Public Events

Past Lectures & Colloquia

2020

Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT - Online via Zoom (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 - 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 - 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)"

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)"

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 - 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)"

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)"

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""

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 - 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)"

Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 3:00pm - McClellan 101 (Old Campus)

Victor McFarland, University of Missouri

"U.S. Energy Transition Politics in the 1970s"

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""