Explore Yale
Participants visiting Yale on the 18th: be sure to explore the courtyards, corridors, and curiosities hidden in the corners of our twelve residential colleges.
Source: Akhil Sud SM '16
YHD + Sur et Veritaal
Don't miss the live performance by Yale's Sur et Veritaal on the YHD stage, on the night of the national round (April 18).
Check out an example of the magic they weave with their voices:
Also attend Chutney - their annual Spring show - on April 4 at 8 pm, right after the YHD preliminary round.
Our main poster is unveiled
Bold and inviting. Also: red, black, and white (though that is less insightful).
Feminism through a transnational lens
“Feminism is worthless without intersectionality and inclusion.”
"We All Can Do It", Winner of the Yale Women's Center "Feminism Today" Essay and Art Competition - Source: Houriiyah Tegally BR '16 and Julia Jenjezwa MC '16
The winning project of the Yale Women's Center "Feminism Today" Essay and Art Competition - "We All Can Do It" by Houriiyah Tegally and Julia Jenjezwa, featuring the talents of several Yale students - expertly intertwines feminism and ethnicity, arguing that the two are inseparable, and that without inclusion, feminism fails. Today's world has feminism in the spotlight. Is feminism, by being centered on inclusion, a testimony to the significance of ethnicity?
When pondering over the motion for YHD 2014, it may be a useful exercise to think beyond the realms of globalization and ethnicity alone, and to place them in the context of the larger picture, in which many forces work simultaneously - sometimes in conjunction, and sometimes in opposition. "We All Can Do It" certainly has YHD thinking.
This year, Yale will host...
Harvard
Princeton
Cornell
Columbia
UT Austin
NYU
UCLA
UPenn
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Rutgers
The invitations have been dispatched. Let's give our guests a warm Yale welcome when they arrive for the national round, on 18th April. Yalies, sign up to host a student for the night of the national round!
Thinking about the motion
Globalization diminishes the significance of ethnicity. For or against?
Click to read about the homogenizing effect of gloablization
Click to read interviews with international students at Yale (The Vicarious Globetrotter, The Yale Globalist)
Explore, and pick your side. Come and see if our skilled debaters can change your mind.
Keep calm
Yalies, sign up to host a student!
Be a Yalie - and host a student on the night of the national round (18 April).
The motion is on the table
The motion for YHD 2014 has been decided.
Globalization diminishes the significance of ethnicity.
वैश्वीकरण में जातीय सांस्कृतिक पहचान का महत्व कम हो जाता है|
Come see it be debated - defended staunchly or torn apart - in the Luce Hall Auditorium, on 4 April (Prelim) and 18 April (National), at 6 pm.
"I missed the info session. Oops!"
Source: Keeping Up Appearances (BBC)
Couldn't make it to the information session, but still interested in participating? Happens all the time, doesn't it! Never fear. Below, you can go through the slides from the session. Contact us if you're interested in participating, or if you have any questions that need answering. Hope to hear from you!
Another friendly reminder
Info session tonight! 8pm, CLS (Dow Hall, 370 Temple Street).
Let it snow - take 2
The cat just wasn't enough. If you stepped out today, then this was you:
No matter how cold it gets, we sure can extend a warm welcome to our friends from warmer climes on the day of the national round. Who's on the list this year? Well, you'll have to wait to find out...
Let it snow
Congrats to all the Yalies that braved the storm today. If you weren't among the lucky few who had their classes cancelled, then you know exactly what this feels like:
Source: Fidgety Fingers
A friendly reminder
"Oh my! That poster sure is bold! I must follow its directions to a tee (for it is bold)."
Don't miss the event of the year
4 April . 18 April . 6pm . Luce Hall Auditorium
Otherwise you will need consoling.
There there - Source: Disney
Beauty and the beast
“I’ve worked my heinie off - literally. It’s smaller now.”
Nina, when she became Miss America - Source: The Washington Post
The first Indian Miss America, Nina Davuluri, spoke to Yale on 4 February, 2014, at Battell Chapel. She spoke candidly about her past, and the backlash she received - first as Miss New York, and later, as Miss America. As articulate as she is beautiful, Nina addressed matters including beauty, race, religion, and even dating.
Miss America at Yale, in casual conversation with members of the Yale family before addressing the gathered students and faculty - Source: Akhil Sud SM '16
Listening to her, one can't help but think about ethnicity in the context of a globalized world - where distances between people are shrinking, while barriers between them continue to persist. For the Yale Hindi Debate, the mixing of cultures is of paramount significance. Perhaps YHD 2014 could debate this issue. We haven't decided on a topic yet - and this certainly seems ripe with potential.
Come to the information session
When?
Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 8 pm
Where?
CLS (370 Temple Street)
Why?
Well, why not?!
What?
Now that's just silly.
Who?
-_-
Come one, come all!
Our first Board
2013-14. They're making history. Go to 'people' to contact them.
Coming this Spring...
The first poster for the 2014 debate is ready to take the campus notice boards by storm! Much like flowers, it will be up as the Spring semester starts. Is that why it's so colorful?
Our love affair with the paparazzi
“...a pride for Yale, [the Yale Hindi Debate] was started in 2008 as an internal competition; it has since over the years grown to become a national event.”
“...has truly emerged as one of the most unique and significant efforts of the Yale India Initiative and the growth of South Asian Studies in the USA.”
“...not only bolsters the study of South Asian languages and cultures at the universities, but also transcends it, as the issues debated pertain to society as a whole, not only to members of the South Asian community.”