Event Type: Graduate and Professional
Voices of New Belarus
The Yale community is invited to hear the 2022 Yale World Fellows read and discuss the documentary play of Belarusian playwright and civil activist Andrei Kureichik. The play features 14 real monologues of Belarusians chosen from more than 700 stories of victims of Lukashenko’s repressive machine. In the play, politicians, journalists, activists, people of all ages and professions share their experience of political repression. This reading is an invitation to a broad discussion about the problem of political prisoners in the world and ways you can help.
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Creative Industries in Latin America
Join 2022 World Fellow Martin Inthamoussú as he leads a conversation on the cultural and creative sector in Latin America and the Caribbean. There will be a closing performance by David Alzate (Jackson School of Global Affairs MPP candidate). Open to the Yale community.
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Accelerating Sustainable Development in the age of COVID, Conflict, and Climate
We invite you to hear 2022 World Fellow Babatunde Omilola speak about sustainable development in Africa. Open to the Yale community, tune in virtually via Zoom or in-person (registration required): https://yaleconnect.yale.edu/YSEAD/rsvp_boot?id=1873319
More InformationDialectics of Mentalities of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. History and Prospects
Members of the Yale community are invited to a lunchtime seminar of the European & Russian Studies MA Program and the REEES Program with Andrei Kureichik, 2022 Yale World Fellow. Andrei will lead a discussion on “Dialectics of Mentalities of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. History and Prospects” Please RSVP to Christina Andriotis at christina.andriotis@yale.edu
More InformationChallenges to "Freedom of Expression" in Developing Countries Under Authoritarian Regimes
Join 2022 World Fellow Fakhar Durrani as he discusses challenges facing journalists in Pakistan. Fakhar is an investigative journalist for The News International, Pakistan’s leading English-language newspaper where he reports in-depth stories often in high-risk situations. This event is part of Saint Anthony Hall’s 2022 lecture series and is open to the Yale and New Haven communities.
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War in Ukraine
The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs will host a panel discussion on the situation in Ukraine featuring the following panelists: Timothy Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale, Arne Westad, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale, and Nellie Petlick, a Jackson graduate student who previously served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in south-central Ukraine. Attendance is limited to current members of the Yale campus community with a valid Yale ID and registration via EventBrite is required. *Please note that registration for this event is now full. The event will be recorded; the video will be posted to our website jackson.yale.edu/virtual-events
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Yale Cyber Leadership Forum | AI Ethics and Safety
The 2022 Yale Cyber Leadership Forum will take place as a series of hybrid in-person and virtual discussions, bringing together an impressive array of attorneys, technologists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and academics to explore the national security challenges associated with artificial intelligence and machine learning. A collaboration between Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and Yale Law School’s Center for Global Legal Challenges, the Forum is directed by Oona A. Hathaway, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law. This year’s Forum, Bridging the Divide: National Security Implications of Artificial Intelligence, will explore how advances in AI have the potential to dramatically alter the cybersecurity threat landscape. The Forum will…
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Political Competition as a Trigger for Instability in Africa
This webinar will explore how political competition devolve to destabilizing conflicts in Africa and the peculiar elements that make these trend rampant. It will interrogate various conflicts in the region and the nature of interventions that were deployed to address them. It will further explore the relevant steps and reforms needed to prevent these conflicts. It will also rely on firsthand account of mediators and political leaders in the panel to analyze the place of leadership and altruism in ensuring national stability and healthy democratic competition. Speakers: HE Olusegun Obasanjo, Former President Federal Republic of Nigeria (AU Special Envoy to Ethiopia) HE Mme Aminata Touré, Former Prime Minister of Republic…
More InformationCommunity-Based Conservation in Papua New Guinea: Challenges and Opportunities
Ambroise Brenier, 2020 World Fellow, was the Country Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Papua New Guinea from 2016 to 2021. He will talk about the in’s and out’s of working with government and indigenous communities, from tackling illegal logging, to addressing unsustainable uses of marine and forest resources. Ambroise will discuss the particular challenges the conservation community is facing, and opportunities to increase conservation impact, in this spectacular and unique part of the world.
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Criminalizing a culture and a race — the Uyghurs’ struggle to survive China’s concentration camps and prison state
Since 2016, China has placed millions of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in the largest system of concentration camps since WWII where torture, slavery, and political indoctrination are the norm. Despite international criticism, the Chinese government has shown little to no sign of slowing down its racist erasure of Uyghur and Turkic identity. China’s repression has already reached North America, including here at Yale. A member of the Yale Community, Rayhan Asat, a World Fellow at the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, has lost her brother Ekpar Asat, a prominent Uyghur tech-entrepreneur — to one of these prison camps. The Chinese government is currently subjecting Ekpar to the torture of…
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