YCSC Grand Rounds

Opportunities to learn from the experiences of others are offered at Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) throughout each academic year, including an annual grand rounds lecture honoring Black History Month. Aligned with this year's national theme, "A Century of Black History Commemorations," the February 2026 session will be led by Charles (Chaz) Warner and David Jon Walker. Warner serves as a community engagement program manager at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, and Walker is an art director, type designer, activist, and professor at Yale School of Art and Tennessee State University.

Warner and Walker will share insights from “Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven,” an exhibition installed at the Schwarzman Center as part of the Yale and Slavery History Project. The exhibit illuminates ongoing research that recovers the essential role of Black people throughout Yale and New Haven history.

As in the past, additional topic-based opportunities to share individual and cultural or heritage experiences at select grand rounds and other sessions are announced throughout the academic year—and as always, ideas and suggestions are welcomed from all in the YCSC community.