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In-Person Food Drive to Benefit Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS)

The Asian Network at Yale is conducting a socially distant food drive on Tuesday, May 11th from 9:30-11:30 am, to help the Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS). Acceptable donations include nonperishable food and/or money in support of refugees and immigrants in Connecticut during this difficult time. Checks can be made payable to IRIS.
Please practice social distancing and wear masks at all times. We will have hand sanitizer available.

VIRTUAL: “Allen V. Farrow” – Sex, Lies, and Audiotape: A Conversation with Oscar-Nominated and Emmy-Winning Filmmaker Amy Ziering '90 MA

In conversation with Dr. Natasha Boas ‘96 PhD, Amy Ziering ‘90 MA, MPhil will discuss how her Yale graduate studies in comparative literature led to her successful career as a researcher, documentarian, and writer. She will also talk about “Derrida,” her 2002 film about the famous French philosopher and Yale professor Jacques Derrida, as well as her award winning documentaries “The Hunting Ground,” “The Invisible War,” “The Bleeding Edge,” “On the Record,” and most recently, “Allen v. Farrow.”

Mondays at Beinecke: Jonathan Edwards and Slavery with Kenneth Minkema

Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3tkjmRZ
Kenneth P. Minkema is the Executive Editor and director of the Works of Jonathan Edwards and Jonathan Edwards Center. (http://edwards.yale.edu)
For more on the Jonathan Edwards Collection in the Beinecke Library, see: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/jonathan-edward…

Mondays at Beinecke: Voynich Manuscript with Lisa Fagin Davis, Raymond Clemens, Claire Bowern

Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3vGx4R0
A discussion of Beinecke MSS 408, a mysterious, undeciphered manuscript (https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/voynich-manuscript)
Lisa Fagin Davis is executive director of the Medieval Academy of America. Raymond Clemens is curator of early books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Library. Claire Bowern is professor of linguistics at Yale.

Mondays at Beinecke: Ethiopic Manuscripts and Global Books with Kristen Herdman

Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3gW7PpE
Kristen Herdman is a PhD Candidate in the Medieval Studies program. Her research interests are rooted in art historical approaches to manuscript studies, with special attention to fifteenth-century medieval devotional books and the complex relationship between text and image.

VIRTUAL: AACC 40th Anniversary Virtual Kick-off Event

The Yale Asian American Cultural Center (AACC) turns 40 this year! Join us on Wednesday, May 12th from 4:00-6:30pm EST for a virtual kick-off as we celebrate 40 years of the AACC serving as a dreaming and organizing space for Asian and Asian American Yalies. You’ll have an opportunity to hear from AACC students, administrators, alumni, and faculty as we reflect on our shared histories, the power of student activism, and discuss frameworks that will help us effectively respond to ongoing anti-Asian violence in the U.S.

What Needs to be Done?: Biomedical and Public Health Research in Brazil and the U.S. Post-COVID

Join us for the last webinar in the Yale and Brazil: Supporting Future Science Research Series as part of a conversation moderated by CLAIS Faculty Affiliate Professor Albert Ko.

VIRTUAL: Identity Carousel Round 2

A deep dive into developing a proper understanding of ourselves and our personal identities.

Art and Incarceration/Incarcerated Artists

Emile DeWeaver, Janaya Pulliam, and Aimee Wissman will discuss their work on activating the leadership of systems-impacted artists and generating critical conversations about the criminal legal system in this session on Art & Incarceration/Incarcerated Artists, produced in collaboration with the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3sOnBFc

The Kurds in the Middle East: Regional Power Competition and the Kurds

The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, in partnership with the nonprofit organization Justice for Kurds, will host a four-part virtual discussion series on “The Kurds in the Middle East.”
Panel discussions will feature an impressive array of American, European, and Middle Eastern practitioners, including senior Kurdish representatives from Iraq and Syria.