Public Events

Past Lectures & Colloquia

2025

Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 121
Nataliia Laas, Yale University
"Environmental Citizenship and the Economy of Waste in Post-WWII Soviet Union"
Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Laura Martin, Williams College
"War Against Weeds: How Hormonal Herbicides Reshaped Life on Earth"
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 4:30 PM - Medical Historical Library (333 Cedar Street)
Helen Curry, Georgia Tech
"Roots of Risk: Managing Diversity and Disease in a Potato Genebank"
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Friday, April 11, 2025 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom, and 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Aditya Ramesh, University of Washington
"Water, Fish, and Energy: Energy and Agrarian Democracy in South India c. 1920–1971 (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Charlotte Leib, Yale University
"The Energy and Environmental History of the New Jersey Meadowlands"
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 12:00 PM - Luce Hall 203 (34 Hillhouse Avenue)
Matthew Ghazarian, Yale University
"Reaped and Sown: Famine & Ethnic Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire (Council on Middle East Studies)"
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Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 121
Echo Li, Yale University
"Working with Tailings: Representations of Mining in Zimbabwe after 1900"
Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Matthew Ghazarian, Yale University
"Settling the Armenian Question: Imperial Violence and Rural Life at the End of Empire"
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 12:00pm
Rachel Rothschild, University of Michigan Law School
"Environmental Science and the Administrative State, (Legal History Workshop)"
Friday, February 21, 2025 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom, and 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Mariana Diaz Chalela, Yale University
"Good Creditors and Good Debtors: Campesino Identity and Agricultural Credit in the Colombian Twentieth Century (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Thursday, February 20, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Yale University
"Electrifying India"
Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 121
Oliver Lucier, Yale University
"'What's a jungle worth?': Rainforests and Climate Change, 1970s-2000s"
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 12:00 PM - Luce Hall 203 (34 Hillhouse Avenue)
Debjani Bhattacharyya, University of Zurich
"The Double Commodification of Monsoon: Risk and Cyclone Science (South Asian Studies Council)"
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Friday, February 7, 2025 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom, and 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Matthew Ghazarian, Yale University
"Precarities of Plenty: Ottoman Famine and the Ecology of Debt (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 12:00 PM - Luce Hall 203 (34 Hillhouse Avenue)
Siddhartha Chandra Mukherjee, Yale University
"Energizing India (South Asian Studies Council)"
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Friday, January 24, 2025 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom, and 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Yuan Gao, Yale University
"‘Stringing Beads’: Karez Irrigation and Property Rights in Qing China’s Arid Land (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - 3:00 PM - HQ 136
Nicholas Breyfogle, The Ohio State University
"Making Sense of the Shaking: The 1861-62 Lake Baikal Earthquakes and the Meanings of Nature in Imperial Russia (Slavic and Eurasian Colloquium)"
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2024

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 12:00pm - HQ 134
Yuan Gao (Yale Agrarian Studies)
"Central Asian Declensionism or New Frontiers for Colonization? Environmental Narratives in Turn-of-the-century Xinjiang"
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 12:00pm - On Zoom
Allegra Ayida (Yale)
"Princes of Palm Oil: Intersections of the Slave and Palm Oil Trades in the Niger Delta (Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World Workshop)"
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 12:00pm - HQ 121
Kirke D.A. Elsass (Montana State University)
"Safe Basements: American Financial Planning, Family Recreation, and Fallout Preparedness in an Ideal Domestic Underground, 1930-1965"
Monday, November 18, 2024 - 3:45pm - HQ 276
Tom Özden-Schilling, National University of Singapore
"The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods (HSHM Lecture)"
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 11:30AM - HQ 206
Alberto Martinez Garcia (Yale School of Architecture)
"Colonialism Within a Building Section: Social Hierarchies and Thermal Comfort in the Filipino Bahay Na Bato"
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 4:00pm - HQ 136
Clark Alejandrino, Trinity College
"Weathering History: A Higher-Resolution Climate History of South China's Typhoon Spaces"
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Monday, October 21, 2024 - 12:00pm - HQ 107
Mariana Diaz Chalela, Yale University and Paul Sabin, Yale University
"“A New Mexican Situation”: The Struggle over Oil Rights in Colombia Before World War II"
Monday, October 14, 2024 - 3:45pm - HQ 136
John Kanbayashi, University of Pennsylvania
"Watershed Protection as Dispossession in Taiwan under Japanese Rule"
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Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 4:30pm - Luce 203
Sunil Amrith, Yale University
"The Burning Earth: A History"
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