Sir Salman Rushdie
by Jasmine Horsey On Wednesday afternoon, British-Indian novelist Sir Salman Rushdie gave a Yale audience insight into his controversial history. Early on Valentine’s Day 1989, Rushdie awoke to a phone call from a then-prominent BBC journalist. She opened with one question: “How does it feel to know you have just been sentenced to death by...
“Civilian Targeting in Civil War”
by Jackson Busch On Tuesday afternoon, Luis de la Calle delivered the latest installment of the Order, Conflict and Violence Program Speaker Series. His talk, titled “Civilian Targeting in Civil War: Shining Path in Peru, 1980-1995” focused on patterns of insurgency and civilian targeting during Peru’s bloody internal conflict. In selecting this topic, de la...
Carl Sandberg ’14, Uppsala, Sweden
by Aaron Gertler There are meatballs on the menu the night I sit down with Carl, but they are more than one inch in diameter and not served with lingonberry jam, and thus do not count as Swedish meatballs. But that’s okay. Carl is Swedish enough to satisfy the rigorous VG requirements even without...
Doctors with Borders: Challenges in Humanitarian Aid
by J. R. Reed On Wednesday afternoon, the Yale International Relations Association presented “The Instrumentalization of Aid and the Challenges of Negotiating Space for Humanitarian Action” with U.S. Executive Director of Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontiéres), Sophie Delaunay, who outlined the difficulties her organization faces in providing medical aid in the twenty-first century. Delaunay,...
Heartbeat: Coexistence through Music
by Zoe Rubin “Bukra fi mishmish,” sang Guy Geffen, a musician and activist from Rehovot, Israel. The rest of his ensemble—a group of singers, rappers, gutairists, violinists, guitarists, and drummers—repeated the phrase. Blending and harmonizing, the chorus grew louder and louder: “Bukra fi mishmash!” ‘Bukra fi mishmash’ is Arabic for ‘when pigs fly.’ Or, as...
David Brooks – Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
by Jasmine Horsey On Tuesday afternoon, conservative pundit and New York Times columnist David Brooks delivered a Jackson Institute Senior Fellows Lecture. His talk, titled “What Would Plutarch Write About Today?,” addressed the shift in moral culture that has taken place worldwide since the 1940s. Brooks, who is part of the Grand Strategy Program...
Luis Moreno Ocampo and the Rise of the International Criminal Justice System
by Zoe Rubin On Tuesday, Dr. Luis Moreno Ocampo, until recently Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered the Inaugural Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Global Justice at Yale Law School. Contrary to some expectations, rather than deliver an impassioned plea for the U.S. to ratify the ICC’s founding treaty (which it has only...
Kevin Kallaugher Talks Political Comics and their Global Importance
by Anna Meixler On Tuesday afternoon, undergraduates convened in WLH to hear from Kevin Kallaugher as part of the YIRA speaker series. Kallaugher is a world-renowned political cartoonist, who, as the first full-time cartoonist at The Economist, has drawn over 140 covers and published more than 7,000 cartoons, depicting every major head of state throughout...
Olga Karnas ’16: Bochnia, Poland
by Aaron Gertler Note to readers: It’s been a while since the last update. My previous post, on a student who spent most of his or her life in a country without much freedom of speech, was taken down due to concerns for the potential well-being of that student’s family were someone in authority to...
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