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2022 YALE TRANSLATION INITIATIVE SUMMER FELLOWS
August 8, 2022
Graduate students are the future of Translation Studies, and their innovative research expands the horizons of this interdisciplinary field. In partnership with the Yale...
John Merriman
May 23, 2022
We were deeply saddened to learn of the death of our friend John Merriman on May 22. A historian of modern France, a master teacher whose Open Yale Courses reached thousands...
Graduate Fellow to Discuss the Environmental History of Lagos, Nigeria, at “Desert Futures: Sahara”
April 24, 2022
Yale graduate student Allegra Ayida (History) was selected to speak at Desert Futures: Sahara next week. Allegra is a WHC Graduate Fellow in the Environmental Humanities and...
Sheila Heti
March 25, 2022
The Whitney Humanities Center will host Canadian author Sheila Heti as a Franke Visiting Fellow during the fall 2022 semester. Sheila Heti’s literary oeuvre comprises...
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke
March 24, 2022
Last week, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke ’97 made the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction. O’Rourke is editor of...
Two English Girls (1971)
March 23, 2022
Films at the Whitney is ramping back up after two long years away. On March 3, 2022, the screening room in the lower level of the Humanities Quadrangle—affectionately known...
March 18, 2022
What happens when we think of the desert not as a margin, but as a center and a focus of study? Jill Jarvis from the Department of French discusses the genesis of “Desert...