Event Type: Yale Postdoctoral Trainees
Technology as a Tool for Democratization and Empowerment
The world is evolving rapidly. With sweeping shifts in global leadership, advancement of artificial intelligence, population changes, and social media, societal paradigms are quickly transforming. How do we make sense of this moment? What opportunities are there to shape it? What role does technology play? Join the Jackson Schoolâs Social Innovation Initiative as three former Yale World Fellows share the challenges and opportunities they are tackling as they innovate new solutions for Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Speakers include: Belabbes Benkredda, founder of Munathara Initiative, the Arab worldâs largest online and television debate forum highlighting voices of youth, women, and marginalized communities; Joshin Raghubar, serial technology and impact venture…
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The Jackson School Office of Alumni Affairs will host a virtual discussion on the impact of the U.S. presidential election on Russia’s war in Ukraine with Luke Johnson MA â18 and 2019 World Fellow Olena Sotnyk, moderated by Eric Sanderson BA â20. Luke Johnson is a Berlin-based journalist covering politics, media, and society in Central and Eastern Europe, primarily focusing on the War in Ukraine and its regional effects. He writes the newsletter Public Sphere for people trying to understand the crisis of democracy in the U.S. and abroad. His reporting and analysis have been featured in The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Columbia Journalism Review, Internationale Politik Quarterly, The Washington…
More InformationClimate Tech & Sustainability Panel Discussion
Yale’s Office of Sustainability will host an insightful panel discussion with 2024 World Fellows Fausto Ximenes and Charlotte Wang, who will share their pioneering work and global insights on sustainability and climate technology. Mr. Ximenes is Oxfam International Country Director for Timor-Leste where he leads an international country team and strives, alongside local civil society partner organizations and communities, to tackle challenges of climate justice, gender equality and gender justice, inclusive economic development, and civic participation. Before joining Oxfam, Fausto was a Development Economist and Senior Policy Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), a Graduate Researcher with the University of Oxfordâs Changing Character of War (CCW) Centre where…
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2024 World Fellow Charlotte Wang will discuss AI for energy and energy policy influence, hosted by the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. Wang is an expert in AI data-driven energy management and sustainability, with professional experience in clean energy and smart grid in China, the United States, Germany, and Russia. She is a serial entrepreneur and founded EQuota Energy in 2014. An AI-based data analytics SaaS company, EQuota provides grid management, energy optimization, and carbon management for energy intensive manufacturers and utilities to improve grid stability, reduce energy consumption, and carbon emission. EQuota serves utility groups, steel, chemical, and coal mining in China and Middle East and…
More InformationStrengthening 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 Americaâs…
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.
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