Public Events

Past Lectures & Colloquia

2022

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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Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM - Humanities Quadrangle, Room 132
Nisha Poyyaprath Rayaroth (Yale University, South Asian Studies Council)
"The Journeys of Elephants: An Indian Circus Trail"
Friday, September 24, 2021 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom
Dorian Fuller (University College, London)
"Contrasting Pathways to Domestication and Early Agricultural Productivities: Examples across Africa and Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Friday, September 17, 2021 - 11:00 AM - Online via Zoom
Scott Reynolds Nelson (University of Georgia)
"Using Wheat to Rethink Capitalism and Slavery: Russian Imperial Finance, Land Grant Railroads, and the Southern One Percent (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT - Online via Zoom
Sarah Pickman (Yale University)
"'The Most Essential to His Comfort, Health and Happiness': The Expedition Packing List and the Creation of an Ideal Environment (Yale Environmental History Colloquium)"
Thursday, April 29, 2021 - 5:30 PM EDT - Online via Zoom
"Teaching the Energy Transition (Yale Environmental Humanities)"
Friday, April 23, 2021 - 11:00 AM EDT - Online via Zoom
Hengameh Ziai (Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow)
"Peasants as Human Capital: A Political Genealogy of Neoliberalism in Chicago School Development Economics (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Thursday, April 22, 2021 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT - Online via Zoom
Mark Frank (Yale University)
"Chinese Empire after Empire: Agrarian Colonization on the Twentieth-Century Frontier (Council on East Asian Studies)"
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT - Online via Zoom
Thomas Monaghan (Yale University)
"Refining the Plantationocene: Situating East Asian Sugar in the Early Modern World"
Friday, April 16, 2021 - 11:00 AM EDT - Online via Zoom
Vikram Tamboli (Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow)
"Malabar, Gentoo, and Pariah: A Speculative History of South Asian Blackness in British Guiana (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Friday, April 9, 2021 - 11:00 AM EDT - Online via Zoom
Rui Hua (Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow)
"The Schizophrenia of Sovereignty: Peasants’ Law of Nations and the People’s Game of Great Powers in the Manchurian Borderland, 1881-1932 (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT - Online via Zoom
Gabriel Lee (Yale University Postdoctoral Fellow)
"John Burroughs and the Nature of Highways (Yale Environmental History Colloquium)"
Friday, April 2, 2021 - 11:00 AM EDT - Online via Zoom
Marina Welker (Cornell University)
"Indonesian Tobacco Agriculture and Contract Relations (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT - Online via Zoom
Charlotte Leib (Yale University)
"'Changing the Face of Watts': A Visual History of Community Organizing and Landscape Change in Watts, LA (Yale Environmental History Colloquium)"
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 11:00 AM EDT - Online via Zoom
Arianne Sedef Urus (Harvard University)
"Properties of Empire: Environment and Law in the Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland Cod Fisheries (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 12:00 PM EDT - Online via Zoom
Natalie Koch (Syracuse University)
"Saudi Arizona: The Past and Present of Arid Empire and Desert-to-Desert Connections (Council on Middle East Studies)"
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM EST - Online via Zoom
Speaker: Steven T. Moga (Smith College) / Moderator: Charlotte Leib (Yale University)
"Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty and Planning | A Conversation with Steven T. Moga"
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 12:15 PM EST - Online via Zoom
Thomas W. Mitchell (Texas A&M School of Law) and Carlton Sanders (farmer)
"Racism, land loss, and the creation of modern agriculture (Law, Ethics & Animals Program)"
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Friday, February 26, 2021 - 12:00 PM EST - Online via Zoom
Susanne Wengle (University of Notre Dame)
"Technopolitics and the Human-Nature Nexus in Contemporary Russian Agriculture (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
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Thursday, February 25, 2021 - 8:00 PM EST - Online via Zoom
Andrew Alan Johnson
"Streams of Consciousness: An evening of open-ended conversation about Mekong Dreaming (Council on Southeast Asia Studies)"
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2020

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