We’re hiring! 📣 The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale seeks a recent humanities PhD with experience in program-building, innovative humanities work, and higher ed service for a Postdoctoral Associate in Humanities Leadership. $70K + $3K stipend | Deadline: June 12, 2026 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/185526

What better way to open a conference called The Humanities, the University, and the World than with a celebration of the art of the humanities? Day One was everything we could have hoped for and more.

Cornel West said our daylong symposium on Brandon Terry’s Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope—a reckoning with how we remember and narrate the civil rights movement—was good for his heart, his mind, and his soul. We felt the same way.
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It’s the first day of our @thisguysucked.com triple-header birthday week! I can guarantee today’s show is the only episode of any podcast you’ll ever hear that covers Benjamin Franklin, Travis Scott, scrub mommies, and Clavicular. pod.fo/e/3afcba

This Guy Sucked: All About the Benjamin with No Such Thing

Claire and Manny, Noah, and Devan of No Such Thing try to figure out what’s really up with our freakiest Founding Father.GuestNo Such Thing is a weekly podcast finding actual answers to today’s...

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After civil rights, after Obama, after Black Lives Matter—what now for Black politics? Brandon Terry, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Cornel West in dialogue at Yale. March 26, 4:30 pm, Battell Chapel (400 College St.). Free & open to all Worth the trip if you’re close. events.yale.edu/event/black-...

Black Politics in Dark Times

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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. news.yale.edu/2026/02/09/t...

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 events.yale.edu/event/film-p...

Film | PIÈCES D’IDENTITÉS (Identity Pieces)

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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...

Jill Lepore | The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

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“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... 🗃️

“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 events.yale.edu/event/film-c...

Film | CLASSROOM 4 (2025) + Discussion on Prison Education

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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. apply.interfolio.com/172135

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…

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.

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I'm speaking about my new book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide on Thursday afternoon at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center on Thursday afternoon. Details here. whc.yale.edu/second-emanc...

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

Howard French | Book talk: The Second Emancipation

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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...

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 events.yale.edu/event/quiver...

Jhumpa Lahiri | Quiver and Fixity: On Rereading “Jude the Obscure”

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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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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...

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.

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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...

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Documenting the U.S. struggle for ‘something better,’ from postwar to present

In a new book, Yale professor Laura Wexler frames photographs from the Magnum agency archive around an understanding of American history and conflict.

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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

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...