Graduate And Professional

Facing Anti-Arab Racism, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia on Our Campus: Faculty Discuss their Experiences

The Advisory Committees for Arab and Muslim Student Life and Jewish Student Life invite you to this inaugural event of a jointly sponsored series focused on conversing, connecting, and engaging with members of our Yale community of many backgrounds and beliefs. This series aims to facilitate open and honest discussion where we may safely and freely express and hear about experiences and perspectives of our fellow community members centered on a foundation of respect, open-mindedness, and curiosity to differing perspectives.

Primo Levi’s Homecoming, 1945-46: The Need to Bear Witness

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of Primo Levi’s birth. To celebrate the centenary of Italy’s revered and beloved survivor/witness of the Shoah, Yale will host Levi’s biographer, Ian Thomson. Thomson will speak about how the author came to write his first great book, Se questo è un uomo, published in the United States as Survival in Auschwitz, and in the United Kingdom as If This Is a Man, the literal rendering of the Italian title.

Book Talk: The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940-1944

Jacques Semelin is a historian, political scientist and psychologist that has served as a director of research at Sciences Po since 1997. In 2007, Sémelin was qualified as a professor of History and of Political Science by the Conseil national des universités (le CNU). Sémelin is highly esteemed for his work on mass violence and mass genocide, being a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. He is the founder of the Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, of which he has been president since January 2011.

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