Whitney Humanities Center (@yalewhc.bsky.social)

A hub for innovative research and interdisciplinary collaboration connecting scholars in the humanities at Yale and beyond.

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We're leaving for good. Come find us in the other place ✨ (same handle)

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Sarah Vogel will present, “The Wild Ride: Keepseagle Class Action and the Decades-Long Fight of Native American Ranchers and Farmers” at the @AgrarianStudies Colloquium paper workshop this Friday at 11 am in room 101, 230 Prospect.
Learn more here: https://t.co/4j1zTmHq4n

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This is #HumanitiesNow: Professor @ellezakelley on why we need Denise Ferreira da Silva’s work now more than ever, and Ferreira da Silva on decolonization and reparations, explained through potential energy and heat.

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Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman’s film will percolate in our minds for a long time. As will their conversation w/ @santiago_acosta about the haunted materiality of extraction & colonialism.

The convo continues tonight w/ Ferreira da Silva’s lecture!

4:30 pm in HQ L01

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Artist & philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva is here!

Join us tonight for a screening of her film ANCESTRAL CLOUDS ANCESTRAL CLAIMS + a conversation with her co-director Arjuna Neuman and our WHC fellow @santiago_acosta (@YaleSpanPort)

📍 Alice Cinema (HQ L01)
⏰ 4:30 pm

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Join us again on Oct 10 for Ferreira da Silva's lecture, "On Interiority: An Exploration of the Infrastructures of Subjectivity," which promises to be a thought-provoking exploration of crucial global issues from an anticolonial black feminist perspective.
https://t.co/v9zgrcuCXb

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We’re thrilled to welcome Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman for 2 Humanities Now events, Oct. 9–10. First up is a screening of their film ANCESTRAL CLOUDS ANCESTRAL CLAIMS + a Q&A moderated by @santiago_acosta (@YaleSpanPort).

https://t.co/pO58uFVwKZ

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Watch the trailer: https://t.co/gmsiiuzI33

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Our first month with these two wonderful thinkers has flown by! Meet our 2024–25 Franke Visiting Fellow Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi & our inaugural Franke Postdoctoral Fellow @michi_rada.

You can learn about their work and that of other WHC Fellows here: https://t.co/IIMWu7G4xn.

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The plants have stories and they can teach us. 🍃🌻

We learned so much from the plants, @sumanasiliguri, and @YSFP’s Jacquie Munno during our visit to the Yale Farm this week. Many thanks to you both for the deeply nourishing conversation!

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In a little less than an hour, we get to hear the wonderful author of these books talk about various attempts to parse a language from plants over the past century. Join us in Alice Cinema at 4:30 for @SumanaSiliguri’s “The Quest for the Plant Script”

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Tomorrow! @SumanaSiliguri presents, "The Quest for the Plant Script" at @YaleWHC 

September 12, 2024 | 4:30 pm
Humanities Quadrangle (HQ)
Alice Cinema (L01)

Event details here: https://t.co/66VXizbmrJ

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We couldn’t have asked for a better start to the year! Thank you, Asmae El Moudir, for sharing your disarmingly tender & beautiful film w/ us. It was an honor to discuss courage, filmmaking, Moroccan culture, Freud, & your family, whom we were delighted to meet in miniature
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Learn more about the series, curated by @Yale Ph.D. student @truelora: https://t.co/NAwg86zgoi

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Save the date!

📽️🌍Films at the Whitney’s fall 2024 series, “World Documentaries Today” kicks off on 9/5 at 7 pm w/ #TheMotherOfAllLies, followed by a Q&A w/ director Asmae El Moudir, ahead of its official release in NYC the next day.

📍Alice Cinema (L01) at 320 York St.

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@michi_rada We’re lucky to have you!

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If plants could write, what stories would they tell us? Join Sumana Roy, author of How I Became a Tree and Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries, @YaleWHC to explore this age old question. Save the date: Thursday, September 12, 2024, 4:30 pm

https://t.co/lxtPhITN6t

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The Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism is hiring a full-time program coordinator. Join the leadership at one of America’s few university programs devoted solely to studying antisemitism: https://t.co/pyY76htvXt

#YaleCareers #HigherEdJobs #AcademicCareers #Yale

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📚✨ Our #HumanitiesNow lecture series sparked something special! Three presentations from our March 29 colloquium at the Whitney Humanities Center have found a new home in the summer issue of @YaleReview.

Read the full folio here: https://t.co/nkyH3prgCz

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OUR SUMMER ISSUE IS HERE! What is criticism, and why do we write it? Christine Smallwood, @mervatim, @namwalien, and @briangdillon respond. Plus: @AmitChaudhuri on being a postcolonial writer, Teju Cole on Louise Glück, @tausifnoor on Alice Notley, & more: https://t.co/0WkWbYhNXo

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Watch—and listen!—in horror.

This Thursday at 7:30 pm, internationally renowned silent-film musicians Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton will perform a live score for the classic silent film “The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hände)” in HQ L02.

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