The Yale School of Management welcomes you to join our Dean Kerwin K. Charles in a fireside chat with Daryl Morey, President of Basketball Operations for the Philadelphia 76ers.

They plan to discuss Daryl’s 20 years of NBA management, as well as his unstandardized approach to using sports analytics,better known as “Moreyball,” to make key decisions. A Q&A will follow our conversation.

Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, 2023, DCP, 123 mins)

Wenders’s latest is “a sublime validation of the ordinary, a film replete with grace, harmony, and hope that overwhelms and engulfs you in its humane world” (Namrata Joshi). This current Best International Feature Oscar nominee stars Kōji Yakusho, who won Best Actor at Cannes for his role as a Tokyo toilet cleaner. The Kinks, Otis Redding, Nina Simone, and—of course—Lou Reed grace the soundtrack. In Japanese with English subtitles. DCP courtesy NEON.

Born in Jim Crow-era Birmingham, Alabama in 1950, Lonnie Holley was the seventh of 27 children—and at age four was taken from his mother and traded for a bottle of whiskey (Bloom). He fled abusive foster parents, was hit by a car (and declared brain dead) and was later sent to Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children—a “slave camp” by any other name (Missick). Holley’s work, born out of struggle, hardship—and more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity—manifests itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, filmmaking, and music.

In recognition of the 2023 Day With(out) Art, the Yale Office of LGBTQ Resources, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, and Public Humanities at Yale are proud to partner with Visual AIDS to present Everyone I Know is Sick, a screening of five short videos highlighting connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability. The program features work by Dorothy Cheung, Hiura Fernandes and Lili Nascimento, Beau Gomez, Dolissa Medina and Ananias P. Soria, Vasilios Papapitsios, and Kurt Weston.

About this program
In recognition of Worlds AIDS Day on December 1, 2023, this talk will examine the history of neoliberalism and neocolonialism in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States as well as the history of Black queer art and activism through a series of visits to a make-believe Black queer bookshop and gallery. While the visits are fictional, the objects in the bookshop and their histories are real. The trunk owned by the Nigerian-born British photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955–1989) will be a focus of this talk.