You are cordially invited to an e-book launch via Zoom at 5:15 pm EST on April 14 for Professor Valerie Hansen’s The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World— and Globalization Began, which Scribner will release on that day. Professor Fabian Drixler will start off by asking Professor Hansen questions and then Q+A will be opened to everyone.
Understanding America: Refugee Resettlement & Immigrant Services: Connecticut & U.S. Landscape
OISS is pleased to announce our next conversation in our Understanding America series where we will be joined by Ann O’Brien, the Director of Community Engagement for IRIS - Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, and IRIS Ambassador, Azhar Ahmed.
Join us for a new lecture series for the community hosted by the Diversity Committee at the Yale School of Medicine! Each event is designed for families and involves a lecture by a Yale Medical School professor and hands-on health/science-related demonstrations by Yale medical students and organizations. Bring the whole family! This session will feature Dr. Nii Addy, Associate Professor of Psychiatry who focuses on neuroscience research of substance use, particularly in adolescents. He will be giving his talk: The Brain Science of Addiction, Depression & Anxiety.
The Program for Humanities in Medicine, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, and Social Medicine in Action Seminar will present the Kenneth and Georgia Barwick Lecture: Disability Worlds: Genetic Testing, Neurodiversity, Disability Activism.
***All library exhibitions are closed until further notice as part of the university’s COVID-19 response. We invite you to visit our online exhibitions***
As part of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Women at Yale, this exhibition highlights works by women who have graduated from the School of Art, Yale’s first coeducational school. The education of women has been a fundamental part of the School’s mission since its foundation.
Are you queer and want to make more time for developing your skill as a writer? Do you like to talk/listen to discussions about queer topics and their intersections? Do you wish you could read more written works by queer authors of color in your classes?
In “How to Make a Dress,” Christina Heatherton examines the early life of legendary artist, Elizabeth Catlett. Tracing her lesser known path through Chicago’s South Side Community Arts Center and Harlem’s Washington Carver School during the Great Depression, and later, the Taller de Gráphica Popular, a Mexico City based internationalist art collective, Heatherton observes Catlett’s development as a radical artist and teacher.
Please join us at the Omni Hotel New Haven for the 14th annual Yale SOM Education Leadership Conference! Our theme this year is Building Community Centered Systems. At ELC 2020, we will take a holistic approach to explore the ways education systems can establish conditions for children, families, educators, and communities to thrive.
How can we imagine a future of public abundance? We are in a moment ripe with both possibility and danger. On the one hand, there has been a upsurge in efforts to provide and fund a broad range of public goods, evident in demands for free public higher education, mass transit, Medicare for All, Universal Pre-K, water rights and protections, reparations, the Green New Deal, public control of utilities, and many others. Moreover, privatization and market-based programs no longer have the same authority as catch-all solutions.
