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dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social
Deputy director of Whitney Humanities Center at Yale. Films at the Whitney, Whitney Publishing Project. Books, poetry, democracy, dogs, supporting scholars and their work. Erstwhile dix-huitiémiste. Also: Utah adjacent.
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Tonight at Yale: a free screening of THE WANTED 18, directed by Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan. Featuring claymation cows, the documentary depicts an event during the First Intifada when the residents of Beit Sahour, in the West Bank, started a dairy collective. Alice Cinema 7pm. @yalewhc.bsky.social

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Tonight at Films at the Whitney: Palestinian director Razan AlSalah in person and a program of three shorts. Free and open to all: 7pm February 21 in the Alice Cinema at 320 York Street in New Haven.

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Today at Yale: distinguished art historian Chika Okeke-Agulu, on Egyptian modernists and Gazbia Sirry. Join us: 4:30 in the Humanities Quadrangle at 320 York. @yalewhc.bsky.social

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For all you newbies to Bluesky, remember to repost more than you’re used to (even your own posts sometimes), as there’s not really an algorithm here. Also you can make custom feeds of your friends, or on specific topics. Also repost funny, quirky things, not just political outrage or despair!

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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

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A Boston colleague (not on Bluesky) asked me to post this ad for a 2-year postdoc at Tufts on the Mellon Foundation-funded project University Ecologies and the Question of the Commons. Please forward widely! humanities.tufts.edu/postdoctoral...

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It is remarkable that there are still people who believe that the reason hundreds of thousands of people have nowhere to live is that we haven’t made having nowhere to live unpleasant enough.

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Merci Gisèle 🧡💪🏼

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As our fall 2024 programs draw to a close, we’re busy preparing a vibrant & varied roster of events for spring 2025: lectures by Angela Davis & Rachel Cusk, a weekly Palestine through Film series, and 3 lectures themed around the architecture of illness, among other events. Stay tuned for more info!

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28 VR headsets and mountains of falafel and hummus to open the Phoenix of Gaza week at Yale.

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We are really excited to play a part in bringing Phoenix of Gaza, an immersive virtual reality view of Gaza, to the Yale and New Haven communities next week. (The last time I was in Gaza, I was 20 years old and VR technology was decades away . . . but I did have my Sony Walkman!)

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Our first graduate student conference in a while! Pass it on to your students! 🥳

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My posts will mostly be about humanities events and such, but for now here’s a first post with Otis, the very serious doggo.

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