What does it mean to be an American? Two immigrants embark on a cross-country listening and recording tour, revealing an unfiltered, unflinching portrait of America.

What if we found the courage to ask questions and just listen,overpowering our natural instincts to react?

A feature film documentary created by filmmakers Horacio Marquínez and Kirill Myltsev; produced by Marc Brackett, Ph.D., Professor, Child Study Center and Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

The Race, Social Justice, and Democracy Plenary will bring together scholars, practitioners, and artists from across the Centering Race Consortium (CRC), a collaboration with the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in American (CSREA) at Brown University, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University, the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) at Yale University, and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) at the University of Chicago.

Descendants of the medieval Iberian Jewry settled throughout the Mediterranean and beyond since their late-15th century expulsions from the Peninsula (Sepharad). They carried with them mostly non-tangible cultural capitals, such and language and music, which they kept and developed in their new lands of settlement. Continuous processes of preservation and innovation over five centuries generated a plethora of Sephardic liturgical music repertoires that can be still experienced in the present.

Yale Votes: A Student Initiative, alongside The Office of the Secretary and Vice President of University Life, presents A Conversation with Melissa Deckman: The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy (2024). Political scientist Melissa Deckman will share insights on how young voters are driving a shift toward progressive politics, offering a glimpse into the attitudes and motivations behind this new wave of civic engagement among younger generations.