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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 11d

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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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social · 13d

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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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 28d

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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Sofía Ruvira @sofiaruvira.bsky.social · Aug 25

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!💜

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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

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Fadzilah Yahaya @nfyahaya.bsky.social · Aug 3

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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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jul 16

We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Assistant Professor of English

The Department of English at Wesleyan University seeks a published poet for a tenure-track appointment beginning July 1, 2026. Teaching responsibilities include two courses per semester in introductor...

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Lisa Voigt @lisaluso.bsky.social · Jul 15

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 ⬇️

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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social · Jul 14

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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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · Jul 14

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...

Fellowships

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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social · Jun 7

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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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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social · Jun 3

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

Lighthouse Lens Film Festival 2025

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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social · Apr 23

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

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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social · Apr 23

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Angela Davis gives lectures on abolition and global solidarity

Activist, writer and academic Angela Davis spoke to the Yale and New Haven communities as part of this year’s Tanner Lectures on Human Values.

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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social · Apr 16

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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social · Apr 16

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.

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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social · Apr 15

We couldn’t agree more! Thanks for joining us

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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social · Apr 14

Today at 12:30! Join us for lunch and a conversation with Professor Monica Styles (Howard University) about her book manuscript, “Recuperating Black Perspectives: Early Modern Caribbean Afro-Intertextuality.”

Monica D. Styles @monicadstyles.bsky.social · Mar 26

Looking foward to presenting in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and with the support of the @yalewhc.bsky.social at Yale University this April!

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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social · Apr 12

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

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · Apr 8

Next week at Yale: Angela Davis on abolition. Just when we need her most 🔥. whc.yale.edu/program/tann...

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Black broken chains on a green background. In the center is white text on a green background "abolition" Below in a white band, text publicizing Tanner Lecture on Human Values at Yale, featuring Angela Davis, April 15 and 16, 2025

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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social · Apr 3

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.
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Monica D. Styles @monicadstyles.bsky.social · Mar 26

Looking foward to presenting in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and with the support of the @yalewhc.bsky.social at Yale University this April!

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · Mar 28

The brilliant Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi reading from her forthcoming pan-African novel, Alkebulan: When the Lions Returned at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social

A woman wearing a yellow African headwrap and red and yellow print dress speaking to an audience from behind a lectern.

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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social · Mar 1

Today at 3 pm! Join us at Yale for a free screening of COME BACK, AFRICA (1959) shown on 35mm.
The film follows real people in South Africa’s segregated townships during the 1950s, highlighting the injustices of apartheid in everyday moments.

Cohosted by YUAG
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Screening South Africa, Past and Present

Lionel Rogosin, COME BACK, AFRICA (1959, 95 min. shown on 35mm)

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · Feb 22

Very pumped for today, so we can show our appreciation for @araujohistorian.bsky.social —who has done so much to make a public space to discuss history books with #slaveryarchive— and learn more about her new book, 📙Humans in Shackles📙.

Poster of Humans in Shackles with a picture of Ana Lucia Araujo to the left.

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