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Film screening: Andrea Fraser’s This meeting is being recorded (2021)

Since the mid-1980s, Andrea Fraser, the 2025 Happy and Bob Doran Artist in Residence, Yale University Art Gallery, has worked in the realm of institutional critique, investigating and revealing the ways in which organizations, groups, and individuals hold and wield power. Frequently challenging the biases of arts institutions, her videos, performances, and texts deftly combine careful research with incisive, often humorous, delivery.

“Street Talk”: Pamphlet Literature of the Nigerian Marketplace

Onitsha Market Literature—named after a city east of the Niger River—emerged in the early 1950s. The popular pamphlet style soon spread to other centers throughout the then British colony of Nigeria. These ephemeral publications circulated widely throughout the busy marketplace, and writers intended them to be both educating and entertaining for the common people.

Lan Duong - "The Archive’s Hold: On Memories and the Movies”

1975 marks the momentous end of the Vietnam War—when the U.S. military formally withdraws its troops and North Việt Nam begins to occupy its southern counterpart. Both events are memorialized in American visual memory, in which images of U.S. helicopters leaving scores of desperate people behind and a tank bulldozing through National Unification Palace in Sài Gòn are iconic mnemonics of the war and its close. In other words, much of our understanding of “Vietnam,” my own included, has been narrated through visuality and spectacle.

Yale Library MLK25 Citywide Read: Online Bible Study

Yale Library DEIA and the MLK25 Citywide Read Planning Committee are partnering with churches across the New Haven and Greater Connecticut area to engage in a civic discourse on the written works of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. We are hosting a collaborative virtual Bible study session led by Yale staff members on Thursday, January 30, from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. This session will focus on Dr. Barber’s perspective on the history of civil rights in the United States and the role religion has played in shaping that history.

Yale Library MLK25 Citywide Read: Online Bible Study

Yale Library DEIA and the MLK25 Citywide Read Planning Committee are partnering with churches across the New Haven and Greater Connecticut area to engage in a civic discourse on the written works of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. We are hosting a collaborative virtual Bible study session led by Yale staff members on Thursday, January 30, from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. This session will focus on Dr. Barber’s perspective on the history of civil rights in the United States and the role religion has played in shaping that history.

Fourth Annual Indigenous Arts Night

The Yale Native American Cultural Center presents the fourth annual Indigenous Arts Night.

The night will highlight Native and Indigenous artists and art makers of all disciplines, genres, and mediums – from music, dance, comedy, poetry, to film. The space is intended to showcase the beautiful work our communities create, and we are looking to honor, celebrate, and reclaim our creativity in a safe and supportive space.

YSN ODEIB Presents "A Long Talk About the Uncomfortable Truth"

“A Long Talk About The Uncomfortable Truth” is an anti-racism activation experience designed to generate meaningful conversations about race, equity, and justice. As noted in the attached materials, the program provides participants with constructive, reflective conversations, tools to address racist comments, and a path to maintaining an anti-racist mindset and equity-minded activism.

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