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Applications open for 2025–26 Franke Postdoctoral Fellowship: Media and Protection

September 26, 2024
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale welcomes applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship (2025–26) that will support the Spring 2026 Franke Seminar in the...

Films at the Whitney Presents “World Documentaries Today”

August 23, 2024
Mark your calendars for Films at the Whitney’s fall 2024 series, “World Documentaries Today,” curated by Ph.D. student Lora Maslenitsyna. World Documentaries Today ...

The Practice of Literary Criticism, from the Whitney Humanities Center to The Yale Review

June 25, 2024
Three presentations from the Whitney Humanities Center’s March 29 Humanities Now colloquium, Method and Decolonizing Praxis in Literary Studies,  have been published by The...
An audience watching THE TRIAL in the Alice Cinema at Yale.

Call for Graduate Student Film Programmers

May 9, 2024
The Whitney Humanities Center is seeking graduate student film programmers for the upcoming (2024–25) academic year for Films at the Whitney.  Inaugurated in 2009, Films at...
Photograph of disabled Union veterans of the American Civil War.

Colton Klein Wins Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation Prize

May 2, 2024
Colton Klein, a first-year doctoral student and Whitney Humanities Center Graduate Fellow in the Environmental Humanities, has been awarded the 2024 Mervat Zahid Cultural...
Film still from The Hands of Orlac

Renowned Silent-Film Musicians to Perform Live Score for The Hands of Orlac

April 30, 2024
Please note that this event, originally scheduled for April 25, has a new date: Thursday, May 23! Internationally renowned silent-film musicians Donald Sosin and Joanna...

Franke Visiting Fellow Rozina Ali in The New York Times Magazine

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...