Ben Cashore is Professor of Environmental Governance and Political Science at Yale's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. His research interests focus on non-state market-driven environmental governance, the impact and opportunities of globalization and internationalization on domestic and local environmental policy, corporate sustainability initiatives, and comparative environmental policy. He is a prolific author of books and articles that integrate public policy, corporate social responsibility and international environmental governance. We talk with him about global forest governance.
Mr. Schima is a legal adviser in the Euorpean Commission's Legal Service. He has studied law in Vienna, where he was born, and in Paris and at Harvard Law School. From 1995 to 2003, he was a member of the chambers of Judge Dr. Peter Jann at the European Court of Justice. In 2003, Mr. Schima joined the European Commission's Legal Service. He has taught and published extensively on various matters of European Union law. We talk with him 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.
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. We talk with him about his new book, "The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe," which recently won the MacMillan Center’s Gustav Ranis International Book Prize. Anders Winroth is Forst Family Professor of History at Yale University.
David Simon studies African politics, focusing on the politics of development assistance and post-conflict situations, particularly in Rwanda. He is editor of the Historical Dictionary of Zambia, and has contributed to Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, and the Journal of Genocide Research. He also teaches classes on international relations in Africa and the comparative politics of development. Today we talk with Professor Simon about building state capacity to prevent atrocity crimes.
David Jackson is a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. His research interests include Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures; Camões, Machado de Assis, Fernando Pessoa; modernist, vanguardist, and inter-arts literature; Portuguese culture in Asia; and ethnomusicology. We talk with Professor Jackson about the conference he organized, titled “Goa: A Postcolonial Society between Cultures.”
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 art - from the naturalistic to the non-figural - and the historiography of the scholarship of Greek art. We talk about her new book, "Aniconism in Greek Antiquity," which was recently awarded the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize by the MacMillan Center. The prize is awarded annually for the best first book by a member of the Yale faculty.
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 textiles from South and Southeast Asia, as well as from the Islamic world, from this perspective. We talk with Dr. Barnes about the new Indo-Pacific Gallery.
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.
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, including St. Petersburg and Finland. We talk with Professor Woodworth about the most recent volume he co-edited with Karsten Brüggemann of the University of Tallinn, entitled Russia on the Baltic: Imperial Strategies of Power and Cultural Patterns of Perception (16th-20th Centuries).
Helen Siu is a professor of anthropology. Her teaching interests are political and historical anthropology, and urban and global culture change. For the past four decades, Professor Siu has explored the nature of the socialist state and the refashioning of identities in South China. More recently she is researching the rural-urban divide in China, cross-border dynamics in Hong Kong, and historical and contemporary Asian connections. We talk with Professor Siu about China's urban revolution.
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 work and training graduate students at two sites in Egypt: the White Monastery near Sohag and the Monastery of John the Little in Wadi al-Natrun. We talk with Professor Davis about life and death in late ancient and early medieval Egyptian monasteries.
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 volume Equality, Difference and Group Rights: The Case of India. Professor Acharya's research interests encompass contemporary and comparative political theory, affirmative action, and ethics and public policy. We talk with him about his project called Know Your Rights India.
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 modern Eastern European Jewry, Zionism, secularism, and religious radicalism. His first book, The Genius Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism, has just been released by Yale University Press. We talk with Professor Stern about his next project dealing with the relationship between religion and secularism in the rise of Zionism.
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 approaches to large-scale literary and cultural studies. Author of Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 and Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora, Professor Tsu is also co-editor (with David Der-wei Wang, Harvard) of Global Chinese Literature: Critical Essays and (with Benjamin A. Elman, Princeton) Science in Republican China (forthcoming). We talk with her about her most recent published book, Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora.
David Cameron is a Professor of Political Science at Yale and the Director of the Program in European Union Studies at the MacMillan Center. He has been on the show a number of times to talk about the ongoing Eurozone debt crisis. Because of the European Central Bank's announcement last summer that it will do "whatever it takes" to ensure the survival of the euro, there has been a sense that the worst of the crisis is over and that the euro would survive. But that was before the recent Italian election. Professor Cameron will discuss what happened in the Italian election, and how that may affect the survival of the Eurozone.
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. Professor Bradley’s research focuses on health delivery systems and quality improvement and has contributed important findings about organizational change and quality of care within the hospital, nursing home, and hospice settings. She has been involved with several projects that aim to strengthen health systems in international settings, including China, Ethiopia, Liberia, South Africa and the United Kingdom. We talk with Professor Bradley about the global health efforts at Yale, as well as some of her recent work as a recipient of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant.
Eboo Patel is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core. He is at Yale to give the Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture at the MacMillan Center. Named by U.S. News & World Report as one of “America's Best Leaders of 2009,” Mr. Patel is the author of the book Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America, and his 2007 autobiography, Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. He is also a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Today we talk with Mr. Patel about his new book, Sacred Ground.
Mario Mancuso is a Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale. Mr. Mancuso is a national security and foreign affairs expert who has served in a variety of leadership roles in the U.S. government, including as Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism. Currently, he is a corporate partner and Chair of the International Trade and Investment practice at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Mr. Mancuso's particular area of focus is the relationship between U.S. national security and globalization. We talk with him about U.S. strategy and statecraft in the emerging security environment.
Gundula Kreuzer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Music at Yale University. In both her writing and her teaching, Professor Kreuzer approaches music from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives, such as social, cultural, and political history as well as theories of multimedia. We talk with Professor Kreuzer about her new book “Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich.”
Jessica Pliley is an assistant professor of women’s history at Texas State University-San Marcos. She is here at Yale as the Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Fellow at the Gilder Lerhman Center. Professor Pliley has authored an article exploring the feminist politics within the League of Nations Committee on the Trafficking of Women and Children in the Journal of Women’s History and another article that examines how concerns about white slavery served to bolster some women’s rights advocates’ claims that women be included in the federal immigration service at the turn of the century. We talk with her about her book manuscript, Beyond White Slavery: Policing Women and the Growth of the FBI, 1900-1941.