Events Calendar

Please join us for the Yale School of Public Health Dean's Speaker Series, Leaders in Public Health, featuring Dr. Roman Macaya.

Roman Macaya is an Instructor in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He previously served as Executive President and Chairman of the Board of the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, the institution that provides all public health care services in Costa Rica. He led the country´s health care response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to this, Roman served as Costa Rica´s Ambassador to the United States, where he emphasized science and health diplomacy as one of the principal agendas of the embassy.

Roman has developed a multidisciplinary career as a biomedical scientist, businessman, diplomat, and public servant. Roman has held leadership roles in the fields of biomedical and clinical research, private equity, health care, and agribusiness. He currently serves in advisory and executive roles in health care initiatives and the agribusiness sector.

A conversation with a co-curator of Beinecke's current exhibition: Agnieszka Rec, curator at the Beinecke Library. Yale Library’s collection of manuscripts produced in the Islamic world is among the largest and oldest in the United States. Taught by the Pen: The World of Islamic Manuscripts celebrates Islamic civilization and its interconnected artistic, religious, and scholarly traditions. Through 150 items from the 9th to the 19th centuries, visitors are invited to engage with the intellectual and aesthetic values and practices of the many peoples and communities encompassed by Islamic civilization. The exhibition sheds light on how these manuscripts—and the ideas they contain—were transmitted and disseminated. Gallery guests will encounter diverse books, from lavishly illuminated Qur’ans, elegant calligraphy albums, and delicately illustrated epics and chronicles to well-thumbed prayer books, beloved poetry collections, detailed maps, learned science and mathematics volumes, and more. The papers, inks, and bindings that transmit these ideas and genres reveal a continuity of artistic traditions and new innovations in works from the Middle East to North Africa, Europe, Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and North America. 

We have a BIG milestone right around the corner for our Club, and we hope you’re excited to celebrate with us!  Join us at the Mark Twain House on Tuesday, April 8 from 6-8 PM for our 140th Anniversary Celebration!

We’ll be celebrating with complimentary food and a cash bar. 🥳🥂  We’ll also have photos and memorabilia from throughout our past which will be on display during the evening at the Mark Twain House, a venue purposefully chosen given how closely Samuel Clemens engaged with our Club in our earliest years (read on to find out more about our Club’s connection with the author!).  And for anyone curious to find out more about the stories, achievements, and anecdotes that have dotted our rich past, a few of us will be happy to share more if asked!

Simply put:  come join us for a drink and a quick bite after work on April 8th, and be part of celebrating our Club’s vibrant 140 year history as we look ahead to what’s next!

Please join the YCNH at our monthly social Gathering@Mory’s, April 9, 5:30-7:30 pm, at Louis’ Lounge at Mory’s. Over drinks (first drink on us!) and appetizers (also on us!), we will chat with our special guest, Betsy Golden Kellem, about her upcoming book on nineteenth-century circus women, among many other subjects! 

Betsy Golden Kellem, BA ’01, JD ’05 (UCONN), is a lawyer, historian, and scholar of the unusual. Her writing on circus and entertainment history has appeared in venues including The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The Public Domain Review, Smithsonian, Atlas Obscura, and Slate. She has served on the boards of the Barnum Museum and the Circus Historical Society and is an Emmy winner for her Showman’s Shorts video series on P. T. Barnum. She is a columnist for JSTOR Daily and regularly teaches and speaks for academia and industry. If you ask nicely, she will juggle knives for you.  

Her upcoming book Jumping Through Hoops is the fascinating story of how nineteenth-century circus women performed impossible feats and changed American culture.