General Public

Educator Workshop, Teacher Leadership Program

The Teacher Leadership Program is a free one-hour workshop for educators of all levels and disciplines that meets at 4:00 pm EST on the first Thursday of the month throughout the academic year. These sessions are led by Jessica Sack, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Senior Associate Curator of Public Education; Rachel Thompson, the John Walsh Fellow in Museum Education; and the Wurtele Gallery Teachers. In this program, educators explore innovative ways to connect their curricula and interest in art with the Yale University Art Gallery’s collection.

Virtual: Native American Languages at Yale: Past, Present, and Future

Four Yale students will join moderator (Claire Bowern, Linguistics) in discussing Native American languages across the country. The panel will discuss issues around language activism, language in Native American communities, Native American languages at Yale, and language loss and reclamation. The panel’s members will discuss language and related topics across the nation and the role of institutions like Yale in the linguistic landscape of North America. This panel is tied to Bass Library’s 2020/2021 Model Research Collection curated by Dr. Bowern, Language is Everywhere.

Celebrating Black Trans Lives: What does allyship look like to you?

How do you celebrate and advocate for Black Trans Lives?

Join other Black cisgender and non-Black folks of all genders to share and share in strategies and resources for self-education and effective informed advocacy in support of Black Trans lives, rights and community, facilitated by Office of LGBTQ Resources Associate Director Andrew Dowe.

Free and open to the public. All are invited and encouraged to attend, regardless of knowledge level and previous experience with advocacy.

Chevron's “Amazon Chernobyl” Disaster in Ecuador: Lessons from the Frontlines

The historic $9.5b pollution judgment won by Amazon communities in Ecuador against Chevron was the result of a substantive legal battle that has attracted the attention of legal scholars, Nobel Laureates, human rights organizations and climate activists worldwide. The case was brought by an international team of lawyers and community leaders led by Steven Donziger who faced off against 60 Chevron law firms and more than 2,000 lawyers retained by the company.

Consensus Formation in an Individualistic Country: When do Japanese Care about Others?

A myriad of survey polls and academic literature suggest that Japanese are rather individualistic and do not care about others. Across different indicators, Japanese seem to be the least likely to engage in pro-social behavior among advanced democracies. The egoistic attitudes, in aggregate, should make it difficult for the society to have a consensus over redistributive policies ranging from a tax increase to corona-related benefits.

The Forgotten War or the Hijacked War? How Chinese POWs and Taiwan Hijacked the Korean War

The Korean War was in reality two wars: the first half was a war over territory from June 1950 to November 1951; the second half was a war over POWs from late 1951 to July 1953. While the first war restored the territorial status quo ante, the second war’s only visible outcome was the “defection” of 14,220 Chinese prisoners to Taiwan and 7,574 North Korean prisoners to South Korea, the cost of which was a near doubling of the length of the war and numerous casualties on all sides.

BIPOC in the Built Wiki Edit-A-Thon: Grassroots Collectives + BIPOC Futurists

This is the first day in this week-long virtual event participants will build community while creating new and edit existing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC designers, activists, planners and others whose work is connected to the built environment. Attendees will participate in training and begin editing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC figures who have left their mark on the fields of art, architecture, art history, activism, dance, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, and more.

BIPOC in the Built Wiki Edit-A-Thon: Grassroots Collectives + BIPOC Futurists

This is the first day in this week-long virtual event participants will build community while creating new and edit existing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC designers, activists, planners and others whose work is connected to the built environment. Attendees will participate in training and begin editing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC figures who have left their mark on the fields of art, architecture, art history, activism, dance, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, and more.

BIPOC in the Built Wiki Edit-A-Thon: Grassroots Collectives + BIPOC Futurists

This is the first day in this week-long virtual event participants will build community while creating new and edit existing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC designers, activists, planners and others whose work is connected to the built environment. Attendees will participate in training and begin editing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC figures who have left their mark on the fields of art, architecture, art history, activism, dance, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, and more.

BIPOC in the Built Wiki Edit-A-Thon: Grassroots Collectives + BIPOC Futurists

This is the first day in this week-long virtual event participants will build community while creating new and edit existing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC designers, activists, planners and others whose work is connected to the built environment. Attendees will participate in training and begin editing Wikipedia pages of BIPOC figures who have left their mark on the fields of art, architecture, art history, activism, dance, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, and more.