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The MacMillan Report
by YaleUniversity
The MacMillan Report features one-on-one interviews with Yale faculty in international and area studies about their research. The show airs on Wednesdays at noon during the academic year. Each webisode runs between 15 and 25 minutes long.
Episodes
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Aniconism in Greek Antiquity
Milette Gaifman is an associate professor of the history of art and classics. Her research focuses primarily on Greek religious art. Professor Gaifman is interested in topics such as the divine image in Greek religion, the relationship between artifacts and ritual, the variety of forms in Greek…
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Ruth Barnes talks about the Indo-Pacific Gallery at the Yale University Art Gallery
Ruth Barnes is the Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. she is an art historian in the field of South and Southeast Asian textiles, with a particular interest in the social history of material culture and its anthropological interpretation, and has studied...
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Russia on the Baltic: Imperial Strategies of Power and Cultural Patterns of Perception
Bradley Woodworth is Coordinator of Baltic Studies at Yale University and Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Haven. His research interests include the social and political history of the multiethnic Baltic provinces and the broader northwestern regions of Imperial Russia,...
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Governance, Leadership, Civil Society and the Private Sector: An African Perspective
Mo Ibrahim, founder of Celtel International, one of Africa's leading mobile telephone companies, and The Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which supports good governance and great leadership in Africa, gives the Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture.
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Life and death in late ancient and early medieval Egyptian monasteries
Stephen Davis is a Professor of Religious Studies, specializing in the history of ancient and medieval Christianity, with a particular focus on the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. Since 2006, he has served as Executive Director of the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project, conducting field...
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Know Your Rights India
Ashok Acharya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Joint Director of Developing Countries Research Centre at the University of Delhi. At Yale, Professor Acharya is the Henry Hart Rice Foundation Fellow at the MacMillan Center. He is author of the forthcoming…
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Eliyahu Stern: The relationship between religion and secularism in the rise of Zionism
Eliyahu Stern is Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History; Judaic Studies, Religious Studies and History. He researches the transformation and development of traditional and religious worldviews in Western life and thought. In particular, Professor Stern focuses on...
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Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora
Jing Tsu is Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. She specializes in modern Chinese literature and culture from the 19th century to the present. Her research areas include nationalism, race, diaspora, Sinophone literature, transnational labor, history of science, and different...
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Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora
Jing Tsu is Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. She specializes in modern Chinese literature and culture from the 19th century to the present. Her research areas include nationalism, race, diaspora, Sinophone literature, transnational labor, history of science, and different...
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The Italian Election and the Survival of the Eurozone
David Cameron, Professor of Political Science at Yale; Director of the Program in European Union Studies discusses the Italian Election and the Survival of the Eurozone.
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Global Health Efforts at Yale University
Elizabeth Bradley, Faculty Director for the Global Health Initiative and the Global Health Leadership Institute; Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Public Health discusses Global Health Efforts at Yale University.
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Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America
Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core discusses Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America.
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U.S. strategy and statecraft in the emerging security environment
Mario Mancuso, Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University discusses U.S. strategy and statecraft in the emerging security environment.
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Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich
Gundula Kreuzer, Associate Professor, Department of Music at Yale University discusses Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich.
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Beyond White Slavery: Policing Women and the Growth of the FBI, 1900-1941
Jessica Pliley, Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Fellow, Gilder Lerhman Center, discusses Beyond White Slavery: Policing Women and the Growth of the FBI, 1900-1941.
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Freedom without Slavery? 'Coolies,' Prostitutes, & Outcastes in Meiji Japan's 'Emancipation Moment'
Daniel Botsman is a professor of history at Yale University. He teaches courses on the history of Japan from 1500 to the present. His publications include a translation of the memoirs of a prominent post-war foreign minister, "Okita Saburo: A Life In Economic Diplomacy," and a study of the…
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century
Professor Gage's teaching and research focus on the evolution of American political ideologies and institutions. She teaches courses on terrorism, communism and anticommunism, American conservatism, and 20th-century American politics. Her first book, The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of…
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The Eurozone Debt Crisis
Professor Cameron is the Director of the Yale Program in European Union Studies. He teaches courses on European politics and the European Union. He discusses the on-going eurozone debt crisis which began three years ago, shortly after a newly-elected government in Greece announced that the budget...
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon talks about Syrian civil war, climate change, and food security
Equal parts diplomat and advocate, civil servant and CEO, the Secretary-General is a symbol of United Nations ideals and a spokesman for the interests of the world's peoples, in particular the poor and vulnerable among them. Mr. Ban took office in January 2007. In June 2011, he was unanimously...
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The Transcontinental Maghreb: Francophone Literature in a Mediterranean Context
Edwige Tamalet-Talbayev is an Assistant Professor of French at Yale University. She is also affiliated with the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program, as well as the Council on Middle East Studies and the African Studies Council at the MacMillan Center. Professor Tamalet-Talbayev's research and...
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Daniel Magaziner: Artists and the Art of Life in 20th Century South Africa
Professor Magaziner is an intellectual historian specializing in 20th century South Africa. In 2010 he published his first book, The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, a history of political thought in 1970s South Africa. We talk with Professor Magaziner about his new...
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Marcia Inhorn: The New Arab Man
Professor Inhorn's research interests revolve around science and technology studies; gender and feminist theory, including masculinity studies; religion and bioethics; globalization and global health; cultures of biomedicine and ethnomedicine; stigma and human suffering. Over the past 20 years…
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Dean Karlan: Ways to Help End Global Poverty
Prof. Karlan has been called one of the most creative and prolific young economists in the world. His research lies at the intersection of two of the hottest areas in the field: behavioral economics and development micro finance. With $3.4 million in funding he just received from Citi Foundation,...
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Alan Mikhail: Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History
Alan Mikhail is a historian of the early modern Muslim world, the Ottoman Empire, and Egypt whose research and teaching focus mostly on the nature of early modern imperial rule, peasant histories, environmental resource management, and science and medicine. In one of the first environmental...
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Priya Natarajan: The Politics of Equality
Priya Natarajan, Professor of Astronomy and Physics Description: Professor Natarajan is a theoretical astrophysicist interested in cosmology, gravitational lensing and black hole physics. Her research involves mapping the detailed distribution of dark matter in the universe exploiting the bending...
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Jennifer Ruger: Health and Social Justice
Professor Ruger has authored numerous theoretical and empirical studies on the equity and efficiency of health system access, financing, resource allocation, policy reform, and social determinants of health. These contributions are unified by an overarching interest in equity and disparities in...
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Robert Shiller: Finance and The Good Society
The New York Times best-selling economist is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage meltdown. Yet he is no apologist for the sins of finance. We talk with Professor Shiller about his new and...
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Pablo Kalmanovitz: Reparations for war damages
Pablo Kalmanovitz specializes in the political theory of human rights and humanitarianism. Professor Kalmanovitz has written articles and edited volumes on transitional justice, post-war reconstruction, and the regulation of warfare, and is currently working on a book project on the history of…
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Andrew Hill: The Climate's Influence on Human Evolution
Professor Hill is interested in the whole range of human evolution, particularly in the environmental and ecological context in which it occurred. Since 1968 he has carried out fieldwork in eastern Africa, in Pakistan, and in the United Arab Emirates. For many years he has directed the Baringo...
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Alexander Evans: The Relationship between the U.S. and South Asia
Mr. Evans recently was the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress, and previously worked at the Department of State as a senior advisor, first to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and then to Ambassador Marc Grossman, the U.S. Special...
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Richard Bribiescas: Men - Evolutionary and Life History
Professor Bribiescas' research involves the evolutionary biology and endocrinology of human and comparative life histories, reproduction, aging, and metabolism. He is the author of Men: Evolutionary and Life History. We talk with Professor Bribiescas about the male species from a life history and...
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Domingto Cavallo: Argentina's Economy
Currently the Chairman and CEO of DFC Associates, a consultancy firm, Mr. Cavallo was Argentina's Minister of Economy from 1991 to 1996 and in 2001, and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1991. He was elected National Congressman on two occasions, and also served as Chairman of the Central...
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Thania Sanchez: Supply Side Theory of Treaty Implementation and Compliance
Professor Sanchez's teaching and research focuses on international cooperation and international law. In particular, she studies how international law and organizations shape international security and human rights policy. She is currently working on a book on the domestic political factors that...
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Joseph Errington: Linguistics in a Colonial World: A Story of Language, Meaning, and Power
Professor Errington is interested in the linguistic dimensions of social life, ranging from the social implications of patterns of verbal communication, to forms and uses of sociolinguistic hierarchies, to the linguistic effects of large scale dynamics. His research and writing have focused on...
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo: The Time of Popular Sovereignty: Process and the Democratic State
Professor Paulina Ochoa Espejo specializes in contemporary political theory and the history of political thought. We talk with her about her new book, The Time of Popular Sovereignty: Process and the Democratic State. In it, she offers a new theory of democratic peoplehood, laying the foundations...
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Rakesh Mohan: The Economy of India
Rakesh Mohan is one of India's senior-most economic policymakers and an expert on central banking, monetary policy, infrastructure and urban affairs. He is a former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. As Deputy Governor he was in charge of monetary policy, financial markets, economic...
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William Kelly: Sports in Contemporary Japan
Professor William Kelly, Professor of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, is a noted authority on the social and historical anthropology of Japan. He has focused much of his research in the last two decades on regional agrarian societies in Japan. Since 1996, however…
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Cheryl Doss: Land Ownership and Land Tenure Reform as it Affects Women in Africa
Professor Doss' research interests center around household decision-making in rural households, especially in Africa. In particular, she is interested in how social and economic changes affect the dynamics of decision-making within households. Much of Professor Doss' current work focuses on…
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Narges Erami: Persian Rug Bazaar
Professor Narges Erami primarily works on the relationship between economy and religion and how it is played out in rituals of everyday life. Her research is centered in the Holy City of Qum in Iran. Professor Erami's work includes a historical and ethnographic study of carpet merchants, and she…
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Mark Turin: World Oral Literature Project
Professor Turin is an anthropologist and a linguist. His scholarly focus is on the Himalayan region, in particular Nepal, northern India, Bhutan and cultural Tibet. Professor Turin's research interests include the documentation of endangered languages and mapping global cultural diversity…
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Deborah Davis: Marriage and Divorce Trends in China
Professor Davis's primary teaching and research interests are historical and comparative sociology, inequality and stratification, and contemporary Chinese society. She is a member of the national Committee on U.S. China relations and has just completed a six year term chairing of the social...
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David Cameron: Eurozone Debt Crisis
rofessor Cameron teaches courses on European politics and the European Union. Over the past year and a half, the members of the European Union that have adopted the euro have been immersed in a seemingly- never-ending debt crisis. First Greece, then Ireland and Portugal, and now Greece again…
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Kaveh Khoshnood: Global Health Education
Professor Kaveh Khoshnood is an infectious disease epidemiologist and his primary research interests are the epidemiology, prevention and control of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis among drug users, prisoners and other at risk populations in United States and in resource-poor countries. He also mentors...
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Timothy Snyder: Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Professor Snyder teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in modern East European political history. He is the author and co-editor of several award-winning books. We talk with Professor Snyder about his most recent book, a critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller entitled Bloodlands:...
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Sara Shneiderman: Inequality and Affirmative Action in India and Nepal
Professor Shneiderman is a socio-cultural anthropologist working in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, India and China (especially the Tibetan Autonomous Region). Her research addresses the relationships between political discourse, ritual practice, cultural performance and cross-border migration in...
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Fabian Drixler: Infanticide in Japan
Professor Drixler teaches Japanese history. We talk with him about his forthcoming book, Infanticide and Fertility in Japan, 1650-1950.
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Lt.Gen. Sir Graeme Lamb (Ret.): Military Experience in the Classroom
Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb is a retired British Army officer with 38 years experience and a former Commander of the Field Army. Currently he is spending a semester at Yale as a Jackson Institute Senior Fellow teaching the Middle East and Central Asia module of its Gateway to Global…
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Marci Shore: Eastern Europe After the Fall of Communism
Professor Shore teaches European intellectual history. She is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918 to 1968, and the translator of Michal Glowinski‘s Holocaust memoir, The Black Seasons. We talk with her about the book she's currently finishing, The...
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Tariq Thachil: Electoral Strategy in India
Professor Tariq Thachil's research focuses on political parties and party-voter linkages, social movements, ethnic politics, and South Asian politics. His work has appeared in Comparative Politics and Contemporary South Asia. Professor Thachil talks about how religious nationalists in India use...
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Pia Rebello Britto: Early Childhood Development and Policy in a Global Context
Professor Britto is known nationally for her work on young children's literacy, and social and identity development of Muslim Arab children, as well as internationally for her scientific commitment to cross-cultural issues, evidence-based national policy development, and early learning standards...
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The MacMillan Report features one-on-one interviews with Yale faculty in international and area studies about their research. The show airs on Wednesdays at noon during the academic year. Each webisode runs between 15 and 25 minutes long.
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