October 2017

Foreign Policy: "The Poet Laureate of Hybrid War" by Marci Shore

On Dec. 1, 2013, at least half a million people gathered on the Maidan, the large public square in the center of Kiev. They came to express their outrage at Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who the day before had sent Berkut, his riot police, to bludgeon the students protesting his sudden refusal to sign an association agreement with the European Union. For these young people, Yanukovych’s decision foreclosed the European future they had imagined for themselves.

Bill Rankin awarded Edelstein Prize for best book in the history of technology

This weekend the Society for the History of Technology awarded Bill Rankin the 2017 Sidney Edelstein Prize for the best book in the history of technology. The award was for his book After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century, published last year by the University of Chicago Press.

Ramalingam: Teaching the Art of Discovery

According to Chitra Ramalingam, the assistant curator of photography at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) who is also a lecturer in History and in the program in History of Science and Medicine, there is no better place to teach a course on the interdisciplinary history of photography than at Yale. This is largely because, as an old and storied research institution, Yale is a repository of photographs used across the disciplines over nearly two centuries of the medium’s existence. In 2010, four years before Ramalingam arrived on campus, the Andrew W.

LA Review of Books: Denise Y. Ho on Art and China After 1989 at the Guggenheim

In this article for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Denise Ho, assistant professor of twentieth-century China in the history department, reviews the Guggenheim’s new exhibit: Art and China After 1989. Professor Ho addresses the removal of controversial art pieces and suggests that by leaving their traces in the exhibition, the curators made their own installations. With the support of Yale’s Council for East Asian Studies, Professor Ho will lead a group of students to tour the exhibition in November.  
 

Anna Muller, "If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland"

Discussion with Anna Muller, moderated by Marci Shore
 
Anna Muller is assistant professor of history and Frank and Mary Padzieski Endowed Professor in Polish/Polish American/Eastern European Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Before coming to University of Michigan, Prof. Muller was curator of the Holocaust exhibit at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland. Her book If the Walls Could Speak, set inside a women’s prison cell in Stalinist Poland, is being published by Oxford University Press this fall. 

YDN: Chris Murphy and history professor Abbas Amanat condemn Trump on nukes

Will Wang Oct 13, 2017

With United States-North Korea relations growing tenser by the day, Yale professor Abbas Amanat joined Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., in Hartford on Wednesday to condemn the approach of President Donald Trump’s administration to nuclear proliferation around the world.

In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly made comments suggesting the U.S. would consider military action if North Korea did not limit or end its nuclear program. Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, asserted that these threats only served to escalate the situation.