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Two Seniors Win Prestigious Yale College Prizes

May 29, 2019
Two Humanities seniors, Olivia Noble ‘19 and Leland Stange ‘19 were awarded important Yale College Prizes for distinguished work on their Senior Essays.

A Visit from Jeffrey Brown of the PBS NewsHour

February 4, 2019
Jeffrey Brown, Chief Arts Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, visited The Humanities Program on February 5th and 6th.
• Salvador Dalì, Illustration of Montaigne’s essay “On Vanity”, 1946

New Interpretations course by Steven Smith and Giulia Oskian: Michel de Montaigne

January 16, 2019
This course will offer a close reading of the Essays by Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), which is commonly considered a classic text of European early modernity.
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