Laugh and chat with comedian and Emmy-nominated writer Karen Chee on Thursday, April 6. Described as “unflinchingly cheery, happily ironic, [and] socially perceptive” (Harvard Magazine), Karen brings a young perspective and unique voice that draws her Korean-American heritage into her work.
Systems help artists, scientists, researchers, and scholars across disciplines organize their thoughts and the world around them—categorizing and sorting both concrete objects and abstract concepts. From symbolic languages to ethnography, from environmental surveying to the writing of Black history, how can visual art highlight different facets of this interdisciplinary approach?
What role can art play in affecting seismic systemic change? Join composer and change agent Michael Abels, PhD candidate Collin Edouard, PhD candidate Rebecca Kuang, and Yale School of Music Director of Equity, Belonging, and Student Life Dr. Albert Lee in this Session. We invite you to share your experiences, and bring your questions about the opportunities for envisioning possible futures.
Lead Sessionists: Collin Edouard (PhD candidate), Michael Abels, Dr. Albert Lee, & Rebecca Kuang (PhD candidate)
Black burnout is an epidemic that has yet to be remedied. Black students, faculty, and staff are often asked to take on the burden of educating their peers, advocating for the next generation, and are looked at as the voices of an entire community. How can we work to ensure that Black students, faculty, and staff prioritize themselves and prevent burnout?
Lead Sessionist: MiChaela Barker (MPH/MBA candidate)
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a new era of telemedicine and virtual care, bringing to light new questions about how technology can exacerbate or advance health equity. As we build the “future of health,” we ask ourselves: Whose health? Whose future?
D’Lo is a queer/transgender Tamil-Sri Lankan-American speaker and performer. Join the Asian American Cultural Center for this memorable keynote as we kickoff a month-long 2023 PAAHM celebration with a solo show performance by D’Lo followed by a moderated dialogue on his life’s work.
Professor Jing Tsu, the John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale, will deliver a talk about her new book Kingdom of Characters: The Language Evolution that Made China Modern.
Connect with leaders and organizations who are taking big swings and making meaningful changes that advance DEI at a time when our world needs it most. Join the Yale Alumni Association for in-depth conversations, panels, keynotes, and workshops designed to inspire your own work as change agents and builders of a better world. Event is open to the public.
Get hyped for Dhamaal 2023! Come watch South Asian Talent shine at our largest inter-collegiate cultural showcase on campus. We have teams coming in from six other colleges across the east coast with over 100+ dancers as well as 7 Yale teams performing as well. We are so excited to be holding this event at Woosley Hall on March 4th, 2023 from 4 pm to 6:30 pm. Performances by: Columbia Bhangra, Dartmouth Raaz, Duke Lasya, Husky Hungama, Tufts JumboRaas, MIT Bhangra, Yale Rangeela, Yale Raas, Yale Jashan Bhangra, Yale Kalaa, Yale Dhvani, Yale Avaaz, and Yale Giri and Sreenivas
Summary of Adam’s Talk:
The emergence and translation of Mendel’s discoveries about genetics into English coincided with the rise of eugenics, and provided its most devoted apostles with a biological mechanism to justify their bigotry. An ideological commitment to mendelian pedigrees formed the pseudoscientific basis for mass sterilisation and genocide. We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of human genetics, but this eugenic spectre limps on in our culture, reinforcing a view of biology that is simplistic, deterministic and wrong.
