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Evening 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 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 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.
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 InformationBuilding Inclusive Societies in Post Conflict Context: Cambodia and Timor-Leste
The World Fellows Program will host a panel discussion on building inclusive societies in post conflict context with 2024 World Fellows Sokny Onn and Fausto Ximenes.
More InformationA Fireside Debate: Why Taiwan Matters and the US Election
Join 2024 Yale World Fellow Xu Heqian as he moderates a fireside debate on Why Taiwan Matters and the US Election. Panelists include Howard Shen (Director KMT office in DC), Fanny Chao (Former Assistant Analyst, Tsai Ying-wen administration of Taiwan), and Ouyang Bin (Associate Director, Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society). As Taiwan’s geopolitical importance continues to grow, understanding the island’s trajectory—both in its role in maturing democracy in East Asia and its position in the global technology supply chain—has become increasingly vital. These factors, along with Taiwan’s role in the context of U.S.-China relations, are central to global stability. As the outcome of the upcoming U.S. presidential election will…
More InformationCivil Society, Elections and Democracy in Africa. Voting and Obstacles: Navigating Africa's Challenging Journey to Democratic Elections—A focus on Zimbabwe
Jonathan Edwards Tea with Ms. Babra Bhebe, 2024 World Fellow from Zimbabwe. She is the Executive Director of the Election Resource Centre (ERC), a civil society organization that stands to promote electoral democracy in Zimbabwe and across the African continent. She has worked in the governance and human rights sector for more than 18 years. Since joining the organization in 2021, the ERC has under her leadership extended its influence to South Africa and Angola where it has been instrumental in building the capacity of political parties on various election related issues. Her reputation as an election expert is demonstrated by the multiple international election observation missions she has been…
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