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Upcoming Lectures & Colloquium

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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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)"
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)"
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
"Teona Williams (Yale), "'Build A Wall Around Hyde Park:' Race and Contested Spaces in Hyde Park 1940-2010""
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, 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""
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"
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)"
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) "
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
"Caitlin Kossmann (Yale), "(Re)Claiming Gaia: Science, Science Studies, and Metaphors of Connection""

Past Lectures & Colloquium

2019

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 - 2:30 PM - 10 Sachem Street
"“The Wood Age in Asia: Connection and Comparison in Forest History” Conference"
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 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 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 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)"

2017

Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - 12:00 - Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 204 (HGS 204)
John Lee, Yale Agrarian Studies
"“A Palimpsest of Horses and Pines: The Environmental Legacy of the Mongol Empire in Korea, 1270-1684""
Friday, November 3, 2017 - 3:00pm - Whitney Humanities Center, Room
Prasenjit Duara (Duke), Kathleen Morrison (UPenn), Karen Thornber (Harvard)
"Entanglements with Nature: Asian Environmental Humanities Panel (Inter-Asia Connections and Yale Environmental Humanities)"
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Monday, October 30, 2017 - 12:00pm - HGS 204
Emma Shortis, Fox International Fellow, Yale University
" "The Emotions of Popular Environmentalism: Fear, Empathy and Hope in the Campaign for a World Park Antarctica""
Monday, October 23, 2017 - 4:00pm - 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106
Paul Erdkamp, Free University, Brussels
""Malthus, Climate and the Decline of the Roman World: Some Critical Remarks" (Economic History Workshop)"
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Saturday, October 21, 2017 - Whitney Humanities Center
"Collapse! What Collapse? Faculty climate history workshop at Yale"
Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 4pm - HGS 105
Nancy Langston, Michigan Technological University
"A Coffee Conversation in Environmental History"
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017 - 12pm - HGS 204
Paul Berne Burow, Yale Joint FES & Anthropology Program
"Saving Buffalo Nation: Settler Colonialism and the Rise of Wildlife Conservation in the Intermountain West, 1855-1934"
Monday, September 18, 2017 - 4:00pm - Luce Hall 203 and Common Room
James Scott (Political Science), Jennifer Raab (History of Art), and Paul Sabin (History)
"Teaching the Environmental Humanities: Panel and Fall Reception"
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 12pm - HGS 204
Daniel Headrick (Roosevelt University)
"“The Two Disasters of the Sixth Century”"
Thursday, May 4, 2017 - 9:00AM-5:00pm - Whitney Humanities Center
Yale Doctoral Students (multiple departments)
"More than Nature: Environmental Humanities at Yale"
Friday, April 28, 2017 - 12:30-2:00PM - Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
Meg Jacobs, Princeton University (Hosted by CHESS)
"Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s"
Saturday, April 22, 2017 - 8:30AM-5:00PM - Luce Hall
"New Perspectives in Environmental History Conference"
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - 12pm - HGS 211
John McNeill, Georgetown University
"Three Approaches to the Anthropocene: The Industrial Revolution, the Cold War, and the Geopolitical History of Fossil Fuels"
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Monday, April 10, 2017 - 4:30pm - Fulton Room, SHM, L215, 333 Cedar Street
Harriet Ritvo, MIT
"A Whiff of Danger: Hybridity, Breed, and Wildness"
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 12pm - HGS 211
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
""Poor Richard's Climate: Body, Comfort, and Conservation in the Little Ice Age""
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 - 12pm - Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall (co-sponsored by FES & RITM)
Julie Sze, University of California, Davis
"Equality in the Air We Breathe: Police Violence, Pollution, and the Politics of Sustainability"
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Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 3:30pm - HGS 204
Reinaldo Funes-Monzote, Yale University
"The Milk and the Animal: Protein Policies of the Cuban Revolution, 1959-present. A Socio-Ecological Interpretation"
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 12pm - HGS 211
Karl Jacoby, Columbia University
"An Empire of Dust: A Life Between the Color Line and the Borderline"
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 4:30pm - Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall)
Timothy Snyder, Yale University
"Black Earth: The Holocaust as Environmental History"
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Friday, March 3, 2017 - 12:00pm-1:30pm - Room 202, Henry R. Luce Hall
Ling Zhang, Boston College
"An Environmental Economy during China’s 'Medieval Economic Revolution'"
Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 12pm - HGS 105
Tim Lorek, Yale University
""Sugarcane Genealogies: Transnational Plant Breeding and Colombian State Formation in the 1930s""
Monday, February 20, 2017 - 12pm - HGS 211
Tiya Miles, University of Michigan
"“Slave man or woman, Negro or Pawnee”: Red and Black Bondage in Early Detroit"
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