General Public

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.

Free the New Haven Black Panthers: Exhibit Curator Talk by Kathryn Schmechel ’21

Please join student-curator Kathryn Schechel ’21 for an introduction to her senior essay exhibit, “Free the New Haven Panthers”: The New Haven Nine, Yale, and the May Day 1970 Protests That Brought Them Together.

VIRTUAL: Climate Migration, Explained

Dr. Maya Prabhu joins Nora Massie (Davenport ‘22) to explain how climate change is altering the places communities can call home.
This is one of five Live Explainers being held during Yale Earth Week 2021. To register for these and other events, please visit earthweek.yale.edu!

VIRTUAL: Anti-Chinese Immigration and Apocalypse in US History

Since its “discovery,” America has been imagined as a heavenly destination, identified with the New Jerusalem of the Bible as a paradise and refuge. This apocalyptic metaphor has also helped create exclusionary and violent policies against unwanted people groups. This talk by Professor Yii-Jan Lin, Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Yale Divinity School, will focus on US policies and attitudes toward Chinese immigration and the influence of apocalyptic metaphors and conceptualizations of America.