Public Events

Upcoming Lectures & Colloquium

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)"
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 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, 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, 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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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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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 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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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, 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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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, 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, 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 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 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 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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Past Lectures & Colloquium

2020

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 - 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)"
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)"
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 - 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)"
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)"
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 - 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, 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, 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""
Friday, April 19, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"Tony Andersson (Yale University), “Population and Other Bombs: Erasing the Maya to Save the Maya Forest” (Yale Agrarian Studies) "
Friday, April 12, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"John Buchanan (Yale University), “Run to the Hills: Mainland Southeast Asia’s Integration into Global Opium Markets (1940-1998)” (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 3:00pm - McClellan 101 (Old Campus)
Victor McFarland, University of Missouri
"U.S. Energy Transition Politics in the 1970s"
Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"Caterina Scaramelli (Yale University), “Swamps into Wetlands: Crafting Moral Ecology in Turkey” (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
"Marshall Watson (Yale), "Sailing to the Mountains of the Moon: An Ottoman Expedition on the White Nile""
Monday, April 1, 2019 - 4:00 PM - Anthropology Department, Room 105, 10 Sachem Street
Sophia Roosth, Harvard University
"Sophia Roosth (Harvard University), "Twenty Years is a Long Time" (Yale Anthropology)"
Friday, March 8, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"Sakura Christmas (Bowdoin College), “Between Steppe and Sown, Nation and Empire in Inner Mongolia, 1900-1930” (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
"Teona Williams (Yale), "'For Peace, Quiet, and Respect': Race and Contested Spaces in Chicago’s Southside""
Friday, March 1, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"Mikael Wolfe (Stanford University), “A Revolution is a Force More Powerful than Nature’: The Impact of Hurricane Flora of 1963 on the Agrarian Character of the Cuban Revolution” (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Friday, February 22, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"Reinaldo Funes Monzote (University of Havana), “Our Trip to the Moon: The Ideas about Transformation of Nature in Cuba During the Cold War” (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 4:00pm - McClellan 101
Jennifer Klein, Yale University
"The Economic Geography of Waste and Confinement in Southeastern Louisiana (Yale Environmental History, Energy Humanities)"
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
"John D'Amico (Yale), "Merchants and the Social Order: The Nakai Genzaemon Family and the Reshaping of Tokugawa Society, 1734-1875""
Friday, February 8, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"David Bello (Washington and Lee University), “A Trickle of Authority: The Arid Identity of Empire in 18th Century Xinjiang” (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
"Chris Melvin (Yale), "Breaking Refuge: Oil and the Politics of Integration on an Indigenous Resource Frontier, 1931-1972""
Friday, February 1, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"Helen Curry (University of Cambridge), "Endangered Genes and the International Seed Bank: Conserving Crop Diversity after the Green Revolution" (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Friday, January 25, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"Jason W. Moore (Binghamton University), “Climate Change and Civilizational Crisis, 376-2018: A Geohistorical Interpretation” (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
"Taylor Rose (Yale), "'A Real Community of Spirit': Corbin Harney (Western Shoshone), the Nevada Test Site, and Sacred Land Claims in Newe Sogobia, 1863-1992""

2018

Friday, November 30, 2018 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 201, New Haven, CT 06511
Julie Livingston, New York University
"Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 5:00 PM - Rosenkranz, Room 241, 125 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT
Joshua Specht, Monash University
"Hardy Cattle and Fuzzy Math, or, How to Make Money in the Texas Panhandle during the 1880s"
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM - McClellan 101
Keri Lambert, Yale University
"Wild Rubber and the Western Frontier: Producing British Subjects and Colonial Borders in the Gold Coast and Asante, 1880-1914"
Friday, November 9, 2018 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 201, New Haven, CT 06511
Benjamin Madley, University of California, Los Angeles
"Other Argonauts: Native Hawaiians in the California Gold Rush (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
Friday, November 2, 2018 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 201, New Haven, CT 06511
Lori Flores, SUNY Stony Brook University
"Dark Henhouses, Forests, Berries, and Water: Latino Labor Struggles in Maine, 1990 to the Present (Agrarian Studies)"
Friday, October 26, 2018 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 201, New Haven, CT 06511
Benjamin Siegel, Boston University
"Markets of Pain: Poppy Politics and the Global Origins of the American Opioid Crisis (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 3:30 PM - Watson Center, Room A46
Sarah Pickman, HSHM and Paul Burow, F&ES / Anthropology
"Sarah Pickman (HSHM) and Paul Burow (F&ES / Anthropology) Prospectus Workshop (Yale Environmental Humanities)"
Friday, October 12, 2018 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 201, New Haven, CT 06511
Aidan Forth, Loyola University Chicago
"Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
Monday, October 8, 2018 - 4:00 PM - Kline Geology Lab (KGL) Auditorium
Neal Spencer, British Museum.
"Neal Spencer, (British Museum), “The Pharaonic State, Nubia & the Nile: An Inhabitants’ Perspective from Amara West,” (The Yale Nile Initiative Lecture Series)"
Friday, October 5, 2018 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 201
Robert Thorson, University of Connecticut
"America’s First Broad Environmental Assessment? Readings from The Boatman (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
Monday, October 1, 2018 - 3:45 PM - Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall
Lisa Ruth Rand, Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
"Lisa Ruth Rand (Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine), “Power, Sovereignty, and Decay in the Global Space Age,” (HSHM Colloquium)"
Friday, September 28, 2018 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 201, New Haven, CT 06511
Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Conserving Soil, Preserving Knowledge: Terracing Campaigns and Agricultural Heritage Studies in China, 1949 to Today (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 4:30 PM - Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE ), 202
Arupjyoti Saikia, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
"Arupjyoti Saikia, (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati), “The Unruly Floodplains, the British Empire and an Environmental History of the Brahmaputra” (South Asian Studies Council Colloquium)"
Monday, September 24, 2018 - 09/24/2018 - Kline Geology Laboratory, 210 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06511
Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education, Reno
"Ancient History in Greenland Ice (Yale Nile Initiative Lecture Series)"
Monday, September 24, 2018 - 12:00 PM - Luce Hall 202
Lise Fernanda Sedrez, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
"Lise Fernanda Sedrez (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), “The gardens of Babilonia Hill - Climate challenges and community initiatives in Rio de Janeiro 1985-2015” (CLAIS Lunchtime Speaker Series)"
Friday, September 21, 2018 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 201, New Haven, CT 06511
Jo Guldi, Southern Methodist University
"States, Courts, Decentralized Movements, and Resisting Eviction Culture: The Land Valuer’s Tale (Dublin, 1881) (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
Friday, September 21, 2018 - 2:30 PM - 10 Sachem Street
"“The Wood Age in Asia: Connection and Comparison in Forest History” Conference"
Friday, September 14, 2018 - 12:00 PM - Luce Hall 101
Mark Peterson, Yale University
"Mark Peterson, (Yale University), “An Intoxicant Town in the Empire of Goods: Notes toward a History of Early Modern Desire” (Early Modern Empires)"
Friday, September 14, 2018 - 3:30pm - Burke Auditoriaum, Kroon Hall
Andrew Kahrl, University of Virginia
"Free the Beaches: The Fight to Desegregate Connecticut’s Shoreline"
Friday, September 7, 2018 - 3pm - Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
Roundtable and Fall Reception
" Energy and the Humanities: Interventions and Ambitions"
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Thursday, May 3, 2018 - 9:30 AM - 9:00 PM - Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
"Environmental Humanities Spring Conference"
Thursday, April 19, 2018 - 4:00PM
Dan Brayton (Middlebury College)
"“The Stews of Southwark: An Environmental History,” (Literature, the Arts, and the Environment Colloquium)"
Saturday, April 14, 2018 - 9:30AM - Kroon Hall
""New Perspectives in Environmental History""
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Friday, April 13, 2018 - 11:00 AM - Luce Hall, Room 203
John Lee (Yale University)
"“The Crooked Timber Bureaucracy: The Red Pine and the Making of Choson Korea, 1392-1910” (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 4:30 PM - Luce Hall, Room 203
Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester)
"“Gondwana and the Politics of Primitivism,” (South Asia Colloquium)"
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Friday, April 6, 2018 - 11:00 AM - Luce Hall, Room 203
Aaron Jakes (Yale University and The New School for Social Research)
"State of the Field Restated; Agricultural Regulation and Colonial Conservatism in Egypt Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018 - 6:30pm - Hastings Hall
Caitlin DeSilvey, University of Exeter
""Curated Decay: Inevitable Loss and Other Opportunities""
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Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 12pm - HGS 211
José Augusto Pádua (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
"“Brazil in the History of the Anthropocene” (CLAIS)"
Friday, March 2, 2018 - 11:00 AM - Luce Hall, Room 203
William Rankin (Yale University)
"“Radical Cartography: Visual Argument in the Age of Data” (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Friday, February 23, 2018 - 11:00 AM - Luce Hall, Room 203
Paul Sutter (University of Colorado-Boulder)
"“Rethinking Yellow Fever’s Atlantic World History” (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - 12pm - Burke Auditoriaum, Kroon Hall
Harvey Weiss, Joseph Manning and Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University
"Collapse! What Collapse? Societal Responses to Abrupt Climate Changes before Global Warming" (FES Research Seminar"
Friday, February 16, 2018 - 3:00 PM - Luce Hall, Room 203
Stuart Schwartz, Jose Caraballo-Cueto, William Suarez, Fernando Abruña
"“Rebuilding Puerto Rico After Hurricanes Irma and Maria” (CLAIS Roundtable)"
Friday, February 16, 2018 - 12:30 PM - Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
Jason W. Moore (Binghamton University)
"Cheap Nature and Its Discontents: Toward an Ecology of Hope (Yale CHESS Workshop)"
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018 - 4pm - Luce Hall, Room 202
Kate Brown, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
""A Manual for Disaster: Health, Ecology and Survival in the Chernobyl Zone""
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Friday, February 9, 2018 - 11:00 AM - Luce Hall, Room 203
Gaston Gordillo (University of British Columbia)
"Ambient Thickness: The Atmospheric Materiality of the Anthropocene (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Wednesday, February 7, 2018 - 12:00 PM - Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall
Deborah Coen
"The Science of Climate in the Age of Empire (F&ES Research Seminar Series)"
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 - 4:30PM - Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 203
Debjani Bhattacharya (Drexel University),
"Fluid Histories: Law and Geology in the Bengal Delta (South Asian Studies Colloquium)"
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Friday, January 26, 2018 - 4:00PM - Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 203
Paul Kreitman (Columbia)
"“Spectacular Sovereignty in the South China Sea: Japan’s Offshore Guano Mines, 1902-1939” (CEAS Colloquium)"
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 4:00PM - Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall
"Keywords: “Justice,” “Preservation,” “Scale,” Panel and Reception (Yale Environmental Humanities)"