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… U.S. and unprecedented floods wreaking havoc from China to Germany, the existential threat of climate change has once … now.” For centuries, annual summer flooding of the Nile was instrumental for agricultural production in ancient … powers? In the case of the Old Kingdom, climate change was just one factor that caused its ultimate downfall, …

… guilt, nor do charges of crimes against humanity require proof, as the charge of genocide does, of specific “intent to …

… of poisoning her owner’s son on New Year’s Eve. She was jailed the next day, tried and convicted of murder within … the end of the month. Jude’s case is unusual in that she was brought before a criminal court as a defendant, with the right to a trial by jury. But the jury of her peers was composed entirely of white men, of who at least four were …

… Arts and Sciences. “The idea is to go beyond the evening news soundbites about China and to root an understanding of … ways than we have in return.” The DeVane Lecture series was established in 1969 to honor William Clyde DeVane, dean … College from 1939 to 1963. The last DeVane Lecture course was “Power and Politics in Today’s World,” taught by Ian …

… chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. DeVane, the medal’s namesake, was dean of Yale College from 1938 until 1963 and was a long-time president of the Yale chapter as well as … friend, Joe Gordon.” Written by Susan Gonzalez for Yale News. Apr 17, 2018 … MacMillan Center … …

… an investiture debate in parliament. But because there was an investiture debate on Mar. 22, if no one is elected by … that, despite the Constitutional Court’s ruling that it was illegal, took place in November 2014 and in which more … Spain, and several days later Puigdemont was arrested in Germany while returning to Brussels by car from a trip to …

… free speech. My father, a soldier in the Togolese army, was forced to watch the execution of 14 of his colleagues in … to Benin, bordering Togo in the east. For weeks, my mother was unable to locate my father. She took my brothers and me … we are proud to call home. https://macmillan.yale.edu/news/trump-trying-kill-program-saved-my-life Oct 3, 2019 … …

… from institutions across South Asia, as well as in Germany, Finland, and the United States. The event was supported by Priyankar Bahadur Chand YC ’16. Shortly … Earth: The World Before and After the Tubewell,” which was placed in conversation with “River Ravi – A Short Film” …

… Greek Revolution and the Greek Diaspora in North America” was the title of the virtual conference honoring the … Ottoman Empire. It took place on Saturday, October 16, and was organized by Maria Kaliambou, Senior Lector at the … from all over the United States, Canada, Greece, Cyprus, Germany, England, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom, even …

… Filming East German Ecology Before and After 1989.”  East Germany’s final decade saw the rise of a new eco-movement, … of a Soviet Nuclear Imaginary.” The Chernobyl disaster was famously censored. The Soviet government initially … taken place, then refused to acknowledge its scale. What was challenging for reporters, documentarians, and artists …

… the Niger Delta. These texts resonated because the region was in the news for the militancy against exploitation by oil companies … across the continent due to mineral extraction, which has poisoned the air and jeopardized foodways. I can go on about …

… scientist Susan Stokes The 2016 U.S. presidential election was a historically divisive contest in which the victorious … was the key takeaway? Did anything surprise you? The good news was that there was a correlation between how important … circumstances have caused democracies to fail? The good news in Latin America is that democracies aren’t failing. …