Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
Audience laughing
Before her reading, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff reflected on what rooms like these make possible: spaces where, in her words, “the humanities are intrinsically valued and the work can speak for itself.” That’s precisely what we strive for.
Day Two photos coming soon. ✨
📸: Katerina Matta ’29
Brendan Jacobs-Jenkins
Alice Kaplan
Amara Lakhous
Meghan O'Rourke
Shades of Yale set the tone with a moving performance that was full of spirit and warmth. Then six remarkable Yale faculty brought their literary worlds into the room—plays, poetry, novels, and more—reminding us why this work matters so deeply.
Shades of Yale performing in the Humanities Quadrangle lower level lecture hall
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.
Brandon Terry, Cornel West, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Robert Gooding-Williams on stage at Battell Chapel.
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.
📸 Mara Lavitt
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.
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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-...
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...
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
events.yale.edu/event/film-c...
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.
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...
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...
