Newhouse Center for the Humanities

In this presentation, Before the Graphic Memoir: Female Sketchbooks and Visual Chronicles of Love and War, Yale University professor of English Katie Trumpener explores the history of the graphic novel.

Author and professor Lauret Savoy joins the Newhouse Center and the Paulson Ecology of Place Initiative for a collaborative exploration of our land and our stories.

A screening of Pankaj Rishi Kumar’s 2017 documentary Two Flags is followed by a Q&A with the director.

Newhouse Center faculty fellow Rebecca Summerhays discusses her ongoing research project: the Novel on the Defensive: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, William Paley’s Natural Theology, and the Human Machine.

Screenings of Alfonso Cuarón’s award-winning 2018 film Roma, in anticipation of Yalitza Aparicio, who stars in the film, coming to campus for a conversation at the Newhouse Center on November 12th.

Yalitza Aparicio, the Academy Award-nominated star of the Mexican film Roma (2018), discusses her experience with professors Irene Mata and Codruta Morari.

This multiday celebration of modern Italian film features screenings, director interviews, and more.

Newhouse Center faculty fellow Carol Dougherty discusses her ongoing research project on the Sophocles play Antigone and the challenges of democracy.