Yale College Family Weekend 2021

Welcome

Welcome students, friends, and families to Yale College Family Weekend 2021.  Below you will find a schedule of virtual events to choose from during the weekend of October 8th, 2021 so you can get a glimpse into what makes Yale College life distinctly unique.  Pre-registration is required to participate in Key Events but not for most others.  Click on the specific event description for more information and use the filter categories below to find the events most relevant to your interests.  Events will be live streamed and recordings for Key Events will be made available at this same website following the event.  We look forward to welcoming you virtually.

Schedule of Events

October 8–10, 2021

Ballroom Dancing Back to Campus

(All day)
Arts
Student Organization
The Yale Ballroom Dance Team has been apart for far too long. We are ecstatic to present to you: "Dancing Back to Yale!" along with all of our other videos we've made during...

The Good Show Presents: You Look Shorter in Person!

(All day)
Student Organization
While our dreams of performing live and in-person for all you lovely families out there are crushed, The Good Show has done what we do best: improvise, adapt, and overcome....

Yale University Art Gallery-E Gallery Talks

(All day)
Arts
E-Gallery Talks are an ongoing series of short, focused videos in which students, fellows, and curators respond to the Yale University Art Gallery’s collection. During this...

Math as Collaborative Art by Pat Devlin, Richard H. Brodhead ’68 Prize for teaching excellence by non-ladder faculty recipient

1:00pm to 1:45pm
Key Event
In this talk, we’ll explore the world of abstract math as a modern mathematician sees it: not as some sea of equations and computation, but instead as an exciting...

Thinking like a Physicist by Simon Mochrie, Dylan Hixon ’88 Prize for teaching excellence in the natural sciences recipient

2:00pm to 2:45pm
Key Event
Professor of Physics & Applied Physics, Simon Mochrie https://mochrielab.yale.edu/.

The Uses and Abuses of the Culture Concept: A View from Sociocultural Anthropology by Erik Harms, Lex Hixon ’63 Prize for teaching excellence in the social sciences recipient

2:00pm to 2:45pm
Key Event
Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Council on Southeast Asian Studies, this talk will be a modified lecture of Erik’s introductory lecture course titled,...

Medicine, Violence and Ethics in Slave Trade Healthcare by Dr. Carolyn Roberts, Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for teaching excellence in the humanities recipient

3:00pm to 3:45pm
Key Event
Transporting millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic posed a unique challenge for the practice of medicine. This lecture explores the violent healthcare system...

"Why I teach.”, A Panel on Teaching and Education by Dean of Yale College Marvin Chun

4:00pm to 4:45pm
Key Event
Join us for a panel featuring four of the 2021 Yale College Prizes for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching recipients, Pat Devlin, Erik Harms, Dr. Carolyn Roberts, and Simon...

The Purple Crayon Presents: Quintuplets!

7:00pm to 8:00pm
Arts
Student Organization
The Purple Crayon, Yale's oldest long form improv group, presents its first show of the year, featuring five new members. This event will take place in the Saybrook...

Davenport Pops Orchestra Presents: Worlds Collide

8:00pm to 9:00pm
Arts
Student Organization
To celebrate the return of in-person rehearsals and performances, DPops is releasing never-before-seen concert footage from April 2019! Worlds Collide Live Premiere (10/...