Global environmental expert Susan Tambi Matambo (MEM ‘04) joins Lydia Monk (Pierson ‘24) and Nicholas Perez (JE ‘24) to break down the disparities in climate impacts and solutions, and what can be done about it.
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!
When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that many facial recognition technologies misclassify women and darker-skinned faces, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms.
Immediately following the screening, Professor Elisa Celis will moderate a discussion with the filmmaker, Shalini Kantayya.
Often when we discuss the development of chemicals and substances, the conversation usually focuses on how scientists and inventors synthesized them. In this talk, materials scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez will highlight how simple materials and the inventions they enabled shaped society. Based on her new book The Alchemy of Us, she will show how everyday inventions had a hand in fashioning language, politics, and even our bodies.
Chris Perkins (MEM/MBA ‘21) joins Marie Sanford (Saybrook ‘23) to debunk myths around accessibility to green spaces and nature.
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!
Contact: Scot Bearss, Scot.Bearss@yale.edu
Please join us for the last event in our special webinar series held on the last Friday of every month. Led by Professor Moira Fradinger, this series is a part of a collaborative effort with CLAIS, Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network, and The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to highlight gender studies and gender issues in Latin America.
May 18 marks the 40th anniversary of the first notice in the New York Native in 1981 of what is known as AIDS. Bill Goldstein, authorized biographer of the late Larry Kramer, will discuss the playwright and activist, whose papers are in the Beinecke Library. Goldstein spent hundreds of hours interviewing Kramer and has worked in Kramer’s personal papers, as well as in the records of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and ACT UP, the two organizations Kramer played a vital role in founding. He has also studied the personal archives of many of Kramer’s closest friends and opponents.
Beinecke Library 2020-21 communications interns Claire Barnes, Brooke Harris, and Eva Knaggs, will each discuss materials from the collections that have piqued their curiosity and fired their imagination.Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3mIvYkg
Organized by Yale students on behalf of The New Haven Mayor’s Task Force on AIDS member agencies, this year’s AIDS Walk New Haven will happen virtually on your terms in light of the ongoing pandemic. The virtual walk is scheduled to take place on the weekend of April 30 - May 2. After registering, you will get to decide how your walk is conducted, the time, location, and whether to walk it alone or with friends and family.
Japan has fared very well in averting a major COVID-19 crisis. Death tolls have been minimal compared to many European countries and the United States. This led Japanese policy makers to congratulate themselves on the success of the Japanese model although no one could explain what it was. Today, however, Japan faces the fourth—likely to be the most deadly—wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Hyperreal Archives: Digital Presents / Analogue Pasts” is a conversational presentation given by six different scholars and practitioners operating between and among art, architecture, urban studies, and cultural sociology. This discussion is moderated by Yale GSAS alumni fellow, Dr. Denise Lim, and co-led by two academic staff from the University of Johannesburg’s Graduate School of Architecture (UJ GSA)—Sarah de Villiers and Naadira Patel.
