Past Events

Adam Serwer

Staff Writer, The Atlantic
October 21, 2019
Public Memory and the Age of Trump?

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Journalists & Podcast Hosts, Gastropod
October 14, 2019
Chewing the Fat: Food for the Ears: Podcasting About the Science and History of Our Meals

Chewing the Fat is the Yale Sustainable Food Program’s long-standing speaker series. All events are free and open to the public. This event is hosted in collaboration with the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, and the Yale Program in the History of Science & Medicine.

Mark Dery

Cultural Critic and Freelance Journalist
October 10, 2019
Edward Gorey’s Gothic Nonsense

Susan Youssef

Filmmaker
October 8, 2019
Screening of ‘Forbidden to Wander’

Forbidden to Wander chronicles the experiences of a 25-year-old Arab American woman traveling on her own in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the summer of 2002. The film is a reflection on the complexity of Palestinian existence and the torturously disturbing “ordinariness” of living under constant curfew. The film’s title reflects this, as the Arabic words used to describe the imposed curfew “mane’ tajawwul” literally translate as “forbidden to wander”. The video is also the journey of personal discovery for the filmmaker, the wanderer who falls in love with a Palestinian man in Gaza.

Co-sponsored by the MacMillan Center

Julia Preston and Denise Dresser

October 3, 2019
Trump and Lopez Obrador: The United States and Mexico in the Era of America First

Co-sponsored by The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies 

Rhys Ernst

Filmmaker and Artist
October 2, 2019
“Adam” Film Screening and Conversation with Director Rhys Ernst and Professor Susan Stryker

Penny Lane

Award-Winning Nonfiction Filmmaker
September 24, 2019
Screening of Our Nixon (2013) followed by Q&A with the director

Jyoti Thottam

Opinion Editor, New York Times
September 24, 2019
Who shapes public opinion? Social media and social movements in Asia and the United States.

Sam Dolnick

Assistant Managing Editor, The New York Times
September 23, 2019
The new New York Times: A Conversation with the Times' Head of Audio, Film, and TV.

In conversation with Yale Lecturer Aaron Tracy

Liz Neeley and Ed Yong

Liz Neeley, Executive Director, The Story Collider; Ed Yong, Science Journalist, The Atlantic Magazine
September 23, 2019
Why Storytelling Matters For Science

Co-sponsored by the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale Microbial Sciences Institute, and The Franke Program in Science and the Humanities.