“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...
John Githongo, one of Kenya’s most prominent anti-corruption activists and CEO of INUKA Ni Sisi!, an NGO that does work on citizen empowerment and good governance, will give the annual Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 11.Titled “...
Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, will give a series of three talks in November on “The Strategy of Connection” for the Henry L. Stimson Lectures on...
Once a champion debater in high school, Yale senior Joshua Feinzig is well acquainted with the traditional rules and procedures in debate competitions.In a history seminar last year on “Politics and Culture of the U.S. Color Line,” however, Feinzig began...
The preservation of cultural heritage will be the focus of the eighth Global Colloquium of University Presidents (UNGC) being hosted by Yale on April 12-13, along with a series of related public events from April 6–15. Information about the colloquium and...
Citizens of the world must be as fierce in their passion to protect and preserve culture and cultural heritage as extremists are in their desire to destroy it, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told a packed audience at Yale on April 12.“Art, literature...
Of all the accolades she has received as the director-general of UNESCO, Irina Bokova is especially proud of being awarded honorary citizenship of Timbuktu in Mali last summer in recognition of UNESCO’s support in rebuilding mausoleums there that had been...
