Welcome to the Humanities Initiative

Fall 2008

“Is Film a Modern Art”
Francesco Casetti
Professor of Film in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Università Cattolica, Milan
Visiting Professor, Yale University
October 29, 2008
Co-sponsored by the Department of Italian Studies, FAS, and the Department of Cinema Studies, TSOA

“Belonging to Britain”
Hazel Carby
Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, Yale University
November 5, 2008
Co-sponsored by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study

“Word and Image in the Philosophy of Hobbes”
Quentin Skinner
Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary College, University of London
November 17, 2008
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, FAS

Spring 2009

“The Personal and the Global: W.E.B. DuBois and the Transnational Politics of Whiteness”
Marilyn Lake
Professor and Chair, Department of History, La Trobe University, Melbourne
January 28, 2009
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, FAS

“Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo: The Perfection of Form”
(In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Vertigo)
Richard Allen
February 19, 2009
Professor and Chair, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch
Co-sponsored by the Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch

“The Challenge of the Humanities in the Post-Soviet Era in the U.S. and Abroad”
Nancy Condee
March 10, 2009
Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
Co-sponsored by the Liberal Studies Program