The Yale International Alliance Film Society presents And Breathe Normally, an Icelandic film by Isold Uggadottir.
Join movie enthusiasts from our global alumni community to discuss and exchange views on films from around the world. And share your favorite film from your own country to view for discussion at a future meeting.
Prior to the discussion participants will watch the movie on streaming platforms available in their regions. Online options may include Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Prime Video, etc.
What:And Breathe Normally by Isold Uggadottir
When: Saturday, January 15, 2022 | 10:00am ET / 3:00pm GMT
Yale International Alliance presents the YIAFilm Society, bringing together film enthusiasts from our global alumni community to discuss and share ideas on movies from around the world.
The YIA Film Society will meet the third weekend of each month – times will vary to accommodate different time zones aiming for inclusion of participants from diverse geographical regions. Save the date for the premier event on Saturday, January 15, 2022 and stay tuned for details!
A practical and open discussion between Haitian and Dominican thought leaders focused on the environment as a uniting concern towards the creation of a bi-national sustainable development framework. After the webinar the YIA will convene a working group for those interested in continuing the discussions.
The dialogue was locally organized by Gerald McElroy, Yale ’09 (Haiti) and Anton Tejeda, Yale ’88 (Dominican Republic).
When: Thursday, December 2, 2021 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm ET
How do we deal with extremism, both at home and abroad? Can deradicalization work? How can polarized societies heal?
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Carla Power discusses her new book Home, Land, Security – Deradicalization and the Journey back from Extremism with author of Choked and former AP reporter Beth Gardiner.
What: In Conversation With Carla Power on her new book Home, Land, Security
When: Friday, November 19, 2021 | 12:00pm ET/ 5:00pm GMT
Carla Power is a London-based journalist, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for If the Oceans Were Ink, and author of newly released Home, Land, Security. She started her career at Newsweek Magazine focusing on Muslim societies, global social issues, and culture, reporting from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. She has written for a wide range of publications, from Vogue and Time to The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and Foreign Policy. Carla holds a B.A. from Yale, a M.Phil. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford, and a degree from Columbia University School of Journalism.
About Beth Gardiner:
Beth Gardiner is a London-based environmental journalist. Her book, Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution, made the Guardian’s Best of 2019 list, and was a finalist for the National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society book award. Beth wrote the cover story for National Geographic’s April 2021 issue, and her work has also appeared in TheNew York Times, The Guardian, TheWashington Post, HuffPost, Yale Environment 360 and Smithsonian. She’s a two-time fellow of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a former longtime Associated Press reporter, and a member of the Yale Class of 1993.
Yale International Alliance presents a new webinar series on Decentralized Finance: BE LEFT BEHIND:Discover Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Before Your Grandmother beats you to it!
Yuri is an emerging tech strategist who combines the mindsets of an artist and a technologist. His Yale training at the Drama School in Set/Costume design prepared him well for the resiliency and creativity needed for his success as an award-winning entrepreneur, author of the best-selling book on crypto – “Be Left Behind: Discover Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Before Your Grandmother beats you to it”, Venture Capitalist, and leading expert in DeFi, Crypto, and blockchain.
What happens when a Yalie from Europe, the U.S., Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East walk into a virtual room? We expect creativity, insight, and inspiring conversation.
Join us in a YIA Common Room, an initiative for Yale alumni who are interested in the world and its citizens. The next set of Common Rooms is starting this October. Your small group of eight to ten alums will reflect different geographic areas of the world. You will meet online for 40 minutes twice a month for three months to create new relationships with far-flung fellow Yalies, discuss perspectives, further cross-cultural understanding, and continue that conversation you were having in your Common Room at Yale.
To everyone who enjoyed Micah Hendler’s interactive session on Transcending Conflict Through Song in June, and to those who missed Micah’s inspiring story, please join the YIA watch party to support The Jerusalem Youth Chorus’ first-ever Global Gala Concert on:
September 12 at 10am San Francisco | 1pm Washington, DC | 6pm London | 7pm Geneva | 8pm Jerusalem
You will be automatically registered for the Yale watch party so make sure to attend the Gala by using the personalized link that will be sent by email.
You are invited to a timely and engaging event, an interactive session on “Transcending Conflict Through Song” with Micah Hendler ’11, founder and artistic director of The Jerusalem Youth Chorus, jointly hosted by the Yale International Alliance and the Yale Alumni Association Board of Governors.
Given the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict and anti-Asians hate, our world is more than ever in need of voices of unity, love and open dialogues among people. Micah has worked tirelessly for the past decade to promote peace, respect and understanding through his creative leadership in making music and songs and using this humanity-centric method to transcend conflicts. His admirable work has caught the world’s attention through many media outlets.
On June 29th (1pmET) and 30th (8amET) we will host this interactive event to reach a worldwide audience. To register for this free event, please choose one of the sessions that suits your time zone in the links below.
More detailed background on Micah and his work is in the registration material. We hope to see many of you in this timely event. Thank you for joining us to experience efforts aimed to help heal the world.
On Tuesday, May 4, join CAI TALKS for the third conversation in our “Sustainability and energy transition: The new global agenda” series from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.(ARG). Featured speaker, Daniel Esty, Director of the Center for Environmental Policies at Yale University and Director of the Sustainable Finance initiative at Yale University will be in conversation with CAI President and Yale Fellow, Pablo Bereciartúa. The talk will be held in English.
Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS) is a highly selective academic summer program for high school students offered by Yale University. During the summer, YYGS offers intensive two-week academic sessions for approximately 2,400 high school students from around the world. Last summer, YYGS students came from over 130 different countries and all 50 U.S. States. Many YYGS alumni go on to attend Yale College, including 200 YYGS alumni in the Yale class of 2024!
Each summer, YYGS organizes a series called Opportunities Across Yale (OAY) in which they invite Yale Alumni to participate in 90-minute workshops with students and expose them to new subjects, career paths and global issues. In this way, OAY serves as an important complement to YYGS’s structured academic program.
YIA invites our members to participate in an OAY workshop and help expose young students to important global issues, supporting our mission of inspiring global citizenship. For a more detailed description of YYGS and a helpful explanation of how the OAY sessions work, please watch this brief video.
Should you volunteer as an OAY workshop participant, you’ll have the opportunity to specify the date, subject, and format of your session. Possible formats range from intimate workshops of 10-15 students, to panel discussions, to large lectures with hundreds of attendees. If interested, please register using the form below, or contact YYGS Program Coordinator Shu Yi Zhou (shuyi.zhou@yale.edu) with questions.
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