We are thrilled to bring you the third installment in our year-long series exploring the history and legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act. By bringing together current and former students who have navigated accessibility on campus, as well as an expert on disability and design, this panel will explore the politics and potential of accessibility on campus and beyond.
Anthony Obayomi is a storyteller from Lagos, Nigeria who uses photography, filmmaking, and other storytelling techniques that combine art and technology in both traditional and experimental media. Obayomi’s documentary work is aimed at offering alternative perspectives to diverse audiences. He portrays people, society, and culture with the aim of fostering tolerance, mitigating stereotypes, questioning traditional opinions, and addressing issues of social justice. Obayomi earned a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the University of Lagos.
In honor of Black History Month, the MBA for Executives and SOM Community & Inclusion are hosting a virtual panel discussion with SOM alumni Lofton Holder ‘90, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Pine Street Alternative Asset Management and Jamila Abston ‘17, Partner at Ernst & Young LLP.
In episode #18 of the Yale Schwarzman Center web series, “One,” Estefani Castro YSD21 interviews Carrie Mannino YC’20 about her senior thesis project in creative writing. Mannino’s documentary play, “It Couldn’t Happen Here,” delves into the aftermath of the October 2018 shooting at Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The episode contains a dramatic reading of an excerpt from “It Couldn’t Happen Here” and explores insights from Mannino’s writing process.
Panel 2: Bordering Reform
Wednesday, February 24, 7:00PM-9:00PM EST
Chair: Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Charlotte Ikels, Case Western Reserve University
Panelists:
Michelle Chang, Stanford University, “The Business of Living: Transforming the Command Economy and the Making of Markets in Guangzhou, 1978-1985”
Andrew Liu, Villanova University, “The Factories Behind the Storefront: The Four Guangdong Tigers and Diasporic Chinese Capital during China’s Early Reform Period”
Panel 1: Bordering China
Tuesday, February 23, 7:00PM-9:00PM EST
Chair: Helen Siu, Yale University
Discussant: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University
Panelists:
Bixiao He, Sun Yat-sen University, “Hong Kong in China’s Information Nexus: Building a CCP Network in the Early Cold War”
Angelina Y. Chin, Pomona College, “From Guangdong to Taiwan: The Political Journeys of Two Anti-Communist Heroes Who Came to Love the CCP”
Denise Y. Ho, Yale University, “Oysterman, Refugee, Coast Guard: Hong Kong and China Between the Tides, 1949-1997”
An evening with Yale College graduates who majored in the humanities and who have embarked on interesting career paths. Alumni include Ayla Besemer, Charlotte Dobbs, Jensen Harris, Janelle Kellman, Josh Mandell, and Zelda Roland.
Opening panel to be moderated by Bryan Garsten, Chair of the Humanities Program and Professor of Political Science and the Humanities. Breakout sessions to follow.
A great saga of scholarly debate in the Chinese tradition surrounds the “Tian wen” 天問 (Heavenly questions) poem in the Han anthology Chuci 楚辭. Because of the interrogative mode of the entire text, many of its lines lack sufficient context to be read on their own, a difficulty which, compounded by the poem’s archaic and sometimes wilfully opaque language, has given to rise to countless different readings of the poem.
The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture is co-sponsored by the Beinecke Library and the Department of African American Studies at Yale.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/36DDk1H
While Chinese science fiction gains more visibility in the world, the new wave has gradually lost its momentum along its meandering course of succeeding in the market and gaining recognition from the government.
