Public Events

Past Lectures & Colloquia

2023

Monday, March 27, 2023 - 4:00 PM - HQ 107
Chelsea Schields, UC Irvine
"Dutch Diseases: Race, Oil, and Intimacy in Offshore Europe"
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Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 4:00 PM - HQ 107
Jennifer Klein, Yale University
"Wastelands: The Economic Geography of Waste, Coercion, and Incarceration in Southeastern Louisiana"
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2022

Friday, December 9, 2022 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Christopher Otter, Ohio State University
"Socializing the Technosphere (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Friday, December 2, 2022 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Steve Hindle, Washington University in St. Louis
"Mediating Subsistence in Seventeenth-Century England: The Case of the Country Miller (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Friday, November 4, 2022 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Diana Montaño, Washington University in St. Louis
"Necaxa, Revolution & the Nature of a Changing Climate (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Friday, October 28, 2022 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Mark Usher, University of Vermont
"Following Nature’s Lead: Ancient Ways of Living in a Dying World (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Friday, October 14, 2022 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Giovanni Batz, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Historical land displacements and resistance in Cotzal, Guatemala (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Phelps 401
Valerie Hansen
"Understanding China’s Indian Ocean Trade: Focusing on Shipwrecks (work in progress)"
Friday, September 23, 2022 - 11am - Online via Zoom
Justin Farrell (Yale University)
"Effects of land dispossession and forced migration on Indigenous peoples in North America (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 1:00pm - Online via Zoom
On Barak (Tel Aviv University)
"Beached: The Construction and Thermal Dynamics of the Levantine Coast (Yale School of Architecture)"
Thursday, September 15, 2022 - 4:00pm - Beinecke Library
Jim Akerman (Newberry Library)
"The World in Maps: Exhibition Opening Lecture ‘From Dati to d’Anville: Early Modern Europe and the Birth of the Atlas’  (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library)"
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Friday, September 9, 2022 - 12pm - Phelps 401 and Online via Zoom
Joseph Manning, Yale University
"The Nile as a Branch of the Indian Ocean System"
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022 - 4:00 pm - Online via Zoom
Jennifer Eaglin, Ohio State University
"Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol"
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2021

Friday, December 10, 2021 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom
Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University)
"Giving a Dam: Beavers, Law, and Making the Yukon River (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Thursday, December 2, 2021 - 4:00 pm - HQ 136
Robyn d'Avignon, NYU
"A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savannah West Africa"
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM - Humanities Quadrangle, Room 276
Taylor Rose (Yale University)
"Holding Pattern: Strategic Minerals, Military Aviation, and Clouded Titles in the Settling of Southern Nevada, 1930s–1980s"
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM - Online via Zoom
Daniel Headrick (Roosevelt University)
"The Plague and the Prehistoric Population of Europe"
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 - 11:45am - 250 Church Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Gregory Brew, Yale University
"An Arbitrary Bit of Economic Make-Believe: Price and the Problem of Abundance in the Global Oil Industry, 1921-1973"
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Wednesday, November 3, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM - Online via Zoom
Victor McFarland (University of Missouri)
"Breaking the Earth: The History of Nuclear Fracking"
Friday, October 29, 2021 - 1:30 - 3:00 PM EDT - Online via Zoom
"Landscape Citizenships, A Roundtable (Yale Environmental Humanities)"
Friday, October 29, 2021 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom
Anne Eller (Yale University)
"The French Revolution and the Laplaine Riot: Petitioning and Direct Action in Dominica (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Friday, October 15, 2021 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom
Robin Derby (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Javier's Murder: Politics, Sorcery and the Cattle Trade in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM - Online via Zoom
KC O'Hara (University of Pennsylvania)
"Faunal Foundations: Communal and Private Livestock Systems in the Colonial Andes"
Friday, October 8, 2021 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom
Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh)
"Moving Crops and the Scales of History: Thinking about Tuber Travels (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM - Humanities Quadrangle, Room 132
Nisha Poyyaprath Rayaroth (Yale University, South Asian Studies Council)
"The Journeys of Elephants: An Indian Circus Trail"
Friday, September 24, 2021 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom
Dorian Fuller (University College, London)
"Contrasting Pathways to Domestication and Early Agricultural Productivities: Examples across Africa and Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Friday, September 17, 2021 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom
Scott Reynolds Nelson (University of Georgia)
"Using Wheat to Rethink Capitalism and Slavery: Russian Imperial Finance, Land Grant Railroads, and the Southern One Percent (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT - Online via Zoom
Sarah Pickman (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)"
Thursday, April 29, 2021 - 5:30 PM EDT - Online via Zoom
"Teaching the Energy Transition (Yale Environmental Humanities)"
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 22, 2021 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT - Online via Zoom
Mark Frank (Yale University)
"Chinese Empire after Empire: Agrarian Colonization on the Twentieth-Century Frontier (Council on East Asian Studies)"
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT - Online via Zoom
Thomas Monaghan (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 via Zoom
Gabriel Lee (Yale University Postdoctoral Fellow)
"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 via Zoom
Charlotte Leib (Yale University)
"'Changing the Face of Watts': A Visual History of Community Organizing and Landscape Change in Watts, LA (Yale Environmental History Colloquium)"