Climate and History News

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...

Joanna Radin and Emma Kowal, eds. "Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World" (MIT 2017)

March 12, 2017
As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are...

Alan Mikhail, "Climate and the Chronology of Iranian History," Iranian Studies (2016)

December 8, 2016
Alan Mikhail, “Climate and the Chronology of Iranian History,” Iranian Studies Vol. 49: 6 (2016). This article offers a chronology of climate events in Iran over the last...

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Climate Lectures & Colloquium

Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - 12pm - Burke Auditoriaum, Kroon Hall
Harvey Weiss, Joseph Manning and Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University
"Collapse! What Collapse? Societal Responses to Abrupt Climate Changes before Global Warming" (FES Research Seminar"
Monday, October 23, 2017 - 4:00pm - 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106
Paul Erdkamp, Free University, Brussels
""Malthus, Climate and the Decline of the Roman World: Some Critical Remarks" (Economic History Workshop)"
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Saturday, October 21, 2017 - Whitney Humanities Center
"Collapse! What Collapse? Faculty climate history workshop at Yale"
Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 4pm - HGS 105
Nancy Langston, Michigan Technological University
"A Coffee Conversation in Environmental History"
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 12pm - HGS 204
Daniel Headrick (Roosevelt University)
"“The Two Disasters of the Sixth Century”"
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 12pm - HGS 211
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
""Poor Richard's Climate: Body, Comfort, and Conservation in the Little Ice Age""
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 4:30pm - Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall)
Timothy Snyder, Yale University
"Black Earth: The Holocaust as Environmental History"
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Monday, November 7, 2016 - 4pm - KGL 123
Edward R. Cook, Tree-Ring Laboratory, Columbia-Lamont Earth Observatory
"Discovering Megadroughts Across the Northern Hemisphere from Long Tree-Ring Records: Climate Histories and Human Impacts During the Common Era"
Friday, October 14, 2016 - 11am - Luce Hall Room 203 (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)
Fabian Drixler
"Food, Community, and the Geography of Death in Japan’s Volcanic Winters, 1640-1840"
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Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 4pm - HGS 105
Mark Carey, Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon
"Deep ice cores, time, and the re-envisioning of the global environment"
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Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 4:00-5:30PM - Bowers Auditorium
Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werrell, Center for Climate and Security
"Climate Change and State Fragility: The Case of Syria and What It Means for the Future"
Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 5:00PM - HGS 204
Fabian Drixler, Yale University
"Japan in the Volcanic Winters of the Early Modern World"
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 5:15PM - SML Lecture Hall
Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History, Yale University
"Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning"
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - 12:00pm - KGL 102 (YCEI Lecture Series)
Joseph Manning, Simpson Professor of Classics and History, Yale University
"Volcanic forcing triggers revolts and suppresses interstate conflict in Hellenistic Egypt"
Monday, November 16, 2015 - 4:00pm - KGL 123 (YCEI Lecture Series)
Francis Ludlow, YCEI Postdoctoral Fellow
"Understanding drivers of violence and conflict in Medieval Ireland"