For those who want a deeper dive into Medea or were unable to attend the February 22 YSC Session on “Radical Imagination,” this intimate and interactive dialogue with Shivaike Shah and Professor Eric Glover will serve as the culmination of this deep dive into the Classics through the lens of today’s society.
Please join the conversation on “Radical Imagination,” a YSC Session with filmmaker and producer Shivaike Shah, Professor Eric Glover, and doctoral candidate Chris Londa exploring how imagination spans across disciplines in research and practice (including the sciences, professional practices, etc.) and the ripple effects that creativity has on one’s work.
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Writer and producer Shivaike Shah will present the Uprooting Medea project, which was originally developed at the University of Oxford to interrogate the performance history and legacy of Medea, as well as the classics more broadly. The project explores topics of race, belonging, and identity, by centering these themes already prevalent in Euripides’s original. Shah’s presentation will explore the creative practice of elevating global-majority artists through multimedia forms including theater, film, music, and poetry.
This presentation will explore the practice of slavery as it has manifested across global cultures from antiquity up to the present. It interrogates a theory first proposed by ancient historian M.I. Finley in the mid-20th century that has become a staple of scholarship in all fields of slavery studies. Finley posited that all slaveholding societies can be divided into two groups, “Slave Societies” and “Societies with Slaves,” and that this distinction shaped social and economic relations in the two kinds of societies in fundamentally different ways.
Join us to meet Sheryl Carter, a well-known volunteer for the YAA. Sheryl L. Carter (AKA Sheryl Carter Negash) is the daughter of Thomas (Factory Worker/Construction Worker who traveled north from the South during the second wave of the Great Migration), granddaughter of Frederick (Pullman Porter who died young because the local white hospital refused him treatment), great-granddaughter of Floyd (Barber and entrepreneur extraordinaire who was enslaved during childhood).
Join Yale Alumni Academy in celebrating Black History Month with a screening of “My Name is Pauli Murray.” Murray is the trailblazing Black nonbinary civil rights and gender equality activist, lawyer, poet, priest, and namesake for one of Yale’s two newest residential colleges.
Join Yale Alumni Academy for a preview of this fall’s travel program: On The Road to Freedom: Understanding the Civil Rights Movement. We will be showcasing travel to historic sites of struggle in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas including the award-winning new museums, landmarks, and visits with local leaders who participated on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement.
The Black Russian is the biography of Frederick Bruce Thomas, the remarkable son of former slaves in Mississippi who, against all odds, became a multimillionaire entrepreneur in tsarist Moscow and the “Sultan of Jazz” in Constantinople. Although Thomas was famous during his lifetime (1872-1928), he was forgotten for some eighty years until Vladimir Alexandrov’s biography, which is based on research in archives and libraries in five countries, brought him back to the public memory.
Signed on February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 had massive consequences for the Japanese American community during World War II. It led to the unjust incarceration of almost 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American citizens. The Day of Remembrance is an annual, nationwide tradition set on the anniversary of the Executive Order that commemorates this dark moment in US history to ensure that it does not happen again.
Join the annual Run for Refugees hosted by the Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS), a non-profit agency whose mission is to work with refugees and immigrants to become self-sufficient and integrated into their new communities.
To register, please follow the link here (make sure to sign up for the in-person run!): https://runsignup.com/Race/CT/NewHaven/IRISRunforRefugees
