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YJIA Podcast: A Conversation With Daniel Magaziner

By Blubrry Support | December 6, 2016

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YJIA spoke to Professor Daniel Magaziner about the role of history in understanding African politics today, drawing on the examples of post-apartheid South Africa and post-1994 Rwanda. Professor Magaziner discussed the recent student activism in South Africa and what the current struggles of the ANC reflect about the failures of the post-apartheid liberation movement. He also examined the extent to which western attitudes to ‘Africa’ as a continent are changing.

2016 World Fellow Gernot Laganda

By Blubrry Support | December 6, 2016

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Gernot Laganda reflects on how international organizations address aid, development, and climate change.

2016 World Fellow Joshin Raghubar

By Blubrry Support | December 2, 2016

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Joshin Raghubar talks about the challenges facing South Africa and his work as a social entrepreneur.

2016 World Fellow Belabbes Benkredda

By Blubrry Support | December 2, 2016

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Belabbes Benkredda, the founder of Munathara Initiative, a debating forum in the Arab world, discusses the post-truth era and how to protect the public sphere.

2016 World Fellow Kanbar Hossein-Bor

By Blubrry Support | December 2, 2016

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2016 World Fellow Kanbar Hossein-Bor talks about his childhood in Iran, arriving in the UK as a refugee, and his current work as a British diplomat.

2016 World Fellow Mustafa Haid

By Blubrry Support | December 2, 2016

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2016 World Fellow and Syrian human rights activist Mustafa Haid talks about the civil war in Syria and how to end it.

2016 World Fellow Sughra Ahmed

By Blubrry Support | December 2, 2016

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2016 World Fellow Sughra Ahmed, former chair of Islamic Society of Britain, talks about growing up Muslim and British, and the role of religion in society.

Confessions of a Born Again Pagan

By Blubrry Support | December 1, 2016

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Yale University Press director John Donatich and Anthony Kronman discuss religion, philosophy, and what it means to be a born-again pagan in society today.

Conversation with James Cameron

By Blubrry Support | December 1, 2016

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James Cameron, Executive Fellow with the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and partner at Systemiq, joins Lucy Kessler, a student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, for a conversation about clean energy finance, the private sector’s role in addressing climate change, and why he is optimistic about the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement.

A Conversation with Robert Sussman

By Blubrry Support | November 29, 2016

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Former EPA deputy administrator and guest lecturer in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Bob Sussman joins Emma Crow-Willard to discuss the Clean Power Plan. The Clean Power Plan is the first federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generating power plants. The plan will help the United States meet its Paris COP21 goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28% by 2025. Bob Sussman explains the potential positive effects the Clean Power Plan could have in states and in preventing global warming.