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Francesco Casetti
August 6, 2015
Francesco Casetti, recently named the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Film & Media Studies and the Humanities, offers a vision of the future of film in...
Sophia Rosenfeld
August 6, 2015
Professor Sophia Rosenfeld, author of Common Sense: A Political History, has joined Yale’s History department and begun a term on the Humanities Program...
David Bromwich
May 1, 2015
Sterling Professor of English David Bromwich explores Edmund Burke’s early thought in The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From Sublime and Beautiful to...
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr
April 16, 2015
On April 16, 2015 Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. lectured on W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk to cap off the year’s Directed Studies...
Martin Hägglund
March 13, 2014
Martin Hägglund, Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities, has won a major literary prize in Sweden. The Schück Prize citation highlights his English...