The Future Leaders of Yale, Office of Diversity and Inclusion and Belonging at Yale invite you to the Belonging at Yale Series. This three-event series will focus on belonging in a complex workplace. These events will explore what the new term of belonging at an organization means and offer diverse experiences and pathways to show and be authentic in a workspace.

The third and final part of this series will take place on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 from 12:00-1:15PM around the topic of “Belonging: How can YOU share YOUR space with others?”.

The REEES Program at Yale, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and the Yale Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies present “Remembering Vilna: The Jerusalem of Lithuania.”

Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3RKe7Jw

Joan Countryman M.U.S. ’66 and Bruce Payne ’65 M.A. were students at Yale in the early/mid 1960s and both were active in the national civil rights movement. In this Mondays at Beinecke a week after Martin Luther King Day, they will discuss campus life in those years, an era when Dr. King himself came to Yale to preach in Battell Chapel in 1961 and to receive an honorary degree in 1964. Each will also share about their involvement in the civil rights movement.

Yale College Poets: an annual reading by outstanding undergraduate poets. This year’s poets: William An, Kanyinsola Anifowoshe, Lukas Bacho, Olivia Bell, Daniel Blokh, Nicole Dirks, David Donnan, Forrest LaPrade, John Nguyen, Awuor Onguru, and Nimran Shergill. Co-sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library and the Creative Writing Program of the Yale Department of English.

Boys Don’t Cry (Kimberly Peirce, 1999, 35mm, 118 mins)

25th anniversary screening! Peirce’s first feature tells the true story of Brandon Teena, the victim of a transphobic attack in Nebraska. “A stirring, emotionally true testament” (Mark Caro) “driven by performances of such luminous humanity that they break your heart” (Stephen Hunter). Boys Don’t Cry earned Hilary Swank an Oscar, and Chloë Sevigny an Oscar nomination. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.