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The Whitney Humanities Center is seeking graduate student film programmers for the upcoming (2024â25) academic year for Films at the Whitney. Please send proposals to Marc Francis ([email protected]) by Friday, May 31, 2024. Learn more: whc.yale.edu/news/call-grad⊠#Yale #Film
Watchâand listen!âin horror. This Thursday at 7:30 pm, internationally renowned silent-film musicians Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton will perform a live score for the classic silent film âThe Hands of Orlac (Orlacs HĂ€nde)â in HQ L02. #Yale #SilentFilm #LiveMusic Yale Art Gallery
OUR SUMMER ISSUE IS HERE! What is criticism, and why do we write it? Christine Smallwood, @mervatim, Namwali, and Brian Dillon respond. Plus: Amit Chaudhuri on being a postcolonial writer, Teju Cole on Louise GlĂŒck, Tausif Noor on Alice Notley, & more: yalereview.org/issues/summer-âŠ
đâš Our #HumanitiesNow lecture series sparked something special! Three presentations from our March 29 colloquium at the Whitney Humanities Center have found a new home in the summer issue of The Yale Review. Read the full folio here: yalereview.org/criticism-and-âŠ
If plants could write, what stories would they tell us? Join Sumana Roy, author of How I Became a Tree and Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries, Whitney Humanities Center (@yalewhc.bsky.social) to explore this age old question. Save the date: Thursday, September 12, 2024, 4:30 pm i.mtr.cool/xfvcdnrsoq
We couldnât have asked for a better start to the year! Thank you, Asmae El Moudir, for sharing your disarmingly tender & beautiful film w/ us. It was an honor to discuss courage, filmmaking, Moroccan culture, Freud, & your family, whom we were delighted to meet in miniature Yale University
In a little less than an hour, we get to hear the wonderful author of these books talk about various attempts to parse a language from plants over the past century. Join us in Alice Cinema at 4:30 for Sumana Royâs âThe Quest for the Plant Scriptâ
The plants have stories and they can teach us. đđ» We learned so much from the plants, Sumana Roy, and @YSFPâs Jacquie Munno during our visit to the Yale Farm this week. Many thanks to you both for the deeply nourishing conversation! Yale University #YaleFarm #YaleWHC #YSFP
Our first month with these two wonderful thinkers has flown by! Meet our 2024â25 Franke Visiting Fellow Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi & our inaugural Franke Postdoctoral Fellow Michelle Rada. You can learn about their work and that of other WHC Fellows here: whc.yale.edu/people/fellowsâŠ.
Artist & philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva is here! Join us tonight for a screening of her film ANCESTRAL CLOUDS ANCESTRAL CLAIMS + a conversation with her co-director Arjuna Neuman and our WHC fellow Santiago Acosta (YaleSpanPort) đ Alice Cinema (HQ L01) â° 4:30 pm
Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neumanâs film will percolate in our minds for a long time. As will their conversation w/ Santiago Acosta about the haunted materiality of extraction & colonialism. The convo continues tonight w/ Ferreira da Silvaâs lecture! 4:30 pm in HQ L01
This is #HumanitiesNow: Professor elleza kelley on why we need Denise Ferreira da Silvaâs work now more than ever, and Ferreira da Silva on decolonization and reparations, explained through potential energy and heat. Yale University DFSilva
Sarah Vogel will present, âThe Wild Ride: Keepseagle Class Action and the Decades-Long Fight of Native American Ranchers and Farmersâ at the Agrarian Studies Colloquium paper workshop this Friday at 11 am in room 101, 230 Prospect. Learn more here: macmillan.yale.edu/agrarian