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… “On Cinques,” The Colored American. October 19, 1839. We are inclined to call the noble African by this name, although … than Spartan spirit, upon the countless white people, who he apprehended would doom them to a life of slavery. He …

… Council Hello everyone, Happy New Year, and welcome back! We hope you have all had restful and productive winter holidays and are as excited about the new term as we are! We have a lot of … Lahiri a scholar of Ancient India from Delhi University, who will speak on the archaeology of Partition; Zoya Hasan, a …

… the first professional scholar of American slavery, who ended his prolific career at Yale. According to Spillman, … without whom the university probably would not exist as we know it today.” In the last decade, though, a great deal … intellectual engagement. “I try to take these people—that are easy to demonize—seriously as scholars, the same way …

… were lots of assumptions built into the schemata of what we were learning in my classes, and anthropology was the one … to go from one village to another, to develop field staff who would get to know villagers and their practices in … And that relationship is not as obvious as “the poorer you are, the worse off you are.” I also want to communicate to …

… grateful to colleagues like Jim Stewart and John Donoghue who share news about ways we can use our academic and intellectual credentials to … no longer matter. And that is the point. Indeed, we are all at risk. Any one of us could be “caught” and ” …

… JUBA, South Sudan (RNS) — Thousands of Southern Sudanese are gathering in churches and mosques in cities and refugee … amid cheers of “Amen” from hundreds of worshippers. “We thank God and pray that he touches the hearts of our … of the population of South Sudan, followed by 33 percent who are followers of African traditional religions. Six …

… land law, the Vietnamese government began introducing what are called land-use rights. This eventually created a massive … Phú Mỹ Hưng (roughly pronounced Foo Mee Hoong). We lived there for five months as a family. I spent another … living there on my own, doing daily interviews with people who lived in this new upper-middle class residential …

… of New York Amy Chazkel is a historian of Latin America who specializes in post-colonial Brazil. She is the … on the history of Early Modern expansion. Among his books are Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil (1973), Early … region. … Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies … /latam/roadahead/may-6-7-2018-conference … May 6-7, 2018 …

… of acclaimed short stories, dramas, and plays. Kaul, who passed away in 2009, was also Raina’s uncle. In a … residency in Bangalore, I found a couple of people. We got together in the summer of 2019 in Bangalore to start … writing has historically been mostly poetry. There are now many short story writers but few novels that I am …

… economic insecurity over economic inequality? There are several reasons. The first is that economic insecurity is … polarization and anti-immigration sentiment. Second, as we learned from Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s critique … to learn that she makes $500,000 less than the attorney who lives next door. What incentives does the business …

… hosted career foreign service officer John Campbell, who currently serves as the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for … capacity, which means that many African populations are likely to get poorer over the coming decades. In addition … for disastrous disease outbreaks like HIV/AIDS and Ebola. “We have to anticipate that in the future there will be more …