This October on ‘The MacMillan Report’

Modernity and its “discontents," the historic clash between monopoly and free trade, the Islamic jihad, and the 52-year war in Colombia were explored in recent episodes of “The MacMillan Report,” a one-on-one interview show presented by Yale’s Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.

The historic clash between monopoly and free trade, the Islamic jihad, the 52-year war in Colombia, and Bourgeois “discontents” were explored in recent episodes of “The MacMillan Report,” a one-on-one interview show presented by Yale’s Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.

Designed to showcase the innovative research by Yale faculty in international and area studies, “The MacMillan Report” is hosted by Marilyn Wilkes, communications director at the MacMillan Center, and airs on Wednesdays at noon during the academic year. Each segment runs between 15 and 20 minutes long.

Launched in October of 2008, the show has featured more than 200 faculty members (see the show’s archive). Here are the first four shows of the 2016-2017 academic year.

“Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow”

Guest: Steven B. Smith,the Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science
Oct. 26

Smith is the Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Center for the Study of Representative Institutions at the MacMillan Center, which focuses on the theory and practice of representative government in the Anglo-American world. His research interests include the history of political philosophy with special attention to the problem of the ancients and moderns, the relation of religion and politics, and theories of representative government. His best-known publications include “Spinoza’s Book of Life,” “The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss,” and “Political Philosophy.” 

“Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757”

Guest: Emily Erikson, associate professor of sociology
Oct. 19

Erikson conducts research in the fields of social networks, comparative historical sociology, organizations, theory, and economic sociology, with a focus on the role of social networks in historical and cultural change. Her book, “Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757,” won the MacMillan Center’s 2016 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize for best first book.

“Beyond Jihad”

Guest: Lamin Sanneh, the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity
Oct. 12

In addition to his post at the Divinity School, Sanneh is a professor of history, and director of the Project on Religious Freedom and Society in Africa at the MacMillan Center. He is the author of more than 200 articles on religious and historical subjects, and of several books, including “Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity.”

“The 52-year war in Colombia and the hope for peace”

Guest: Ana María Ibáñez, the Rice Visiting Professor andsenior fellow at the MacMillan Center
Oct. 5

Ibáñez is a professor and former dean of the School of Economics at the Universidad de los Andes. Her research focuses on the economic consequences of internal conflict, in particular the costs of war and conflict on the civilian population.

 

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