STEP 1 OF 3: Watch the HBO premiere of Between the World and Me on HBO or HBO MAX, | November 21, 8 pm
STEP 2 OF 3: View a panel discussion around Between the World and Me on HBO or HBO MAX | Date & Time TBA
STEP 3 OF 3: Listen to HBO’s Between the World and Me Podcast available online | November 23-December 14
Yale students and staff may access HBO at no cost through XFINITY On Campus.
STEP 1 OF 3: Watch the HBO premiere of Between the World and Me on HBO or HBO MAX | November 21, 8 pm
STEP 2 OF 3: View a panel discussion around Between the World and Me on HBO or HBO MAX | Date & Time TBA
STEP 3 OF 3: Listen to HBO’s Between the World and Me Podcast available online | November 23-December 14
Note: Yale students and staff may access HBO at no cost through XFINITY On Campus.
Having grown up in Pyongyang, a hermetic society that contrasts with the West culturally and ideologically, I had no idea how influenced I was by their narrative of the West, especially the U.S. My uprising was the same as my North Korean classmates and friends. In Korean history, I learned about the massacre of Shinchon, which took place during the Korean War. And the depiction of North Americans in movies was as negative as possible.
Bayeté Ross Smith, photographer, artist, and education worker, will discuss his work, now on view in the show “Who Governs” at Artspace in New Haven, where it is in conversation with digitized images of materials from Beinecke Library collections.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3lBfQ2L
Official narratives of the origins of China’s economic transformation have focused on elite politics, state policies, and the leading role of rural China. As the narrative goes, China’s transition from Mao to Market was shaped by the interaction between the top-down policies of the Deng Xiaoping faction, the agency of local reformers, and rural entrepreneurship.
This talk examines the online discourse of black hāfu, or individuals of mixed black and Japanese descent. Although the term hāfu has customarily been associated with phenotypically white/Eurasian features and in the postwar period was used to situate Japanese in proximity to an idealized white modernity, in recent years it has increasingly come to refer to half-black Japanese as well.
-This conference will be in Spanish. Simultaneous English translation will be available.-
This conference on Gender Studies in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities in the Americas will feature several sessions on the importance of gender studies, including a keynote from Professor Ana G. Buquet Corleto, Director, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género (CIEG) at UNAM.
Beinecke Library’s Melissa Barton, Nancy Kuhl, and Tubyez Cropper will speak on some of the authors, artists, and activists photographed by Carl Van Vechten and whose images are included in a new outdoor display on the library’s ground floor windows.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/36uRjpw
A conversation with Lausan.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3lrJEyw
The Office of International Students & Scholars is excited to collaborate with the Native American Cultural Center and the Association of Native Americans at Yale for our third Understanding America event of the fall semester.
