All Ages

VIRTUAL: Hanging with Our Younger Selves: Uplifting the Future of AAPI Mental Health

Join our panel as we talk to a variety of AAPI-focused mental health counselors and learn about their stories in career acquisition. Have a chance to speak to them personally and learn about opportunities young people can have to boost their career in mental health! Panelists include: Yale School of Nursing Psych-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner student Peggy Wong ’24 MSN, Dr. Eunice Yuen of the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Child Study Center, Dr. Tim Huang of Mind X PLLC, and Amy Tao-Foster of the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center.
Anyone is welcome to join!

Screening of The Land of Azaba & Q&A with director and protagonist

Screening of the award-winning documentary The Land of Azaba, a Spanish-language film set in Western Spain that closely observes the largest land preservation and ecological restoration project in Europe. Followed by a Q&A with the film director Greta Schiller, an Emmy-Award-winning veteran documentary filmmaker based in New York, and Carlos Sanchez, the film protagonist and President of Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre.

How Indigenous Languages Foster Cooperation

Américo Mendoza-Mori (Harvard University) is a Peruvian-born advocator of indigenous languages and Andean culture in the United States. His research and advocacy have been featured by the United Nations, The New York Times, NPR, among others. He had previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where he founded the Quechua language program. In this informal lunch meeting with the New Haven community, he will discuss how indigenous languages, particularly Quechua, are built around many concepts that demonstrate a deep sense of community.

Black Graduation

Come as we gather to celebrate the tremendous accomplishments of our Black graduates across the college, graduate, and professional schools.

Histories and Counter-Histories of CGI in Movies

The history of computer-generated imagery (CGI) in movies is often presented as a hero’s journey. Starting in the 1980s, a scrappy group of computer scientists went up against the large, powerful, but inert, Hollywood studio empire, and forever changed how movies are made.

Live Right, Die Right: The Life and Times of Gospel Songwriter, Roxie Ann Moore

On February 1, 2023 the exhibit “Maker of a Kindly Permanence” was mounted in Sterling Memorial Library to celebrate Yale’s Oral History of American Music. Included in the collection is a tribute to twentieth century gospel songwriter Roxie Ann Moore (1916-2012). This public presentation delves into her life, contributions, and the cultures that surrounded and supported her work.

2023 Yale Powwow: Roots & Regrowth

Join us at the first Yale Powwow since 2018! Sharing space with Eid and Earth Day, the powwow will take place on April 22nd, 2023 from 12pm-6pm at the Lanman Center on Yale’s campus!! In celebration of the powwow’s return, our first powwow since 2018, we’ve opted for a theme of Roots and Regrowth.

2nd Annual Yale Disability & Accessibility Symposium

The first week of April marks the anniversary of the April 5, 1977 historic Section 504 sit-in and protest in San Francisco, CA. Last year, students, faculty, and staff at Yale organized a day-long series of discussions and panels to mark the 45th anniversary of this critically important action. This year, we’ve expanded the event to offer an entire week of panel discussions, research presentations, exhibitions, and more on the subject of disability activism, inclusion, equity, and liberation.
Please note that events are a mix of virtual and in-person.

Empowering women and gender minorities in the workplace

This month is a time to reflect on the achievements of women and to discuss the issues that women still face today. The Professional Development Committee of YPA is hosting an event with prominent professional women, who will share their experiences on tackling different career challenges.
Program:
1:15-2:15pm “How to Find Your Power: Embracing Equity at Work & Beyond” by Claire Wasserman
2:15-2:45pm Q&A
2:45-3:00pm Coffee break
3:00-3:40pm Talk and Q&A with Amymarie Bartholomew, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Yale

Towards a New Genealogy of Eugenics: Slavery and the Study of Race Crossing

Rana Hogarth, Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will discuss how scientific endeavors to study mixed race people with Black and white ancestry in the early twentieth century did not emerge in a vacuum, nor did ideas about race that would later undergird eugenic race crossing studies on that very group of people. Slavery gave rise to myths and taxonomies that would come to dominate lay and scientific perceptions of mixed-race people’s bodies for years to come.