Career Conversation with Yale World Fellow, Jorge Soto
Join us for an informal career and professional journey conversation with 2020 Yale World Fellow, Jorge Soto.
Undergraduate
Yale-Aided Design: The Work of Female Architecture Graduates
Architecture at Yale University was born into the Yale School of the Fine Arts in 1879, but Yale did not have its first women graduates in architecture until the late 1940s. They have been few amongst their male peers and Yale leaders until recent years.
VIRTUAL: Historical Trauma and Health - Biological Anthropology Colloquium
Dr. Zaneta M. Thayer presents a talk on, “Historical trauma and health: Integrating biological and social pathways.” Dr. Zaneta M. Thayer is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Dartmouth College. She investigates how social inequalities, such as poverty, racism and historical trauma, create health inequalities. She aims to understand how and why these experiences shape health and biology.
VIRTUAL: Poynter - Karen Tongson - Whiteness & Promises: Notes on Reading Errantly
Karen Tongson is the author of Why Karen Carpenter Matters (a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction), and Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (2011). In 2019, she received Lambda Literary’s Jeanne Córdova Award for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction for her body of work to date. She is chair of gender & sexuality studies, and Professor of gender & sexuality studies, English and American studies & ethnicity at USC. She is also co-editor of the award-winning book series, Postmillennial Pop with Henry Jenkins at NYU Press.
Call for Entries: The Wandering (Open to Undergraduate, Graduate and Professional Students)
Seeking 20 students - undergraduate, graduate and professional - to be the first participants in “The Wandering,” a new immersive classical music experience. Students will participate in a virtual pre-launch of “The Wandering,” a multi-media classical music experience premiering this spring. Students will also meet with each other and The Wandering Creative Team to foster interdisciplinary collaboration.
VIRUTAL: Daughters of the Civil Rights Movement
Join the Yale Alumni Academy and Yale Alumni College for a conversation with women whose parents changed the course of history.
VIRTUAL: Disability (In)Visibility: Moving from Inclusion to Justice
Join us for our 2021 Pan Asian American Heritage Month Keynote featuring Alice Wong (she/her). Alice is a disabled activist, media maker, and consultant. She is the Founder and Director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing and amplifying disability media and culture created in 2014. Currently, Alice is the editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, an anthology of essays by disabled people, available now by Vintage Books (2020). You can find her on Twitter: @SFdirewolf.
VIRTUAL: Over Black Coffee: Talking with Sister Betty & Brother Malcom
Join Muslim student leaders and activists as they mark the 56th anniversary of the martyrdom of Malcolm X by imagining the conversations they would have with Sister Betty and Brother Malcolm today.
Moderated by Chaplain Khalil Abdullah, Dartmouth College.
BIPOC in the Built Wiki Edit-A-Thon: Grassroots Collectives + BIPOC Futurists
This is the final 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: Public Space + Public Art
This is the fourth 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.
