EVENTS
INES CHOMNALEZ
2024 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson talks spirituality and politics at YPU event

Williamson – who has launched a bid for the 2024 presidency – joined the Yale Political Union for a discussion on April 11.

April 14, 2023

JOSHUA ZHANG & AMELIA DILWORTH
Campus Christian fellowships celebrate Easter with interministry worship night

Over 120 students and community members gathered in Battell Chapel on the evening of Easter Sunday for a night of worship.

April 13, 2023

MIRANDA WOLLEN & JANE PARK
Tracy K. Smith delivers 2023 Foundational Course Lecture

In continuation of a new Yale English tradition, the former U.S. Poet Laureate read a number of her poems on Tuesday evening.

April 13, 2023

MIRANDA JEYARETNAM
Singaporean filmmaker Tan Pin Pin discusses collective memory and erasure of history

Prolific Singaporean film director Tan Pin Pin, whose work interrogates the documentation, presentation and sanitization of Singaporean history, visited Yale for a screening of her 2007 film “Invisible City.”

April 12, 2023

ADAM WALKER
Ilia Calderón reflects on career as an Afro-Latina in journalism

On April 11 in Kroon Hall’s Burke Auditorium, Yale Law School professor Claudia Flores and Univision Primetime Anchor Ilia Calderón spoke on “Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race.”

April 11, 2023

JANALIE COBB, EVAN GORELICK & TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
YCC candidates talk FGLI student advocacy and Yale-New Haven relations in debate

On Monday night, students gathered to watch 12 YCC candidates discuss their platforms and priorities.

April 11, 2023

BRIAN ZHANG
Three student groups win Battle of the Bands

Attendees of Saturday’s Battle of the Bands voted DJ Leon Thotsky, PJ Frantz and Tired of Tuesday to perform as this year’s Spring Fling openers.

April 11, 2023

HANWEN ZHANG
Yale School of Law hosts joint environmental law and food policy conference

Occuring in person for the first time since the pandemic, “Rethinking Resilience” brought students and speakers to examine the crossroads of climate and food.

April 11, 2023

MIRANDA WOLLEN
Branford College hosts TV writer Michael Koman for tea

On Thursday night, Branford students and comedy fans gathered in the residential college’s common room to hear writer and comedian Michael Koman discuss his writing process, his creative fears and his favorite “Nathan for You” scenes.

April 11, 2023

EVAN GORELICK & SOPHIE SONNENFELD
Yale Dems hosts former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney ’87 for talk on campus

From playing in a rock band to reporting in Russia, Carney spoke about his career path and time in the West Wing at the event on Thursday evening.

April 10, 2023

INES CHOMNALEZ
Alleged antisemitic activist speaks on campus, raising questions about free speech

When Houria Bouteldja — the French-Algerian author of “Whites, Jews, and Us” – was invited to speak on campus during Passover, students raised her history of antisemitic and homophobic remarks with University administration.

April 10, 2023