Yale political scientist Susan Hyde will discuss “Does Democracy Promotion Promote Democracy?” in the next In the Company of Scholars lecture on Tuesday, March 25.Susan HydeThe talk will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 119 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320...
“Governments should be separate from ideologies, and elected representatives of the people should determine the laws that govern them,” said Nobel laureate and Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi during a recent talk at Yale.Shirin EbadiMore than...
Thomas Kent, an editor and journalist at the Associated Press (AP), will speak at Yale on Friday, Feb. 28 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. Kent’s talk is co-sponsored by the Yale Globalist, an undergraduate, international affairs publication (...
Iam Buruma, an award-winning journalist who has covered political and human rights issues, will speak at Yale on Thursday, Feb. 20 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. Buruma’s talk is co-sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies.Iam BurumaBuruma will...
When he graduated from Yale College in 1966, John Kerry delivered the class oration. This May, Kerry — now U.S. secretary of state — will again take the podium before a crowd of graduating seniors, only this time as the keynote speaker on Class Day, part...
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Fareed Zakaria ’86 B.A. will speak at Yale on Wednesday, Feb. 26.Fareed ZakariaHis talk — titled “Is the American Dream Dead?” — will take place 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127...
Before an audience of roughly 100 Yale students, faculty, and staff on Feb. 4 in Battell Chapel, Nina Davuluri — Miss America 2014 — shared her goal of spreading cross-cultural understanding and combating ignorance. Last September, 24-year old Nina...