Humanitas | Yale News

Aerial view of the temples of Hatshepsut and Mentuhotep II in Deir el-Bahari, Luxor West Bank, Egypt.

A fiction prize for The Yale Review, pitching at Cannes, and a ‘curtain call’

Rotating series of book cover images, film stills, and art

The Whitney Humanities Center at 45, an Algerian murder mystery, and two film series

Man examining a stage diorama

A ‘Century on Stage,’ a new Germanic Languages course, and ‘Best of 2025’ lists

Yale gamelan ensemble rehearsal

Gamelan performances, architectural rivalries, and a roundup of recent awards

Derek Lucci, Emily Coates, and Charles Burnham in "Tell Me Where It Comes From."

Performance art in Rome, a Guggenheim premiere, and writing for popular audiences

Student input, an art installation, and new fiction

Artwork from 63 Audubon

Braided art, a new interdisciplinary certificate, and a space for local artists

Photo of a crowded beach

Bong Joon Ho in conversation, new student art, and beach photos

Images from the new Yale Environmental Humanities website

Collecting environmental history; ‘Reading’; designing for resiliency

Keegon Schuett on stage

The Yale Drama Prize; Rudolph in Tuskegee; and the Whiffenpoofs at 115

Sarah Stillman and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

A Pulitzer for English lecturer; Tony nomination for playwright

Wayne Escoffery playing tenor saxophone in the recording studio

A jazzy Christmas, Maya art, and a column spawns a new seminar

Ash Fure

A ‘sonic’ workout, a campus phenom, and ‘rediscovering’ America

Installation in Flatiron Building plaza

Architecture honors, two Tonys, and students into heavy metal

Bookcover showing agothic cathedral.

Centering East Asian studies, reveling in Parisian cathedrals

Manuscript written by J. S. Bach

A social history of ice, and the ‘storification’ of reality

“Star Gazer” planisphere

Star poems and an antihero who shares his creator’s struggle

Firefighters hosing down a burning building in the Bronx

Why the Bronx burned, a Tony win, and a ‘romance action mystery’

The excavation of the Dura-Europos site in the early 1930s

Girls and Latin, exploring Dura-Europos, and ‘invisible’ illness

Jeena Yi behind a wall of slatted glass on the set of “Today Is My Birthday”

Theater returns to Yale, and a new public art project