Event Type: Graduate and Professional
Strengthening America's STEM Innovation Base
The Alexander Hamilton Society (AHS) Yale Chapter will host 2024 World Fellow Gonzalo Moratorio, head of the Experimental Evolution of Viruses Lab at the Institute Pasteur de Montevideo and Associate Professor at the University of the Republic, Uruguay. He was elected to the UNESCO International Basic Science Program Board in 2021 and is an advocate for basic research to drive innovation in Latin America. He has been recognized by CNN and the BBC and actively contributes to podcasts, webinars, and interviews, and since 2024 has hosted a children’s television show dedicated to science education. Please join a discussion over dinner on how we may be able to best strengthen Americaā€™s…
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The Schell Center for International Human Rights will host a panel on “Gender and Conflict” featuring 2024 World Fellows Roba El Husseini, Iraq’s Deputy Bureau Chief for Agence France Presse, and Priya Pillai, international lawyer and director of the Asia Justice Coalition. The panel will be moderated by Dina Francesca Haynes, executive director of the Yale Law School’s Schell Center for International Human Rights.
More InformationEvening Chai with 2024 World Fellow, Sokny Onn
The Asian American Cultural Center (AACC) will host a conversation with 2024 World Fellow Sokny Onn, the Country Director of Epic Arts in Cambodia, who will share her journey of advocating for disability inclusion in Cambodia.
More InformationThe Role of Civil Society in Post-Conflict Reconciliation and Development
Graduate students at the Jackson School of Global Affairs will host a conversation with 2024 World Fellow Fausto “Nino” Ximenes. Before coming to Yale, Ximenes served as the Country Director of Oxfam International in Timor-Leste where he strived, together with more than twenty civil society organization partners, stakeholders and communities, in tackling challenges of climate justice, gender equality, just economic development and civic participation. Prior to that, Ximenes served with various civil society & international organizations including the UN. Ximenes’ academic and career paths are heavily influenced by the tumultuous independence journey of his native Timor-Leste, as well as the post-conflict national-building and development. Food will be provided.
More InformationFilm Screening: Navalny
The World Fellows program will host a screening of the Oscar-winning film “Navalny,” which details the 2020 assassination attempt of Russian opposition leader and former World Fellow Alexei Navalny. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Christo Grozev, an investigative journalist with Bellingcat; Leonid Volkov, 2018 World Fellow and Navalny’s chief of staff; and Anna Biriukova, 2024 World Fellow and a pollster at the Anti-Corruption Foundation. This event is open to the public, but registration is requested.
More InformationInvestigative Insights into Putin's Worldwide Malign Networks
2024 World Fellow Anna Biriukova will lead a discussion with investigative journalist Christo Grozev (Spiegel, The Insider, ex-Bellingcat). Grozev’s investigations into the identity of the suspects involved in the 2018 poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal earned him and his team the European Press Prize for Investigative Journalism. He played a crucial role in identifying the details of Alexei Navalny’s poisoning in 2020. The talk is open to the public.
More InformationPursuing Justice for Mass Atrocities via Universal Jurisdiction
Panel discussion with Hayley Evans, Max Planck Institute (Recent Developments in Universal Jurisdiction for International Crimes), Priya Pillai, 2024 World Fellow (Avenues for Universal Jurisdiction for Myanmar Cases), and Janine di Giovanni, The Reckoning Project (Can Universal Jurisdiction Provide Justice for Ukraine?). Lunch will be served. Sponsored by the Yale MacMillan Center Genocide Studies Program.
More InformationAccountability For Forgotten Crises
A panel discussion with Nathaniel Raymond, Director, Humanitarian Research Lab, Yale School of Public Health; Priya Pillai, Director, Asia Justice Coalition and 2024 Yale World Fellow; Karnig Kerkonian, International Lawyer, Armenian Delegation to the ICJ, and moderated by Claudia Flores, Director, Schell Center for International Human Rights at the Yale Law School. The panelists, representing Sudan, Myanmar, and Nagorno-Karabakh, will discuss accountability for forgotten crisis.
More InformationCrossroads of Innovation: Policy, Science and Entrepreneurship in Latin America
The Council on Latin America and Iberian Studies will host a panel on the Crossroads of Innovation: Policy, Science and Entrepreneurship in Latin America. Panelists include 2024 World Fellows include Gabriel Silva, Gonzalo Moratorio, and Leticia Jauregui. The panel will be moderated by Prof. Ligia Fabris Campos.
More InformationLon Marum People of the Volcano (Film screening and conversation)
2024 World Fellow Soraya Hosni will be joined by 2019 World Fellow Alex Munoz for the screening of her film “Lon Marum: People of the Volcano.” The film will be followed by discussion with the audience.
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