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6. Gamelan Suprabangga Performance 8. Saybrook Master’s Tea: Ariel Levy 9. Representing the Underrepresented 10. Round Table Discussion: “Tolerance” | 1. Yale-China Association Service Internship Program | 4. AAAYA Community Service Fellowship 5. IRTS 2007 Minority Career Workshop |
1. Use of Rental Cars
TO: AASA, SAS, CASA, ViSA, TAS, MSA, Kasama, KASY, JASU, InSight, Lion Dance, Bhangra, and, Phoenix
FROM: Dean Dhall
Dear Student Leaders,
I know that you all have a lot planned for the semester and with new leaders on board, I wanted to re-emphasize a policy that I've discussed at e-Board meetings in the past.
Please note that when renting vehicles to travel to conferences or such events, you are not allowed to rent 12-15 passenger vans. Mini-vans are OK, but please refrain from renting the aforementioned vehicles.
I urge you to go on line to the Risk Management web site http://www.yale.edu/finance/controller/riskman/studentInterest.html and pay particular attention to the Insurance information for all registered student organizations and Use of Automobiles & Car Rental Procedures.
Also, it's required for all drivers (there should be at least 2 certified drivers for the smaller groups and 3/4 for the larger groups) to attend the Risk Management Drivers' Training Course http://www.yale.edu/finance/controller/riskman/programs/driversAwareness.html . I've taken it and it's very easy so please make sure this is taken care of. They have scheduled training sessions that you can sign up for.
For students using their own personal vehicles, please also review http://www.yale.edu/finance/controller/riskman/auto.html
Please let me know if you have any questions.
I wish you much luck with all of your programs and events!
-Dean Dhall
Apply to be a CC 2007 Aide!
Want to hang out with super cool, diverse freshman before the year starts? Be an Aide for Cultural Connections (CC) 2007! It's a preorientation program with emphasis on the experiences of students of color and the issues of racial identity. Who does CC or were CC Aides? The cool kids. Like Fishy, Jerry, Leang, Tashin, Quynh, Adrian, and me!
Additional information and application attached
Applications for 2007 Cultural Connections Aide positions are now available!
Applicants for the Aide position can be students who did not attend Cultural Connections. Each year, our group of Aides is made up of students who participate in a variety of activities on campus and in New Haven. Some attended CC, others attended other pre-orientation programs and some did not attend any. The job description and application are attached.
Applications must be submitted by Monday, February 26, 2007. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Silvia DeCastro or the Program Director, Dean Rosalinda Garcia.
3. UIC Tutoring
Attention Students:
UIC is in need of as many tutors as possible.
There is an overwhelming need for tutors in the New Haven Community but there are not enough students on our campus stepping up. If you can find an hour in your schedule please fill out the attached application. Also, I if you are on work study you can get paid.
The tutoring center will be in the Afro-American Cultural Center on 211 Park St, open Monday through Thursday 3-6.
Thank You!
Kristian J. Henderson
P.O. Box 206201
New Haven, CT 06520-6201
AIM: khender17
Yellow Pages is seeking submissions of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and photography. Created in 2003, we are an annual literary and arts magazine dedicated to Asian and Asian American issues. Previous issues have included articles about mochi-making in Maui, North Korean politics, and a Bangkok orphanage experience. Interview subjects have included filmmaker Nicholas Chin and Lord Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong.
Some subjects we plan on exploring this year are Margaret Chan's appointment as Director-General of the WHO, international innovation vs. local tradition in Japanese cuisine, China's version of Pop Idol, Ecaasu 2007, and developments in South Asian Studies at Yale.
We are particularly interested in Asian countries' and cultures' engagement with the wider world - what it looks like, why it's happening, and what are its ramifications? We are looking for students interested in the above topics, or anything else - arts, politics, education, food, etc.
Students who would like to write, learn more, share ideas, or submit fiction, poetry, photography, and other art should contact me at karsten.chien@yale.edu. I look forward to getting in touch, and am excited about this year's edition of Yellow Pages!
Best,
Karsten Ch'ien, Editor-in-Chief
5. Conferences and Calls for Papers
Call for Papers: International Association for Feminist Economics, 16th Annual Conference
Submission deadline: January 31, 2007
Conference dates: June 29-July 1, 2007
The conference will take place at Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand. Panel proposals and individual paper submissions are invited on any aspect of feminist inquiry into economic issues. As this is the first IAFFE conference to be held in Southeast Asia, we particularly encourage participation of researchers, policy makers and activists from this region. Important themes include migration and migrant workers, trade and its impact on women, sex work and the sex trade, informal work, women and politics in Asia, and aging. Interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. Proposals must be submitted on-line via the IAFFE website (www.iaffe.org) unless you do not have internet access (mail to Martha MacDonald, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS Canada B3H 3C3). Submissions can be made for panels or individual papers. Titles and abstracts for all papers (including those that are part of panels) are required. Check the IAFFE website, http://www.iaffe.org/conferences/annual/index.php, for detailed submission guidelines. Acceptances will be announced by early March. If you need a decision earlier for funding purposes please e-mail bangkok@iaffe.org.
Conference: Situating Gendered Violence Within a Global ContextThe 19th Annual Conference on Women and Gender at the University of Connecticut
Conference Dates: February 16-17, 2007
University of Connecticut
Presented by the University of Connecticut Women's Studies Program with support from the Human Rights Institute. Keynote address by Dr. Charlotte Bunch, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership. The Conference committee is seeking proposals for papers, workshops, artwork, performances, poster sessions, and other contributions that speak to this year's conference theme examining the global intersections of gender and violence. Due to the urgency of this year's theme, the conference committee has decided to extend the conference an extra afternoon to accommodate all presenters and allow opportunities for attendees to dialogue with each other. Sessions will be held on Friday afternoon as well as all day Saturday and will be 75 minutes long; individual papers will be held to a 15 minute time limit. Please send all questions electronically to Barbara Gurr, Conference Coordinator, at Barbara.gurr@uconn.edu.
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Conference: “American Values” and the Challenge to Human Rights: Ethnic and Racial Dimensions
March 22-24, 2007
SUNY-New Paltz
National Association for Ethnic Studies 35th Annual National Conference, State University of New York, New Paltz. The National Association for Ethnic Studies invites abstracts/proposals for papers, panels, workshops, or media productions from people in all disciplines and interdisciplinary areas of the arts, business, social sciences, humanities, science and education on the redefining and argument over American values. American values are being recreated: who is doing the redefining and why? Who is framing the argument and who is being framed? For more information about the conference and NAES, visit http://www.ethnicstudies.org
Conference: NAES Summit”The Status of American Education and the Role of Ethnic Studies: Beyond the Matrix of Ethnic Studies”
March 22-24, 2007
SUNY-New Paltz
Plenary Sessions and Roundtables will focus on (re)creating/(re)thinking a shared vision for the future of ethnic studies. For more information about the conference and NAES, visit http://www.ethnicstudies.org
On-Campus Events
Mon, Feb 5 - Tue, Feb 8
1:00pm-6:30pm, Payne Whitney Gym
Sign up online http://www.yale.edu/redcross
Photo ID required
Donors will have the chance to win free tshirts and an ipod nano, help Yale beat Harvard, and save three lives. If anyone is interested in volunteering at the blood drive, please contact karen.zheng@yale.edu.
Thanks!
Karen Zheng
ECAASU 2007 @ Yale: Feb. 9-10, 2007
SPECIAL YALIE REGISTRATION PRICE: $45.99
want to get involved and go to ECAASU for free?
sign up to volunteer for ECAASU
What is ECAASU?
The East Coast Asian American Students Union is a regional organization comprising more than 100 schools in places ranging from Maine to Florida. ECAASU holds an annual conference at a different participating school each year, and this year, the 30th anniversary of the founding of ECAASU, the conference will be held at Yale. We expect 800 to 1000 students to descend on New Haven to help raise awareness of issues that are important to the Asian Pacific American community. Workshops and panel discussions will deal with topics as serious as affirmative action policies in higher education and as fun and interesting as interracial dating. Detailed information about our program can be found at our website, www.ecaasu2007.org
What do we need volunteers for?
We need lots (lots!) of people to help us with tasks ranging from answering conference attendees' questions to shepherding our presenters to their correct locations. We need many people to run registration as participants arrive, and even people to lead mixer sessions.
What are the benefits of volunteering for ECAASU?
If you volunteer, then you are automatically exempt from the $45.99 registration fee for Yale students. Furthermore, all volunteers have great opportunities to reach outside of the Yale bubble, to meet new friends from diverse schools, and to meet accomplished Asian American leaders.
How can I get involved?
Just visit the site http://fs10.formsite.com/ecaasu/volunteer/index.html, and sign up. Spots are limited! We'll only take about 100 volunteers (who don't have to pay anything to participate!
3. Life after Yale
Life After Yale: brought to you by the AACC
Friday, Feb. 2
5:00 - 7:00 (dinner included)
GPSCY, 204 York St.
Some of the amazing alumni you'll meet:
Anna Liza Bella, Director of Advertising, MTV
Past experience includes marketing and promoting at RCA Records for artists such as the Dave Matthews Band, Wu Tang Clan, and The Verve Pipe; Creative Executive for shows like Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Alice Young, Partner and Chair of Asia Pacific Practice Group fo Kaye Scholer LLP international law firm
Experience includes advising clients on international investments and business with a focus on Asia. Has appeared as a commentator on programs such as CNN, ABC Nightline, and China Television Network. Graduated from Harvard Law as one of the top 50 women graduates and is listed in Crain's "Top 100 Minority Executives"
Vijay Tata, World Bank: Chief Counsel of the Finance, Private Sector and Infrastructure Group
Appointed by the World Bank in 2004 to lead the legal team advising internal and external clients on finance, private sector and infrastructure reform. Mr. Tata also works in the private sector in NY at Arnold & Porter LLP.
Also:
Haesun Shin, violinist at Julliard
Dr. Jean Kim, Unit Chief of Women's Program at New York - Presbyterian Hospital (psychiatry unit)
Pengzhan Du, architect at FXFOWLE Architects
Perry Hu, Perry Hu Studio Design
My Luu, IBM Market Development Executive of Global Women Initiatives
Michael Guo, freelance computer programmer
Nazneen Mehta, All Our Kin non-profit organization in New Haven
RSVP to avanti.verma@yale.edu by Mon. Jan. 28
e-mail for more information
the heritage theater ensemble production of
THE COLORED MUSEUM
by George C. Wolfe
The Colored Museum is a hilarious satire of African-American culture that illuminates our triumphs, our failures, our quirks, and everything in between. With monologues, sketches, vaudeville, cabaret, The Colored Museum unpack problematic notions of blackness, reconstructing a new vision of "colored contradictions," while making us laugh, cry, and contemplate.
The Colored Museum is a seminal theatrical work of the 20th century, and Heritage Theater Ensemble is bringing it to you.
Projected performance dates: March 29-31, 2007
222 york street - chapel room (2nd floor - follow the signs)
Auditions
Monday Jan. 22 & Tuesday Jan 23
7pm-9pm
222 York street - chapel (follow the signs)
* Come prepared to sing a few bars of a song
* You will be asked to read from sides of the play
If you have any questions or concerns email natalie.paul@yale.edu or melay.araya@yale.edu
THE COLORED MUSEUM is also looking for PRODUCTION CREW in the following areas:
- production
- stage management
- props - costumes
- sound design
- set design
- set building
- lighting design
To be a part of the behind-the-scenes magic, email shawn.hickman@yale.edu
Be a part of an amazing show that will impact Yale and the New Haven Community
5. Yale Gospel Choir
Have a passion for gospel music?
Missed open rehearsals last semester?
The Yale Gospel Choir will be having open rehearsals for the next three Wednesdays January 17th, 24th, and 31st for new members interested in joining. There are NO auditions! If have an interest in gospel music and a passion for ministry, you should consider becoming a part of our family. Since its founding in 1973, the Yale Gospel Choir has been committed to spreading the gospel through song, community service, and fellowship, including an annual spring tour which have included locations such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, and most recently Capetown, South Africa!!!
Rehearsals are held weekly on Wednesdays from 7:00pm - 9:00pm in the Dwight Hall Chapel.
Spreading the Gospel through song, community service, and fellowship! Come Join our Family!
6.Gamelan Suprabangga Performance
Join us on the evening of 3 February 2007
as we welcome Yale’s new ensemble of Javanese instruments:
Gamelan Suprabangga
Room 04 (basement), Hendrie Hall, 8-11pm
165 Elm Street, New Haven, CT
Join us for an evening of gamelan music – klenengan – performed by members of the Northeast gamelan community, including master musicians Bapak Harjito, Bapak Sumarsam and Bapak Darsono all currently teaching at Wesleyan University. The music will begin sometime around 4:00pm and finish well after midnight. Stop in any time but our official public hours are from 8-11:00pm (directions below)
With funds provided by the Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies, the ensemble was purchased from Midiyanto – Central Javanese dhalang and long time teacher at UC-Berkeley. They were shipped from Wonogiri where they had been used regularly for wayang and klenengan performances over the course of about four years. Thanks to the help of many, the instruments arrived on campus in November and were finally unpacked by a large group of volunteers in December. This semester, spring 07, I am teaching a seminar on the history, theory, aesthetics, cultural contexts and performance of Javanese karawitan. The students in the seminar form the corps of the Javanese performance ensemble that meets on Tuesday evenings from 6:30-8:30. For more information contact: Sarah Weiss <s .weiss@yale.edu>
Are you interested in becoming a doctor or surgeon?
Are you thinking about going to medical school?
Then don't miss:
WOMEN IN MEDICINE
Sponsored by the Yale Women?s Leadership Initiative
Come hear these accomplished women discuss their experiences in the medical
field:
Katarzyna H. Chawarska, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Child Study at the Yale Child Study Center
Cinthia Covey, M.D.
Ophthalmology Resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital
Amy L. Friedman, M.D.
Surgeon and Specialist in Transplant & Immunology at Yale-New Haven Hospital
Christina Prescott, Ph.D., M.D. (May 2007)
Ph.D. in Neuroscience from University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Medical Student at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Lynda E. Rosenfeld, M.D.
Specialist in Internal Medicine, and Clinical Cardiology at Yale-New Haven
Hospital
Blanca R Vazquez-Santana, M.D.
Specialist in General Adult Neurology and Seizures/Epilepsy at NYU Medical
Center
Monday, January 29 at 7 PM in LC 101
Refreshments will be served!
Questions? Email Shruti.Gupta@yale.edu or Hilary.Cohen@yale.edu
8. Saybrook Master’s Tea: Ariel Levy
Saybrook College Master's Tea: Ariel Levy, Monday the 29th at 4pm
Please come check out Ariel Levy : Author of Female Chauvinist Pigs at 4pm in Saybrook for an incredible tea. And if you missed it, there is a fabulous clip of her on the Colbert Report:
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=76490 (part 1)
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=76489 (part 2)
***Have a great weekend!***
~The WLI Board
9. Representing the Underrepresented
Representing the Underrepresented: A Medical School Minority Admissions Panel
Monday, January 29th
Rosenfeld Hall
7 – 9 p.m.
The Yale College Dean’s Office and the Health Professions Advisory Program at Undergraduate Career Services are proud to present a panel of deans of admissions from three of the most prominent medical schools in the country. Our guests, Drs. Armstrong, Garcia, and Gay, will be speaking about their personal journeys into medical careers and how they negotiated and continue to work with the anxieties of minority medical school applicants. They will be on hand to answer questions from the audience on any facet of medical school admissions.
All are welcome!
Dr. Brenda Armstrong, Director of Admissions
Duke University School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Pediatric Cardiology
Dr. Gabriel Garcia, Associate Dean for Medical School Admissions
Stanford University School of Medicine,
Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Dr. Steven Gay (BK ’86), Dean of Medical School Admissions
University of Michigan Medical School, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
This event, hosted by Ed Miller, Director of Health Professions Advisory Program at UCS and Tahia Thaddeus Reynaga, Old Campus Fellow for Berkeley and Branford Colleges, is being sponsored in conjunction with La Casa Cultural and the Afro-American Cultural Center.
10. Round Table Discussion Series: “Tolerance”
MONDAY, January 29
5:30-7:00PM
WLH 309 (William Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street)
WGSS Roundtable Discussion Series: "Tolerance"
Speakers:
LIZ APPEL, Graduate Student, English Language and Literature, Yale
University
NANDINI DEO, Graduate Student, Political Science, Yale University
LAURA GRAPPO, Graduate Student, American Studies, Yale University
EMMA HEANEY, Sarah Pettit Fellow, Lesbian and Gay Studies, Yale
University; Graduate Student, Comparative Literature, University of
California, Irvine
Moderator:
MELISSA GARCIA, Graduate Student, American Studies, Yale University
Campus Tour of Scholarship by Women ~ Research on Gender: WFF Poster Session
On November 7-9, 2006, the Yale Women Faculty Forum hosted a campus-wide poster session. Posters were hung on Beinecke Plaza for three days as an outdoor display. Contributions were received from across the disciplines at Yale and represent an array of work being done on campus from the Nursing school to the Divinity school and almost every campus location in between.
The MacMillian Center for International and Area Studies is hosting a display of the posters in the 2nd floor common area in Luce Hall at 24 Hillhouse Avenue through February 16.
The YALE FILM SOCIETY and BERKELEY COLLEGE present a Master's Tea and film screening with actress, director, and writer
FAY ANN LEE
Screening and Q&A: 8pm Thursday February 1; Ezra Stiles Dining Hall
Master's Tea: 4pm Friday February 2; Berkeley College
East Broadway is Fay Ann Lee's feature directorial debut. The screenplay was a quarterfinalist at the 2003 Nicholl Fellowship, a semi-finalist at The Chesterfield Screenwriting Competition in Los Angeles, and top three at the 2002 Asian American International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. Lee produced and directed the short version of East Broadway and based on that, was invited to direct in New York's RipFest Short Film Festival in 2003. Lee's acting credits include: Miss Saigon, Joy Luck Club, Into The Woods. Lee is a graduate of The Wharton Scho