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Social Conflict and Environmental Change in Comparative and Historical Perspective |
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Creating Healthy Landscapes: Human and Environmental Well-being in Comparative and Historical Perspective. |
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Resources: Endowment or Curse, Better or Worse? |
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Two Kingdoms: New Perspectives on Flora and Fauna in Environmental History |
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New Perspectives in Environmental History (2014) |
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New Perspectives in Environmental History (2015) |
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Environmental History Pathway |
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Environmental History-related Collections in Manuscripts and Archives |
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Environmental History-related Collections in Beinecke Library |
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Climate & Energy |
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Course Offerings |
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Public Events |
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Special Initiatives |
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Climate Data Detectives: On The History And Politics Of Knowledge About Global Climate Change. |
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Teaching And Studying The 'Anthropocene'? |
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Sleeping Sickness Epidemics And Colonial Responses In Africa, 1900-1940. |
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Shifting Virtue Towards A Sustainable Qing. |
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Let's Meet At Boneyard Creek: The Intersection Of Personal Computing And The Environmental Movement In The Early 1970S. |
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A Millennium Of Extreme Weather And Human Vulnerability From Irish Medieval Chronicles. |
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Of Footballers And Traveling Guitarists: Rural Recreation And Mapuche Cultural Revival Under Plan Perquenco. |
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A Coffee Conversation On Environmental History. |
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Can New York City Survive The Sea? |
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Land, Water, Climate And Culture: Writing An Environmental History Of Viet Nam From Earliest Times. |
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The Eagle And The Octopuses: The United States, The Pan-American Railway, And Infrastructure Development In Latin America, 1900-1929. |
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Seeing The Forest, Seeing The Trees: Reconsidering The Early Modern Fuel Crisis And Colonial Expansion |
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How To Sink New Orleans: Floods, Levees, Oil, And States' Rights In Louisiana, 1927-1965 |
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The Mountains Of Jagga! Encountering Eden In Africa, 1848-1890 |
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The Politics Of Energy Independence In The 1970s |
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The Chicken And The Egg: Bird Flu In Bengal |
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Reborn As Wild Boar: From Overcrowding To Depopulation (And Back Again) In Early Modern Japan. |
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A Coffee Conversation On Environmental History. |
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Railroads And Agrarian Landscapes In The New Mexico Borderlands |
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How Coral Reefs Became Fragile |
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The Animal In Ottoman Egypt. |
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Imagining Uttarakhand: Nature And Agriculture In The Indian Himalaya |
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Manipulating The Yellow River And The State Formation Of The Northern Song Dynasty (907-1127) |
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Negotiating Environmental Sovereignty In Costa Rica: Legacies Of Transnational Mining And Hydropower |
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Storms In A Spanish Sea: Hurricanes And The Perception Of Providence And Nature In The Caribbean |
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Sweet Blood: Natives, Environment, And The Changing Nature Of Diabetes Mellitus Epidemiology |
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Maps As Sources, Mapping As Method, And Cartography As Scholarship |
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4-H And The Biopolitics Of Agricultural Reform In Early Twentieth-Century America |
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American Dining And The Natural World, 19Th And 20Th Centuries |
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Middle East Environmental History: The Fallow Between Two Fields |
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Gas Warfare And The Horses Of The Western Front, 1915-1918 |
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Radiation And Species Preservation: Saving The American Chestnut Tree In The Atomic Age |
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A Dirt-Moving War': Bulldozers As Weapons And Heroes In World War Ii |
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Configuring The Monsoon: Rainfall And Famine In Nineteenth Century Western India |
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A Cold Welcome?: The Little Ice Age And The First European Colonies In North America |
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The 'Wild Field,' Pastoralism, And Anthropogenic Grasslands: The Eurasian Steppe From Antiquity To 1700 |
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Earthquakes And Enlightenment: Controlling The Convulsing Body Of The Earth In The Age Of Reform |
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On Humans And Bovids: Two Plagues And A Famine In England, 1310-50 |
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Places Of Empire: Tropical Biology On Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 1920-1940 |
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The Memory Frontier: Making Past And Place In The Northeast After King Philip's War |
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Properties Of Restructuring: Charting Fisheries Regulatory Change In Bristol Bay, Alaska |
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Fire Control, Conservation, And Class In South Africa's Kruger National Park |
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When Humans Became Rabbits (And Rabbits, Humans): Ecology, The Idea Of Population, And Histories Of Disease |
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Environmental Consciousness In The Cold War: Radioecologists, Nuclear Technology, And The Atomic Age |
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The Political Stakes Of Embodied Knowledge In An Apsaalooka/Crow Ceremonial |
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The Climate Crisis And Energy Transition: What Role For History? |
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The Country Is The Fresh Air Fund': The Moral Ecology Of Citizenship In Turn-Of-The-Century America |
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For Private Profit Or Public Good, Or One Man's Quagmire Is Another's Pleasant Pasture: Debates On Drainage In Eastern England, C1600-1660 |
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From The Hills To The White House: Chinese Tea In Global Markets |
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How Socialism Tried To Conquer The Steppe: The Manufacture Of A Crisis In Soviet Kazakhstan, 1929-1931 |
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Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health |
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Archived Events |
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Stuart Schwartz, "Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina" (Princeton, 2015) |
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Alan Mikhail, "Ottoman Iceland: A Climate History" (Environmental History, 2015) |
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New Perspectives in Environmental History Conference |
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"New Perspectives in Environmental History" Conference |
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Paul Sabin, "The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future," (Yale 2013) |
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Alan Mikhail, "The Animal in Ottoman Egypt," (Oxford, 2013) |
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Yale Event Calendars |
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Fabian Drixler, "Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950" (Califonria, 2013) |
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Depopulation and Greenhouse-Gas Drops |
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Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing of Maya Collapse |
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North American hydroclimate variability over the last millennium |
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The Little Ice Age---how bad was it? |
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Francis Ludlow co-authors Nature study, "Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years" |
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Pig Out: Hogs and Humans in Global and Historical Context |
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Mailing List Subscription |
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A Coffee Conversation on Environmental History |
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Peter Perdue, "Ecologies of Empire: From Qing Cosmopolitanism to Modern Nationalism" (Cross-Currents 2013) |
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William Rankin. "The Geography of Radionavigation and the Politics of Intangible Artifacts." (Technology and Culture 2014) |
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A Coffee Conversation on Environmental History |
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"Corrupt Air and Contagious Bodies: Plague in Medieval Valencia" |
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The Illinois and the Edge Effect: Native American Power in the Tallgrass Prairie Borderlands, 1600-1800 |
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Visualizing Ecology: Mercury and Minamata Bay, 1956-1975 |
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Timothy Snyder, "Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning" (Tim Duggan Books, 2015) |
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Dirty Bits: An Environmental History of Computing |
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Understanding drivers of violence and conflict in Medieval Ireland |
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Volcanic forcing triggers revolts and suppresses interstate conflict in Hellenistic Egypt |
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning |
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Japan in the Volcanic Winters of the Early Modern World |
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Getting the Rain Underground: A Brief History of the Los Angeles County Stormwater Spreading Grounds |
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Ghost Town: A Resource History of American Urbanism |
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From Plantations to Tourism: An Environmental History of Cuba and the Great Caribbean |
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Climate Change and State Fragility: The Case of Syria and What It Means for the Future |
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The Republican Developmental Synthesis: Scientific Agriculture and Economic Ideology in the Antebellum North |
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“Modernity’s Environment: Rubber Plantations and the Making of Vietnam, 1897-1975" |
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Paul Sabin, "Environmental Law and the End of the New Deal Order," (Law and History Review 2015) |
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Paul Sabin, "'Everything has a Price': Jimmy Carter and the Struggle for Balance in Federal Regulatory Policy," (Journal of Policy History 2016) |
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Alan Mikhail wins Leopold-Hidy Prize for Best Article in Environmental History |
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Deep ice cores, time, and the re-envisioning of the global environment |
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"New Perspectives in Environmental History" 2017 Conference |
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Alan Mikhail, "Enlightenment Anthropocene," (Eighteenth Century Studies, Winter 2016) |
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Paul Freedman and YSFP host Mad Institute at Yale |
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New Perspectives in Environmental History (2017) |
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Species Problem |
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'Such a merciless war of extermination': Nativism in Early Ecological Restoration (with the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities) |
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Fall Reception for Agrarian Studies and Yale Environmental History |
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Food, Community, and the Geography of Death in Japan’s Volcanic Winters, 1640-1840 |
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Saving Buffalo Nation: Settler Colonialism and the Rise of Wildlife Conservation in the Intermountain West, 1855-1934 |
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Doctoral Dissertations Since 2010 |
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Environmental History Prospectus Workshop |
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Equality in the Air We Breathe: Police Violence, Pollution, and the Politics of Sustainability |
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Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s |
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Discovering Megadroughts Across the Northern Hemisphere from Long Tree-Ring Records: Climate Histories and Human Impacts During the Common Era |
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Camille Cole, “Precarious Empires: A Social and Environmental History of Steam Navigation on the Tigris" (Journal of Social History 2016) |
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"Sugarcane Genealogies: Transnational Plant Breeding and Colombian State Formation in the 1930s" |
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“The Two Disasters of the Sixth Century” |
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Three Approaches to the Anthropocene: The Industrial Revolution, the Cold War, and the Geopolitical History of Fossil Fuels |
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'Sue the Bastards': Public Interest Environmental Law, Then and Now |
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New Perspectives in Environmental History Conference |
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"Poor Richard's Climate: Body, Comfort, and Conservation in the Little Ice Age" |
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“Slave man or woman, Negro or Pawnee”: Red and Black Bondage in Early Detroit |
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An Empire of Dust: A Life Between the Color Line and the Borderline |
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An Environmental Economy during China’s 'Medieval Economic Revolution' |
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The Milk and the Animal: Protein Policies of the Cuban Revolution, 1959-present. A Socio-Ecological Interpretation |
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More than Nature: Environmental Humanities at Yale |
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as Environmental History |
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A Whiff of Danger: Hybridity, Breed, and Wildness |
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Abbas Amanat edits special issue of Iranian Studies on environment and history |
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Alan Mikhail, "Climate and the Chronology of Iranian History," Iranian Studies (2016) |
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William Rankin, "After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century" (Chicago, 2016) |
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Joanna Radin and Emma Kowal, eds. "Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World" (MIT 2017) |
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Paul Freedman, "Ten Restaurants That Changed America" (Liveright/Norton, 2016) |
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Joanna Radin, "Life on Ice," (Chicago, 2017) |
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Ben Kiernan, "Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present" (Oxford, 2017) |
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Alan Mikhail, "Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History," (Chicago, 2017) |
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"A Manual for Disaster: Health, Ecology and Survival in the Chernobyl Zone" |
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Yale launches university-wide environmental humanities initiative |
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Collapse! What Collapse? Faculty workshop |
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Collapse! What Collapse? Faculty climate history workshop at Yale |
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Yale Excavation in Syria Continues to Reveal Secrets of World’s Earliest Cities |
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"Curated Decay: Inevitable Loss and Other Opportunities" |
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A Coffee Conversation in Environmental History |
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Entanglements with Nature: Asian Environmental Humanities Panel (Inter-Asia Connections and Yale Environmental Humanities) |
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Teaching the Environmental Humanities: Panel and Fall Reception |
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"The Emotions of Popular Environmentalism: Fear, Empathy and Hope in the Campaign for a World Park Antarctica" |
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New Perspectives in Environmental History (2018) |
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CFP: "New Perspectives in Environmental History" |
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"New Perspectives in Environmental History" |
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“A Palimpsest of Horses and Pines: The Environmental Legacy of the Mongol Empire in Korea, 1270-1684" |
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Joseph Manning, et al, “Volcanic suppression of Nile summer flooding triggers revolt and constrains interstate conflict in ancient Egypt,” Nature Communications (October 2017) |
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"Malthus, Climate and the Decline of the Roman World: Some Critical Remarks" (Economic History Workshop) |
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“Ecological History In Asia and the World” Workshop (Council on East Asian Studies) |
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Keywords: “Justice,” “Preservation,” “Scale,” Panel and Reception (Yale Environmental Humanities) |
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“Spectacular Sovereignty in the South China Sea: Japan’s Offshore Guano Mines, 1902-1939” (CEAS Colloquium) |
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“Rethinking Yellow Fever’s Atlantic World History” (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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“Radical Cartography: Visual Argument in the Age of Data” (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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“Gondwana and the Politics of Primitivism,” (South Asia Colloquium) |
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“The Crooked Timber Bureaucracy: The Red Pine and the Making of Choson Korea, 1392-1910” (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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“The Stews of Southwark: An Environmental History,” (Literature, the Arts, and the Environment Colloquium) |
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Environmental Humanities Spring Conference |
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“Landscape and Memory”: Spring Lecture Series |
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Fluid Histories: Law and Geology in the Bengal Delta (South Asian Studies Colloquium) |
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Ambient Thickness: The Atmospheric Materiality of the Anthropocene (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Cheap Nature and Its Discontents: Toward an Ecology of Hope (Yale CHESS Workshop) |
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State of the Field Restated; Agricultural Regulation and Colonial Conservatism in Egypt Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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The Science of Climate in the Age of Empire (F&ES Research Seminar Series) |
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“Rebuilding Puerto Rico After Hurricanes Irma and Maria” (CLAIS Roundtable) |
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April 2018 Lecture Series, “Paleoclimate, Environment, History” |
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Collapse! What Collapse? Societal Responses to Abrupt Climate Changes before Global Warming" (FES Research Seminar |
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“Brazil in the History of the Anthropocene” (CLAIS) |
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“Energy and the Humanities: Interventions and Ambitions” and Fall Reception |
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Energy and the Humanities: Interventions and Ambitions |
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America’s First Broad Environmental Assessment? Readings from The Boatman (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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States, Courts, Decentralized Movements, and Resisting Eviction Culture: The Land Valuer’s Tale (Dublin, 1881) (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Conserving Soil, Preserving Knowledge: Terracing Campaigns and Agricultural Heritage Studies in China, 1949 to Today (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Markets of Pain: Poppy Politics and the Global Origins of the American Opioid Crisis (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Dark Henhouses, Forests, Berries, and Water: Latino Labor Struggles in Maine, 1990 to the Present (Agrarian Studies) |
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Other Argonauts: Native Hawaiians in the California Gold Rush (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Ancient History in Greenland Ice (Yale Nile Initiative Lecture Series) |
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Free the Beaches: The Fight to Desegregate Connecticut’s Shoreline |
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Wild Rubber and the Western Frontier: Producing British Subjects and Colonial Borders in the Gold Coast and Asante, 1880-1914 |
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Neal Spencer, (British Museum), “The Pharaonic State, Nubia & the Nile: An Inhabitants’ Perspective from Amara West,” (The Yale Nile Initiative Lecture Series) |
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Lisa Ruth Rand (Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine), “Power, Sovereignty, and Decay in the Global Space Age,” (HSHM Colloquium) |
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Arupjyoti Saikia, (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati), “The Unruly Floodplains, the British Empire and an Environmental History of the Brahmaputra” (South Asian Studies Council Colloquium) |
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Lise Fernanda Sedrez (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), “The gardens of Babilonia Hill - Climate challenges and community initiatives in Rio de Janeiro 1985-2015” (CLAIS Lunchtime Speaker Series) |
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Mark Peterson, (Yale University), “An Intoxicant Town in the Empire of Goods: Notes toward a History of Early Modern Desire” (Early Modern Empires) |
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“The Wood Age in Asia: Connection and Comparison in Forest History” Conference |
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Sarah Pickman (HSHM) and Paul Burow (F&ES / Anthropology) Prospectus Workshop (Yale Environmental Humanities) |
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Hardy Cattle and Fuzzy Math, or, How to Make Money in the Texas Panhandle during the 1880s |
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The Economic Geography of Waste and Confinement in Southeastern Louisiana (Yale Environmental History, Energy Humanities) |
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U.S. Energy Transition Politics in the 1970s |
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Deborah Coen, “Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale” (Chicago, 2018) |
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Alan Mikhail receives Anneliese Maier Research Award |
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Matthew Mulcahy and Stuart Schwartz, “Nature’s Battalions: Insects as Agricultural Pests in the Early Modern Caribbean,” William and Mary Quarterly (2018) |
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Yale hosts international conference on the “Wood Age in Asia,” September 21-23, 2018 |
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Yuan J. Chen, “Frontier, Fortification, and Forestation: Defensive Woodland on the Song-Liao Border in the long Eleventh Century,” (Journal of Chinese History, 2018) |
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Tony Andersson (Yale University), “Population and Other Bombs: Erasing the Maya to Save the Maya Forest” (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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John Buchanan (Yale University), “Run to the Hills: Mainland Southeast Asia’s Integration into Global Opium Markets (1940-1998)” (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Caterina Scaramelli (Yale University), “Swamps into Wetlands: Crafting Moral Ecology in Turkey” (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Sakura Christmas (Bowdoin College), “Between Steppe and Sown, Nation and Empire in Inner Mongolia, 1900-1930” (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Mikael Wolfe (Stanford University), “A Revolution is a Force More Powerful than Nature’: The Impact of Hurricane Flora of 1963 on the Agrarian Character of the Cuban Revolution” (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Reinaldo Funes Monzote (University of Havana), “Our Trip to the Moon: The Ideas about Transformation of Nature in Cuba During the Cold War” (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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David Bello (Washington and Lee University), “A Trickle of Authority: The Arid Identity of Empire in 18th Century Xinjiang” (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Helen Curry (University of Cambridge), "Endangered Genes and the International Seed Bank: Conserving Crop Diversity after the Green Revolution" (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Jason W. Moore (Binghamton University), “Climate Change and Civilizational Crisis, 376-2018: A Geohistorical Interpretation” (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Taylor Rose (Yale), "'A Real Community of Spirit': Corbin Harney (Western Shoshone), the Nevada Test Site, and Sacred Land Claims in Newe Sogobia, 1863-1992" |
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Chris Melvin (Yale), "Breaking Refuge: Oil and the Politics of Integration on an Indigenous Resource Frontier, 1931-1972" |
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John D'Amico (Yale), "Merchants and the Social Order: The Nakai Genzaemon Family and the Reshaping of Tokugawa Society, 1734-1875" |
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Teona Williams (Yale), "'For Peace, Quiet, and Respect': Race and Contested Spaces in Chicago’s Southside" |
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Marshall Watson (Yale), "Sailing to the Mountains of the Moon: An Ottoman Expedition on the White Nile" |
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Caitlin Kossmann (Yale), "Truth or Tool? Scientific Language and the Metaphor of Gaia" |
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NSF grant for research into climate and society links |
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Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship in United States Environmental History |
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Graduate Student Paper Workshop Series |
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Sophia Roosth (Harvard University), "Twenty Years is a Long Time" (Yale Anthropology) |
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POSTPONED: "New Perspectives in Environmental History" Conference (Yale Environmental History) |
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Gabriel Lee announced as 2019-21 Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Associate in U.S. Environmental History |
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Lorena S. Walsh (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) "Technologies of Labor Coercion in the 17th and 18th Century Chesapeake" (Gilder Lehrman Center) |
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Brian Scassellati (Yale) "Mapping the Frontier Between Man and Machine" (Franke Program in Science and the Humanities) |
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Harriet Washington (Writer) “The Brain Thieves: Heavy Metals, Pathogens and Other Enemies of Cognition” (Yale Program for Humanities in Medicine) |
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Rowan Jacobsen (Writer) "The Nature of Nature: What Happens When We Start Engineering the Wild?" (Yale Quantum Institute, Franke Program in Science and the Humanities) |
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Harriet Washington (Author), Elihu Ruben (Yale), and Mikki Meadows (Quinnipiac University) “Environmental Racism and Public Health” Panel Discussion (Democracy in America) |
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Paola Bertucci (Yale HSHM), Carolyn Laferrière (Yale History of Art), and George Miles (Curator, Beinecke) "Art and Artifacts: Yale's Environmental Humanities Collections" Panel and Reception (Yale Environmental Humanities) |
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Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “Professional Pursuits and the Making of Race: Medicalizing Blackness in the Atlantic World” (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia) |
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Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “Deliberate Acts and Desperate Measures: (Mis)Perceptions of Dirt Eating on Jamaican Plantations.” (Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World) |
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Marc Edelman (Baruch College) “How the United Nations Recognized the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas” (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Bradley Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University) “Marks of the Beast: Animals and Ethnē in the Vietnamese Agrarian Empire” (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Ariel Ron (Southern Methodist University) "King Hay: Energy History and Economic Nationalism in the American Civil War Era" (Yale Economic History Workshop) |
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Camille Cole (Yale History) "Nafi'a for the Tigris: The hazine-i hassa and the infrastructure of development in late Ottoman Iraq, 1882-1914" (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series) |
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Amami and amami: Japanese sugar in a global context, 1700-1900 (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series) |
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Concrete Reclamation Ideology (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series) |
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Amir A. Afkhami (George Washington University) "A Modern Contagion: Cholera’s Impact on Iranian History" (Yale Iran Colloquium) |
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Rebecca Solnit (Author) and George Miles (Yale), “Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West” (Windham Campbell Festival, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) |
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Paola Bertucci (Yale HSHM) "What Is Natural History The History Of?" (Peabody Museum of Natural History John H. Ostrom Lecture Series) |
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The Ecology of Mobile Pastoralism in the Ottoman World: An Early Modern View from the Edge (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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The History of the West from the Future (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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The Human Asteroid Lands in Florida: A Craterology of the Bone Valley Phosphate Mining District (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Agriculture Comes to Cambodia (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series) |
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New Perspectives in Environmental History (2020)-- canceled |
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Hydrology and Climate of the Nile Basin: Past, Present, and Future (Yale Nile Initiative) |
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The Emotional and Spiritual Context of Leprosy Diagnosis in French Caribbean Slave Societies (Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World) |
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Lake Tana, the Blue Nile and beyond: paleoenvironments of Ethiopia (Yale Nile Initiative) |
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Doctoring Chaos: Slavery and Medicine in the West African Slave Trading Zones (Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World) |
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The Subversive Politics of Sentient Places: Climate Change, Collective Ethics, and Environmental Justice in Peru (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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The Light of Tyrrell: Economic Justice and Christian Interracialism in a Jim Crow Swamp (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Usable Climate Science and the Uses of History, An Interdisciplinary Workshop at Yale University |
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Epics and Anti-epics of Agrarian Transformation in Twentieth Century Latin America (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Staying with the Truffle: Tracking Landscape Relations in the Kalahari Desert after “Man the Hunter” (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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The Global Problem of Plenty: Regulating Agriculture in Egypt, India, and the United States, 1870s to 1930s (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Usable Climate Science and the Uses of History, An Interdisciplinary Workshop at Yale University |
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Ether and Ore: An Archaeology of Urban Intelligences (Yale Architecture Forum) |
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Visible/Invisible: Disaster, Occupation, and the Politics of Images during 2014 Flood in Indian-administered Kashmir (South Asian Studies Council) |
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The Ethical Choices of Whales: Bowheads, Hunters, and the Nature of History (Peabody Museum of Natural History) |
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Walden’s Carbon Footprint: People, Plants, Animals, and Machines in the Making of an American Book (Yale Program in the History of the Book) |
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“Everywhere…where the desert sand borders on inhabited districts,” 1908-1918 (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series) |
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Nancy Kuhl, curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature, on John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” (Mondays at Beinecke) |
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Veiled Voyagers: The Emergence of Travel Writing by Women in West Asia (Council on Middle East Studies) |
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Environmental Humanities Symposium (Yale Environmental Humanities) |
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Waters of the World: The story of the scientists who unravelled the mysteries of our seas, glaciers, and atmosphere and made the planet whole |
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Robert Harms, “Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa” (Basic Books) |
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Keywords: Infrastructure, Extremity, and Temporality, Panel and Reception (Yale Environmental Humanities) |
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Monitoring Water, Land, and People: The Historical Roots of Hybrid Seed Research in the Yaqui Valley (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Desert Locust Plagues and Imperialism Science (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Unsettling Exceptionality and Ruin: Native Presence in the Anthropocene (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Making a Ritual Geology in Savannah West Africa ca. 800-1900 AD (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Between Climate Fears and River Dreams: Transdisciplinary Research Processes in Central Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Slow Science: Ecological Landscapes and their Organisms (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Life, Labor and Atlantic Commerce between Manoh River and Fisherman’s Lake (West Africa) in the 19th century (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East, 1858-1939 (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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State, Land, and War: Land Accumulation during Colombian Civil War (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Building Roads to Democratic Revolution: Development Projects, Community Councils, the Tonton Makout Militia, and the Fall of the Duvalier Dictatorship, 1971-1986 (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Emergent Economies, Emergent Medicine: Emergency Medical Services and the Normalization of Everyday Violence in 1980s Los Angeles (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia) |
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The Work of ‘Loss and Damage’ within Global Climate Negotiations (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia) |
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Reading Data as a Liberal Art: Telling Stories in and around the 1940 U.S. Census (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia) |
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The ‘LSD Block’ and the Therapeutic Alliance: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Psychedelic Medicine in the U.K. (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Holmes Lecture) |
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Defining Disabilities: Agent Orange, Veterans, Children, and the US Government (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Manuelidis Lecture) |
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TBA (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia) |
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Ashanti Shih receives 2020 Rachel Carson Prize from American Society for Environmental History |
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Researching and Writing Histories of Disaster: A Conversation with Andy Horowitz, Author of Katrina: A History 1915–2015 |
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Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty and Planning | A Conversation with Steven T. Moga |
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'Changing the Face of Watts': A Visual History of Community Organizing and Landscape Change in Watts, LA (Yale Environmental History Colloquium) |
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John Burroughs and the Nature of Highways (Yale Environmental History Colloquium) |
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Refining the Plantationocene: Situating East Asian Sugar in the Early Modern World |
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'The Most Essential to His Comfort, Health and Happiness': The Expedition Packing List and the Creation of an Ideal Environment (Yale Environmental History Colloquium) |
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Streams of Consciousness: An evening of open-ended conversation about Mekong Dreaming (Council on Southeast Asia Studies) |
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Technopolitics and the Human-Nature Nexus in Contemporary Russian Agriculture (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Saudi Arizona: The Past and Present of Arid Empire and Desert-to-Desert Connections (Council on Middle East Studies) |
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Properties of Empire: Environment and Law in the Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland Cod Fisheries (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Indonesian Tobacco Agriculture and Contract Relations (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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The Schizophrenia of Sovereignty: Peasants’ Law of Nations and the People’s Game of Great Powers in the Manchurian Borderland, 1881-1932 (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Malabar, Gentoo, and Pariah: A Speculative History of South Asian Blackness in British Guiana (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Peasants as Human Capital: A Political Genealogy of Neoliberalism in Chicago School Development Economics (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Racism, land loss, and the creation of modern agriculture (Law, Ethics & Animals Program) |
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“Teaching the Energy Transition” (Yale Environmental Humanities) |
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Teaching the Energy Transition (Yale Environmental Humanities) |
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Chinese Empire after Empire: Agrarian Colonization on the Twentieth-Century Frontier (Council on East Asian Studies) |
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Andy Horowitz's "Katrina" receives 2021 Bancroft Prize. |
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Teona Williams, “For ‘Peace, Quiet, and Respect’: Race, Policing, and Land Grabbing on Chicago’s South Side” (Antipode 2021) |
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Taylor Rose receives NASA Fellowship in Aerospace History |
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Joseph R. McConnell, et al., "Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom," PNAS |
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Paul Sabin, "Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism" (W.W. Norton) |
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Using Wheat to Rethink Capitalism and Slavery: Russian Imperial Finance, Land Grant Railroads, and the Southern One Percent (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Contrasting Pathways to Domestication and Early Agricultural Productivities: Examples across Africa and Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Moving Crops and the Scales of History: Thinking about Tuber Travels (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Javier's Murder: Politics, Sorcery and the Cattle Trade in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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The French Revolution and the Laplaine Riot: Petitioning and Direct Action in Dominica (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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Giving a Dam: Beavers, Law, and Making the Yukon River (Yale Agrarian Studies) |
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The Journeys of Elephants: An Indian Circus Trail |
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Faunal Foundations: Communal and Private Livestock Systems in the Colonial Andes |
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Breaking the Earth: The History of Nuclear Fracking |
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The Plague and the Prehistoric Population of Europe |
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Holding Pattern: Strategic Minerals, Military Aviation, and Clouded Titles in the Settling of Southern Nevada, 1930s–1980s |
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"Landscape Citizenships, A Roundtable" (Yale Environmental Humanities) |
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Landscape Citizenships, A Roundtable (Yale Environmental Humanities) |
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An Arbitrary Bit of Economic Make-Believe: Price and the Problem of Abundance in the Global Oil Industry, 1921-1973 |
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Paul Erdkamp, Joseph G. Manning, Koenraad Verboven, eds., “Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East: Diversity in Collapse and Resilience,” (Palgrave MacMillan) |
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A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savannah West Africa |
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Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol |
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Sunil Amrith awarded Heineken Prize for his work in environmental history |
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Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean (co-authored by Stuart Schwartz) |
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Taylor Rose, “The ‘Opening of the Clackamas’” (Western Historical Quarterly) |
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Yale Welcomes Dr. Alvita Akiboh |
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Yale Welcomes Nurfadzilah Yahaya |
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The Nile as a Branch of the Indian Ocean System |
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Deborah Coen, "The heat wave could force Europeans to rethink flawed, centuries-old ideas" (Washington Post) |
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Effects of land dispossession and forced migration on Indigenous peoples in North America (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Beached: The Construction and Thermal Dynamics of the Levantine Coast (Yale School of Architecture) |
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The World in Maps: Exhibition Opening Lecture ‘From Dati to d’Anville: Early Modern Europe and the Birth of the Atlas’ (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library) |
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Historical land displacements and resistance in Cotzal, Guatemala (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Following Nature’s Lead: Ancient Ways of Living in a Dying World (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Necaxa, Revolution & the Nature of a Changing Climate (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Mediating Subsistence in Seventeenth-Century England: The Case of the Country Miller (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Socializing the Technosphere (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Understanding China’s Indian Ocean Trade: Focusing on Shipwrecks (work in progress) |
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Ivano Dal Prete, "On the Edge of Eternity. The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe," Columbia University Press, 2022 |
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Study by Yale faculty and students shed light on the long-term consequences of Indigenous land displacement in North America |
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Alan Mikhail, "What the World Says: The Ottoman Empire, Interspecies Rape, and Climate in the Little Ice Age" (Critical Inquiry) |
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Wastelands: The Economic Geography of Waste, Coercion, and Incarceration in Southeastern Louisiana |
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Dutch Diseases: Race, Oil, and Intimacy in Offshore Europe |
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"Middle East Environmental Histories" Series Set to Begin |
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Yale Energy History Project launches new “Energy Basics” website |
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Toward a Greater Caribbean Environmental History: Some General Ideas |
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Survey and Forget? Three Approaches to Long-Term Cultivation Rights in Northeast Asia, c. 1880-1940 |
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Amami and amami: The Making of Sugar Islands in the East China Sea, 1609-1878 |
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History At the Mercy of Ants: Landscape Change and Multispecies Nation-Building in Brazil, c. 1820-1950 |
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Oysterman and Refugee: Hong Kong and China Between the Tides, 1949-1997 |
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Noah’s Ark for Future Generations or Genetic Imperialism?: The Dilemma of the Seed Bank in Postwar German History |
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From NIMBY to YIMBY: Environmental Values and Public Participation in the Shadow of Climate Change |
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McGovern Lecture (HSHM) |
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“A Useful and Protean Concept?”: Energy in History (HSHM) |
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Holmes Lecture (HSHM) |
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Screening: In A Field All His Own: The Life and Career of James C. Scott |
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Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge), “Bringing Nature Back into the History of International Politics” (Global and International History) |
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Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change (Gilder Lehrman Center) |
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British Guardians of the Holy Rail: Sovereignty over the Hijaz Railway (Council on Middle Eastern Studies) |
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Food for Thought Series: Lunch Event with Hannah Shepherd |
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Learning from Tacky’s Revolt: Coromantees, Creoles and Igbos in the Hanover Parish, Jamaica Conspiracy of 1776 |
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Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: Agrarian Radicalism in US Political Culture, 1870s-1920s (Agrarian Studies) |
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Go Farm, Young People (Agrarian Studies) |
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Crossing the Straits: Fukuoka and Pusan in the Making and Unmaking of Japanese Empire (Agrarian Studies) |
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"Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment" (Yale RITM and YSFP) |
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What Returns, What Remains (Agrarian Studies) |
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Drawing Like a Tubewell: When Water Percolates and Oozes Through Soil (Agrarian Studies) |
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Harvey Weiss, "Pyramid building and collapse," PNAS, August 2022. |
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New Perspectives in Energy History (2024) |
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Hi′ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, "Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment," (Duke University Press, 2022) |
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Hi′ilei Hobart discusses “Cooling the Tropics" (Edge Effects, 2023) |
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Oliver Lucier, "Climate Conscious: Caribbean Commodities and Holdridge Life Zones, 1940s–1960s," ISIS (September 2023) |
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Call for Papers: New Perspectives in Energy History |
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Enemy Oil: Legacies of Wartime Fuel in Post-War Southeast Asia (Legal History Forum) |
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‘When Noxious Odors Prevail’: On the Pursuit of Atmospheric Justice in the High Plains |
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Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers |
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Paola Bertucci, "In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour," (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023) |
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Edward S. Cooke, Jr., “Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History,” (Princeton University Press, 2022) |
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Jennifer L. Allen, "Sustainable Utopias The Art and Politics of Hope in Germany," (Harvard University Press, 2022) |
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Alvita Akiboh, “Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire,” (University of Chicago Press, 2023) |
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Dispossessing the Wastelands: Mining, Militarization, and Native Lands in the Nevada Desert, 1860–1990 |
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Kumase, the Capital City of Trees: Realism and Fantasy in West African Town Planning, 1650-present |
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New Perspectives in Energy History (conference) |
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Governing Thermal Environments: Energetic Mediations and the Politics of Urban Cooling in Asia |
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The Politics of Electrification in Indonesia Post World War II |
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The Petro-Welfare State: Alaska’s Experiment in Fiscal and Ecological Sustainability (Agrarian Studies) |
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Watering Day and Night: How Bracero Workers came to Irrigate the Texas Panhandle |
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Deborah Coen, “What’s Next for Histories of Climate Change” (Los Angeles Review of Books, January 25, 2024) |
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Lauren Killingsworth, MD/PhD student, awarded this year’s Nathan Reingold Prize from the History of Science Society |
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Oliver Lucier awarded American Meteorological Society Graduate Fellowship in the History of Science |
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Coffee Conversation with Elizabeth Chatterjee (Chicago) |
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Paolo Squatriti (University of Michigan), “A Tale of Two Breads: Eucharistic and Everyday Loaves in early Medieval Europe” (History) |
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The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 |
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Weathering History: A Higher-Resolution Climate History of South China's Typhoon Spaces |
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The Burning Earth: A History |
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“A New Mexican Situation”: The Struggle over Oil Rights in Colombia Before World War II |
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Princes of Palm Oil: Intersections of the Slave and Palm Oil Trades in the Niger Delta (Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World Workshop) |
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Safe Basements: American Financial Planning, Family Recreation, and Fallout Preparedness in an Ideal Domestic Underground, 1930-1965 |
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Colonialism Within a Building Section: Social Hierarchies and Thermal Comfort in the Filipino Bahay Na Bato |
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Central Asian Declensionism or New Frontiers for Colonization? Environmental Narratives in Turn-of-the-century Xinjiang |
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Watershed Protection as Dispossession in Taiwan under Japanese Rule |
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Sunil Amrith, "The Burning Earth A History" (W.W. Norton, 2024) |
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The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods (HSHM Lecture) |
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Environmental Science and the Administrative State, (Legal History Workshop) |
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Roots of Risk: Managing Diversity and Disease in a Potato Genebank |
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Joanna Linzer, "Upstream, Downstream: Iron Mining in Early Modern Japan and the Uneven Spread of Environmental Protection," Environmental History (2023) |
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Energizing India (South Asian Studies Council) |
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‘Stringing Beads’: Karez Irrigation and Property Rights in Qing China’s Arid Land (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Precarities of Plenty: Ottoman Famine and the Ecology of Debt (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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The Double Commodification of Monsoon: Risk and Cyclone Science (South Asian Studies Council) |
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Good Creditors and Good Debtors: Campesino Identity and Agricultural Credit in the Colombian Twentieth Century (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Reaped and Sown: Famine & Ethnic Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire (Council on Middle East Studies) |
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Water, Fish, and Energy: Energy and Agrarian Democracy in South India c. 1920–1971 (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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Making Sense of the Shaking: The 1861-62 Lake Baikal Earthquakes and the Meanings of Nature in Imperial Russia (Slavic and Eurasian Colloquium) |
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'What's a jungle worth?': Rainforests and Climate Change, 1970s-2000s |
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Electrifying India |
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Settling the Armenian Question: Imperial Violence and Rural Life at the End of Empire |
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Working with Tailings: Representations of Mining in Zimbabwe after 1900 |
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The Energy and Environmental History of the New Jersey Meadowlands |
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War Against Weeds: How Hormonal Herbicides Reshaped Life on Earth |
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Environmental Citizenship and the Economy of Waste in Post-WWII Soviet Union |
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Spring 2025 schedule for Yale Environmental Humanities workshop |
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Sunil Amrith receives 2025 Toynbee Prize |