Yale Departments are participating in the US Marine Corps New Haven Toys for Tots drive. We invite you to bring new and unwrapped toys as part of this charitable effort. The collection will run from November 6th through December 7th.
Collection Locations:
Susan Abramson, Manager of Yale WorkLife and Child will provide an overview of current child care and parenting resources and benefits available to Yale employees. There will be an opportunity to answer specific questions. Registration is free, but please register to receive the zoom link. The zoom link will be sent in advance of the session.
Is your little one suddenly hitting or biting others in frustration? Have you tried to resolve these challenging behaviors, and nothing seems to work? You are not alone. Learn why challenging behaviors are typical at this age and how a positive approach to discipline, applying practical routines and finding strategies to manage your reactions can make all the difference.
In concerts across Europe in the 1780s, the young Viennese virtuosa Maria Theresia Paradis made blindness visible, even audible. Her performances invited listeners and viewers primed by horror ballads and literary romance to experience her story of trauma and misfortune within the frame of fictional narratives of doomed innocence and victimized Gothic heroines.
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Dario Valles, Assistant Professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at California State University, Long Beach, an interdisciplinary anthropologist whose research lies at the intersection of gender/sexuality, race, transnational migration and technology linking Central America, Mexico and the US. Dr. Valles’ current work includes developing a feature-length, participatory documentary entitled No Separate Survival on the global asylum crisis converging in Mexico.
Want to hear more about the Public Humanities Working Group? Join us at 5:30 pm in HQ 107 (320 York Street) for some fall treats and warm drinks after Nancy’s Escalante’s “Counter-Archives” presentation at 4:30 pm.
How does community-based archiving reimagine the conventional archive? Join us for a conversation about community-based archiving with Nancy Escalante, PhD Candidate in American Studies, as she talks about her dissertation project. She will discuss the María Guardado Collective and raise questions about conventional forms of knowledge production and the usefulness of thinking with a “counter-archive.” Escalante’s project explores how U.S.
Peabody curator and Yale ornithologist Richard Prum sits down with professor Joanna Radin to discuss his new book “Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference”. This much anticipated follow-up to 2017’s “Evolution of Beauty”, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female.
Come give blood Nov. 10-30 for an exclusive pair of Elf & Red Cross socks, while supplies last! Join us to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the film Elf and make giving blood a holiday tradition!
Please call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit RedCrossBlood.org and enter: AdvancedCT to schedule an appointment.
Address: 169 Davenport Avenue New Haven, CT 06519
Join us for an educational community forum of discussion about the trends and dangers of Fentanyl in our Connecticut neighborhoods. A member of CT (DEA), FBI, NHFD Paramedic, NHPD Officer, and Dr. Tek of Cornell
Scott Hill Health Center will be panelists for the discussion. Demand Zero’s Founder, Lisa Deane, will also share her story of the impact of Fentanyl on her family and show her short film “Finding Hope” as a
discussion starter.
