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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.
“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.
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 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
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 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...
April 23, 2025 at 7:21 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.
April 16, 2025 at 6:11 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
April 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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...
April 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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.

@yalereview.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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...
January 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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
January 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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!
December 9, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Congratulations, Alex! This feels like a good excuse to share a lovely little quote graphic from the introduction to your superb translation 📖
November 27, 2024 at 9:00 PM