Tonight’s screening of Itu Ninu reminded me of all the reasons we show films at @yalewhc.bsky.social Climate refugees in a dystopian and stark urban space, the power of letter-writing and (Mixtec) language, and even seeds as salvation from faceless authoritarians. 🌱
“The parable of the artificial state, a cautionary tale about the enslavement of humanity to machinery, became, in the 21st century, a business plan.”
In the 2026 Tanner Lectures, Jill Lepore examined what we're doing when we give up democracy for rule by automation.
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Cold night. Great film. ❄️ 🎬
Join us tonight at 7 pm for PIÈCES D’IDENTITÉS (Identity Pieces), a film that’s well worth bundling up for.
“A drama with aspects of a detective comedy, offering an African perspective on Europe.”
— Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR), Brussels
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Jill Lepore comes to Yale Feb. 4–5 to deliver the 2026 Tanner Lectures on Human Values: “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State.”
⚙️ “Government by Machine”
🗓️ February 4 at 4:30 pm
🤖 “What Robots Want”
🗓️ February 5 at 4:30 pm
Learn more: events.yale.edu/event/jill-l...
Director Cajetan Iheka laughing among colleagues
Two Yale faculty members conversing and smiling
Yale faculty members conversing and smiling
“We take a moment to come together to honor the many hours and years we each spent alone, trying to put words together into shapely sentences, and sentences together into persuasive paragraphs.” – Dean Marc Robinson
A toast to every writer we celebrated—and everyone drafting their next chapter 📚 🥂
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... 🗃️
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.
“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.
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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Apply for the 2026–27 Franke Postdoctoral Fellowship FRANKE LECTURES IN THE HUMANITIES Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration
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
10/10 would read. Reposting in hopes of you finding sources!
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…
Wooded island on red-sand colored rock as seen from a motorboat
Group of people on an island look at a rock as one person looks out on the water with binoculars
Group of people walk across a rocky area with some vegetation towards a larger erratic boulder on the island’s edge.
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
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...
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
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.
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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!💜
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
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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...
We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
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...
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...
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
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
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...
📷 Mara Lavitt
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.
We couldn’t agree more! Thanks for joining us
