News and Ideas

Celebrating 45 years at the Whitney Humanities Center

Visiting Fellow Examines the Mortal Machines That Promise Immortality

From ‘The Terminator’ to tech titans: historian Jill Lepore examines the ‘artificial state’

Translating The Odyssey for Today

Visiting Fellow Unearths Layers of Wounds and Identities in Algerian Literature

Welcome back to the WHC (2025–2026)

An Exercise in Attention

Vernacular Science

Welcome back to the WHC (2024–2025)

WHC: A Year in Review (2023–2024)

Dante Underground: Working Group Brings Inferno to Life in NYC Subway

From Our Bookshelf: Morgane Cadieu

Ecology and Equity – An Interview with Rob Nixon

Meet the Editor-in-Residence, Sharmila Sen (Harvard University Press)

Translating History in Bulgarian Fiction: Angela Rodel at Yale

The Emergence of the Linguistics Society of America in an Age of Scientific Racism

Celebrating Cinema from Africa to the World: Screening Ousame Sembène

Queer History at Yale: John Boswell–Not a Tame Lion

Introducing the Humanities Faculty Bookshelf

Welcome from Cajetan Iheka

From the Director

From the Director

Mopeds, Thugs, and an Opera-Loving Mailman: Diva This Friday

American Classicisms in the Hudson Valley

Lecture Series Takes World Cinema Beyond the Classroom

Sheila Heti on Process

Elizabeth Alexander on Art and Delayed Comprehension

Learning to Love Our Multispecies Roommates

Annie Ernaux Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

From Panel to Publication

From the Director – Remembering Richard Franke

The Weird and Wonderful Edges of Life

Why We Need Medea Now More Than Ever

From the Director

What If You Could Change Your Race?

Making Space for the Humanities

David Diop’s “At Night All Blood is Black” Wins International Booker Prize

From the Director — The Season of Our Confinement

“Make It Sing!” Jon Butler Remembers 320 York

The Stone Heads of 320 York

From the Director