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Emily Sigman, MF/MA '21, exploring Saint Petersburg's bustling fruit markets. Emily is spending the summer in Russia studying Advanced Russian with the Yale Summer Session, and conducting research on Saint Petersburg's unique, multicultural and perennial fruit markets. Behind Emily is a stand containing fruits from Central Asia. Her research aims in part to untangle the myriad ways both the fruits and the people selling them come to Saint Petersburg.
June 18, 2019
This summer, with support from the MacMillan Center and the Yale Global Food Fellowship, I am studying Russian and exploring one of Europe’s little-known gems: Saint...
Mireille Pardon, Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, in Bruges, June 2019
June 14, 2019
Thanks to funding from the MacMillan Center, I have travelled to Belgium this summer to continue my dissertation research on crime and punishment in late medieval Flemish...
The Lodz ghetto in Poland (Image via nieznany on Wikimedia Commons)
May 23, 2019
Esther F. arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944 — a period when the camp’s crematoriums were operating at full capacity. Esther, a physician, was held for five days...
May 14, 2019
Janine di Giovanni is an award-winning author and journalist, a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, a foreign policy analyst, and a professor at Yale. She is a Senior Fellow at Yale’s...
May 8, 2019
The Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies Program of the MacMillan Center hosted H.E. Elin Suleymanov, the Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United...
May 8, 2019
On April 24, REEES, Slavic Studies, and the History of Art departments welcomed Igor Tsukanov to Yale’s campus. Mr. Tsukanov is an art collector and former financier who...
May 7, 2019
Andrei Semenov, a Visiting Lecturer with the Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies program (REEES) at the MacMillan Center, presented a public lecture entitled “...