Whitney Humanities Center at Yale
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A hub for the humanities, where intellectual relationships are forged across academic boundaries, within and beyond Yale University.
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TT job here at UMass in 20th cen African American history; application deadline is December 1; more info here: careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... 🗃️
Details - Assistant Professor/20th Century African American History | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
TT job here at UMass in 20th cen African American history; application deadline is December 1; more info here: careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... 🗃️
“Cinema is not just entertainment. It makes an intervention in the world. It changes the outcome,” Joan Copjec reminded us earlier this month.
We had the pleasure of hosting her for two events: a lecture on Kiarostami + a screening of TASTE OF CHERRY, followed by a Q&A with our own Omnia El Shakry.
We had the pleasure of hosting her for two events: a lecture on Kiarostami + a screening of TASTE OF CHERRY, followed by a Q&A with our own Omnia El Shakry.
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“Cinema is not just entertainment. It makes an intervention in the world. It changes the outcome,” Joan Copjec reminded us earlier this month.
We had the pleasure of hosting her for two events: a lecture on Kiarostami + a screening of TASTE OF CHERRY, followed by a Q&A with our own Omnia El Shakry.
We had the pleasure of hosting her for two events: a lecture on Kiarostami + a screening of TASTE OF CHERRY, followed by a Q&A with our own Omnia El Shakry.
Join us for a film + community conversation about prison education: its power to transform the lives of students and faculty, and the challenges of teaching and learning in the carceral space.
🗓️ Wednesday, November 19, 6–8 pm
📍 Humanities Quadrangle, lower level
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🗓️ Wednesday, November 19, 6–8 pm
📍 Humanities Quadrangle, lower level
events.yale.edu/event/film-c...
Film | CLASSROOM 4 (2025) + Discussion on Prison Education
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November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Join us for a film + community conversation about prison education: its power to transform the lives of students and faculty, and the challenges of teaching and learning in the carceral space.
🗓️ Wednesday, November 19, 6–8 pm
📍 Humanities Quadrangle, lower level
events.yale.edu/event/film-c...
🗓️ Wednesday, November 19, 6–8 pm
📍 Humanities Quadrangle, lower level
events.yale.edu/event/film-c...
Calling scholars in environmental humanities, history of science, food studies, and medical humanities: we’re inviting applications for our 2026–27 Franke Postdoctoral Fellowship on Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration.
1-year, $70K + research funds + benefits.
apply.interfolio.com/172135
1-year, $70K + research funds + benefits.
apply.interfolio.com/172135
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Calling scholars in environmental humanities, history of science, food studies, and medical humanities: we’re inviting applications for our 2026–27 Franke Postdoctoral Fellowship on Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration.
1-year, $70K + research funds + benefits.
apply.interfolio.com/172135
1-year, $70K + research funds + benefits.
apply.interfolio.com/172135
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Has anyone written about nonmetrical rhyming in contemporary poetry? Like in Maggie Millner’s Couplets? I want to read something about how people (who aren’t carrying around the kind of historical associations I am) understand forms and formings and breakings in this kind of verse…
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Has anyone written about nonmetrical rhyming in contemporary poetry? Like in Maggie Millner’s Couplets? I want to read something about how people (who aren’t carrying around the kind of historical associations I am) understand forms and formings and breakings in this kind of verse…
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Saw some nice #gneiss out here today on the #ThimbleIslands
Thanks to @yalewhc.bsky.social @paulsabin.bsky.social for coordinating the trip! #envhum #envhist #Connecticut #LongIslandSound
Thanks to @yalewhc.bsky.social @paulsabin.bsky.social for coordinating the trip! #envhum #envhist #Connecticut #LongIslandSound
October 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Saw some nice #gneiss out here today on the #ThimbleIslands
Thanks to @yalewhc.bsky.social @paulsabin.bsky.social for coordinating the trip! #envhum #envhist #Connecticut #LongIslandSound
Thanks to @yalewhc.bsky.social @paulsabin.bsky.social for coordinating the trip! #envhum #envhist #Connecticut #LongIslandSound
Paola Bertucci, professor of history and curator-in-charge at the Yale Peabody Museum, was recently featured on WTNH to discuss her award-winning new book, which explores the manipulation of scientific information in eighteenth-century Europe.
Watch the full interview: www.wtnh.com/on-air/nyber...
Watch the full interview: www.wtnh.com/on-air/nyber...
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October 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Paola Bertucci, professor of history and curator-in-charge at the Yale Peabody Museum, was recently featured on WTNH to discuss her award-winning new book, which explores the manipulation of scientific information in eighteenth-century Europe.
Watch the full interview: www.wtnh.com/on-air/nyber...
Watch the full interview: www.wtnh.com/on-air/nyber...
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This was such a great event. Thank you to the Whitney Humanities Center, to @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social and to Cajetan Iheka, chair of the Council on African Studies.
September 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This was such a great event. Thank you to the Whitney Humanities Center, to @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social and to Cajetan Iheka, chair of the Council on African Studies.
TODAY! Best-selling author and journalist Howard W. French discusses his new book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, one of Foreign Policy’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025.
📅 Thursday, September 25 • 4:30 pm
📍 Humanities Quadrangle, lower level
📅 Thursday, September 25 • 4:30 pm
📍 Humanities Quadrangle, lower level
Howard French | Book talk: The Second Emancipation
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September 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
TODAY! Best-selling author and journalist Howard W. French discusses his new book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, one of Foreign Policy’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025.
📅 Thursday, September 25 • 4:30 pm
📍 Humanities Quadrangle, lower level
📅 Thursday, September 25 • 4:30 pm
📍 Humanities Quadrangle, lower level
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It's also our first @yalewhc.bsky.social fellows lunch of the year - excited to be a WHC fellow alongside friends + scholars like @ceaubin.bsky.social (of @thisguysucked.com), Anthony Acciavatti, Tim Barringer, Omnia El Shakry, and so many more.
whc.yale.edu/people/fello...
whc.yale.edu/people/fello...
September 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It's also our first @yalewhc.bsky.social fellows lunch of the year - excited to be a WHC fellow alongside friends + scholars like @ceaubin.bsky.social (of @thisguysucked.com), Anthony Acciavatti, Tim Barringer, Omnia El Shakry, and so many more.
whc.yale.edu/people/fello...
whc.yale.edu/people/fello...
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With the help of the @yalewhc.bsky.social, @kathefrangi.bsky.social and I will be coordinating the Global South Feminist Theory working group, engaging with readings by Segato, Spivak & Cusicanqui among others, as well as discussing our own personal intellectual production.
So excited!💜
So excited!💜
August 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
With the help of the @yalewhc.bsky.social, @kathefrangi.bsky.social and I will be coordinating the Global South Feminist Theory working group, engaging with readings by Segato, Spivak & Cusicanqui among others, as well as discussing our own personal intellectual production.
So excited!💜
So excited!💜
Save the date: Jhumpa Lahiri at Yale
Pulitzer Prize–winning writer & translator Jhumpa Lahiri will deliver the annual Finzi-Contini Lecture, offering fresh insight into a literary classic.
🗓️ Monday, September 29 at 4:30 pm
📍 Humanities Quadrangle, lower level
events.yale.edu/event/quiver...
Pulitzer Prize–winning writer & translator Jhumpa Lahiri will deliver the annual Finzi-Contini Lecture, offering fresh insight into a literary classic.
🗓️ Monday, September 29 at 4:30 pm
📍 Humanities Quadrangle, lower level
events.yale.edu/event/quiver...
Jhumpa Lahiri | Quiver and Fixity: On Rereading “Jude the Obscure”
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August 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Save the date: Jhumpa Lahiri at Yale
Pulitzer Prize–winning writer & translator Jhumpa Lahiri will deliver the annual Finzi-Contini Lecture, offering fresh insight into a literary classic.
🗓️ Monday, September 29 at 4:30 pm
📍 Humanities Quadrangle, lower level
events.yale.edu/event/quiver...
Pulitzer Prize–winning writer & translator Jhumpa Lahiri will deliver the annual Finzi-Contini Lecture, offering fresh insight into a literary classic.
🗓️ Monday, September 29 at 4:30 pm
📍 Humanities Quadrangle, lower level
events.yale.edu/event/quiver...
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I will be speaking on September 10 on my current book project on History of Land Reclamation in the British Empire at the Council on Southeast Asian Studies at Yale. macmillan.yale.edu/southeast-as...
Nurfadzilah Yahaya- "British Hydrocolonialism in Southeast Asia"
Wed, Sep 10 2025, 12 - 1pm | Across the British Empire, from the Caribbean to Hong Kong, colonial engineers perfected the art of manufacturing new territories from dredged sand and legal precedent, cr...
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August 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I will be speaking on September 10 on my current book project on History of Land Reclamation in the British Empire at the Council on Southeast Asian Studies at Yale. macmillan.yale.edu/southeast-as...
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We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
Assistant Professor of English
The Department of English at Wesleyan University seeks a published poet for a tenure-track appointment beginning July 1, 2026. Teaching responsibilities include two courses per semester in introductor...
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July 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
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Does your work intersect with gender, economics, and colonial Latin America? Workshop your article draft with us at the RSA in San Francisco! CLAR can help with travel expenses ⬇️
July 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Does your work intersect with gender, economics, and colonial Latin America? Workshop your article draft with us at the RSA in San Francisco! CLAR can help with travel expenses ⬇️
The Whitney Humanities Center’s 2024–2025 Annual Report celebrates the humanities community at Yale—faculty, students, postdoctoral and visiting fellows, invited speakers, and engaged audiences.
Explore the people, ideas, and collaborations that defined the year: whc.yale.edu/news/year-id...
Explore the people, ideas, and collaborations that defined the year: whc.yale.edu/news/year-id...
A Year of Ideas, Connection, and Global Vision at the Whitney Humanities Center
The Whitney Humanities Center’s 2024–2025 Annual Report celebrates the humanities community at Yale—faculty, students, postdoctoral and visiting fellows, invited speakers, and engaged audiences.
whc.yale.edu
July 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The Whitney Humanities Center’s 2024–2025 Annual Report celebrates the humanities community at Yale—faculty, students, postdoctoral and visiting fellows, invited speakers, and engaged audiences.
Explore the people, ideas, and collaborations that defined the year: whc.yale.edu/news/year-id...
Explore the people, ideas, and collaborations that defined the year: whc.yale.edu/news/year-id...
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Fellowships at the (stunning) Beinecke are open for scholars local + far (due Jul 31) + grad students (due Sept 15), and you're able to use materials from other Yale special collections:
beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...
beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...
Fellowships
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July 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Fellowships at the (stunning) Beinecke are open for scholars local + far (due Jul 31) + grad students (due Sept 15), and you're able to use materials from other Yale special collections:
beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...
beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...
There's a new film festival in town! 🎞 Don’t miss your chance to join filmmakers and cinephiles for the first annual Lighthouse Lens Film Festival, June 5–8 in New Haven.
Enjoy films by Yale faculty, alumni, students, and other filmmakers from around the world: www.LighthouseLensFilmFestival.org
Enjoy films by Yale faculty, alumni, students, and other filmmakers from around the world: www.LighthouseLensFilmFestival.org
Lighthouse Lens Film Festival 2025
www.LighthouseLensFilmFestival.org
June 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
There's a new film festival in town! 🎞 Don’t miss your chance to join filmmakers and cinephiles for the first annual Lighthouse Lens Film Festival, June 5–8 in New Haven.
Enjoy films by Yale faculty, alumni, students, and other filmmakers from around the world: www.LighthouseLensFilmFestival.org
Enjoy films by Yale faculty, alumni, students, and other filmmakers from around the world: www.LighthouseLensFilmFestival.org
The Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism invites you to the Antisemitism and the Crisis of Liberalism conference, April 30—May 1.
Conference program: ypsa.yale.edu/conference-p...
Register to attend in person: cglink.me/2dA/r2297345
Register for the livestream: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Conference program: ypsa.yale.edu/conference-p...
Register to attend in person: cglink.me/2dA/r2297345
Register for the livestream: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism invites you to the Antisemitism and the Crisis of Liberalism conference, April 30—May 1.
Conference program: ypsa.yale.edu/conference-p...
Register to attend in person: cglink.me/2dA/r2297345
Register for the livestream: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Conference program: ypsa.yale.edu/conference-p...
Register to attend in person: cglink.me/2dA/r2297345
Register for the livestream: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Scenes from an incandescent and inspiring first day of Angela Davis's 2025 Tanner Lectures on Human Values! Join us again at 4:30 pm in Battell Chapel for Professor Davis's second lecture, "Abolition: Learning from Global Trajectories." Doors open at 3:30 pm.
April 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Scenes from an incandescent and inspiring first day of Angela Davis's 2025 Tanner Lectures on Human Values! Join us again at 4:30 pm in Battell Chapel for Professor Davis's second lecture, "Abolition: Learning from Global Trajectories." Doors open at 3:30 pm.
Today at 12:30! Join us for lunch and a conversation with Professor Monica Styles (Howard University) about her book manuscript, “Recuperating Black Perspectives: Early Modern Caribbean Afro-Intertextuality.”
Looking foward to presenting in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and with the support of the @yalewhc.bsky.social at Yale University this April!
April 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Today at 12:30! Join us for lunch and a conversation with Professor Monica Styles (Howard University) about her book manuscript, “Recuperating Black Perspectives: Early Modern Caribbean Afro-Intertextuality.”
To celebrate Angela Davis’s Tanner Lectures(April 15 & 16), our talented grad student communication fellows made a zine about her impact at Yale.
We’re giving away ~250 of these limited-edition zines at each lecture. Arrive early for a chance to get yours!
📍Battell Chapel 🕞 Doors open at 3:30 pm
We’re giving away ~250 of these limited-edition zines at each lecture. Arrive early for a chance to get yours!
📍Battell Chapel 🕞 Doors open at 3:30 pm
April 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
To celebrate Angela Davis’s Tanner Lectures(April 15 & 16), our talented grad student communication fellows made a zine about her impact at Yale.
We’re giving away ~250 of these limited-edition zines at each lecture. Arrive early for a chance to get yours!
📍Battell Chapel 🕞 Doors open at 3:30 pm
We’re giving away ~250 of these limited-edition zines at each lecture. Arrive early for a chance to get yours!
📍Battell Chapel 🕞 Doors open at 3:30 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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April 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Next week at Yale: Angela Davis on abolition. Just when we need her most 🔥. whc.yale.edu/program/tann...
@yalewhc.bsky.social
@yalewhc.bsky.social