Ages 18

Queer Writing Collective

Are you queer and want to make more time for developing your skill as a writer? Do you like to talk/listen to discussions about queer topics and their intersections? Do you wish you could read more written works by queer authors of color in your classes?

Women at the Dawn of History

Tens of thousands of cuneiform texts, monumental sculptures, and images on terracotta reliefs and cylinder seals cast light on the fates of women at the dawn of history, from queens to female slaves, living at the bottom of society. In the patriarchal world of ancient Mesopotamia, women were often represented in their relation to men—as mothers, daughters, or wives—giving the impression that a woman’s place was in the home.

Racial Capitalism and the U.S. Colonial Present A Roundtable Discussion with Jodi Byrd, Alyosha Goldstein, and Manu Karuka with Daniel HoSang and Lisa Lowe

In this roundtable, Jodi Byrd, Alyosha Goldstein, and Manu Karuka will discuss the ways that historical and ongoing settler colonialism enables and compels a rethinking of racial capitalism, particularly reflecting upon the challenges and opportunities of understanding the relations between settler colonialism, slavery and its afterlives, empire and racialized migration in the U.S. colonial present.
Supported by the Edward J and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund

Acknowledging Tribal Nation Land & What That Means for Yale

The Office of International Students & Scholars (OISS) is excited for our next conversation in our Understanding America series which will be led by Dr. Matthew Makomenaw, the Director of Yale’s Native-American Cultural Center (NACC) & Assistant Dean at Yale College, and current Yale College student, Meghan Gupta, who is the founder and editor-in-chief of Indigenizing the News.

Inaugural Yale Mental Health Symposium: Beyond the Visible: Space, Place and Power in Mental Health

This special symposium seeks to make designers and practitioners aware of their capacity to improve access to and perceptions of mental health. One-quarter of the global population will suffer from mental illness at some stage of life. The built environment therefore becomes an urgent stage in which mental health must be addressed. The rise of urban inequality has huge impacts on an individual’s access to mental health services. This symposium will explore issues of mental health at three scales: the city, the hospital, and the home.

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