire. They addressed the role of Russian Orientalist art …

… of Pennsylvania.  Trenton Wilson is a scholar of early Chinese intellectual and political history. His dissertation, “Empire of Luck: Trust and Suspicion in Early China,” examines political and ethical debates around …

… Memorial Library, Lecture Hall Conference Program This event will bring to the Yale campus past Yale Baltic Studies … Vaidotas Vaičaitis (Spring 2017), Vilnius University Law School Arvydas Grišinas (Fall 2017), Kaunas University of … (University of Tartu) “Discovering Historicity and the Cosmopolitan Perspective”   Inta Mieriņa (University of …

… Fabian Witt is Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His most recent book  Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of … Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law  (Harvard University Press, 2007), and the prize winning …

… and intercessory icons. Because confession in the Russian empire was a legal requirement as well as a religious one, it … Russian and Member Republic Biographical Films during the Early Cold War, 1946-1953,” “Promiscuous Pioneers of … a Secret Service Functionary in Communist Poland as Set by Law and Practice, 1944—1989,” “Sacrifice in the Name of …

… democracy has been shaped by American slavery. In the early United States, the two institutions were linked by … helped reconcile democratic commitments, often forged in cosmopolitan contexts, with the expansion of chattel slavery. …

… in mid-twentieth century Colombia; slavery and the law in the Spanish empire; and the history of Indian and black royalists in … Early Latin America (1983), Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society (1985), Slaves, Peasants, and …