Upcoming Humanities Events

Lectures, film screenings, workshops, and other events hosted by the Whitney Humanities Center as well as other departments across Yale University.

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Spring 2025

Feb 05

Ruth Franklin
American literary critic

Zoom Webinar
4:00 pm
The Many Lives of Anne Frank
Feb 06

Ending the Korean War Symposium
Ending the Korean War (EKW) Teaching Collective

Zoom Webinar
9:00 am
Day 1: Ending the Korean War, a virtual symposium; please register
Feb 06

The Flesh-Witness
Kyuri Jeon (2021)

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) Alice Cinema (L01)
4:30 pm
Film screening & talkback with director Kyuri Jeon; part of the Ending the Korean War symposium
Feb 06

Fatima Siwaju and Aimee Villareal
Yale Ethnography Hub

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 136
5:00 pm
Ethnography and Citizenship: Global and Local Perspectives
Feb 06

Juliane Prade-Weiss
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 401
5:30 pm
On Participation: Anatomy of a Promise
Feb 07

Ending the Korean War Symposium
Ending the Korean War (EKW) Teaching Collective

Zoom Webinar
9:00 am
Day 2: Ending the Korean War, a virtual symposium; please register
Feb 07

Short films of resistance
Mustafa Abu Ali (1973); Mohammad Malas (1987)

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) Alice Cinema (L01)
7:00 pm
Palestine through Film
Feb 08

A Fidai Film
Kamal Aljafari (2024)

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) Alice Cinema (L01)
4:00 pm
Palestine through Film
Feb 10

Elizabeth Otto
University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) Alice Cinema (L01)
4:30 pm
Bauhaus Architectures of Illness, Health, and Race: Johannes Itten’s Mazdaznan Teaching at the Early Bauhaus
Feb 11

The Dr. T Project
Shawkat M. Toorawa

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 133
4:30 pm
Three Things Worth Knowing in just 30 Minutes; Walker’s shortbread and San Pellegrino are served
Feb 12

Kristen Tippett
American journalist, author, entrepreneur

Evans Hall, Zhang Auditorium
4:00 pm
On the Mystery and Art of Living: Foundations for Being Alive Now
Feb 13

Rachel Cusk
Award-winning novelist

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L02
4:30 pm
Into the Light: A Woman Artist Uncovered
Feb 13

Jonathas de Andrade
Visual artist and filmmaker

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) Alice Cinema (L01)
6:30 pm
Staging Resistance: Fact, Fiction, and Performative Propositions in Three Films by Jonathas de Andrade
Feb 14

Bela Shayevich
Translator and Literary Critic

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 359
11:00 am
Emerging Publics: Cultural Criticism Beyond the Academy. Lecture and Workshop with Bela Shayevich
Feb 15

Fertile Memory
Michel Khleifi (1980)

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) Alice Cinema (L01)
4:00 pm
Palestine through Film
Feb 17

Beatriz Colomina
Princeton University

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) Alice Cinema (L01)
4:30 pm
When Bacteria Rule the World: Notes Toward a Trans-species Architecture
Feb 18

The Dr. T Project
Shawkat M. Toorawa

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 133
4:30 pm
Three Things Worth Knowing in just 30 Minutes; Walker’s shortbread and San Pellegrino are served
Feb 19

Jonathan Judaken
Washington University

Zoom Webinar
5:00 pm
Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism
Feb 21

A Stone’s Throw and other shorts
Razan AlSalah (2017; 2020; 2024)

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) Alice Cinema (L01)
7:00 pm
Palestine through Film + Q&A with director Razan AlSalah 
Feb 24

David D. Kim
UCLA

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 136
5:30 pm
“There Are No Natives Here”: Hannah Arendt and the Erasure of Native American Citizenship
Feb 25

The Dr. T Project
Shawkat M. Toorawa

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 133
4:30 pm
Three Things Worth Knowing in just 30 Minutes; Walker’s shortbread and San Pellegrino are served
Feb 27

Paco Calvo
University of Murcia

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L01
4:00 pm
Planta Sapiens
Feb 27

The Wanted 18
Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan (2014)

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) Alice Cinema (L01)
7:00 pm
Palestine through Film
Mar 04

The Dr. T Project
Shawkat M. Toorawa

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 133
4:30 pm
Three Things Worth Knowing in just 30 Minutes; Walker’s shortbread and San Pellegrino are served
Mar 06

Mayor
David Osit (2020)

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L02
7:30 pm
Palestine through Film
Mar 25

The Dr. T Project
Shawkat M. Toorawa

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 133
4:30 pm
Three Things Worth Knowing in just 30 Minutes; Walker’s shortbread and San Pellegrino are served
Mar 26

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Fiction Writer, Franke Visiting Fellow

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) Alice Cinema (L01)
4:30 pm
Alkebulan: When the Lions Returned
Apr 01

The Dr. T Project
Shawkat M. Toorawa

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 133
4:30 pm
Three Things Worth Knowing in just 30 Minutes; Walker’s shortbread and San Pellegrino are served
Apr 07

Eve Blau
Harvard Graduate School of Design

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) Alice Cinema (L01)
4:30 pm
Building Resistance
Apr 08

The Dr. T Project
Shawkat M. Toorawa

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 133
4:30 pm
Three Things Worth Knowing in just 30 Minutes; Walker’s shortbread and San Pellegrino are served