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Sarah Vogel will present, “The Wild Ride: Keepseagle Class Action and the Decades-Long Fight of Native American Ranchers and Farmers” at the @AgrarianStudies Colloquium paper workshop this Friday at 11 am in room 101, 230 Prospect. Learn more here: macmillan.yale.edu/agrarian

This is #HumanitiesNow: Professor @ellezakelley on why we need Denise Ferreira da Silva’s work now more than ever, and Ferreira da Silva on decolonization and reparations, explained through potential energy and heat. @Yale @livingcommons

Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman’s 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 Silva’s lecture! 4:30 pm in HQ L01

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) 📍 Alice Cinema (HQ L01) ⏰ 4:30 pm

Join us again on Oct 10 for Ferreira da Silva's lecture, "On Interiority: An Exploration of the Infrastructures of Subjectivity," which promises to be a thought-provoking exploration of crucial global issues from an anticolonial black feminist perspective. whc.yale.edu/interiority-ex…

Watch the trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=UJMpw0…

We’re thrilled to welcome Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman for 2 Humanities Now events, Oct. 9–10. First up is a screening of their film ANCESTRAL CLOUDS ANCESTRAL CLAIMS + a Q&A moderated by @santiago_acosta (@YaleSpanPort). whc.yale.edu/humanities-now…

Our first month with these two wonderful thinkers has flown by! Meet our 2024–25 Franke Visiting Fellow Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi & our inaugural Franke Postdoctoral Fellow @michi_rada. You can learn about their work and that of other WHC Fellows here: whc.yale.edu/people/fellows….

The plants have stories and they can teach us. 🍃🌻 We learned so much from the plants, @sumanasiliguri, and @YSFP’s Jacquie Munno during our visit to the Yale Farm this week. Many thanks to you both for the deeply nourishing conversation! @Yale #YaleFarm #YaleWHC #YSFP

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 @SumanaSiliguri’s “The Quest for the Plant Script”

We couldn’t 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

Learn more about the series, curated by @Yale Ph.D. student @truelora: whc.yale.edu/news/films-whi…

Save the date! 📽️🌍Films at the Whitney’s fall 2024 series, “World Documentaries Today” kicks off on 9/5 at 7 pm w/ #TheMotherOfAllLies, followed by a Q&A w/ director Asmae El Moudir, ahead of its official release in NYC the next day. 📍Alice Cinema (L01) at 320 York St.

@michi_rada We’re lucky to have you!

excited to share that I’ll be @YaleWHC for the year as the inaugural Franke Postdoctoral Fellow—working with Professor Fatima Naqvi on a seminar and lectures around the theme of "Architectures of Illness" whc.yale.edu/lectures/frank…

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, @YaleWHC to explore this age old question. Save the date: Thursday, September 12, 2024, 4:30 pm i.mtr.cool/xfvcdnrsoq

The Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism is hiring a full-time program coordinator. Join the leadership at one of America’s few university programs devoted solely to studying antisemitism: bit.ly/YaleCareers_89… #YaleCareers #HigherEdJobs #AcademicCareers #Yale

📚✨ 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 @YaleReview. Read the full folio here: yalereview.org/criticism-and-…

OUR SUMMER ISSUE IS HERE! What is criticism, and why do we write it? Christine Smallwood, @mervatim, @namwalien, and @briangdillon respond. Plus: @AmitChaudhuri on being a postcolonial writer, Teju Cole on Louise Glück, @tausifnoor on Alice Notley, & more: yalereview.org/issues/summer-…

Watch—and listen!—in 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 “The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hände)” in HQ L02. #Yale #SilentFilm #LiveMusic @YaleArtGallery