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… previous books, most of them about everyday life in South Africa in the period stretching from late apartheid to the … Literature Prizes and was twice winner of South Africa’s premier nonfiction prize, the Sunday Times Alan … is currently teaching two seminars at Yale, ‘Pandemics in Africa: From the Spanish Influenza to Covid-19,’ and …

… where he focuses on international security and sub-Saharan Africa.  Most recently, his studies have taken him to … past summer researching Boko Haram, Islamic State – West Africa, and transitional justice in the Lake Chad Basin. … D.C., researching conflicts and human rights issues in Africa, helping draft memos for Congress and the NGO …

… dominion; colonial transformation of Indian politics, society, economy, and culture; nationalism before and after … of calligraphy and ceramics, from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. The class is supplemented by visits to … from India, China, and Japan. Readings range from religious and philosophical texts to literature of the court, …

… treating me differently. So that I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my … cordiality with which members and ministers of various religious bodies, and of various shades of religious opinion, … me by persons of the highest rank in society—the spirit of freedom that seems to animate all with whom I come in …

… holding slaves—the subject being considered in a moral and religious point of view. You were pleased, sir, to signify, … doctrine, and the manner of obtaining slaves from Africa is just; and if also purchasing them has been the … lusts and passions, they cannot be free. And the more freedom of action they have in this state, they are but the …

… is also the author of “The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World,” which won the … in 2019 for his book “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.” Grandin joined the Yale faculty in the fall of …

… issues, from conservation policy and migration studies to religious movements and regional art history. The central … St. Paul, Minn.; Andrew Quintman, assistant professor of religious studies at Yale University; Sara Shneiderman, … for conference website. See https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/himalayan-studies-conference-at-yale for the …

… Affairs at The Hindu, one of India’s largest national news dailies, where he writes regular columns, op-eds, … Economics of Development, Money and Banking, Economy and Society of Africa, and Microeconomics at New York University for four …