Past Events

Virtual Reality Pioneer
September 30, 2015
A Conversation with Nonny de la Peña

Please visit YaleNews for further details about this visit.

Director of Communications, Yik Yak, Inc.
September 15, 2015
Calhoun College Master’s Tea

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Former master of Branford College, author of On Writing Well
August 14, 2015

William Zinsser, master of Branford College in the 1970s and author of 18 nonfiction books in addition to On Writing Well, was one of America’s most influential teachers of writing–first in his seminars at Yale and then nationwide–as students from his Yale days happily recall. 

Co-sponsored with Branford College, the Department of English, Francis Conversations with Writers and Editors, and the Traphagen Alumni Speakers Series, Yale College Office of Student Affairs.

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Editor, ChinaFile.com; Senior Fellow, Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations
April 16, 2015
"Reporting on China, 2000-2014"
House & Home Editor, The Financial Times
April 6, 2015
“The Origin and Future of City Parks”

A Conversation with Colleen Murphy-Dunning, Director of the Urban Resources Initiative, and Peter Crane, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Senior Writer, The Weekly Standard
March 31, 2015
Yale Political Union Debate
Journalist
March 31, 2015
“Challenges and Opportunities of Journalism in the Himalayan Region”

Panel Discussion between Sonam Ongmo and Fred Strebeigh

Yale Himalaya Spring 2015 Seminar Series

Investigative Reporter, ProPublica
March 30, 2015
“Genius in Sports: Is It Nature or Nurture”
National Correspondent - The Atlantic
March 27, 2015
"Rethinking Race in America with Ta-Nehisi Coates"

*Co-sponsored by the Yale College Dean’s Office, Office of the President and the African American Studies Department

Writer and Theater Critic, The New Yorker
March 25, 2015
“A Master Class with Hilton Als”