The MacMillan Report at Yale The MacMillan Report at Yale
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In a one-on-one interview format, The MacMillan Report features Yale faculty in international and area studies and their research. Hosted by Marilyn Wilkes, director of communications at the MacMillan Center, the goal of The MacMillan Report is to showcase the innovative work that the Yale faculty affiliated with the MacMillan Center are doing, and to share this impressive body of research with the Yale community and the world.
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Kaveh Madani talks about environmental security in the Middle East.
Kaveh Madani is a Henry Hart Rice Senior Fellow at the MacMillan Center. He is an environmental scientist, educator, and activist, who works at the interface of science, policy, and society. He previously served as deputy head of Iran’s Department of Environment and is known for his role in raising public awareness about water and … Read More Read More
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Noël Valis talks about Lorca After Life
Noël Valis is a professor of Spanish who studies interdisciplinary approaches to modern Spanish culture, including religion, literature, and celebrity. She has received a number of honors and awards, including the Victoria Urbano Academic Achievement Prize in 2017 for her work in Hispanic women’s and gender studies. Learn more about Noël Valis.
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Eric Greene talks about Chan Before Chan: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism
Professor Greene specializes in the history of medieval Chinese Buddhism. Much of his recent research has focused on Buddhist meditation practices, including the history of the transmission on Indian meditation practices to China, the development of distinctly Chinese forms of Buddhist meditation, and Buddhist rituals of confession and atonement. In addition to these topics, he … Read More Read More
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Ranu Roychoudhuri talks about her project, Photographs of People, Monument for a City
Ranu Roychoudhuri talks about her project, Photographs of People, Monument for a City. Professor Roychoudhuri is a visiting scholar in the South Asian Studies Council. She comes to Yale from the Indian Institute of Technology, where she is assistant professor of humanities and social sciences. She is a historian of photography and art with interests … Read More Read More
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Marian Chertow talks about industrial ecology and symbiosis in the developing world
Marian Chertow, Professor of Industrial Environmental Management, talks about industrial ecology and symbiosis in the developing world. Professor Chertow’s research and teaching focus on industrial ecology, circular economy, waste management, and urban sustainability. Her work has championed the study of industrial symbiosis involving geographically based exchanges of materials, energy, water, and wastes within networks of … Read More Read More
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Cécile Fromont talks about the circulation of African visual, material, and religious culture in the context of the Slave Trade within the early modern Atlantic world.
Professor Fromont’s writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin America with a special emphasis on the early modern period and on the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic World. Her first book, The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo won a number of awards. Her essays … Read More Read More