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Journalism and Human Rights: Fighting Back Against Disinformation

The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs will host the Visiting Fellow Discussion Forum, “Journalism and Human Rights: Fighting Back Against Disinformation,” featuring journalist Maria Ressa. The talk will be moderated by Jackson Senior Fellow Amb. Harry Thomas.
The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Ressa has been a journalist in Asia for more than 30 years. In 2012, she co-founded Rappler.com, now one of the leading online news organizations in the Philippines. Previously, Ressa was CNN’s bureau chief in Manila and Jakarta.

Pan Asian American Heritage Month 2020 Keynote

Fierce activist and icon Cecilia Chung’s keynote for Pan Asian American Heritage Month 2020 is entitled, “View from the Intersection: How race and gender impact my American life.”

As an Asian transgender woman living with HIV, she is an internationally recognized civil rights leader and pioneer who has dedicated herself to ending stigma, discrimination, and violence in all communities. Cecilia’s life story was portrayed in the ABC miniseries, When We Rise.

CANCELLED: Voices of Indigenous Healthcare Conference (VOIHC)

Voices of Indigenous Healthcare Conference (VOIHC) is a two day conference. VOIHC aims to facilitate conversations on the strengths and resilience of Native peoples, as well as the unique health disparities faced. The conference will include speakers, workshops, and breakout sessions to engage participants & create a space for broad conversations on issues facing indigenous peoples.
Second of a two day conference. Registration & coffee starts at 8am. Conference begins at 9am.

CANCELLED: Voices of Indigenous Healthcare Conference (VOIHC)

Voices of Indigenous Healthcare Conference (VOIHC) is a two day conference. VOIHC aims to facilitate conversations on the strengths and resilience of Native peoples, as well as the unique health disparaties faced. The conference will include speakers, workshops, and breakout sessions to engage participants & create a space for broad conversations on issues facing indigenous peoples.
First of a two day conference. Registration at noon. Event starts at 1pm.

A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer

All Proceeds from this event benefit CT Alliance to End Sexual Violence.
A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer: Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls is a groundbreaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights, edited by Eve Ensler and Molly Doyle.
Location: United Church on the Green, 270 Temple St, New Haven, CT 06511

A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer

All Proceeds from this event benefit CT Alliance to End Sexual Violence
A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer: Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls is a groundbreaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights, edited by Eve Ensler and Molly Doyle.
Location: United Church on the Green, 270 Temple St, New Haven, CT 06511

A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer

All Proceeds from this event benefit CT Alliance to End Sexual Violence
A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer: Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls is a groundbreaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights, edited by Eve Ensler and Molly Doyle.
Location: United Church on the Green, 270 Temple St, New Haven, CT 06511

Symposium: Women at the Dawn of History

In the patriarchal world of ancient Mesopotamia, women were often represented in their relation to men—as mothers, daughters, or wives—giving the impression that a woman’s place was in the home. But, as we explore in this symposium, they were also authors and scholars, astute business-women, sources of expressions of eroticism, priestesses with access to major gods and goddesses, and regents who exercised power on behalf of kingdoms, states, and empires.

Racial Capitalism and the U.S. Colonial Present A Roundtable Discussion with Jodi Byrd, Alyosha Goldstein, and Manu Karuka with Daniel HoSang and Lisa Lowe

In this roundtable, Jodi Byrd, Alyosha Goldstein, and Manu Karuka will discuss the ways that historical and ongoing settler colonialism enables and compels a rethinking of racial capitalism, particularly reflecting upon the challenges and opportunities of understanding the relations between settler colonialism, slavery and its afterlives, empire and racialized migration in the U.S. colonial present.
Supported by the Edward J and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund

4th Yale Symposium on Chinese Overseas Investment Impacts: From Policies to Practices

If you’re interested in learning more about China, the Belt and Road Initiative, and environmental challenges around the world, please join us at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies for the 4th Yale Symposium on Chinese Overseas Investment Impacts: From Policies to Practices.