Public Events

Upcoming Lectures & Colloquia

Friday, October 29, 2021 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom
Anne Eller (Yale University)
"The Caribbean and the World in 1898 (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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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"
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, December 1, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM - Humanities Quadrangle, Meeting Room TBA
Taylor Rose (Yale University)
"Holding Pattern: Strategic Minerals, Military Aviation, and Clouded Titles in the Settling of Southern Nevada, 1930s–1980s"
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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Past Lectures & Colloquia

2021

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)"
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 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM EST - Online via Zoom
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"
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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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 via Zoom
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 - 4:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
Ben Kiernan (Yale History)
"Agriculture Comes to Cambodia (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series)"
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)"
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)"