Conferences

New Perspectives in Environmental History (2020)-- CANCELED

Saturday, April 18, 2020

“NEW PERSPECTIVES IN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY”

POSTPONED

A Northeast Regional Conference

Kroon Hall, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut

Yale Environmental History has CANCELED its “New Perspectives in Environmental History” conference, which was scheduled for April 18, 2020. The planned conference agenda is still available for review. 

New Perspectives in Environmental History (2018)

Saturday, April 14, 2018

“NEW PERSPECTIVES IN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY”

Saturday, April 14, 2018

A Northeast Regional Conference

Kroon Hall, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut

New Perspectives in Environmental History (2017)

Saturday, April 22, 2017
“NEW PERSPECTIVES IN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY”

A Northeast Regional Conference

Yale University, New Haven, CT

New Perspectives in Environmental History (2015)

Saturday, April 18, 2015

A one-day conference, including panels on “The Nature of Nations,” “The Struggle for Environmental Control,” and “Animals and the Commons.”  

New Perspectives in Environmental History (2014)

Saturday, April 12, 2014

A one-day conference, including panel sessions on “Power and Resources,” “Water and the Urban Environment,” and “Science and Knowledge Production.” 

Two Kingdoms: New Perspectives on Flora and Fauna in Environmental History

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Human societies have always been defined by their relationship to plants and animals, whether through the domestication efforts that underlay the earliest sedentary societies, the commodification of plants and animals that arrived in the industrial age, or the new opportunities for manipulation that genetic engineering has provided.

Resources: Endowment or Curse, Better or Worse?

Friday, February 24, 2012

How have economic and environmental historians, political scientists, and others approached the concept of resources in the past and what are some directions for future work?  This two-day conference engaged an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine questions at the intersection of environmental change, economics, and political development.

 

Creating Healthy Landscapes: Human and Environmental Well-being in Comparative and Historical Perspective.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

For environmental historians, the question of what it means– and has meant– for a landscape to be healthy provides a starting point to explore the entanglement of human and natural histories.  The same landscape– such as the tropics– can carry multiple and contradictory meanings.

Social Conflict and Environmental Change in Comparative and Historical Perspective

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Social conflicts over natural resources shape the abilities of communities and nations to access water, energy, food, and other critical needs. These struggles to control and manage resources – as well as ideas about these resources – have profound implications not only for ecological integrity but also for social justice and equity.