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April 1, 2024
Internationally renowned silent-film musicians Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton will perform a live score for the classic silent film The Hands of Orlac on Thursday, April 25...
March 11, 2024
Franke Visiting Fellow Rozina Ali recently wrote about three friends, Kinnan, Hisham, and Tahseen, who grew up in the West Bank and were shot in Vermont. The article “Raised...
January 9, 2024
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale welcomes applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship for 2024–25. This fellowship is designed to complement and enrich the...
November 28, 2023
Director and photographer Amit Madheshiya will join Films at the Whitney for a free screening of his Cannes prize-winning documentary, The Cinema Travellers. This event,...
October 30, 2023
The A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Research Fund and Frederick W. Hilles Publication Fund provide financial support to faculty working in the humanities at Yale. Applications...
June 15, 2023
“The absence of meaning is a kind of meaning, isn’t it?”
So asks Percival Everett in his essay “Abstraction and Nonsense: The Real in Fiction (link is external),” published...
March 10, 2023
We’re proud to share that Cajetan Iheka, the incoming director of the Whitney Humanities Center, has been awarded the 2023 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for African...