Upcoming Events


Talk and reception with José García-León, Dean of the Yale School of Music
Nov
6

Talk and reception with José García-León, Dean of the Yale School of Music

Abir and Mario Kaloustian P ’26 invite you to join a Yale talk and reception with José García-León, Dean of the Yale School of Music and Professor of Music. The Dean will talk about Music and the Brain over cocktails.
Please RSVP to renee.wellman@yale.edu by October 30. Location given upon registration.
Price: Free
As space is limited, this is open only to YCF members but not guests/partners/spouses.

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Walking tour with the Yale club - Le Marais
Sep
29

Walking tour with the Yale club - Le Marais

The Yale Club of France invites you to join Brad Newfield, a French-American guide for Paris Walks. This time we will be doing a tour of the Marais. We will explore some of the off-the beaten-path areas.

Brad Newfield, a former Angelino who has lived in Paris since 1994, has a Ph.D in History from UCLA, lectured in History and Communication Studies, and develops walking tours on historical themes in Paris, in order to bring together the city's past and present in untraditional ways.

Date: Sunday, September 29

Time : 2pm-4pm

Venue : Metro St. Paul.

Price : 10 € per person

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

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Psychology, Creativity & the Future: An Applied Psychology Buffet - Branden Thornhill-Miller
Sep
17

Psychology, Creativity & the Future: An Applied Psychology Buffet - Branden Thornhill-Miller

Join the Harvard and Yale Clubs and Dr. Branden Thornhill-Miller who will be serving up a tantalizing buffet of projects and research from applied psychology and behavioral economics. Farmed from years of his work teaching, researching, and directing programs at Oxford, the Sorbonne, Harvard, Georgetown, and leadership programs around the world, these “vignettes” will focus on the positive and negative human factors that, interacting with technology, are shaping our work, our lives, and our collective futures.  Recently, these interests have led him to establish the “Creative Futures Institute,” a new non-profit think tank.

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Dinner with the Yale Club - Michel Devoret
Sep
3

Dinner with the Yale Club - Michel Devoret

On September 3, we will have dinner with Yale professor Michel Devoret who will discuss the physics of information and the recent progress of quantum computers.


The discussion will be oriented to a general audience.

Michel Devoret is known for his pioneering and groundbreaking research in the field of quantum computing.

Michel Devoret is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious John Bell Prize. Professor Devoret is an elected member of both the French Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences

Date:  Tuesday, September 3

Time : 7:30 pm

Price: 40 Euros per person

Venue: Member's apartment

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

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Dinner with the Yale Club - Christian Strain
Apr
24

Dinner with the Yale Club - Christian Strain

Join us for the next "Dinner with the Yale Club" with Christian Strain ('92). Christian will give a talk that will first explain the current state of the Private Equity industry and it's impact on our lives, and will speak about transitioning from a career in the industry to volunteering as an EMT with the Paris Fire Brigade (and what you should do if you ever need to call 18 or 15 in an emergency!).

A dual French-American national, Christian is a Senior Advisor at Summit Partners, a private equity firm that invests in market leading high growth companies worldwide. During his tenure at Summit, Christian led the firm's efforts in the business and financial services in Europe and served on the boards of companies across a range of industries. He is also a former board of member of Invest Europe and currently serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Christian is a certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and volunteers regularly as part of a Red Cross ambulance crew in Paris in support of the Paris Fire Brigade.

Date:  Wednesday, April 24

Time : 7:30 pm

Price: 40 Euros per person

Venue: Member's apartment

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

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Feb Club
Feb
22

Feb Club

The Yale Club of France will take part in this winter Yale tradition, which has now gone global. Join us for drinks and casual fun. We will be at the top floor of Frog Revolution. Look for the Yale sign

Date: Thursday, February 22

Time : 7:30pm

Venue: Frog Revolution, 9 Rue de la Bastille

Price : Free

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Harvard - Yale Viewing Party
Nov
18

Harvard - Yale Viewing Party

Come and celebrate The Game from abroad. Reunite with old friends and reminisce on past game experiences, whether the stories concern last minute touch downs or early decisions to abandon the spectator stands due to frost-bite. Luckily, this time, we'll be viewing from inside.

Date: Saturday November 18

Time : The Moose 16 Rue des Quatre Vents, 75006 Paris

Venue: 6pm

Price : Free

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Walk in the Fontainebleau forest
Nov
5

Walk in the Fontainebleau forest

Join the Yale Club of France for an autumn walk in the beautiful Fontainebleau forest!

Our walk will take us through a variety of landscapes and points of interest, including majestic fern-covered woodlands, open shrublands, and an ancient fort. If we're lucky, we may even spot a woodpecker!

Please bring snack bars and one liter of water. Please also wear appropriate walking shoes.

Date: Sunday, October 22

Time : 11am (please be on time)

Price : free

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

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Whiskey tasting with the Georgetown Club
Oct
24

Whiskey tasting with the Georgetown Club

Join us for an evening of whiskey tasting in the elegant ambiance of The Travellers Club led by Georgetown alumn and Two Worlds Whiskey founder Ashley Donahey.

Through this guided tasting of five diverse whiskies guests will learn about the history of American whiskey and its French origins, as well as the history of Two Worlds Whiskey, the first luxury American whiskey created for France.

Named to honor Marquis de la Fayette, Two Worlds Whiskey celebrates the historic French-American alliance by uniting the traditions and savoir-faire of both countries to create truly unique whiskey.

Date:  Tuesday, October 24

Time : 7 pm
Venue: The Travellers, 25 Avenue des Champs-Élysées 75008 Paris France
RSVP: reservation link

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Book Club - "The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson
Sep
19

Book Club - "The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson

We will be discussing "The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson -- a work of fiction proposed by Marilyn Y that tells a story of how climate change will affect us all.


Our session is set for Tuesday, September 19, at 7 pm CET.

Date:  Tuesday, September 19

Time : 7pm

Venue: Virtual (with Zoom application)
RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

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Walking tour with the Yale club -  Paris of Hemingway
Sep
9

Walking tour with the Yale club -  Paris of Hemingway

The Yale Club of France invites you to join Brad Newfield, a French-American guide for Paris Walks.

Explore the area of the Left Bank in Paris which was the center of the universe if you were a writer or artist in the first half of the 20th century. See the Latin Quarter neighborhood immortalized by Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast and by Woody Allen in Midnight in Paris, and where James Joyce, George Orwell, Honoré de Balzac, and Paul Verlaine also lived and worked. We finish on rue Mouffetard with its picturesque village atmosphere.

Brad Newfield, a former Angelino who has lived in Paris since 1994, has a Ph.D in History from UCLA, lectured in History and Communication Studies, and develops walking tours on historical themes in Paris, in order to bring together the city's past and present in untraditional ways.

Date: Saturday, September 9

Time : 2pm-4pm

Meeting point : metro Cardinal Lemoine

Price : 10 € per person

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

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Walking tour with the Yale club - Jefferson, Franklin & the American Founding Fathers
Jul
9

Walking tour with the Yale club - Jefferson, Franklin & the American Founding Fathers

The Yale Club of France invites you to join Brad Newfield, a French-American guide for Paris Walks.

Jefferson, Franklin & the American Founding Fathers: The tour starts on the Concorde square where Benjamin Franklin signed the Treaty of Alliance and France was the first to recognize the independence of the U.S. We will walk through the Tuileries Garden and cross the Seine to the statue of Jefferson near one of Jefferson's favorite buildings, the Palace of the Legion of Honor. We will continue along the Left Bank and hear stories of Voltaire, Lafayette, Jefferson's favorite artists, the aristocratic salons. We will see the French Institute, the Mint, a house turned into a Masonic Lodge, and one of Jefferson's favorite bookshops. We will wind up the tour at the city's oldest café, the Procope, frequented by Franklin and the Enlightenment philosophers.

Brad Newfield, a former Angelino who has lived in Paris since 1994, has a Ph.D in History from UCLA, lectured in History and Communication Studies, and develops walking tours on historical themes in Paris, in order to bring together the city's past and present in untraditional ways.

Date: Sunday, July 9

Time : 2pm-4pm

Venue : We will meet in front of the Hotel Crillon on the Concorde Square.

Price : 10 € per person

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

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Dinner with the Yale Club - Maurice Samuels
Jun
20

Dinner with the Yale Club - Maurice Samuels

Yale professor Maurice Samuels will talk to us about his new book on Alfred Dreyfus.

Maurice Samuels (born August 9, 1968) is the Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale University. He graduated with a BA (summa cum laude) in 1990 from Harvard University, where he also earned his MA (1995) and PhD (2000). Before moving to Yale in 2006, Samuels taught at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the literature and culture of nineteenth-century France and in Jewish Studies, and is the author of books and articles on these and other topics. He is the inaugural director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism.

Date: Tuesday, June 20

Time : 7:30pm

Venue: Member's apartment

RSVP: president@yalefrance.org

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Ivy Plus Happy Hour
Jun
1

Ivy Plus Happy Hour

Yale will host the monthly Happy Hour in association with the Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Stanford, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Penn, & Princeton Clubs.

Date: Thursday June 1st

Time : 7pm

Venue: Frog Revolution, Rue de la Bastille, Paris

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