September 2019

"Jewish Emancipation Across Five Centuries," A panel discussion on the new book by David Sorkin

The Program in Judaic Studies presents a panel discussion on the new book by Prof. David Sorkin with

Samuel Moyn 
Henry R.Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History

Maurice Samuels
Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French

Marci Shore
Associate Professor of History in European cultural & intellectual history

Elli Stern
Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History; Judaic Sudies, Religious Studies and History

John Harley Warner, "Posing with the Cadaver: Violence, Identity, and the Photographic Group Portraiture in the American Dissecting Room"

Morris Dillard Lecture
 
John Harley Warner
Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine
 
Posing with the Cadaver: Violence, Identity, and the Photographic Group Portraiture in the American Dissecting Room
 
Cohen Auditorium
Yale Child Study Center
NIHB, E-02
230 South Frontage Road
 
Free and open to the public. Light fare will be available.

NY Times Magazine: "The Koch Foundation Is Trying to Reshape Foreign Policy. With Liberal Allies." by Beverly Gage

Last year, the new Project on Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft quietly opened its doors in Cambridge, Mass. A joint venture between Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the program, thus far, has hosted only a modest level of activity, barely noticeable in the thrum of the Boston-area academic scene. Last year, the program supported two visiting scholars. This year, the number is up to four, all with specialties in some aspect of United States foreign relations.

Denise Y. Ho discusses the summer of protest in Hong Kong on History Talk podcast

On the latest edition of History Talk, a podcast produced by the Ohio State University’s Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, assistant professor Denise Y. Ho joins Melvin Barnes in discussing the summer of protest in Hong Kong.  
 
Ho and Barnes examine the historical origins of the contemporary protests, contemporary Hong Kong identity and politics, and what’s at stake in the protests today.  
 

Mitchell Tan's prize-winning senior essay appears in Journal of Vietnamese Studies

Mitchell Tan’s (BA/MA ‘18)  prize-winning senior essay, “Spiritual Fraternities: The Transnational Networks of Ngô Đình Diệm’s Personalist Revolution and the Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1963” was published as an article in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies.  At Yale, Tan’s essay advised by Professor Denise Ho was awarded a 2018 Robert D. Gries Prize for the best essay in a field in history other than American or European.

Undergrad Andrew Song '22 published in Military Review

Andrew Song ‘22 was published by the U.S Army’s professional journal, Military Review.  His article entitled, “Incompatibility and Divorce of Institutions: Civil-Military Conflict in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps’ Departure from Yale during the Vietnam War” appeared in the July-August 2019 issue.  The article describes sources of tension between Yale and the military that were the primary reasons behind ROTC’s expulsion from the uni

400 Years: African Americans, 1619-2019

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of African American Studies at Yale University

Co-sponsored by Yale University’s Department of African American Studies; the Afro-American Cultural Center; the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; the Department of History; the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

Introductions: David W. Blight (Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University)