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...
United NationsBan Ki-moon Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will give the keynote address at the opening session of the eighth Global Colloquium of University Presidents (UNGC) hosted by Yale University and President Peter Salovey.Ban’s address will be on...
An Austrian climate change expert, a Syrian human rights activist, a Chinese journalist, and 13 other game-changing global leaders have been named 2016 Yale World Fellows.This cohort brings the total number of Yale World Fellows since the program’s start...
Daniel Shin, a venture capitalist, senior luxury fashion executive, and a member of the 2013 class of Yale World Fellows, has been named a 2016 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (WEF).Daniel Shin“Each year, we select the most innovative,...
Geoffrey Hartman, a renowned literary scholar and co-founder of the Fortunoff Video Archives for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, died on March 14 at his home in Hamden. He was 86 years old.Geoffrey HartmanHartman, who was Sterling Professor Emeritus of...