Panels on refugees, global debt highlight MacMillan Center’s 10th anniversary

The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale will conclude its month-long 10th anniversary celebration with two panel discussions on Thursday, April 28 in Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Both are free and open to the public.

The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale will conclude its month-long 10th anniversary celebration with two panel discussions on Thursday, April 28 in Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Both are free and open to the public.

Ian Shapiro

Ian Shapiro, the Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center and Sterling Professor of Political Science, will moderate the first panel, “Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses.” It will take place at 3 p.m. Panelists will include Jason Lyall, associate professor of political science; Mushfiq Mobarak, professor of economics; Catherine Panter-Brick, professor of anthropology; and Margaret Peters, assistant professor of political science.

Ernesto Zedillo, professor in the field of international economics and politics and the Frederick Iseman ’74 Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, will moderate the second panel, “Global Debt: Challenges for Political Governance and Financial Stability.” It will take place at 4:30 p.m. Panelists will include Kathryn Dominguez, professor of public policy and economics, University of Michigan, and two Yale professors: John Geanakoplos, the James Tobin Professor of Economics; and Andrew Metrick, the Michael H. Jordan Professor of Finance and Management.

For more than a half-century, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area studies at Yale and its precursors have served as the university’s focal point for teaching and research on cultures, languages, societies, institutions, and practices around the world. It draws its strength by tapping the interests and combining the intellectual resources of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools. It offers six undergraduate majors: African studies, East Asian studies, Latin American and Iberian studies, Modern Middle East studies, Russian and East European studies, and South Asian studies. At the graduate level, the MacMillan Center provides three master’s degree programs: African studies, East Asian studies, and European and Russian studies. The MacMillan Center also sponsors four graduate certificates of concentration: African studies, European studies, Latin American and Iberian studies, and Modern Middle East studies.

For more information about the MacMillan Center, visit http://macmillan.yale.edu.

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