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Origins of the Dream: Langston Hughes's Poetry & Martin Luther King Jr.'s Rhetoric

A special Mondays at Beinecke gallery talk online with W. Jason Miller, Professor of Literature at North Carolina State University.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/38eUILm
Miller is the author of “Origins of the Dream: Hughes’s Poetry and King’s Rhetoric” (University of Florida Press, 2016), which traces the Rev, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s use of Langston Hughes’s poetry in his sermons and speeches from 1956-1968.

Studio Program, Virtual Sewing Circle

What would the world look like if, as humans, we thought of ourselves as companion species? Can acts of creative collaboration help heal broken bonds with the environment and with each other? Cannupa Hanska Luger (Manda, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota) and Marie Watt (Seneca), M.F.A. 1996, invite the public to consider such questions while contributing to the physical manifestation of a large-scale sculptural installation.

TODAY: Executive MBA Leaders Forum in Asset Management. John W. Rogers, Jr. Chairman, Ariel Investments

Please join the Yale SOM Dean’s Office for the 2021 Executive MBA Leaders Forum in Asset Management Lecture with John W. Rogers, Jr. John is Founder, Chairman, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Ariel Investments. Headquartered in Chicago, the firm offers five no-load mutual funds for individual investors and defined contribution plans as well as separately managed accounts for institutions and high net worth individuals

Art & Protest: Shellyne Rodriguez, A Life Practice: On Art, Protests, and Organizing

SHELLYNE RODRIGUEZ is an artist, teacher, agitator, and community organizer from the Bronx. These multiple roles have converged and have been in conflict in myriad ways throughout the years and have sown lessons as well as unanswered questions. Join us for a candid discussion of Shellyne’s experiences as a community organizer and an artist.

Virtual: Women Empowerment Workshop

Join Future Leaders of Yale and the African American Affinity Group for a panel discussion designed for young women of color (ages 9-18), that will focus on the importance of empowerment, positivity, and overcoming adversity. Attendees will hear inspirational stories from Yale leaders and students, participate in a “Mindful Monday” empowerment exercise, learn about Yale University as an attainable option for education and employment, and participate in an environment where girls can talk freely and be themselves.

Panelists will include:

Risk & Care, Then & Now: A World AIDS Day Symposium

Join us for a conversation about risk and care, intimacy and expertise, responsibility and rage, and surviving crises.

Panelists include: Celeste Watkins-Hayes (University of Michigan), Gregg Gonsalves (Yale), and Joseph Osmundson (NYU); moderated by Joseph Fischel (Yale).

Sponsored by Yale LGBT Studies and the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration.

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