The MacMillan Report Video Archive
By Yale MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
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The MacMillan Report is an online video interview show featuring the research of faculty in international and area studies.
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1 | VideoGlobal forest governance | We talk with Ben Cashore, Professor of Environmental Governance and Political Science at Yale's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, about global forest governance. | 30 10 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
2 | VideoThe application of EU Fundamental Rights: Putting the case law of the European Court of Justice into perspective | We talk with Mr. Schima about the application of EU Fundamental Rights to the Member States after Lisbon and putting the case law of the European Court of Justice into perspective. | 30 10 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
3 | VideoAnders Winroth: The Conversion of Scandinavia | Professor Winroth, who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003, specializes in the history of medieval Europe, especially religious, intellectual and legal history as well as the Viking Age. | 10 10 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
4 | VideoDavid Simon talks about building state capacity to prevent atrocity crimes | David Simon studies African politics, focusing on the politics of development assistance and post-conflict situations. We talk with Professor Simon about building state capacity to prevent atrocity crimes. | 10 10 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
5 | VideoGoa: A Postcolonial Society between Cultures | David Jackson is a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. We talk with Professor Jackson about the conference he organized, titled “Goa: A Postcolonial Society between Cultures.” | 22 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
6 | VideoAniconism 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. | 15 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
7 | VideoThe 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. | 8 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
8 | VideoGovernance, 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. | 30 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
9 | VideoRussia on the Baltic: Imperial Strategies of Power and Cultural Patterns of Perception (16th-20th Centuries) | Bradley Woodworth is Coordinator of Baltic Studies at Yale University and Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Haven. | 24 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
10 | VideoChina's Urban Revolution | Helen Siu is a professor of anthropology. Her teaching interests are political and historical anthropology, and urban and global culture change. We talk with Professor Siu about China's urban revolution. | 18 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
11 | VideoLife 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. | 12 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
12 | VideoKnow 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. | 5 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
13 | VideoThe 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. | 28 3 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
14 | VideoSound and Script in Chinese Diaspora | Jing Tsu is Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. We talk with her about her most recent published book, Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora. | 26 3 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
15 | VideoThe Italian Election and the Survival of the Eurozone | David Cameron is a Professor of Political Science at Yale; he will discuss what happened in the Italian election, and how that may affect the survival of the Eurozone. | 12 3 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
16 | VideoGlobal Health Efforts at Yale University | Elizabeth Bradley is the faculty director for the Global Health Initiative and the Global Health Leadership Institute, both of which are at Yale. She is also a professor of public health at Yale’s School of Public Health. | 8 3 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
17 | VideoSacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America | Eboo Patel is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core. Named by U.S. News & World Report as one of “America's Best Leaders of 2009,” we talk with Mr. Patel about his new book, Sacred Ground. | 8 3 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
18 | VideoU.S. Strategy and Statecraft in the Emerging Security Environment | Mario Mancuso is a Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale. We talk with him about U.S. strategy and statecraft in the emerging security environment. | 8 3 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
19 | VideoVerdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich | Gundula Kreuzer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Music at Yale University. We talk with Professor Kreuzer about her new book “Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich.” | 8 3 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
20 | VideoBeyond White Slavery: Policing Women and the Growth of the FBI, 1900-1941 | Jessica Pliley is an assistant professor of women’s history at Texas State University-San Marcos. We talk with her about her book manuscript, Beyond White Slavery: Policing Women and the Growth of the FBI, 1900-1941. | 8 3 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
21 | VideoG-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. | 18 1 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
22 | VideoThe 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. | 4 1 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
23 | Video'Coolies,' Prostitutes, and Outcastes in Meiji Japan's 'Emancipation Moment' | Daniel Botsman is a professor of history at Yale University. We talk with Professor Botsman about his research paper titled "Freedom without Slavery? 'Coolies,' Prostitutes, and Outcastes in Meiji Japan's 'Emancipation Moment.'" | 10 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
24 | VideoUN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: 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. | 28 11 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
25 | VideoThe Transcontinental Maghreb: Francophone Literature in a Mediterranean Context | Edwige Tamalet-Talbayev is an Assistant Professor of French at Yale University. We talk with her about her forthcoming book, "The Transcontinental Maghreb: Francophone Literature in a Mediterranean Context." | 27 11 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
26 | VideoColonel Timothy McAteer on his role as a Military Fellow at Yale University | Colonel McAteer is an active duty U.S. Army Infantry Officer with 23 years of service. We talk with Colonel McAteer about his role as a Military Fellow at Yale. | 19 11 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
27 | VideoCybersecurity | Mr. Graham is a managing director at Kissinger Associates, where he focuses on Russian and Eurasian affairs. We talk with Mr. Graham about cybersecurity - its components and the potential threats to it. | 19 11 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
28 | VideoReforming police departments and deterring drunk driving in India | Professor Keniston's research focuses largely on the role and structure of markets in developing countries. We talk with him about two recent studies he's conducted in India on reforming police departments and deterring drunk driving. | 19 11 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
29 | VideoThe New Arab Man | Professor Inhorn's research interests revolve around science and technology studies; gender and feminist theory. Today we talk with Professor Inhorn about her new book, The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East | 22 10 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
30 | VideoArtists and the Art of Life in 20th Century South Africa | Professor Magaziner is an intellectual historian specializing in 20th century South Africa. We talk with Professor Magaziner about his new research project, On a Contested Canvas: Artists and the Art of Life in 20th Century South Africa. | 17 10 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
31 | VideoWays 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. | 3 10 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
32 | VideoNature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History | Alan Mikhail is a historian of the early modern Muslim world, the Ottoman Empire, and Egypt. | 24 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
33 | VideoThe Politics of Equality | We talk with Professor Natarajan about gender parity issues. She is the current chair of the Women Faculty Forum at Yale, and she recently co-organized the first Gruber conference titled Parity as Practice: The Politics of Equality. | 17 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
34 | VideoHealth 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. | 19 4 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
35 | VideoFinance 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. | 5 4 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
36 | VideoReparations for war damages | We talk with Professor Kalmanovitz about the research he’s done on reparations for war damages. | 29 3 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
37 | VideoThe Relationship between the U.S. and South Asia | Today we talk with Mr. Evans in a personal capacity about the relationship between the U.S. and South Asia. | 20 3 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
38 | VideoThe 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. | 20 3 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
39 | VideoMen - 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. | 1 3 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
40 | VideoWorld 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. We talk with him about his involvement in the World Oral Literature Project. | 29 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
41 | VideoArgentina’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. We talk with him about Argentina’s economy. | 23 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
42 | VideoSupply Side Theory of Treaty Implementation and Compliance | Professor Thania 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. | 15 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
43 | VideoLinguistics in a Colonial World: A Story of Language, Meaning, and Power | Prof. 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. | 9 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
44 | VideoThe 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. | 2 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
45 | VideoSports in Contemporary Japan | Prof. 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 on regional agrarian societies in Japan. | 26 1 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
46 | VideoThe 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. | 26 1 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
47 | VideoLand Ownership and Land Tenure Reform as it Affects Women in Africa | Professor Cheryl 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. | 26 1 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
48 | VideoEurozone Debt Crisis | 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. Professor Cameron talks about the eurozone debt crisis. | 18 11 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
49 | VideoGlobal 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. | 16 11 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
50 | VideoBloodlands: 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. | 3 11 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
51 | VideoInequality 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). We talk with her about that project and her research on inequality and affirmative action. | 27 10 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
52 | VideoElectoral Strategy in India | Prof. Thachil talks about how religious nationalists in India use social services to expand their electoral base among the poor. | 20 10 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
53 | VideoInfanticide in Japan | Professor Drixler teaches Japanese history. We talk with him about his forthcoming book, Infanticide and Fertility in Japan, 1650-1950. | 20 10 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
54 | VideoMarriage 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. We talk with her about the changing trends of marriage and divorce in China. | 20 10 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
55 | VideoEarly Childhood Development and Policy in a Global Context | Professor Britto's primary expertise is in the role of sociocultural factors in child development, and early childhood policies and programs in the developing world. We talk with her about early childhood development and policy in a global context. | 11 10 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
56 | VideoMilitary 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. Lamb talks about his military experience and how it translates to the classroom. | 11 10 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
57 | VideoThe Politics of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America | We talk with Professor De La O about her recent research on the politics of conditional cash transfers in Latin America. | 11 10 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
58 | VideoEgyptology | Professor Darnell’s interests include Egyptian religion, cryptography, the scripts and texts of Graeco-Roman Egypt, and the archaeological and epigraphic remains of ancient activity in the Egyptian Western Desert. | 11 10 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
59 | VideoImperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism | Professor Adria Lawrence is a scholar of the Middle East, with particular expertise in North African politics. | 10 10 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
60 | VideoChinese Cultural and Economic Associations with Tea | Professor Perdue’s research interests lie in modern Chinese and Japanese social and economic history, history of frontiers, and world history. We talk with him about Chinese cultural and economic associations with tea, examined in historical perspecti | 10 10 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
61 | VideoComparative Literature – Its Current Situation and Theoretical Perplexities | Professor Saussy has a range of scholarly interests, including Chinese poetry, literature, aesthetics and culture. We talk with Professor Saussy about comparative literature – its current situation and theoretical perplexities. | 23 9 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
62 | VideoIran and the Future of American Power | Hillary Mann Leverett has more than 20 years of academic, legal, business, diplomatic, and policy experience working on Middle Eastern issues. We talk with Ms. Leverett about Iran and the future of American power. | 23 9 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
63 | VideoLand Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana | Professor Udry is a development economist whose research focuses on rural economic activity in sub-Saharan Africa. In this video, he talks about land rights and agricultural investment in Ghana. | 23 9 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
64 | VideoMental Health of Children in Afghanistan | Professor Panter-Brick's speaks about research she’s done in Afghanistan focusing on the mental health of children. | 22 9 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
65 | VideoAl-Ghazali’s Philosophical Theology | Professor Frank Griffel teaches courses on the intellectual history of Islam, its theology, and the way Islamic thinkers react to Western modernity. | 13 9 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
66 | VideoColonial State-Building in Mexico | Professor Wyrtzen is a comparative-historical sociologist with teaching and research interests in North African society and politics. | 13 9 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
67 | VideoReligious Tolerance During the Spanish Inquisition | Professor Schwartz specializes in the history of colonial Latin America, especially Brazil and on the history of Early Modern expansion. | 13 9 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
68 | VideoColonization, Democracy and Conflict | Much of Professor Wilkinson’s work focuses on India and ethnic violence. We talk with Professor Wilkinson about his current book project on Colonization, Democracy and Conflict. | 13 9 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
69 | VideoGreece and the Eurozone Crisis | Over the past several weeks, the European Union has been caught up in a crisis over the size of the budget deficit in Greece. Prof. Cameron discusses the current eurozone crisis - why it has arisen and what's likely to happen. | 7 9 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
70 | VideoEthnicity and Violence in Chechnya | Jason Lyall’s research focuses on the dynamics of violence in both conventional and guerrilla warfare, with special emphasis on Afghanistan and Russia’s Northern Caucasus—particularly Chechnya. | 7 9 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
71 | VideoAnti-foreign Protests in China | Professor Weiss’ research interests include Chinese politics and international relations, nationalism, and social protest. Before joining the Yale faculty, she founded FACES, the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford University. | 14 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
72 | VideoMaking War in Cote d’Ivoire | Professor McGovern is a political anthropologist who works in West Africa and uses a variety of sources to try to understand postcolonial states within the arc of longer historical trajectories. | 22 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
73 | VideoUnipolarity | We talk with Professor Monteiro about his forthcoming book that addresses three questions related to the topic of unipolarity: Is it peaceful? Is it durable? And, how does it impact deterrence? | 22 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
74 | VideoLeadership Transitions In and Out of Dictatorships | We talk with Professor Debs about his newest paper, Living by the Sword and Dying by the Sword? Leadership Transitions In and Out of Dictatorships. | 7 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
75 | VideoThe Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative | Professor Adorno has done groundbreaking work in Latin American literary studies and has won several awards for it. Her scholarly work focuses on the field of literary cultural production in colonial Latin America. | 10 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
76 | VideoEnd of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan | Professor Saito's research focuses on the institutional determinants of representation and redistribution, in particular how choices of constitutional structures and electoral institutions translate into redistributive consequences. | 9 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
77 | VideoSocial Assistance in South Africa | Professor Seekings is based at the University of Cape Town in South Africa where he has a joint appointment as Professor of Political Studies and Sociology. | 28 4 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
78 | VideoAIDS in South Africa | Professor Nattrass is based at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where she a Professor of Economics and the Director of the AIDS and Society Research Unit. | 20 4 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
79 | VideoJames Scott: The Art of Not Being Governed | The author of several books including Seeing Like a State, Professor Scott’s research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics... | 6 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
80 | VideoMarwan Muasher: Palestinian-Israeli peace talks | We talk with Ambassador Muasher about the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks and his case for taking a regional approach. | 6 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
81 | VideoJulia Adams: The Familial State and Contradictions of Agency | We talk with Prof. Adams about her earlier research on The Familial State and her newer work on Contradictions of Agency in Contemporary America. | 6 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
82 | VideoFlynt Leverett: American grand strategy in the Middle East | We talk with Mr. Leverett about American grand strategy in the Middle East and his judgment that we are on the road to failure in this critical region. | 6 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
83 | VideoRobert Shiller: Fixing the U.S. Financial System | Professor Shiller has written numerous articles and books about financial markets, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, real estate, statistical methods, and public attitudes, opinions and moral judgments regarding markets. He is the former vice president of the American Economic Association and former president of the Eastern Economic Association. Professor Shiller's column "Economic View," appears in The New York Times. We talk with him about The Squam Lake Report – his latest book collaboration with 14 of the world’s leading economists that offers a plan on how to fix our financial system. | 3 11 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
84 | VideoStephen Roach: The Future of China | Mr. Roach talks about the future of China and what it means for the global economy. His most recent book, “The Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization” analyzes Asia's economic imbalances... | 3 11 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
85 | VideoJames Levinsohn: Jackson Institute for Global Affairs | As the Jackson Institute’s first director, Professor Levinsohn, brings a wealth of international experience to that post. We talk with Professor Levinsohn about the new Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. | 3 11 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
86 | VideoAdverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa | Professor Jackson’s research interests focus on Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures; modernist and inter-arts literature; Portuguese culture in Asia; and ethnomusicology. We talk with him about his forthcoming book, Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
87 | VideoAccidental incest and filial cannibalism in Chinese literature | Professor Lu’s research interests include Chinese fiction and drama during the period between 1550 and 1750. We talk with her about her book, Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
88 | VideoInternational election monitoring | Prof. Hyde’s research interests include international influences on domestic politics, elections in developing countries, international norm creation, and the use of natural and field experimental research methods. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
89 | VideoCross-cutting cleavages and ethnic voting in Mali | Prof. Dunning studies comparative politics, political economy, and methodology. We talk with Professor Dunning about a study he recently completed on voting in Mali. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
90 | VideoInternational Criminal Court and Legal Pluralism in Africa | Prof. Clarke’s areas of research explore issues related to religious nationalism, legal institutions, international law, the interface between culture and power and its relationship to the modernity of race and late capitalist globalization. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
91 | VideoSexual violence during war | Professor Wood’s current research focuses on sexual violence during war. We talk with Professor Wood about two of her recently published works on sexual violence during war. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
92 | VideoThe future of Capitalism | Professor Roemer talks about the future of capitalism. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
93 | VideoApocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi'ism | Prof. Amanat’s teaching and research interests include modern Iran and the Middle East, Shi'ism, and apocalypticism. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
94 | VideoSlave traders and colonialism in equatorial Africa | Prof. Harms talks about his newest research, a book called The Imperialists and the Slave Trader: Conflict, Collaboration, and the Making of Colonialism in Equatorial Africa, 1874-1905. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
95 | VideoInternationalizing Yale University | Linda Lorimer, Vice President and Secretary of Yale, has developed an ambitious strategy and numerous programs for internationalizing the University. We talk with her about those plans. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
96 | VideoThe EU and the European economics crisis | Prof. Cameron talks about the EU and the European economics crisis. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
97 | Video"The Familiarity of Strangers" | Professor Francesca Trivellato specializes in the social and economic history of Italy, continental Europe and the Mediterranean in the early modern period. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
98 | VideoThe Unfinished Peace after World War I | Prof. Patrick Cohrs talks about his book "The Unfinished Peace after World War I", which covers the topic of the stabilization of Europe after WWI. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
99 | VideoCaste system in India | Prof. Mridu Rai talks about her new research that explores the relationships between caste, territory, region, and nation as they evolved from the period of British colonial rule. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
100 | Video"1688: The First Modern Revolution" | Prof. Steven Pincus teaches early modern British and European history. Prof. Pincus talks about his newest book called "1688: The First Modern Revolution". | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
101 | VideoThe priority of human development | Professor Gustav Ranis, Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics at Yale, and former Director of the MacMillan Center from 1996 to 2004, talks about his research on the priority of human development. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
102 | VideoRussian Values and Attitudes toward West | Prof. Tsyvinski talks about his new research on Russian values and their attitudes toward the West. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
103 | VideoGlobalization and the Left in Latin America | Prof. Susan Stokes, the John S. Saden Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Yale Program on Democracy, talks about why leftist parties in Latin American countries have recently won so much electoral support. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
104 | VideoRapid Evolution | Prof. Skelly talks about rapid evolution, the idea that evolution can keep pace with environmental change. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
105 | VideoGlobal Health & IOM Report | Prof. Ruger is working to promote the creation of public health programs that make more efficient use of scarce resources while improving current healthcare practices. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
106 | VideoHistorical Narratives of Slavery in America | Professor Blight speaks about his newest book, "A Slave No More". | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
107 | VideoGenocide and Crimes Against Humanity | Prof. Ben Kiernan discusses his book, which is the first global history of genocide. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
108 | VideoCivil Religion | Prof. Philip Gorski talks about Civil Religion and his new theory. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
109 | VideoInnovations for Poverty Action and Commitment | Prof. Dean Karlan talks about Innovations for Poverty Action and commitment contracts at www.stickK.com. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
110 | VideoImpact of the European Convention | Prof. Stone Sweet's research focuses on how rule systems emerge and evolve over time, and with what consequences for society. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
111 | VideoEnvironmental Conflicts in India | Prof. Sivaramakrishnan talks about his new work on environmental conflicts in India. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
112 | VideoSocial Impact of Infertility in Middle East | Prof. Marcia Inhorn is considered to be a pioneer in studying the role of technology in reproductive issues, especially in Muslim settings. | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
113 | VideoGlobal Health | Prof. Thomas Pogge talks about a non-profit organization he leads called Incentives for Global Health and its new flagship proposal, the Health Impact Fund (HIF). | 16 8 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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