Climate and History News

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...

Alan Mikhail wins Leopold-Hidy Prize for Best Article in Environmental History

April 14, 2016

Professor Alan Mikhail recently received the Leopold-Hidy Prize for Best Article in Environmental History for his essay, “Ottoman Iceland: A Climate History” (April 2015...

Alan Mikhail, "Enlightenment Anthropocene," (Eighteenth Century Studies, Winter 2016)

February 15, 2016

Alan Mikhail, “Enlightenment Anthropocene,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 49.2 (2016): 211-231. Abstract: This article offers an analysis of the emergence, use, and current...

Timothy Snyder, "Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning" (Tim Duggan Books, 2015)

September 8, 2015

In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we...

Francis Ludlow co-authors Nature study, "Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years"

July 16, 2015

M. Sigl, M. Winstrup, J. R. McConnell, K. C. Welten, G. Plunkett, F. Ludlow, U. Büntgen, M. Caffee, N. Chellman, D. Dahl-Jensen, H. Fischer, S. Kipfstuhl, C. Kostick, O. J....

Alan Mikhail, "Ottoman Iceland: A Climate History" (Environmental History, 2015)

April 1, 2015

Alan Mikhail, “Ottoman Iceland: A Climate History,” Environmental History (2015) 20(2): 262-284. Abstract: In June 1783, the Laki volcanic fissure began erupting in Iceland...

Stuart Schwartz, "Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina" (Princeton, 2015)

January 18, 2015

The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of...

Climate Lectures & Colloquium

Friday, April 12, 2024 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101 and on Zoom

Philip Wight, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

"The Petro-Welfare State: Alaska’s Experiment in Fiscal and Ecological Sustainability (Agrarian Studies)"

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Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 4:00pm - On Zoom

Anto Mohsin, Northwestern University in Qatar

"The Politics of Electrification in Indonesia Post World War II"

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Friday, September 22, 2023 - 4:30pm - Yale Farm (345 Edwards St.)

Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Yale University

""Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment" (Yale RITM and YSFP)"

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 - 12:00 PM - Online via Zoom

Eric Herschthal, University of Utah

"Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change (Gilder Lehrman Center)"

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Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Whitney Humanities Center

"Usable Climate Science and the Uses of History, An Interdisciplinary Workshop at Yale University"

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

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (SUNY Buffalo)

"The Subversive Politics of Sentient Places: Climate Change, Collective Ethics, and Environmental Justice in Peru (Yale Agrarian Studies)"

Monday, October 21, 2019 - 4:00 PM - TBA

Henry Lamb (Aberystwyth University)

"Lake Tana, the Blue Nile and beyond: paleoenvironments of Ethiopia (Yale Nile Initiative)"

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

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)"