Public Events

Upcoming Lectures & Colloquia

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 12:00pm
Rachel Rothschild, University of Michigan Law School
"Title TBA, (Legal History Workshop)"
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 3:45pm - Location TBA
Helen Curry, Georgia Tech
"Title TBA (HSHM)"
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Past Lectures & Colloquia

2024

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 12:00pm - HQ 134
Yuan Gao (Yale Agrarian Studies)
"Central Asian Declensionism or New Frontiers for Colonization? Environmental Narratives in Turn-of-the-century Xinjiang"
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 12:00pm - On Zoom
Allegra Ayida (Yale)
"Princes of Palm Oil: Intersections of the Slave and Palm Oil Trades in the Niger Delta (Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World Workshop)"
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 12:00pm - HQ 121
Kirke D.A. Elsass (Montana State University)
"Safe Basements: American Financial Planning, Family Recreation, and Fallout Preparedness in an Ideal Domestic Underground, 1930-1965"
Monday, November 18, 2024 - 3:45pm - HQ 276
Tom Özden-Schilling, National University of Singapore
"The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods (HSHM Lecture)"
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 11:30AM - HQ 206
Alberto Martinez Garcia (Yale School of Architecture)
"Colonialism Within a Building Section: Social Hierarchies and Thermal Comfort in the Filipino Bahay Na Bato"
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 4:00pm - HQ 136
Clark Alejandrino, Trinity College
"Weathering History: A Higher-Resolution Climate History of South China's Typhoon Spaces"
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Monday, October 21, 2024 - 12:00pm - HQ 107
Mariana Diaz Chalela, Yale University and Paul Sabin, Yale University
"“A New Mexican Situation”: The Struggle over Oil Rights in Colombia Before World War II"
Monday, October 14, 2024 - 3:45pm - HQ 136
John Kanbayashi, University of Pennsylvania
"Watershed Protection as Dispossession in Taiwan under Japanese Rule"
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Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 4:30pm - Luce 203
Sunil Amrith, Yale University
"The Burning Earth: A History"
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Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 4:00 PM - HQ 107
Paolo Squatriti, University of Michigan
"Paolo Squatriti (University of Michigan), “A Tale of Two Breads: Eucharistic and Everyday Loaves in early Medieval Europe” (History)"
Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 4:00pm - HQ 132
Marcy Norton, University of Pennsylvania
"The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492"
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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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Friday, April 12, 2024 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101 and on Zoom
Philip Wight, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
"The Petro-Welfare State: Alaska’s Experiment in Fiscal and Ecological Sustainability (Agrarian Studies)"
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Monday, March 25, 2024 - 4:00pm - Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 136
Amy Kohout, Colorado College
"Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers"
Saturday, March 2, 2024 - 9:30am - Humanities Quadrangle
"New Perspectives in Energy History (conference)"
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Friday, March 1, 2024 - 3:30pm - HQ 267
"Coffee Conversation with Elizabeth Chatterjee (Chicago)"
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Friday, February 23, 2024 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101 and on Zoom
Sam Hege (Yale Agrarian Studies)
"Watering Day and Night: How Bracero Workers came to Irrigate the Texas Panhandle"
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Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 4:00pm - On Zoom
Anto Mohsin, Northwestern University in Qatar
"The Politics of Electrification in Indonesia Post World War II"
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Friday, February 2, 2024 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Anthony Acciavatti
"Drawing Like a Tubewell: When Water Percolates and Oozes Through Soil (Agrarian Studies)"
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 7:00pm EST - On Zoom
Chang Jiat Hwee, National University of Singapore
"Governing Thermal Environments: Energetic Mediations and the Politics of Urban Cooling in Asia"
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Friday, January 26, 2024 - 1:30pm - HQ 267
Tony Yeboah, Yale University
"Kumase, the Capital City of Trees: Realism and Fantasy in West African Town Planning, 1650-present"
Friday, January 26, 2024 - 11:00 AM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Hi’ilei Hobart, Yale University
"What Returns, What Remains (Agrarian Studies)"
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 2:00pm - HQ 267
Taylor Rose, Yale University
"Dispossessing the Wastelands: Mining, Militarization, and Native Lands in the Nevada Desert, 1860–1990"
Monday, January 22, 2024 - 3:45PM - HQ 276
Victor Seow, Harvard University
"“A Useful and Protean Concept?”: Energy in History (HSHM)"
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