Professor Denise Y. Ho argues in Foreign Policy that the current trial of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement leaders represents a turning point. In her article she discusses two scenarios, and makes the case that affirming public confidence in Hong Kong’s institutions and values—including freedom of speech and assembly—are in the interest of all.
Yale historian Jay Gitlin will lead a panel discussion on “The Rebranding of Connecticut” on Tuesday, Dec. 4 at 6 p.m. at the New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Ave.
The Los Angeles Review of Books recently featured Professor Denise Y. Ho’s 2018 publication, Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China. Viewing the book through the lens of the history of propaganda, reviewer Yifu Dong (BR ’17) writes, “The stories in Curating Revolution tell a human tale to which many Chinese can still relate today, and Ho’s biggest achievement is tracing the human side of propaganda without getting lost in its inhumane totalitarian mechanism.”
Yale seniors Rayan A.R. Alsemeiry, Eren Orbey, and history major, Riley S. Tillitt will head to Oxford University following graduation as Rhodes Scholars representing the United States. This is the third year in a row that a Yale History major has won the Rhodes Scholarship. Past winners include Daniel Judt and Noah Remnick.
David C. Engerman, newly named to the Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professorship, is a scholar of 20th-century international history.
Building on his dual training in American and Russian/Soviet history at the University of California-Berkeley (where he received his Ph.D.), Engerman wrote two books on the place of Russia and the U.S.S.R. in American intellectual and political life: “Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development” and “Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts.”
“In the introduction to Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography, “My Bondage and My Freedom,” published in 1855, his friend James McCune Smith wrote that if a stranger landed in the United States and sought out its most prominent men by using newspapers and telegraph messages, he would discover Douglass. Born a slave in Maryland, Douglass had escaped to the North to become a renowned abolitionist orator and writer.
“WOMEN IN HISTORY,” Wednesday 4:30PM
Wednesday, November 7th at 4:30 in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 209
Please join us on Wednesday, November 7th at 4:30 in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 209 for “Women in History,” a departmental conversation with faculty and graduate students. This is an opportunity to continue to build a strong community here at Yale and to discuss pressing issues that reach far beyond the boundaries of the History Department.
Stephen Pitti, Professor of History, American Studies, and director of the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Trans National Migration will speak about the significance of Jon Lewis’s photographs of the United Farm Worker’s efforts to organize migrant farm labor in the 1960s.
Please join us for a book talk with Deborah Coen, author of Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale
