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Diane Brown
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Deputy director of Whitney Humanities Center at Yale. Films at the Whitney, Whitney Publishing Project. Books, poetry, democracy, dogs, supporting scholars and their work. Erstwhile dix-huitiémiste. Also: Utah adjacent.
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New Haven doing that New England thing of gathering on the town green to oppose tyrants. #NoKings
A street full of people holding signs protesting the current U.S. administration. A neogothic style building is in the background.
June 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Next week at Yale: Angela Davis on abolition. Just when we need her most 🔥. whc.yale.edu/program/tann...

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Black broken chains on a green background. In the center is white text on a green background "abolition" Below in a white band, text publicizing Tanner Lecture on Human Values at Yale, featuring Angela Davis, April 15 and 16, 2025
April 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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The brilliant Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi reading from her forthcoming pan-African novel, Alkebulan: When the Lions Returned at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social
A woman wearing a yellow African headwrap and red and yellow print dress speaking to an audience from behind a lectern.
March 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Today at Yale: distinguished art historian Chika Okeke-Agulu, on Egyptian modernists and Gazbia Sirry. Join us: 4:30 in the Humanities Quadrangle at 320 York. @yalewhc.bsky.social
Lecture title on a background of a modernist painting of a face and upper torso with a black bird. "Gazbia Sirry and Egyptian Modernists in Nasser's Revolutionary Egypt." Speaker photo and brief biographical blurb of Chika Okeke-Agulu. Lecture is at Yale, Humanities Quadrangle L01, January 30 at 4:30 pm.
January 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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My posts will mostly be about humanities events and such, but for now here’s a first post with Otis, the very serious doggo.
Black dog with white chest on a trail with trees in background
November 25, 2024 at 1:32 AM