Events Calendar

What role do monuments play in shaping history and culture? Who decides what goes up and what comes down? Is history really written by the victors? Please join us for a discussion about changing viewpoints on monuments and memorials in light of recent protests and discussions surrounding the Confederate monuments across the South.

Learn about three fascinating areas and how local communities are handling the pandemic during this interactive webinar. Our panelists join us from Yale Alumni Service Corps (YASC) partners Instituto Floresta Viva in Brazil, Yspaniola in Dominican Republic, and Instituto Nueva Escuela in Puerto Rico. After a brief presentation by each panelist, you will have the opportunity to join a separate breakout room to discuss the situation in a particular community in more depth.
 
This webinar supports the YASC mission to promote mutual cross-cultural awareness and sustainable development in underserved communities. We do this by bringing Yale alumni, family, and friends to work with people in communities throughout the world – via the arts, education and sports, health, and economic development – to inspire hope and produce meaningful change in the lives of the people we serve.

Registration link coming soon!

The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs will host an online discussion with former World Bank President Amb. Robert Zoellick about his new book, “America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy.” 



Amb. John Negroponte, Jackson Senior Fellow, and Arne Westad, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale, will join the discussion. 

Zoellick has served as Deputy Secretary, Under Secretary, and Counselor of the State Department; Ambassador and U.S. Trade Representative; Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury; Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House; and President of the World Bank. His experience spans six U.S. Presidencies—during the Cold War, in its closing chapter, and into the first decades of the 21st century. Zoellick is now a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. 

The event is free and open to the general public. Registration is required.

Please join the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program for a celebration of our 2020 Ideas Worth Teaching Awards.

The pandemic and the social and economic crises of 2020 have revealed in new ways inequities in our societies and opened new sightlines into the interdependence inherent in modern society. What are the skills and frameworks that business executives need now to build a more just and sustainable version of capitalism for the future? And, even as higher education navigates unprecedented times, how might business schools leverage and support this awakened imperative for change?

Please join us for an important discussion between Dan Schulman, CEO and President of PayPal, and Kerwin Charles, the Indra K. Nooyi Dean of the Yale School of Management, moderated by Judy Samuelson, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program. Immediately following the conversation, we will announce the winners of our 2020 Ideas Worth Teaching Awards—nine innovative courses from around the world that are rising to the challenges of this moment, and shining a spotlight on what is possible in management education now.

All Yale alumni, students and friends are cordially invited to join us for this inclusive livestream gathering and interactive conversation with Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle ’03, the first enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to publish a novel—Even As We Breathe, which explores themes of identity, place, family and belonging under the backdrop of WWII.

This event will be held online--a Zoom link and dial-in instructions will be provided to registered attendees.

Annette will discuss her evolution and journey as a writer, the impact Yale had on her life, how her community is coping with the coronavirus pandemic, and more. The former executive director of the Cherokee Preservation Foundation, Annette is currently an English teacher at Swain County High School, near where she was born and raised in western North Carolina.

Moderating the conversation is Ashley Hemmers ’07, chief administrative officer of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe and chair of Native American Yale Alumni (NAYA), a shared identity/interest group dedicated to strengthening the Yale Native Community through a legacy of leadership, commitment and service.

This event is brought to you by Native American Yale Alumni and the Yale Alumni Association Shared Interest Groups.

Join YaleWomen Connecticut for discussions on Yale Professor Laurie Santos’s class

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