Public Events

Upcoming Lectures & Colloquia

Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT - Online via Zoom (registration required)
Thomas Monaghan, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Yale University
"Refining the Plantationocene: Situating East Asian Sugar in the Early Modern World"
Thursday, April 22, 2021 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT - Online via Zoom (registration required)
Mark Frank, Yale University
"Chinese Empire after Empire: Agrarian Colonization on the Twentieth-Century Frontier (Council on East Asian Studies)"
Friday, April 23, 2021 - 11:00 AM EDT - Online via Zoom
Hengameh Ziai (Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow)
"Peasants as Human Capital: A Political Genealogy of Neoliberalism in Chicago School Development Economics (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Thursday, April 29, 2021 - 5:30 PM EDT - Online via Zoom (registration required)
"Teaching the Energy Transition (Yale Environmental Humanities)"
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT - Online event (registration required)
Sarah Pickman, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science & Medicine Program, Yale University
"'The Most Essential to His Comfort, Health and Happiness': The Expedition Packing List and the Creation of an Ideal Environment (Yale Environmental History Colloquium)"

Past Lectures & Colloquia

2021

Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT - Online via Zoom (registration required)
Thomas Monaghan, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Yale University
"Refining the Plantationocene: Situating East Asian Sugar in the Early Modern World"
Friday, April 16, 2021 - 11:00 AM EDT - Online via Zoom
Vikram Tamboli (Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow)
"Malabar, Gentoo, and Pariah: A Speculative History of South Asian Blackness in British Guiana (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Friday, April 9, 2021 - 11:00 AM EDT - Online via Zoom
Rui Hua (Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow)
"The Schizophrenia of Sovereignty: Peasants’ Law of Nations and the People’s Game of Great Powers in the Manchurian Borderland, 1881-1932 (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT - Online event (registration required)
Gabriel Lee, Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow, Yale University
"John Burroughs and the Nature of Highways (Yale Environmental History Colloquium)"
Friday, April 2, 2021 - 11:00 AM EDT - Online via Zoom
Marina Welker (Cornell University)
"Indonesian Tobacco Agriculture and Contract Relations (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT - Online event (registration required)
Charlotte Leib, Ph.D. Student in History, Yale University
"'Changing the Face of Watts': A Visual History of Community Organizing and Landscape Change in Watts, LA (Yale Environmental History Colloquium)"
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 11:00 AM EDT - Online via Zoom
Arianne Sedef Urus (Harvard University)
"Properties of Empire: Environment and Law in the Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland Cod Fisheries (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 12:00 PM EDT - Online via Zoom
Natalie Koch (Syracuse University)
"Saudi Arizona: The Past and Present of Arid Empire and Desert-to-Desert Connections (Council on Middle East Studies)"
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 12:15 PM EST - Online via Zoom
Thomas W. Mitchell (Texas A&M School of Law) and Carlton Sanders (farmer)
"Racism, land loss, and the creation of modern agriculture (Law, Ethics & Animals Program)"
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM EST - Online event (registration required)
Speaker: Steven T. Moga, Smith College / Moderator: Charlotte Leib, Yale University
"Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty and Planning | A Conversation with Steven T. Moga"
Friday, February 26, 2021 - 12:00 PM EST - Online via Zoom
Susanne Wengle (University of Notre Dame)
"Technopolitics and the Human-Nature Nexus in Contemporary Russian Agriculture (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Thursday, February 25, 2021 - 8:00 PM EST - Online via Zoom
Andrew Alan Johnson
"Streams of Consciousness: An evening of open-ended conversation about Mekong Dreaming (Council on Southeast Asia Studies)"
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2020

Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT - Online event (registration required)
Speaker: Andy Horowitz, Tulane University / Moderator: Charlotte Leib, Yale University
"Researching and Writing Histories of Disaster: A Conversation with Andy Horowitz, Author of Katrina: A History 1915–2015"
Friday, April 24, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Marvin Chochotte (Yale Agrarian Studies)
"Building Roads to Democratic Revolution: Development Projects, Community Councils, the Tonton Makout Militia, and the Fall of the Duvalier Dictatorship, 1971-1986 (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Monday, April 20, 2020 - Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall
Nasser Zakariya (University of California, Berkeley)
"TBA (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia)"
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Friday, April 17, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Jenniffer Vargas Reina (Yale Agrarian Studies)
"State, Land, and War: Land Accumulation during Colombian Civil War (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Monday, April 13, 2020 - 4:30 PM - 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room L215
Leslie Reagan (University of Illinois)
"Defining Disabilities: Agent Orange, Veterans, Children, and the US Government (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Manuelidis Lecture)"
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Friday, April 3, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Samuel Dolbee (Yale Agrarian Studies)
"Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East, 1858-1939 (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Monday, March 30, 2020 - 4:30 PM - 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room L215
Wendy Kline (Purdue University)
"The ‘LSD Block’ and the Therapeutic Alliance: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Psychedelic Medicine in the U.K. (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Holmes Lecture)"
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Friday, March 27, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Cassandra Thiesen-Mark (University of Basel)
"Life, Labor and Atlantic Commerce between Manoh River and Fisherman’s Lake (West Africa) in the 19th century (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Friday, February 28, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Erika Milam (Princeton University)
"Slow Science: Ecological Landscapes and their Organisms (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Friday, February 21, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Jeanne Féaux (University of Tübingen)
"Between Climate Fears and River Dreams: Transdisciplinary Research Processes in Central Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Monday, February 17, 2020 - Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall
Dan Bouk (Colgate University)
"Reading Data as a Liberal Art: Telling Stories in and around the 1940 U.S. Census (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia)"
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Friday, February 14, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Robyn d'Avignon (New York University)
"Making a Ritual Geology in Savannah West Africa ca. 800-1900 AD (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Friday, February 7, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Dana Powell (Appalachian State University)
"Unsettling Exceptionality and Ruin: Native Presence in the Anthropocene (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Monday, February 3, 2020 - Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall
Naveeda Khan (Johns Hopkins University)
"The Work of ‘Loss and Damage’ within Global Climate Negotiations (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia)"
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Friday, January 31, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
James Hevia (University of Chicago)
"Desert Locust Plagues and Imperialism Science (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Monday, January 27, 2020 - 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room L215
Nic Ramos (Brown University)
"Emergent Economies, Emergent Medicine: Emergency Medical Services and the Normalization of Everyday Violence in 1980s Los Angeles (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia)"
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Friday, January 24, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University)
"Monitoring Water, Land, and People: The Historical Roots of Hybrid Seed Research in the Yaqui Valley (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - 4:00 PM - Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
Michael Warner (Yale English), William Rankin (Yale HSHM), Sarah Pickman (Yale HSHM)
"Keywords: Infrastructure, Extremity, and Temporality, Panel and Reception (Yale Environmental Humanities)"
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2019

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM - TBA
"Environmental Humanities Symposium (Yale Environmental Humanities)"
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Samantha Iyer (Fordham University)
"The Global Problem of Plenty: Regulating Agriculture in Egypt, India, and the United States, 1870s to 1930s (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Thursday, November 21, 2019 - 4:30 PM - Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 203
Sunil Sharma (Boston University)
"Veiled Voyagers: The Emergence of Travel Writing by Women in West Asia (Council on Middle East Studies)"
Thursday, November 21, 2019 - 4:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
Ben Kiernan (Yale History)
"Agriculture Comes to Cambodia (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series)"
Monday, November 18, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Nancy Kuhl (Yale Beinecke Library)
"Nancy Kuhl, curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature, on John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” (Mondays at Beinecke)"
Friday, November 15, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Pierre Du Plessis (Aarhus University)
"Staying with the Truffle: Tracking Landscape Relations in the Kalahari Desert after “Man the Hunter” (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 5:00PM - McClellan 101
Sarah Dry, Author
"Waters of the World: The story of the scientists who unravelled the mysteries of our seas, glaciers, and atmosphere and made the planet whole"
Friday, November 8, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Ericka Beckman (University of Pennsylvania)
"Epics and Anti-epics of Agrarian Transformation in Twentieth Century Latin America (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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"
Wednesday, November 6, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
Samuel Dolbee (Yale Agrarian Studies)
"“Everywhere…where the desert sand borders on inhabited districts,” 1908-1918 (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series)"
Friday, November 1, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Alison Collis Greene (Emory University)
"The Light of Tyrrell: Economic Justice and Christian Interracialism in a Jim Crow Swamp (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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)"
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
Gabriel Lee (Yale History)
"Concrete Reclamation Ideology (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series)"
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - 81 Wall Street, Gordon Parks Seminar Room 201
Carolyn Roberts (Yale HSHM)
"Doctoring Chaos: Slavery and Medicine in the West African Slave Trading Zones (Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World)"
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Eric Slauter (University of Chicago)
"Walden’s Carbon Footprint: People, Plants, Animals, and Machines in the Making of an American Book (Yale Program in the History of the Book)"
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)"
Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 5:30 PM - Peabody Museum of Natural History, David Friend Hall
Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University)
"The Ethical Choices of Whales: Bowheads, Hunters, and the Nature of History (Peabody Museum of Natural History)"
Friday, October 11, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Zachary Caple (University of South Florida)
"The Human Asteroid Lands in Florida: A Craterology of the Bone Valley Phosphate Mining District (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - 81 Wall Street, Gordon Parks Seminar Room 201
Kristen Block (University of Tennessee)
"The Emotional and Spiritual Context of Leprosy Diagnosis in French Caribbean Slave Societies (Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World)"
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, October 4, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Charles Mann (Writer and Journalist)
"The History of the West from the Future (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Thursday, October 3, 2019 - 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM - Horchow Hall, Room 103
Mohamad Junaid (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts)
"Visible/Invisible: Disaster, Occupation, and the Politics of Images during 2014 Flood in Indian-administered Kashmir (South Asian Studies Council)"
Monday, September 30, 2019 - 6:30 PM - Rudolph Hall, Smith Conference Room, Room 322
Shannon Mattern (The New School)
"Ether and Ore: An Archaeology of Urban Intelligences (Yale Architecture Forum)"
Friday, September 27, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Faisal Husain (Penn State)
"The Ecology of Mobile Pastoralism in the Ottoman World: An Early Modern View from the Edge (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
Thomas Monaghan (Yale History)
"Amami and amami: Japanese sugar in a global context, 1700-1900 (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series)"
Friday, September 20, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"Bradley Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University) “Marks of the Beast: Animals and Ethnē in the Vietnamese Agrarian Empire” (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Room 38-39
"Rebecca Solnit (Author) and George Miles (Yale), “Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West” (Windham Campbell Festival, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)"
Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 5:30 PM - Peabody Museum of Natural History
"Paola Bertucci (Yale HSHM) "What Is Natural History The History Of?" (Peabody Museum of Natural History John H. Ostrom Lecture Series)"
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
"Camille Cole (Yale History) "Nafi'a for the Tigris: The hazine-i hassa and the infrastructure of development in late Ottoman Iraq, 1882-1914" (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series)"
Monday, September 16, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106
"Ariel Ron (Southern Methodist University) "King Hay: Energy History and Economic Nationalism in the American Civil War Era" (Yale Economic History Workshop)"
Friday, September 13, 2019 - 12:00pm - Luce Hall, Room 202
"Amir A. Afkhami (George Washington University) "A Modern Contagion: Cholera’s Impact on Iranian History" (Yale Iran Colloquium)"
Friday, September 13, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"Marc Edelman (Baruch College) “How the United Nations Recognized the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas” (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - 81 Wall Street, Gordon Parks Seminar Room 201
"Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “Deliberate Acts and Desperate Measures: (Mis)Perceptions of Dirt Eating on Jamaican Plantations.” (Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World)"
Monday, September 9, 2019 - 3:45 PM - 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room L215
"Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “Professional Pursuits and the Making of Race: Medicalizing Blackness in the Atlantic World” (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia)"
Friday, September 6, 2019 - 4:00 PM - Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
"Paola Bertucci (Yale HSHM), Carolyn Laferrière (Yale History of Art), and George Miles (Curator, Beinecke) "Art and Artifacts: Yale's Environmental Humanities Collections" Panel and Reception (Yale Environmental Humanities)"
Friday, September 6, 2019 - 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM - 81 Wall Street, Gordon Parks Seminar Room 201
"Harriet Washington (Author), Elihu Ruben (Yale), and Mikki Meadows (Quinnipiac University) “Environmental Racism and Public Health” Panel Discussion (Democracy in America)"
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 7:30 PM - Whitney Humanities Center
"Rowan Jacobsen (Writer) "The Nature of Nature: What Happens When We Start Engineering the Wild?" (Yale Quantum Institute, Franke Program in Science and the Humanities)"
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Nielson Irving Harris Building, E-02, Cohen Auditorium
"Harriet Washington (Writer) “The Brain Thieves: Heavy Metals, Pathogens and Other Enemies of Cognition” (Yale Program for Humanities in Medicine)"
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 4:00 PM - Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium
"Brian Scassellati (Yale) "Mapping the Frontier Between Man and Machine" (Franke Program in Science and the Humanities)"
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 12:00pm - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"Lorena S. Walsh (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) "Technologies of Labor Coercion in the 17th and 18th Century Chesapeake" (Gilder Lehrman Center)"
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
"Caitlin Kossmann (Yale), "Truth or Tool? Scientific Language and the Metaphor of Gaia""