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

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...

“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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

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.”

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

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

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. whc.yale.edu/program/tann...

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

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

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 whc.yale.edu/screening-so...

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📙.

It doesn’t matter that a picture’s worth a thousand words; no photo could do justice to Rachel Cusk’s singular voice. Last week, Cusk delivered the 2025 Finzi-Contini Lecture at Yale. What an honor to hear entirely new writing from an author unlike any other at work today. @yalereview.bsky.social

Human-centered design sounds good, but it has been terrible for humans, other species, and the planet. 🦠 What if we centered bacteria instead? What would a probiotic architecture be? 🧫 Find out today in our second Architecture of Illness lecture: whc.yale.edu/when-bacteri...

Today at Yale: Rachel Cusk will deliver the 2025 Finzi-Contini Lecture. Don’t miss your chance to hear this brand new, never-before-presented work! A revised version of the talk will later grace the pages of @yalereview.bsky.social 🖋️📚 whc.yale.edu/light-woman-...

How has the architecture of illness—and the medicalization of architecture—shaped our experiences of sickness, care, and contagion from the 19th century to today? Architecture of Illness begins Monday, February 10, with a talk by art & cultural historian Elizabeth Otto whc.yale.edu/bauhaus-arch...

Join us on Thursday, February 13 to hear Rachel Cusk deliver the 2025 Finzi-Contini Lecture at Yale! Presented by @yalewhc.bsky.social and cosponsored by The Yale Review, a version of Cusk's talk will appear in our Summer 2025 issue. More details: whc.yale.edu/light-woman-...

TOMORROW! The Ghosts of Empire Symposium at Yale looks at the haunting and ghostly traces of empires—Austro-Hungarian, Russian, Ottoman, US-American, etc.—as they move in and across various geographical and temporal zones. Conference schedule: macmillan.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

How did artists respond to the rise of postcolonial strongmen in Africa in the mid-20th century? Join artist, critic, and art historian @chikaokekeagulu.bsky.social as he answers this question in the context of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s revolutionary Egypt. 🗓️ Jan. 30 • 4:30 pm 📍Alice Cinema • HQ L01

Looking forward to talking about Thinking With Moss (+ navigating experimental projects with academic work) with Yale's Whitney Humanities Center Grad Fellows in Environmental Humanities today over a happy hour! Moss + drinks - what's better? Thanks to @meganeodonnell.bsky.social for the invite!

I am excited to be in residence at the @yalewhc.bsky.social in Spring/Summer 2025 as a faculty research fellow. Looking forward to building collaborations and getting some writing done. faculty.yale.edu/diversity/as...

The selection committee wrote that Marlene L. Daut’s Awakening the Ashes “creates an original structure that gives voice to many who spoke against the French colonial system, slavery, and racism during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." fas.yale.edu/news-announc...

Reminder to add any event or call for opportunities for #skystorians to @historians.org's free online calendars. No cost, and we see a lot of visitors to these pages.

Mark your calendars! 🇵🇸 📽️ Palestine through Film chronicles key moments in Palestinian history—from the Nakba of 1948 to the present occupation. These weekly screenings of documentaries, historical dramas, and shorts open a window onto the mosaic of life in Palestine. whc.yale.edu/news/films-w...