Yale Humanities Calendar

Fall 2023

Sep 26

Lady Jaydee and Chigozie Obioma

The Underground at Yale Schwarzman Center
4:30 pm
Conversation and musical performance
Sep 27

Martha Hodes
New York University

Zoom webinar
4:00 pm
Memory, History, Politics: A Hostage Revisits a 1970 Hijacking
Sep 27

Teodolinda Barolini
Columbia University

Harkness Hall WLH 117
4:00 pm
Dante and Aristotle on Voluntary and Involuntary Action: Nicomachean Ethics 3.1 in Inferno 5 and Paradiso 3-5
Sep 27

Jeanne Rosine Abomo
Washington University

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 276
5:00 pm
Iberian Nights: Third Night, with Iliana Vásquez González
Sep 27

Julian Radlmaier

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L01 Alice Theater
5:30 pm
New Voices in Cinema: Screening Bloodsuckers (2021), a Marxist vampire comedy; Q&A with director Julian Radlmaier
Sep 28

“Baudelaire’s Worlds”
International Conference

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) HQ 136
9:00 am
This one-day conference will bring leading experts to explore the panoramas opened up by Baudelaire’s incomparable poetic oeuvre.
Sep 28

John Boswell's Life and Legacy
Whitney Humanities Center

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L02
4:00 pm
Screening and discussion: Not a Tame Lion (2022)
Sep 29

International Symposium

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 136
10:00 am
Archiving Marginalized Knowledges: Intersectional Black European Studies
Sep 30

The Valley of Peace (Dolina miru)

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L01
7:00 pm
Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans
Oct 02

Sarah Quesada
Duke University

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 276
5:00 pm
Iberian Nights: Fourth Night, with Jesús Velasco and Daniela Jara
Oct 05

Ayal Feinberg
Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights at Gratz College

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 136
4:00 pm
Clarifying Antisemitism through Experiments: Exploring Blame, Responsibility, and Hate Crime
Oct 05

The Dr. T Project
Shawkat Toorawa

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 132
4:30 pm
Shortbread, elderflower, and three things worth knowing in thirty minutes
Oct 05

The Battle of Algiers
Beinecke and Yale Film Archive

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L02
7:00 pm
“Art & Protest” Film Series
Oct 08

Emitaï
Yale Film Archive and Whitney Humanities Center

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L01
2:00 pm
“Early Sembène” Film Series
Oct 09

Mark Anthony Neal
Duke University

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) Alice Cinema (L01)
4:30 pm
The Love Languages of Black Fatherhood
Oct 09

Selby Wynn Schwartz
Stanford University

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 276
5:00 pm
Iberian Nights: Fifth Night, with Inês Forjaz de Lacerda and Sofía Fernández González
Oct 12

Roger Cohen
New York Times Paris Bureau Chief

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L02
4:00 pm
Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture: “Liberté, Égalité, Identité: Self-Image in France and America”
Oct 12

“I Am Free...But Who Is Left?”
Fortunoff Archive and Yale Film Archive

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L01
7:00 pm
Documentary film with director Joanne W. Rudof in person
Oct 13

Mildred Pierce
Yale Film Archive

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L02
7:00 pm
“Treasures” Film Series
Oct 15

The Way It Was / A Cooler Climate
Yale Film Archive

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L01
2:00 pm
Stephen Scher in person!
Oct 16

Yuri Herrera
Tulane University

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 276
5:00 pm
Iberian Nights: Sixth Night, with Alan Mendoza Sosa and Orit Gugenheim Katz
Oct 23

Miguel Valerio
Washington University

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 276
5:00 pm
Iberian Nights: Seventh Night, with Lindsay Stern and Lisa Voigt
Oct 24

Marilyn Hacker
City College of New York

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 136
4:30 pm
The Subaltern Sonnet: A Canonical Form Centers Unauthorized Voices
Oct 27

Elizabeth
Yale Film Archive

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L02
7:00 pm
"Boleyn & Beyond" Film Series
Oct 29

The Private Life of Henry VIII
Yale Film Archive

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L01
2:00 pm
"Boleyn & Beyond" Film Series
Oct 31

Jean Khalfa
Trinity College Cambridge

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) HQ 136
4:00 pm
Madness and Colonialism in Frantz Fanon’s thought
Oct 31

THE EXORCIST
Yale Film Society / Yale Film Archive

53 Wall St. Auditorium
7:00 pm
Halloween Film Screening
Nov 01

Sandra Aya Enimil and Lindsay Barnett
Yale University Library

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 134
12:00 pm
Who owns your research? Understanding copyright, authors' rights, and open access
Nov 01

Robin Coste Lewis

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 136
4:30 pm
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
Nov 02

The Dr. T Project
Shawkat Toorawa

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 132
4:30 pm
Shortbread, elderflower, and three things worth knowing in thirty minutes