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September 24, 2019
This is “everything that is wrong about how we think about international development,” said Rory Stewart, British MP and former Secretary of State for International...
September 6, 2019
Three Yale faculty members have been awarded book prizes by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. Two faculty members received...
Isabela Mares (photo by Michael Marsland)
August 27, 2019
Isabela Mares, recently named as the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science, focuses her research on a range of topics in comparative politics and political economy,...
Liliya Dashevski photographing dolls at the Museum of Unique Dolls in Moscow.
August 21, 2019
Thanks to the Program in Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Russia for my dissertation project on dolls and toys in...
The final shot of “Man with a Movie Camera,” dir. Dziga Vertov, 1929.
August 20, 2019
You may not know early Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov by name, but perhaps you’ve heard of his most famous film, “Man with a Movie Camera.” Released in 1929, this non-...
July 8, 2019
On June 20 President Peter Salovey received an honorary degree for his pioneering scholarship on emotional intelligence from Vytautas Magnus University, a leading public...
June 18, 2019
“So far my experience in Geneva has been amazing! I am living just outside the big city, in a quaint town called Nyon. The location of my town is really the best of both...