Public Events

Upcoming Lectures & Colloquia

Friday, October 6, 2023 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Thomas Alter, Texas State University
"Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: Agrarian Radicalism in US Political Culture, 1870s-1920s."
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Thursday, October 12, 2023 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107 (320 York Street)
Hannah Shepherd, Yale University
"Food for Thought Series: Lunch Event with Hannah Shepherd"
Monday, October 23, 2023 - 4:30pm - Medical Historical Library
Beth Linker, University of Pennsylvania
"McGovern Lecture (HSHM)"
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Friday, November 3, 2023 - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Brian Donahue, Brandeis University
"Go Farm, Young People"
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Friday, December 8, 2023 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Hannah Shepherd
"Crossing the Straits: Fukuoka and Pusan in the Making and Unmaking of Japanese Empire"
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Monday, January 22, 2024 - 3:45PM - HQ 276
Victor Seow, Harvard University
"Title TBA (HSHM)"
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Friday, January 26, 2024 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Hi’ilei Hobart, Yale University
"TBA"
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Friday, February 2, 2024 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Anthony Acciavatti
"TBA"
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Monday, April 1, 2024 - 3:45PM - HQ 276
Aimi Hamraie, Vanderbilt University
"Title TBA (HSHM)"
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Monday, April 15, 2024 - 4:30PM - Medical Historical Library
Catherine Mas, Florida International University
"Holmes Lecture (HSHM)"
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Past Lectures & Colloquia

2023

Friday, September 22, 2023 - 4:30pm - Yale Farm (345 Edwards St.)
Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Yale University
""Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment" (Yale RITM and YSFP)"
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
James Sidbury, Rice University
"Learning from Tacky’s Revolt: Coromantees, Creoles and Igbos in the Hanover Parish, Jamaica Conspiracy of 1776"
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Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 12:00 PM - Luce Hall 203 (34 Hillhouse Avenue)
Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Yale University
"British Guardians of the Holy Rail: Sovereignty over the Hijaz Railway (Council on Middle Eastern Studies)"
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 - 12:00 PM - Online via Zoom
Eric Herschthal, University of Utah
"Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change (Gilder Lehrman Center)"
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Monday, September 11, 2023 - 4:00 pm - HQ 132 (320 York Street)
Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
"Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge), “Bringing Nature Back into the History of International Politics” (Global and International History)"
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 5:00 PM - Luce Hall 101
Todd Holmes, UC Berkeley, and James C. Scott, Yale University
"Screening: In A Field All His Own: The Life and Career of James C. Scott"
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Friday, April 14, 2023 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom, and 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
George Remisovsky, Yale University
"Survey and Forget? Three Approaches to Long-Term Cultivation Rights in Northeast Asia, c. 1880-1940"
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Friday, April 7, 2023 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom, and 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Thomas Monaghan, Yale University
"Amami and amami: The Making of Sugar Islands in the East China Sea, 1609-1878"
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Monday, April 3, 2023 - 12:00 PM - Rozenkranz Hall 241 (115 Prospect Street)
Reinaldo Funes-Monzote, Princeton University
"Toward a Greater Caribbean Environmental History: Some General Ideas"
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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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Friday, March 3, 2023 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom, and 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Denise Ho, Yale University
"Oysterman and Refugee: Hong Kong and China Between the Tides, 1949-1997"
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 12:00 PM - Online via Zoom, and Burke Auditorium (195 Prospect Street)
Paul Sabin, Yale University
"From NIMBY to YIMBY: Environmental Values and Public Participation in the Shadow of Climate Change"
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Monday, February 13, 2023 - 4:00 PM - HQ 107 (320 York Street)
Jennifer Klein, Yale University
"Noah’s Ark for Future Generations or Genetic Imperialism?: The Dilemma of the Seed Bank in Postwar German History"
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Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom, and 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Trinity College Dublin
"History At the Mercy of Ants: Landscape Change and Multispecies Nation-Building in Brazil, c. 1820-1950"
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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 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM - Online via Zoom
Victor McFarland (University of Missouri)
"Breaking the Earth: The History of Nuclear Fracking"
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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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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