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  • Sunday 4/25/21

    • Unpacking the Green New Deal: A Conversation with Rhiana Gunn-Wright ’11 and Laura Brush YSE’19

      Apr 25
      6:30PM – 8:00PM
      Online
      Add to Calendar 2021-04-25T18:30:00 2021-04-25T20:00:00 America/New_York Unpacking the Green New Deal: A Conversation with Rhiana Gunn-Wright ’11 and Laura Brush YSE’19 This event is a moderated conversation between Rhiana Gunn-Wright ’11 and Laura Bush MEM’19 on climate change and climate policy. As the co-author of the Green New Deal, Rhiana will break down the policy implications and answer questions around this innovative proposal. Yale Club of DC Event Co-Sponsored by Yale Black Alumni Association and Yale BlueGreen. In addition to the COVID-19 pandemic and chronic racial discrimination, this year has also seen climate chaos in the form of hurricanes, snowstorms, wildfires, floods, and heatwaves across the nation. These overlapping crises have exposed the systemic inequality that continues to disadvantage low-income communities and communities of color because of historic discrimination and disinvestment. It’s clear that future policies must address these intersecting crises and the Green New Deal (GND) proposes a roadmap to do just that. As the coauthor of the GND, Rhiana Gunn-Wright ’11 unpacks the policies in the GND that pave the way for a bold, equitable economic recovery with millions of good green jobs. This conversation, moderated by Laura Brush YSE’19, dives into the research and climate justice proposals that embed racial equity into future climate solutions. false

  • Monday 4/26/21

    • Yale Computer Science: Broadening Perspectives

      Apr 26, 2021
      Starts at 6:30PM
      Online
      Add to Calendar 2021-04-26T18:30:00 2021-04-26T18:30:00 America/New_York Yale Computer Science: Broadening Perspectives

      Please join us for a robust conversation about computer science at Yale. Faculty and alumni will explore developments in the field, Yale's commitment to teaching and collaboration, and constructive ways to promote diversity.

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  • Tuesday 4/27/21

    • Kurdish Perspectives from the Region

      Apr 27
      12:00PM – 1:00PM
      Online
      Add to Calendar 2021-04-27T12:00:00 2021-04-27T13:00:00 America/New_York Kurdish Perspectives from the Region The April 27 session, Kurdish Perspectives from the Region, will feature panelists Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, Kurdistan Regional Government Representative to the United States, and Sinam Mohamad, Representative of the Syrian Democratic Council to the United States. 
Rory Stewart, Jackson Senior Fellow, will moderate. false

    • at home: Art in Context | “Having no son”: New light on the group portrait of Elihu Yale

      Apr 27
      12:30PM – 1:00PM
      online
      Add to Calendar 2021-04-27T12:30:00 2021-04-27T13:00:00 America/New_York at home: Art in Context | “Having no son”: New light on the group portrait of Elihu Yale Join Edward Town, Head of Collections Information and Access at the Center, for a discussion about an eighteenth-century group portrait depicting the university’s early benefactor Elihu Yale, members of his family, and an enslaved child. New findings and recent research undertaken at the Center will inform a reinterpreted display of the portrait and a web-based presentation to illuminate the painting's history in the Center's collection and the multiple ways in which its complex past has been explored. online — 1080 Chapel Street false

    • PRFDHR Seminar: The Causes and Consequences of Ethnic Violence in Myanmar, Dr. Paula López Peña

      Apr 27
      2:30PM – 3:45PM
      Online
      Add to Calendar 2021-04-27T14:30:00 2021-04-27T15:45:00 America/New_York PRFDHR Seminar: The Causes and Consequences of Ethnic Violence in Myanmar, Dr. Paula López Peña The Rohingya crisis is one of the world’s worst ongoing human-rights atrocities, but its causes are contested and its consequences are poorly understood. Dr. López Peña and her co-authors marshal a variety of existing and original data to shed light on its drivers, characteristics, and human cost. false

    • The Jackson School of Global Studies: A Conversation With Pericles Lewis, Yale Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives

      Apr 27, 2021
      Starts at 4:00PM
      Online
      Add to Calendar 2021-04-27T16:00:00 2021-04-27T16:00:00 America/New_York The Jackson School of Global Studies: A Conversation With Pericles Lewis, Yale Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives Join us for a conversation with Pericles Lewis, Ph.D., Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English, serves as Vice President for Global Strategy and Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives at Yale University. Reporting to the President and the Provost, he is responsible for ensuring that the global efforts of the university serve Yale’s academic goals and priorities. Lewis works closely with colleagues across the university to provide strategic guidance for Yale’s many international programs and support for teaching and learning in all schools of the university. His primary responsibility is to enhance Yale’s international leadership in undergraduate and professional education and a world-class research institution. false

    • American Education and Domestic Imperialism

      Apr 27
      7:00PM – 8:00PM
      Online
      Add to Calendar 2021-04-27T19:00:00 2021-04-27T20:00:00 America/New_York American Education and Domestic Imperialism Khalil Johnson in Conversation with Matt Jacobson. Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America” @ the NHFPL series. Zoom Webinar Link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/93711399355 false

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