Climate and History News

NSF grant for research into climate and society links

September 28, 2018

A Yale-led project examining the link between explosive volcanic eruptions and the annual Nile river summer flooding in antiquity has received an award from the National...

Deborah Coen, “Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale” (Chicago, 2018)

July 16, 2018

Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth’s climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular...

April 2018 Lecture Series, “Paleoclimate, Environment, History”

February 7, 2018

In April 2018, the Yale Nile Initiative Lecture Series will host a four-part lecture series, “Paleoclimate, Environment, History.” The speaker line-up includes: April 9:...

Joseph Manning, et al, “Volcanic suppression of Nile summer flooding triggers revolt and constrains interstate conflict in ancient Egypt,” Nature Communications (October 2017)

October 17, 2017

Joseph G. Manning, Francis Ludlow, Alexander R. Stine, William R. Boos, Michael Sigl, & Jennifer R. Marlon, “Volcanic suppression of Nile summer flooding triggers revolt...

Yale Excavation in Syria Continues to Reveal Secrets of World’s Earliest Cities

June 6, 2017

In the 1970s Yale archaeologist Harvey Weiss began excavating an ancient city in present day Syria that would reveal critical insights into the world’s first cities. Although...

Alan Mikhail, "Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History," (Chicago, 2017)

March 20, 2017

Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman’s empire grew, it, too...

Ben Kiernan, "Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present" (Oxford, 2017)

March 16, 2017

For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In...

Climate Lectures & Colloquium

Friday, October 4, 2019 - 4:00 PM - Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Room 201, 225 Prospect Street

Elfatih Eltahir

"Elfatih Eltahir (MIT), “Hydrology and Climate of the Nile Basin: Past, Present, and Future” (Yale Nile Initiative)"

Friday, March 1, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101

"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)"

Friday, January 25, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101

"Jason W. Moore (Binghamton University), “Climate Change and Civilizational Crisis, 376-2018: A Geohistorical Interpretation” (Yale Agrarian Studies)"

Monday, October 8, 2018 - 4:00 PM - Kline Geology Lab (KGL) Auditorium

Neal Spencer, British Museum.

"Neal Spencer, (British Museum), “The Pharaonic State, Nubia & the Nile: An Inhabitants’ Perspective from Amara West,” (The Yale Nile Initiative Lecture Series)"

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 4:30 PM - Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE ), 202

Arupjyoti Saikia, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

"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)"

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 09/24/2018 - Kline Geology Laboratory, 210 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06511

Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education, Reno

"Ancient History in Greenland Ice (Yale Nile Initiative Lecture Series)"

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 12:00 PM - Luce Hall 202

Lise Fernanda Sedrez, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

"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)"