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September 20, 2017
Rachel Treisman Sep 20, 2017 In its first year, the 320 York Humanities Programming Endowment is funding three interdisciplinary projects that aim to bring together students...
September 18, 2017
This academic year the History Department welcomes four new full-time faculty members, Deborah Coen (History of Science and Medicine), Samuel Moyn (Law), Sergei Antonov (...
September 7, 2017
In advance of the sesquicentennial in 2018 of the 1868 Meiji Restoration, Professor Daniel Botsman is co-organizing one of three international conferences to mark the...
September 6, 2017
Professor Anne Eller and fellow researchers Erin Zavitz (University of Montana), Lewis Clormeus (l’Université d’État d’Haiti) and Claire Payton (Duke) were...
September 5, 2017
In 2014, Russian historian Andrei Zubov was fired from his Moscow professorship for comparing Putin’s annexation of Crimea to Hitler’s annexation of the Sudetenland.1 Two...
August 31, 2017
The conference “Racism, Antisemitism, and the Radical Right,” taking place at Yale Sept. 10-11, coincides with the national conversation about white supremacist groups in the...
August 30, 2017
There is a history of Muslim women fighting for their rights within Muslim law. Justice Kurian Joseph’s judgment recognises this female interpretative authority, allowing...