10th Anniversary

 

 

April 1 “Fishtown Blues: A Century of Greek Music in Tarpon Springs, Florida,” Panagiotis League, Harvard University. Followed by a concert—Shades of Eros: Greek Songs of Love and Loss for Laouto and Voice. Luce Hall Room 203 at 4:30pm.

April 2 Interactive Fashion Show—African Fashion Salon. Featuring menswear company Ikiré Jones and Yale alumni-founded couture brand House of Chihera. Theatre Studies Ballroom at 4:00pm.

April 2 Performance—An African Ballroom. Featuring Lacina Coulibaly, Yale University;  dancer and choreographer for Faso Danse Theatre, a Burkina Faso-based dance company and DZANA, Yale’s urban African dance troupe. Theatre Studies Ballroom at 5:30pm.

April 4 “Braudel, Menocchio, and the Qur‘an: Exploring Continuity Through Philology,” Pier Mattia Tommasino, Columbia University. Luce Hall Room 203 at 4:00pm.

April 5 “European, Post-Soviet or Baltic? Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the Twenty-First Century,” Daunis Auers, University of Latvia. Luce Hall Room 202 at 4:00pm.

April 6 Retired Lieutenant-General, the Honorable Roméo Dallaire will give the Inaugural Charles E. Scheidt Family Lecture on Atrocity Prevention. Linsly-Chittenden Room 102 at 7pm.

April 7 “The Golden Dawn’s Nationalist Solution: Explaining the Rise of the Far Right in Greece.” Luce Hall Room at 4:30pm.

April 11 “The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment,” Alexander Bevilacqua, Harvard University. HGS Room 211 at 4:00pm.

April 11 “Dismantling Developmentalism: Japan’s Political and Economic Struggles After Achieving Success,” T. J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley. Luce Hall Auditorium at 4:45pm. The Seventeenth Annual John W. Hall Lecture in Japanese Studies.
 
April 12 Conference—Canada in the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution. Faculty Lounge Yale Law School at 8:30am.
 
April 12 Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah of Morocco will give the Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on “The Arab Spring Reloaded,” Luce Hall Auditorium at 4:30pm.

April 13 “Eurozone Unemployment Insurance: The Next Step of EMU Reform?” László Andor, former European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion; David Cameron, Yale University and Georg Fischer, EU Studies Visiting Fellow. Luce Hall Room 202 at 12:00pm.

April 13 “Modernity’s Environment: Rubber Plantations and the Making of Vietnam, 1897-1975,” Mitch Aso, SUNY Albany. Luce Hall Room 203 at 12:00pm.

April 15 Conference—Muslim Men: On Love, Nurturance, Care, and Fulfillment. Luce Hall Room 203 at 9:00am.

April 15 “Homo Auctor: Orphans, Merchants and the Making of the First Greek-American Citizen in the Nineteenth Century,” Nikos Poulopoulos, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Rosenkranz Hall Room 241 at 4:30pm.

April 15. Conference—Women’s Eyes at All Issues: On Indonesia. Rosenfeld Hall & Watson Center.

April 16 Conference—Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Kroon Hall Burke Auditorium at 12:00pm.

April 19 “Integration Context and Outcomes of Migrant Integration: Experiences of Latvian Migrants,” Inta Mierina, 2016 Juris Padegs Fellow. Luce Hall Room 202 at 4:30pm.

April 20 “From Occupation to Warfare: The New Phase of Palestinian-Israel Relations,” Noura Erakat, George Mason University. Luce Hall Auditorium at 4:30pm.

April 20 “Alien Invasion: African Science Fiction,” Nnedi Okarofor, University of Buffalo; Sci-Fi Novelist. Luce Hall Room 202 at 4:30pm.

April 21 “The Medical Profession in Ancient India: Its Social, Religious, and Legal Status,” Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas-Austin. Luce Hall Room 203 at 4:30pm.

April 22 “Feeding Moral Relations: The Making of Kinship and Nation in Iran,” Rose Wellman, Princeton University. Anthropology Building Room 105 at 12:00pm.

April 27 “Archeology and the Reconstruction(s) of Early Vietnam,” Nam Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Luce Hall Room 203 at 12:00pm.

April 28 Two panel discussions highlight the 10th anniversary celebration. Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses at 3:00pm. Global Debt: Challenges for Political Governance and Financial Stability at 4:30pm. Luce Hall Auditorium.