Public Events

Upcoming Lectures & Colloquia

Thursday, February 19, 2026 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Palvasha Shahab, Yale University
"The Breathing Indus: Irrigation Regulation 19th century Sind"
Thursday, February 19, 2026 - 3:00 PM - Kroon Hall 319
Tisa Wenger, Yale University; Justin Farrell, Yale University; and Noah Ramage, Yale University
"Western Community & Connections: New Books"
Thursday, February 26, 2026 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Ying Jia Tan, Wesleyan University
"Dreams of Regeneration: Creating a Faith-Based Recycling System"
Thursday, April 16, 2026 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
HSHM and EEB DEI Committee
"HSHM and EEB DEI Committee: A Collaboration between HSHM and EEB Students"
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Meenakshi A, Yale University
"Into the Kiln: Scales and Materialities of India's Cement Manufacture in a Scarcity Economy c.1960s-1980s"

Past Lectures & Colloquia

2026

Thursday, February 12, 2026 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Oliver Riskin-Kutz, Yale University
"Oysters, Sabotage, and Empire: The Patoi Movement in the French Polynesian Pearl Fisheries"
Monday, February 9, 2026 - 3:45 PM - HQ 276
Xan Chacko, Brown University
"The Seed Bank is Empire's Archive"
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Allegra Ayida, Yale University
"Kingdom in the Creeks: Hydropolitics and Environmental Power in the Niger River Delta"

2025

Monday, November 17, 2025 - 4:00 PM - HQ 107
Judith Surkis, Rutgers University
"Oil Lines and Blood Lines: Patrimony, Sovereignty, and Natural Resources between France and Algeria, 1961-1971"
Thursday, November 13, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Sahar Bostock, Yale University
"Dismantling Modernity: The Beersheba Railway and the Peripheralization of Southern Palestine, , 1915-1927"
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 4:00 PM - HQ 107
Tracie Matysik, University of Texas Austin
"Bear Life / Bare Life: Bruno, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty in the Bavarian Alps"
Thursday, October 23, 2025 - 9:00 AM - HQ 107
Botao Zhao, Yale University
"Ripples from Afar: Modernity, Global Frictions, and the Disappearance of Horse Caravans in the Sino- Tibetan Frontier"
Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Kamil Ahsan, Yale University
"The Reef in the Oilfield: Petroleum Geology & Oil Prospecting in British Honduras, 1950-1990"
Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Li Murphy, Yale University
"Frass, Fire, and False Names: Rethinking "Mormon Crickets" and the Politics of Public Lands out "West""
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 121
Nataliia Laas, Yale University
"Environmental Citizenship and the Economy of Waste in Post-WWII Soviet Union"
Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Laura Martin, Williams College
"War Against Weeds: How Hormonal Herbicides Reshaped Life on Earth"
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 4:30 PM - Medical Historical Library (333 Cedar Street)
Helen Curry, Georgia Tech
"Roots of Risk: Managing Diversity and Disease in a Potato Genebank"
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Friday, April 11, 2025 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom, and 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Aditya Ramesh, University of Washington
"Water, Fish, and Energy: Energy and Agrarian Democracy in South India c. 1920–1971 (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 12:00 PM - Luce Hall 203 (34 Hillhouse Avenue)
Matthew Ghazarian, Yale University
"Reaped and Sown: Famine & Ethnic Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire (Council on Middle East Studies)"
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Charlotte Leib, Yale University
"The Energy and Environmental History of the New Jersey Meadowlands"
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 121
Echo Li, Yale University
"Working with Tailings: Representations of Mining in Zimbabwe after 1900"
Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Matthew Ghazarian, Yale University
"Settling the Armenian Question: Imperial Violence and Rural Life at the End of Empire"
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 12:00pm
Rachel Rothschild, University of Michigan Law School
"Environmental Science and the Administrative State, (Legal History Workshop)"
Friday, February 21, 2025 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom, and 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Mariana Diaz Chalela, Yale University
"Good Creditors and Good Debtors: Campesino Identity and Agricultural Credit in the Colombian Twentieth Century (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)"
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Thursday, February 20, 2025 - 12:00 PM - HQ 107
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Yale University
"Electrifying India"