Robert "Judy" Gordon MacMillan (3 April 1865 – 3 April 1936) was a Scottish international rugby union player. (Wikipedia).
Canada In The World: A Conversation with the Hon. John Baird
Canada In The World A Conversation with the Hon. John Baird Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs (2011-15) October 5, 2015 Sponsored by the Committee on Canadian Studies and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.
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New U.S. Administration’s Policy Towards Eastern and Central Europe
David Cameron, Professor of Political Science; Director of European Union Studies Program (relations with Central European states) Thomas Graham, Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute (relations with Russia) Yuriy Sergeyev, Rice Faculty Fellow, Yale (relations with Ukraine) Sponsored by the Eur
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Rory Stewart OBE: "Failed States - and How Not to Fix Them"
Rory Stewart, O.B.E., the member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border (the largest geographical constituency in England), author, senior diplomat, the founder of Turquoise Mountain, and a documentary maker, presented the George Herbert Walker Jr. Lecture in International Studies at Yal
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A Conversation About Frederick Douglass
A conversation about Frederick Douglass with Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center, David W. Blight, Professor of African American Studies, Robert Stepto, and moderated by Crystal Feimster, Associate Professor of African Studies, American Studies and History.
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Lord Walter Thomas Layton - This I Believe (1950s) - Radio broadcast
Walter Thomas Layton, 1st Baron Layton. A British economist and Liberal Party politician. 1922 - 1938 Editor of The Economist. 1930 - 1940 Editorial director of the News Chronicle.
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Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev: The Current State of Ukraine’s Government
Yuriy Sergeyev is a former Ukrainian diplomat and politician, who has served as Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. He is here at Yale as a visiting fellow in the Council on European Studies at the MacMillan Center. Episode April 20, 2016
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Chris Hadfield discusses life skills with Macmillan (Pt 1)
Celebrated astronaut, Chris Hadfield, visited our office for an exclusive interview to help launch Macmillan Life Skills. In part 1, Chris explains which skills were crucial to him during his time as Commander of the International Space Station, and which he deems important in his daily
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Robert 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 Associat
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Prof. Philip Gorski: Civil Religion
Professor Philip Gorski is Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Research at Yale. He is a comparative-historical sociologist and his research focuses on topics such as state-formation, nationalism, revolution, economic development and secularization with pa
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Prof. Robert Harms: Slave Traders and Colonialism in Equator
Professor Harms is the author of The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade, which has won numerous prestigious awards. He has also written two books on the history of equatorial Africa: River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave a
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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 ne
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Exigencies: From Impermanent Emergencies to Enduring Exceptions: Dahl’s Nightmare
Professor Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Katznelson is a former president both of the American Political Science Association an
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Sir John Major: Fantasy to Reality: The World that Lies Ahead
Sir John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, gave the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture in International Studies at Yale on November 30 on the topic of "Fantasy to Reality: The World that Lies Ahead." Sponsored by the MacMillan Center and the Center for the Study of Global
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The Greco-Turkish War & The Turkish War Of Independence - First Phase 1919 I THE GREAT WAR 1920
Sign up for Curiosity Stream and Nebula: https://curiositystream.com/thegreatwar The Ottoman Empire was among the losing powers of World War 1 and left a power vacuum after the armistice of Mudros. The Great Powers had already made plans for the territory beforehand and now Greece had am
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Why The Treaty of Versailles Was Such A Shock For Germany? (Documentary)
Support us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/realtimehistory The Treaty of Versailles was the first of the big peace treaties after the armistice of 1918. In just six months the allied powers had – without talking to the defeated powers – negotiated a new world order while trying to make sur
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The Crown Season 2: The Real Events | British Pathé
Watch our Season 1 video here: https://youtu.be/8MhR03ddTSw Title: The Crown Season 2: The Real Events This video takes you on a journey from the Suez Crisis to the birth of Prince Edward chronicling what actually happened during events depicted in the second season of Netflix's "The Cro
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Science in the Stars - K. Pedersen - 4/27/2019
On April 26-27 2019, the Division of Humanities & Social Sciences at Caltech hosted a conference in honor of Jed Z. Buchwald, “Looking Back as We Move Forward: The Past, Present, and Future of the History of Science.” This event was sponsored by the Division of the Humanities & Social Sci
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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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T.L. Cowan, “Feminist and Queer Cabaret”
Professor Cowan is a writer, performer, activist, and professor. She is currently at Yale as the Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Lecturer and Digital Humanities Fellow. Her academic work focuses on the cultural and intellectual economies and social lives of transfeminist and queer grassroot
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