The Yale Asian American Cultural Center (AACC) seeks to foster and showcase a community of scholars conducting research on issues that further our understanding of the community we hope to serve. The AACC Community Research Day is a casual scholarly and social convening where students from all disciplines, schools, and years can come together to engage each other’s research, ask questions, and share works in progress.
Join us for AACC Senior Stories! We’ll get to know each other in a more intimate setting, cherish the diversity of experiences in our community, and of course, celebrate our seniors.
Sarah and Mia’s senior stories will take place on Friday, March 18 at 5-6pm both in-person at the AACC (first floor) and on Zoom (https://yale.zoom.us/j/99899823855). There’ll be yummy Asian snacks :)
Join us to hear from a panel of alumni who have stayed in New Haven and work to benefit the community! Our panelists include John Lee (LEAP), Odette Wang (LEAP), and Caroline Tanbee Smith (Collab New Haven). There will be food provided!
**This event is a part of the AACC Leadership Certificate program playlist**
Join APALSA PAC and AACC for a lunch speaker event and community conversation about Asian Americans and affirmative action. The Supreme Court recently decided to hear argument on Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. OiYan Poon and Genzie Bonadies Torres are among two legal scholars who have been heavily involved in the case, including on amici in favor of affirmative action. They will speak about their legal strategy surrounding the case as well as the challenge of navigating Asian American identity and affirmative action as a policy.
On the one-year anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings, join us as we gather to remember the eight lives tragically lost to anti-Asian violence then and recognize the lives lost since. If you’re interested in saying a few words or sharing your reflection through a more creative form, there will be an open mic portion in the program for attendees to do so and you may indicate your interest via the registration form. This event is open to the public and all are welcome.
Co-hosted by the Asian American Cultural Center and aapiNHV
Rain date: Monday, March 28, 6-7pm.
Join the AACC in welcoming Professor Iyko Day to Yale for a special guest lecture! As part of the AACC’s programming for Pan Asian American Heritage Month, the AACC Political Action and Engagement Team invites you to a conversation about Asian American relationships to settler colonialism.
A roundtable discussion with Robin D.G. Kelley, Derecka Purnell, and Garrett Felber
Moderated by Elizabeth Hinton
Recounts of his fight to survive in North Korea, his path to China and America. His current work on North Korea at the Bush Institute.
Joseph Kim is an Associate and Expert-in-Residence on the Human Freedom Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute. He was born and raised in North Korea. At the age of 12, his father died of starvation, and he was separated from his mother and sister.
Professor Daphne Brooks will discuss her new book “Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound” (Harvard UP, 2021) which explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who have determined perceptions of Black women on stage and in the recording studio. Online, free and open to all with pre-registration. Online, free, and open to all with registration.
As part of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Women at Yale, this exhibition highlights works by women who have graduated from the School of Art, Yale’s first coeducational school. The education of women has been a fundamental part of the School’s mission since its foundation.
