The Yale Alumni Association and the Yale Club of Shanghai present:

Shanghai Alumni Reception

with Pericles Lewis and Weili Cheng

Pericles Lewis

Vice President for Global Strategy and Deputy Provost for International Affairs at Yale University & Founding President of Yale-NUS College

Weili Cheng, YC ‘77

Executive Director of the Yale Alumni Association

Join us for a reception, along with remarks from Pericles Lewis, Vice President for Global Strategy and Deputy Provost and Weili Cheng, Executive Director or the Yale Alumni Association. Pericles will talk about Yale’s international strategy and recent developments at the Jackson Institute while Weili will talk about Yale’s plans to further engage its overseas alumni. She will also discuss her personal experiences of returning back to campus

Time and Date

Friday, March 22, 7pm – 9pm

(Doors open at 7pm; program begin at 7:30 pm, with Q&A and mingling to follow)

The Ritz-Carlton Shanghai, Pudong 

Amber Room (Level 3)

Shanghai ifc

8 Century Avenue, Lujiazui Pudong

Cover Charge

RMB 80 Advance | RMB 100 At the door*

Entrance ticket includes 2 drinks and light snacks

Please RSVP and pay in advance to reserve your spot via Yoopay at:

https://yoopay.cn/event/31622127

*Space is limited. Admission at the door is subject to availability.

Questions? Contact vincent.law.jd@gmail.com

SPEAKERS

Pericles Lewis

Pericles Lewis earned his B.A. with first-class honors in English literature from McGill University in 1990 and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University in 1997. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the Yale faculty in 1998, with appointments in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature. From 2012 to 2017 Professor Lewis served as founding president of Yale-NUS College, a collaboration between Yale and the National University of Singapore. In the provost’s office, he works closely with the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. He also oversees the Office of International Affairs and the Office of International Students and Scholars and guides Yale’s involvement in Yale-NUS College. A former member of the advisory board of the American Comparative Literature Association, Professor Lewis is the author or editor of six books on modern European literature; his current research addresses liberal education in the United States and worldwide.

Weili Cheng, YC ‘77

Weili Cheng is the executive director of the Yale Alumni Association, a position she assumed in 2016. In this capacity, she oversees the alumni association’s various groups, sets the direction and tone for the YAA’s office and operations, operates as the department’s emissary to the larger university, and serves as the organizational go-to for all things Yale alumni.

Cheng has a long history of service to her alma mater. She graduated from Yale with a B.A. in philosophy in 1977. Shortly afterward, she became actively involved as a Yale volunteer, assuming a place on the YAA Board of Governors and rising to board chair in 1992 (serving until 1994). In doing so, she became the youngest and first female graduate of Yale College to hold that position.

In addition to her roles on the YAA Board of Governors, Cheng has served on the board and as president of the Yale Club of Washington, D.C., as chair of her Class Council, as an Alumni Schools Committee volunteer, a trustee of the Yale Library Associates, and on a number of university committees. Since 1994, she has served on the board of directors of Yale Alumni Publications, Inc., which publishes Yale Alumni Magazine. In 1997, Cheng was awarded the Yale Medal, the YAA’s highest honor.