Climate and History News

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)"
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"