Join us as we welcome Yale’s second Global Table fellow-in-residence, Turkish social gastronomy pioneer and sustainability advocate Chef Ebru Baybara Demir. Chef Ebru will deliver a featured lecture at Luce Hall on Monday, Feb. 10, followed by a reception highlighted by a chef-inspired menu.
Every summer, ten middle school students from Nihonmatsu, Japan, file into New Haven’s Grove Street Cemetery with their chaperones and a dignitary or two from their town—sometimes the mayor. They find the grave marker they’re looking for, lay flowers in front of it, and observe a reverent moment of silence. This ritual has been going on since 1991, except for an interruption during the COVID-19 pandemic. The students, chosen for the trip by a competitive process, are there to pay tribute to Kan-ichi Asakawa 1902PhD (1873–1948), a native of Nihonmatsu who spent his last 42 years in New Haven.
Steven Wilkinson, Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center and vice provost for global strategy, will transition to a new role leading one of the university’s largest faculties.
Michael Dove is a member of the Councils on Southeast Asian Studies and South Asian Studies and the Program in Agrarian Studies at the MacMillan Center.
