Since the mid-1980s, Andrea Fraser, the 2025 Happy and Bob Doran Artist in Residence, Yale University Art Gallery, has worked in the realm of institutional critique, investigating and revealing the ways in which organizations, groups, and individuals hold and wield power. Frequently challenging the biases of arts institutions, her videos, performances, and texts deftly combine careful research with incisive, often humorous, delivery.

There has been a revolution in the production of data, and many possible answers to complex questions can be produced from these data with new AI technologies. Yet a black-box conversion of data to evidence may not be trusted by the public: incorrect results can be generated that lead to confusion and even harm.

Yale Library DEIA and the MLK25 Citywide Read Planning Committee are partnering with churches across the New Haven and Greater Connecticut area to engage in a civic discourse on the written works of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. We are hosting a collaborative virtual Bible study session led by Yale staff members on Thursday, January 30, from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. This session will focus on Dr. Barber’s perspective on the history of civil rights in the United States and the role religion has played in shaping that history.

The Jackson School of Global Affairs will host the panel discussion, “Sex and Gender in Hard Times: Theory, Law, Policy,” featuring an interdisciplinary, international group of scholars and advocates invested in the questions of how rights attach to gender and sexuality and with regard for the fault lines and internal contestations which hover below the surface of contemporary rights advocacy.
 

Curtis Chin in conversation with Quan T. Tran, Senior Lecturer in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write comedy for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press, and the Emancipator/Boston Globe.