Graduate and Professional

Chitra Ramalingam in Conversation with Matt Jacobson.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America” @ the NHFPL series.
Zoom Webinar Link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/99411956635

Daphne A. Brooks in Conversation with Matt Jacobson.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America” @ the NHFPL series.
Zoom Webinar Link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/96709040404

Professor Thomas Allen Harris, senior lecturer in African American Studies and Film & Media Studies, invites students interested in documentary filmmaking to participate in a conversation with Ken and Sarah Burns YC ‘04. They will also be joined by Florentine Films associate digital producer and Yale alumnus, Clark Burnett ‘19. All four participants are filmmakers who employ archival documentary materials to promote truth and social justice.

Joan Cavanagh and Elihu Rubin in Conversation with Matt Jacobson.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America” @ the NHFPL series.
Zoom Webinar Link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/93240762128

Amidst ongoing debates about policing and mass incarceration, migrant detention centers have been focal points for mobilizations against the U.S. carceral regime. Through coordinated protest, testimonial acts, and hunger strikes, incarcerated migrants have drawn attention to systemic abuses in prisons, while defending their rights to belonging, family unification, and transnational mobility. Their actions revealed the ways that ICE used the COVID-19 pandemic to further repress prisoners.