News

February 7, 2024
Over the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 semesters, the Public Humanities Working Group (PHWG) organized a diverse series of public programs. Organized by co-facilitators Nancy...
January 29, 2024
On January 29, Sebastian Ruth, Visiting Lecturer in Community Engagement and Founder and Artistic Director of Community MusicWorks (Providence, RI), joined music scholar and...
December 1, 2023
On December 1, Public Humanities was proud to co-sponsor a special screening of Everyone I Know is Sick, a program of five short videos highlighting connections between HIV...
September 19, 2023
On September 19, 2023, Public Humanities and the New Haven Free Public Library brought our long-running Democracy in America conversation series back to an in-person format...
Photograph of the Goffe Street armory facade, a 1920s red brick building
August 15, 2023
Since 2018, New Haven’s Armory Community Advisory Committee (ACAC) has explored possibilities for the future of the Goffe Street Armory. The group, which includes...
March 20, 2023
Sylvia Ryerson, a PhD student in American Studies and Public Humanities affiliate, has received the Appalachian Studies Association’s 2022 Jack Spadaro Documentary...
November 3, 2022
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Leon Forrest Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University, was the distinguished guest in a November 2 panel conversation...