Spring 2016 Newsletter

Ian Shapiro
May 19, 2016
The MacMillan Center celebrated an important milestone this spring semester. April 27 marked the tenth anniversary of the naming of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. In the last ten years, the MacMillan Center has increased its scope and impact,...
Daniel Magaziner
May 19, 2016
The Workshop in African Intellectual History opened on March 31 with Daniel Magaziner’s (Yale University) reflection on what historians can offer “to moments of great restiveness,” such as the present, where students across university campuses are looking to ideas help challenge institutionalized...
May 18, 2016
On April 28, the MacMillan Center organized two panel discussions to mark the 10th anniversary of the naming of the Center. The first panel on “Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Response” was moderated by Ian Shapiro, Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center, and Sterling...
Hicham Alaoui
May 18, 2016
It is worth asking this question because many people, including many Arabs, no longer think so. During 2011-12, the Arab Spring burst into the Middle East political scene like a shock of adrenaline to the immobile bodies of authoritarian regimes. The regional wave of revolutionary protest marked a...
Roméo Dallaire
May 18, 2016
The Genocide Studies Program at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale has been awarded funding from the Charles E. Scheidt Family Foundation. “Unfortunately, genocide and mass atrocities are not a 20th century problem but increasingly a central issue in...
The Church of St. George in Lalibela, Ethiopia. The 13th-century structure is carved from solid rock.
May 18, 2016
The Yale Religious Freedom and Society Project’s work on issues of freedom and civil society and institutions in Christian and Muslim societies of Africa has been recognized by the Center for Early African Christianity (CEAC) with a generous gift to Yale. “We are delighted to be partnering with the...
From left: Eddie Mandhry, Yale University; Malte Lierl, Yale University; Ian Shapiro, Yale University; Ibrahim Gambari, United Nations and Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development; Mark Ogden, Aftrade SA; John Xue, Ogun Guangdong Free Trade Zone.
May 18, 2016
“Our views of African-Chinese relations are at least fifteen years out of date.” Such was the motivating thought expressed by Professor Ian Shapiro (Yale University) at the opening of the Yale Africa-China conference on March 16, held at Lagos Business School in Lagos, Nigeria. Attendees from...
Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev
May 18, 2016
On March 2 the MacMillan Center welcomed former Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations Yuriy Sergeyev. The Ambassador, who is at Yale as a Visiting Fellow, was joined by professors Thomas Graham and David R. Cameron for a panel discussion on the political, social, and economic situation in...
May 18, 2016
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale announces that it will guarantee an international research fellowship to all Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences in the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Beginning in Summer 2016, all...
May 18, 2016
The Fox International Fellowship at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale has expanded to include partner universities in Singapore, Canada, Australia, and Denmark. The Fox International Fellowship is a graduate student exchange program between Yale...
Jean Charest, former Premier of Quebec (2003-12)
May 18, 2016
On March 31, 2016, the MacMillan Center, Research Support Program on Intergovernmental Affairs and Québec Identity, and Québec/United States University Grant Program jointly sponsored a Symposium on “Does Quebec Need a Written Constitution?” at Yale University. The Symposium was convened by Richard...
Thomas Graham
May 18, 2016
On April 6, 2016, the MacMillan Center hosted a roundtable discussion at Whitney Humanities Center with four Eastern European ambassadors to the United Nations: Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev, Former Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN and MacMillan Center Research Scholar; Ambassador Janis...
Marcia Inhorn
May 18, 2016
From April 15-17, Yale hosted an international conference on the theme “Muslim Men: On Love, Nurturance, Care, and Fulfillment.” This conference, sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund and the Council for Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center, featured research from...
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