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June 25, 2018
“History, at least in its state of imaginary perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.” -Macaulay.  What does it mean to feel like you are living...
Jacques-Emile Blanche, Portrait of Marcel Proust, 1892
June 16, 2018
 “The only paradise is a lost paradise.” A close reading (in English) of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece, “Remembrance of Things Past”, with emphasis upon major...
Professor Martin Hagglund
April 13, 2018
Martin Hagglund, Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Comparative Literature Department, has been awarded a prestigious...
November 14, 2017
Yale’s Humanities Program hosted a “Humanities in Medicine” workshop on Sunday afternoon, bringing together Yale students and alumni to discuss how the study...
November 8, 2017
At the Arete Project, located in the North Carolina mountains, cohorts of female students are invited to govern themselves.   By Carrie Battan -November 8...
November 7, 2017
One of the Young Turks of semiotic film theory in the 1970s, counting Umberto Eco and Christian Metz among his mentors, Francesco Casetti established himself...
November 6, 2017
Professors Ayesha Ramachandran and Marta Figlierowicz answered the Humanities Program’s call for innovation last year with a new core seminar on the self,...