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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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“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.
Joan Copjec and Omnia El Shakry sit at the front of Alice Cinema for the post-screening Q&A. El Shakry holds up Copjec's most recent book, Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran, its pages marked with countless colorful Post-it notes.
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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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.

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Apply for the 2026–27 Franke Postdoctoral Fellowship FRANKE LECTURES IN THE HUMANITIES Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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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...
Event poster with Man Ray's AS YOU LIKE IT in the background. The text reads: ZACK BEAUCHAMP DAVID BELL SEYLA BENHABIB NOAH FELDMAN FRANKLIN FOER M. GESSEN MICHELLE GOLDBERG ADAM GOPNIK RONNIE GRINBERG MALACHI HACOHEN PAUL HANEBRINK REBECCA KOBRIN JOSHUA LEIFER ANTOINE LILTI SUSIE LINFIELD JAMES LOEFFLER HELENA ROSENBLATT STEVEN SMITH DAVID SORKIN ELISABETH ZEROFSKY Antisemitism and the Crisis of Liberalism YALE PROGRAM FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2025 | 4:00–6:30 THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2025 | 9:00–5:30 HQ L02 | 320 YORK STREET FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC COSPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF RACE, INDIGENEITY AND TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION; THE PROGRAM IN JEWISH STUDIES; THE DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH; AND THE WHITNEY HUMANITIES CENTER. MADE POSSIBLE BY A GENEROUS GRANT FROM THE EDWARD J. AND DOROTHY CLARKE KEMPF MEMORIAL FUND AND THE BETTY MACMILLAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AT YALE
April 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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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
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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
A graphic showing a mockup of the zine and the following text: LIMITED EDITION ANGELA DAVIS AT YALE ZINE Free! Please take one
April 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Due to great enthusiasm at Yale & beyond, Angela Davis’ lectures on April 15 & April 16 will now be held at Battell Chapel (400 College St.). We hope this new, larger venue—which seats 840 people—will allow more of you to experience these important lectures on abolition.
whc.yale.edu/program/tann...
Black-and-white headshot of Angela Davis
April 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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It doesn’t matter that a picture’s worth a thousand words; no photo could do justice to Rachel Cusk’s singular voice.

Last week, Cusk delivered the 2025 Finzi-Contini Lecture at Yale. What an honor to hear entirely new writing from an author unlike any other at work today.

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Rachel Cusk stands behind a podium that reads, "Whitney Humanities Center." She is smiling with her mouth closed and looking at a person, out of focus, holding a microphone for the audience Q&A.
February 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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TOMORROW! The Ghosts of Empire Symposium at Yale looks at the haunting and ghostly traces of empires—Austro-Hungarian, Russian, Ottoman, US-American, etc.—as they move in and across various geographical and temporal zones.

Conference schedule: macmillan.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
The Ghosts of Empire SYMPOSIUM at YALE UNIVERSITY Friday, January 31, 2025 Yale MACMILLAN CENTER European Studies Council
January 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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How did artists respond to the rise of postcolonial strongmen in Africa in the mid-20th century? Join artist, critic, and art historian @chikaokekeagulu.bsky.social as he answers this question in the context of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s revolutionary Egypt.

🗓️ Jan. 30 • 4:30 pm
📍Alice Cinema • HQ L01
Event poster that reads: Humanities Now Yale | Spring 2025 GAZBIA SIRRY AND EGYPTIAN MODERNISTS IN NASSER’S REVOLUTIONARY EGYPT Chika Okeke-Agulu examines the work of Egyptian artist Gazbia Sirry (1925–2021) to show how, in the wake of the 1952 Free Officers Revolution, leading modernists were influenced by Gamal Abdel Nasser’s charisma and aligned their art with his brand of Egyptian nationalism and Pan-Arab ideology. Tracing formal and tonal shifts in Sirry’s art, Okeke-Agulu analyzes how she responded to Nasser’s increasingly repressive regime and the devastating outcome of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Thursday, January 30 | 4:30 pm Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) Alice Cinema (L01) Chika Okeke-Agulu, an artist, critic, and art historian, is Director of the Africa World Initiative, and Robert Schirmer Professor of Art & Archaeology and African American Studies, Princeton University. WHITNEY HUMANITIES CENTER Humanities Now, a lecture series at the Whitney Humanities Center, is designed to spark deep thinking, inclusive deliberation, and smart action on current intellectual and social concerns. Cosponsored by History of Art Free and open to the public.
January 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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As our fall 2024 programs draw to a close, we’re busy preparing a vibrant & varied roster of events for spring 2025: lectures by Angela Davis & Rachel Cusk, a weekly Palestine through Film series, and 3 lectures themed around the architecture of illness, among other events. Stay tuned for more info!
A grid of black and white headshots next to a list of speakers coming to the Whitney Humanities Center in spring 2025: Razan AlSalah, Eve Blau, Beatriz Colomina, Rachel Cusk, Angela Davis, Jennifer Makumbi, Chika Okeke-Agulu, and Elizabeth Otto.
December 9, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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Congratulations, Alex! This feels like a good excuse to share a lovely little quote graphic from the introduction to your superb translation 📖
Quotation from Alex Gil's translation of . . . . . . and the Dogs Were Silent by Aimé Césaire: "It is rare that we come across a lost literary work by a major author, and rarer still that we did not even know it existed to begin with."
November 27, 2024 at 9:00 PM