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Photograph of disabled Union veterans of the American Civil War.
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
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...
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,...
New Deadlines for Research and Publication Grants
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...