Yale College Family Weekend 2021

Welcome

Welcome students, friends, and families to Yale College Family Weekend 2022.  Below you will find a schedule of events to choose from during the weekend of October 7th, 2022, that will provide you a glimpse into what makes Yale College life distinctly unique.  Click on each specific event for more information and use the filter categories below to find the events most relevant to your interests.  Wherever possible, speaker events will be live streamed, and recordings will be made available at this same website in the weeks after the event. 

While registration is not required to attend any of these events, doing so will help give us a sense of who will be coming to campus:

Register for Yale College Family Weekend 2022

We look forward to welcoming you to New Haven in October.

Schedule of Events

October 7–9, 2022

Family Weekend Visitor Arrival Welcome

9:00am to 4:00pm
Key Event
Upon your arrival to campus, visiting families are invited to stop by our welcome table located in the Schwarzman Center Rotunda to pick up complimentary Yale Family Weekend...

2022 Dylan Hixon ’88 Prize Winning Faculty Lecture by Marla Geha

12:00pm to 12:45pm
Key Event
Livestream Available
Lecture Title: Frontiers in Astrophysics: Orbits, GPS & Black Holes    Brief Description: You probably will use your phone's GPS to find where today...

2022 Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize Winning Faculty Lecture by Stephanie Newell

12:30pm to 1:15pm
Key Event
Livestream Available
Lecture Title: “Beware of Women": Female Critical Communities in Nigerian Popular Literature Brief Description: This lecture focuses on bestselling Nigerian...

2022 Lex Hixon ’63 Prize Winning Faculty Lecture by Woo-kyoung Ahn

1:00pm to 1:45pm
Key Event
Livestream Available
Lecture Title: Thinking 101: How to think better to live better Brief Description: Everybody is prone to thinking errors. The lecture will introduce an example called...

Campus Tour for Family Weekend

1:30pm to 2:30pm
Student Life
The Mead Visitor Center invites you to take a guided tour led by Yale College undergraduate students. Our student-led tours last approximately one hour and will depart...

2022 Richard H. Brodhead ’68 Prize Winning Faculty Lecture by Karin Roffman

2:00pm to 2:45pm
Key Event
Livestream Available
Lecture Title: Poetry & Objects: "The Game of Boxes" Brief Description: A lecture focusing on the everyday objects in poems, using examples of things...

2022 Harwood F. Byrnes / Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize Winning Faculty Lecture by Kenneth Winkler

2:00pm to 2:45pm
Key Event
Livestream Available
Lecture Title: Nature & Value Brief description: Many of us are drawn to the view that natural objects—species and their environments, for example—have an...

2022 Richard H. Brodhead ’68 Prize Winning Faculty Lecture by Quan Tran

3:00pm to 3:45pm
Key Event
Livestream Available
Lecture Title: Reframing Refugees in an Unsettling World Brief Description: This lecture discusses the necessity of recalibrating our understanding and imagination of...

The Viola Question Presents: Matter

4:00pm to 5:00pm
Arts
Student Organization
Babies, much like matter, come in all shapes, sizes, and states (notably not New York though!). We LOVE our babies and you will too! Tickets available here.

"Why I Teach", A Panel on Teaching and Education by Dean of Yale College Pericles Lewis

4:00pm to 5:15pm
Key Event
Livestream Available
Join us for a panel featuring five 2022 Yale College Prizes for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching recipients, moderated by Yale College Dean, Pericles Lewis. No prior...

Campus Tour for Family Weekend

4:00pm to 5:00pm
Student Life
The Mead Visitor Center invites you to take a guided tour led by Yale College undergraduate students. Our student-led tours last approximately one hour and will depart...

Orthodox Minyan -YIHY

6:00pm to 7:00pm
Student Life
A beautifully led Orthodox Shabbat evening prayer service held at Slifka Center.

Egalitarian Minyan and Reform Havurah

6:15pm to 7:30pm
Student Life
A meaningful Egalitarian Shabbat evening prayer service held at Slifka Center.

Three's Company

6:30pm to 9:30pm
Arts
Student Organization
THREE’S COMPANY: STEPPIN’ OUT, YALE JASHAN BHANGRA, AND DZANA Come see performances by Yale Jashan Bhangra, Dzana, and Steppin’ Out, three incredible dance...

Family-Style Shabbat Dinner

7:30pm to 9:00pm
Student Life
We are so excited to welcome parents and families to Shabbat dinner at Slifka Center. Shabbat dinner is the central moment when we gather, celebrate, and join in the warmth...

Concert by Magevet: Yale’s Jewish, Hebrew, and Israeli a cappella group

9:15pm to 10:15pm
Arts
Student Organization
A lively and entertaining concert featuring Magevet: Yale’s Jewish, Hebrew, and Israeli a cappella group.

Fifth Humour Presents: The Line of Succession Show

9:30pm to 10:30pm
Arts
Student Organization
** THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT ** Come see the Fifth Humour (Yale's oldest sketch comedy group) perform our family weekend show with our brand new taps! Come to the JE...