Archived Events

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"

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)"
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 - 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"
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"
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)"
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)"
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)"
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)"
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)"
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)"
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)"
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)"
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"
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)"
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)"

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"
Friday, April 24, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Marvin Chochotte (Yale Agrarian Studies)
"Building Roads to Democratic Revolution: Development Projects, Community Councils, the Tonton Makout Militia, and the Fall of the Duvalier Dictatorship, 1971-1986 (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Monday, April 20, 2020 - Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall
Nasser Zakariya (University of California, Berkeley)
"TBA (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia)"
Friday, April 17, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Jenniffer Vargas Reina (Yale Agrarian Studies)
"State, Land, and War: Land Accumulation during Colombian Civil War (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Monday, April 13, 2020 - 4:30 PM - 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room L215
Leslie Reagan (University of Illinois)
"Defining Disabilities: Agent Orange, Veterans, Children, and the US Government (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Manuelidis Lecture)"
Friday, April 3, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Samuel Dolbee (Yale Agrarian Studies)
"Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East, 1858-1939 (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Monday, March 30, 2020 - 4:30 PM - 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room L215
Wendy Kline (Purdue University)
"The ‘LSD Block’ and the Therapeutic Alliance: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Psychedelic Medicine in the U.K. (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Holmes Lecture)"
Friday, March 27, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Cassandra Thiesen-Mark (University of Basel)
"Life, Labor and Atlantic Commerce between Manoh River and Fisherman’s Lake (West Africa) in the 19th century (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Friday, February 28, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Erika Milam (Princeton University)
"Slow Science: Ecological Landscapes and their Organisms (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Friday, February 21, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Jeanne Féaux (University of Tübingen)
"Between Climate Fears and River Dreams: Transdisciplinary Research Processes in Central Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Monday, February 17, 2020 - Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall
Dan Bouk (Colgate University)
"Reading Data as a Liberal Art: Telling Stories in and around the 1940 U.S. Census (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia)"
Friday, February 14, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Robyn d'Avignon (New York University)
"Making a Ritual Geology in Savannah West Africa ca. 800-1900 AD (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Friday, February 7, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Dana Powell (Appalachian State University)
"Unsettling Exceptionality and Ruin: Native Presence in the Anthropocene (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Monday, February 3, 2020 - Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall
Naveeda Khan (Johns Hopkins University)
"The Work of ‘Loss and Damage’ within Global Climate Negotiations (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia)"
Friday, January 31, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
James Hevia (University of Chicago)
"Desert Locust Plagues and Imperialism Science (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Monday, January 27, 2020 - 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room L215
Nic Ramos (Brown University)
"Emergent Economies, Emergent Medicine: Emergency Medical Services and the Normalization of Everyday Violence in 1980s Los Angeles (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia)"
Friday, January 24, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University)
"Monitoring Water, Land, and People: The Historical Roots of Hybrid Seed Research in the Yaqui Valley (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - 4:00 PM - Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
Michael Warner (Yale English), William Rankin (Yale HSHM), Sarah Pickman (Yale HSHM)
"Keywords: Infrastructure, Extremity, and Temporality, Panel and Reception (Yale Environmental Humanities)"

2019

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM - TBA
"Environmental Humanities Symposium (Yale Environmental Humanities)"
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Samantha Iyer (Fordham University)
"The Global Problem of Plenty: Regulating Agriculture in Egypt, India, and the United States, 1870s to 1930s (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Thursday, November 21, 2019 - 4:30 PM - Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 203
Sunil Sharma (Boston University)
"Veiled Voyagers: The Emergence of Travel Writing by Women in West Asia (Council on Middle East Studies)"
Thursday, November 21, 2019 - 4:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
Ben Kiernan (Yale History)
"Agriculture Comes to Cambodia (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series)"
Monday, November 18, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Nancy Kuhl (Yale Beinecke Library)
"Nancy Kuhl, curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature, on John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” (Mondays at Beinecke)"
Friday, November 15, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Pierre Du Plessis (Aarhus University)
"Staying with the Truffle: Tracking Landscape Relations in the Kalahari Desert after “Man the Hunter” (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 5:00PM - McClellan 101
Sarah Dry, Author
"Waters of the World: The story of the scientists who unravelled the mysteries of our seas, glaciers, and atmosphere and made the planet whole"
Friday, November 8, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Ericka Beckman (University of Pennsylvania)
"Epics and Anti-epics of Agrarian Transformation in Twentieth Century Latin America (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Whitney Humanities Center
"Usable Climate Science and the Uses of History, An Interdisciplinary Workshop at Yale University"
Wednesday, November 6, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
Samuel Dolbee (Yale Agrarian Studies)
"“Everywhere…where the desert sand borders on inhabited districts,” 1908-1918 (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series)"
Friday, November 1, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Alison Collis Greene (Emory University)
"The Light of Tyrrell: Economic Justice and Christian Interracialism in a Jim Crow Swamp (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Friday, October 25, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (SUNY Buffalo)
"The Subversive Politics of Sentient Places: Climate Change, Collective Ethics, and Environmental Justice in Peru (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Eric Slauter (University of Chicago)
"Walden’s Carbon Footprint: People, Plants, Animals, and Machines in the Making of an American Book (Yale Program in the History of the Book)"
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
Gabriel Lee (Yale History)
"Concrete Reclamation Ideology (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series)"
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - 81 Wall Street, Gordon Parks Seminar Room 201
Carolyn Roberts (Yale HSHM)
"Doctoring Chaos: Slavery and Medicine in the West African Slave Trading Zones (Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World)"
Monday, October 21, 2019 - 4:00 PM - TBA
Henry Lamb (Aberystwyth University)
"Lake Tana, the Blue Nile and beyond: paleoenvironments of Ethiopia (Yale Nile Initiative)"
Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 5:30 PM - Peabody Museum of Natural History, David Friend Hall
Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University)
"The Ethical Choices of Whales: Bowheads, Hunters, and the Nature of History (Peabody Museum of Natural History)"
Friday, October 11, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Zachary Caple (University of South Florida)
"The Human Asteroid Lands in Florida: A Craterology of the Bone Valley Phosphate Mining District (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - 81 Wall Street, Gordon Parks Seminar Room 201
Kristen Block (University of Tennessee)
"The Emotional and Spiritual Context of Leprosy Diagnosis in French Caribbean Slave Societies (Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World)"
Friday, October 4, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Charles Mann (Writer and Journalist)
"The History of the West from the Future (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Friday, October 4, 2019 - 4:00 PM - Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Room 201
Elfatih Eltahir (MIT)
"Hydrology and Climate of the Nile Basin: Past, Present, and Future (Yale Nile Initiative)"
Thursday, October 3, 2019 - 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM - Horchow Hall, Room 103
Mohamad Junaid (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts)
"Visible/Invisible: Disaster, Occupation, and the Politics of Images during 2014 Flood in Indian-administered Kashmir (South Asian Studies Council)"
Monday, September 30, 2019 - 6:30 PM - Rudolph Hall, Smith Conference Room, Room 322
Shannon Mattern (The New School)
"Ether and Ore: An Archaeology of Urban Intelligences (Yale Architecture Forum)"
Friday, September 27, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Faisal Husain (Penn State)
"The Ecology of Mobile Pastoralism in the Ottoman World: An Early Modern View from the Edge (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
Thomas Monaghan (Yale History)
"Amami and amami: Japanese sugar in a global context, 1700-1900 (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series)"
Friday, September 20, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"Bradley Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University) “Marks of the Beast: Animals and Ethnē in the Vietnamese Agrarian Empire” (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 5:30 PM - Peabody Museum of Natural History
"Paola Bertucci (Yale HSHM) "What Is Natural History The History Of?" (Peabody Museum of Natural History John H. Ostrom Lecture Series)"
Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Room 38-39
"Rebecca Solnit (Author) and George Miles (Yale), “Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West” (Windham Campbell Festival, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)"
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
"Camille Cole (Yale History) "Nafi'a for the Tigris: The hazine-i hassa and the infrastructure of development in late Ottoman Iraq, 1882-1914" (Yale Environmental History Workshop Series)"
Monday, September 16, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106
"Ariel Ron (Southern Methodist University) "King Hay: Energy History and Economic Nationalism in the American Civil War Era" (Yale Economic History Workshop)"
Friday, September 13, 2019 - 12:00pm - Luce Hall, Room 202
"Amir A. Afkhami (George Washington University) "A Modern Contagion: Cholera’s Impact on Iranian History" (Yale Iran Colloquium)"
Friday, September 13, 2019 - 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"Marc Edelman (Baruch College) “How the United Nations Recognized the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas” (Yale Agrarian Studies)"
Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - 81 Wall Street, Gordon Parks Seminar Room 201
"Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “Deliberate Acts and Desperate Measures: (Mis)Perceptions of Dirt Eating on Jamaican Plantations.” (Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World)"
Monday, September 9, 2019 - 3:45 PM - 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room L215
"Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “Professional Pursuits and the Making of Race: Medicalizing Blackness in the Atlantic World” (Yale History of Science and Medicine Program Colloquia)"
Friday, September 6, 2019 - 4:00 PM - Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
"Paola Bertucci (Yale HSHM), Carolyn Laferrière (Yale History of Art), and George Miles (Curator, Beinecke) "Art and Artifacts: Yale's Environmental Humanities Collections" Panel and Reception (Yale Environmental Humanities)"
Friday, September 6, 2019 - 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM - 81 Wall Street, Gordon Parks Seminar Room 201
"Harriet Washington (Author), Elihu Ruben (Yale), and Mikki Meadows (Quinnipiac University) “Environmental Racism and Public Health” Panel Discussion (Democracy in America)"
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Nielson Irving Harris Building, E-02, Cohen Auditorium
"Harriet Washington (Writer) “The Brain Thieves: Heavy Metals, Pathogens and Other Enemies of Cognition” (Yale Program for Humanities in Medicine)"
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 7:30 PM - Whitney Humanities Center
"Rowan Jacobsen (Writer) "The Nature of Nature: What Happens When We Start Engineering the Wild?" (Yale Quantum Institute, Franke Program in Science and the Humanities)"
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 4:00 PM - Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium
"Brian Scassellati (Yale) "Mapping the Frontier Between Man and Machine" (Franke Program in Science and the Humanities)"
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 12:00pm - 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
"Lorena S. Walsh (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) "Technologies of Labor Coercion in the 17th and 18th Century Chesapeake" (Gilder Lehrman Center)"
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
"Caitlin Kossmann (Yale), "Truth or Tool? Scientific Language and the Metaphor of Gaia""
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) "
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)"
Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 3:00pm - McClellan 101 (Old Campus)
Victor McFarland, University of Missouri
"U.S. Energy Transition Politics in the 1970s"
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)"
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""
Monday, April 1, 2019 - 4:00 PM - Anthropology Department, Room 105, 10 Sachem Street
Sophia Roosth, Harvard University
"Sophia Roosth (Harvard University), "Twenty Years is a Long Time" (Yale Anthropology)"
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, March 6, 2019 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - McClellan Hall, Room 101
"Teona Williams (Yale), "'For Peace, Quiet, and Respect': Race and Contested Spaces in Chicago’s Southside""
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)"
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)"
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)"
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 - 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 21, 2018 - 2:30 PM - 10 Sachem Street
"“The Wood Age in Asia: Connection and Comparison in Forest History” Conference"
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 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 7, 2018 - 3pm - Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
Roundtable and Fall Reception
" Energy and the Humanities: Interventions and Ambitions"
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""
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)"
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)"
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)"
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 - 6:30pm - Hastings Hall
Caitlin DeSilvey, University of Exeter
""Curated Decay: Inevitable Loss and Other Opportunities""
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)"
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)"
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 - 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)"
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)"
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""
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)"
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)"
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)"
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)"
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)"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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""
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"
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 - 4:30pm - Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall)
Timothy Snyder, Yale University
"Black Earth: The Holocaust as Environmental History"
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 12pm - HGS 211
Karl Jacoby, Columbia University
"An Empire of Dust: A Life Between the Color Line and the Borderline"
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"
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 - 12pm - Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall (FES Research Seminar)
Paul Sabin, Yale University
"'Sue the Bastards': Public Interest Environmental Law, Then and Now"

2016

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 - 11:30-1:00 (light lunch served) - HGS 204
Keri Lambert, Caroline Lieffers, Ashanti Shih
"Environmental History Prospectus Workshop"
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 - 4:00 - Luce Hall Room 202
Laura Martin, Harvard University
"'Such a merciless war of extermination': Nativism in Early Ecological Restoration (with the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities)"
Monday, November 7, 2016 - 4pm - KGL 123
Edward R. Cook, Tree-Ring Laboratory, Columbia-Lamont Earth Observatory
"Discovering Megadroughts Across the Northern Hemisphere from Long Tree-Ring Records: Climate Histories and Human Impacts During the Common Era"
Thursday, October 27, 2016 - 4:00 PM - ISPS, 77 PROSPECT ST, RM A0002
Harriet Ritvo, MIT
"Species Problem"
Friday, October 14, 2016 - 11am - Luce Hall Room 203 (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)
Fabian Drixler
"Food, Community, and the Geography of Death in Japan’s Volcanic Winters, 1640-1840"
Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 4pm - HGS 105
Mark Carey, Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon
"Deep ice cores, time, and the re-envisioning of the global environment"
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - 5:30-7:00PM - Luce Hall Common Room (2nd Floor)
"Fall Reception for Agrarian Studies and Yale Environmental History"
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 12:00pm - HGS 204
Sayd Randle, Yale University
"Getting the Rain Underground: A Brief History of the Los Angeles County Stormwater Spreading Grounds"
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 12:00 PM - 203 Luce Hall (Southeast Asia Studies Seminar)
Mitchitake Aso, SUNY-Albany
"“Modernity’s Environment: Rubber Plantations and the Making of Vietnam, 1897-1975""
Monday, April 4, 2016 - 12:00pm - HGS 204
Ashanti Shih, Yale University
"Visualizing Ecology: Mercury and Minamata Bay, 1956-1975"
Monday, March 28, 2016 - 4:00pm - HGS 211 (HSHM Colloquium)
Nathan Ensmenger, Indiana University
"Dirty Bits: An Environmental History of Computing"
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 3:30pm - HGS 204
Ariel Ron, Yale University
"The Republican Developmental Synthesis: Scientific Agriculture and Economic Ideology in the Antebellum North"
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 4:00-5:30PM - Bowers Auditorium
Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werrell, Center for Climate and Security
"Climate Change and State Fragility: The Case of Syria and What It Means for the Future"
Monday, February 22, 2016 - 12:00pm - HGS 204
Reinaldo Funes, Yale University and University of Havana
"From Plantations to Tourism: An Environmental History of Cuba and the Great Caribbean"
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 12:00pm - HGS 204
Elihu Rubin, Yale University
"Ghost Town: A Resource History of American Urbanism"

2015

Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 5:00PM - HGS 204
Fabian Drixler, Yale University
"Japan in the Volcanic Winters of the Early Modern World"
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 5:15PM - SML Lecture Hall
Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History, Yale University
"Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning"
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - 12:00pm - KGL 102 (YCEI Lecture Series)
Joseph Manning, Simpson Professor of Classics and History, Yale University
"Volcanic forcing triggers revolts and suppresses interstate conflict in Hellenistic Egypt"
Monday, November 16, 2015 - 4:00pm - KGL 123 (YCEI Lecture Series)
Francis Ludlow, YCEI Postdoctoral Fellow
"Understanding drivers of violence and conflict in Medieval Ireland"
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - 12:00pm - HGS 204
Abigail Agresta, Yale University
""Corrupt Air and Contagious Bodies: Plague in Medieval Valencia""
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 4:00 PM - HGS 217A (with the Lamar Center)
Bob Morrissey, University of Illinois-Urbana
"The Illinois and the Edge Effect: Native American Power in the Tallgrass Prairie Borderlands, 1600-1800"
Friday, October 16, 2015 - Conference hosted by Yale Program in Agrarian Studies, Oct 16-18
"Pig Out: Hogs and Humans in Global and Historical Context"
Thursday, September 17, 2015 - 3:30pm - HGS 204
David Biggs, University of California, Riverside
"A Coffee Conversation on Environmental History"
Friday, September 11, 2015 - 2:30pm - HGS 204
John McNeill, Georgetown University
"A Coffee Conversation on Environmental History"
Friday, April 3, 2015
Ray Bradley, UMass-Amherst
"The Little Ice Age---how bad was it?"
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
A Conversation with Yale Professors Michael Warner and Alan Mikhail
"Teaching And Studying The 'Anthropocene'?"
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Richard Seager, Columbia University
"North American hydroclimate variability over the last millennium"
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Martin Medina, Amherst College
"Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing of Maya Collapse"
Monday, February 9, 2015
Paul Edwards, University Of Michigan
"Climate Data Detectives: On The History And Politics Of Knowledge About Global Climate Change."
Friday, January 23, 2015
Bill Ruddiman, University of Virginia
"Depopulation and Greenhouse-Gas Drops"

2014

Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Eric Rutkow, Yale University
"The Eagle And The Octopuses: The United States, The Pan-American Railway, And Infrastructure Development In Latin America, 1900-1929."
Monday, October 27, 2014
Ben Kiernan, Yale University
"Land, Water, Climate And Culture: Writing An Environmental History Of Viet Nam From Earliest Times."
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Ted Steinberg, Davee Professor History And Law, Case Western University
"Can New York City Survive The Sea?"
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Donald Worster, University Of Kansas
"A Coffee Conversation On Environmental History."
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 12:00 PM - HGS 204
Scott Crago, University Of New Mexico
"Of Footballers And Traveling Guitarists: Rural Recreation And Mapuche Cultural Revival Under Plan Perquenco."
Monday, March 31, 2014
Francis Ludlow, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale Climate And Energy Institute
"A Millennium Of Extreme Weather And Human Vulnerability From Irish Medieval Chronicles."
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Joy Rankin, Yale University
"Let's Meet At Boneyard Creek: The Intersection Of Personal Computing And The Environmental Movement In The Early 1970S."
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
David Bello, Associate Professor, Washington & Lee University
"Shifting Virtue Towards A Sustainable Qing."
Monday, January 27, 2014
Daniel Headrick, Roosevelt University
"Sleeping Sickness Epidemics And Colonial Responses In Africa, 1900-1940."

2013

Thursday, December 5, 2013
Alan Mikhail, Yale Department Of History
"The Animal In Ottoman Egypt."
Monday, November 11, 2013
Alistair Sponsel, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
"How Coral Reefs Became Fragile"
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Timothy Lorek, Doctoral Student, Yale Department Of History
"Railroads And Agrarian Landscapes In The New Mexico Borderlands"
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Edmund Russell, University Of Kansas
"A Coffee Conversation On Environmental History."
Monday, September 30, 2013
Fabian Drixler, Yale Department Of History
"Reborn As Wild Boar: From Overcrowding To Depopulation (And Back Again) In Early Modern Japan."
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Janam Mukherjee, Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow
"The Chicken And The Egg: Bird Flu In Bengal"
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Victor Mcfarland, Yale University
"The Politics Of Energy Independence In The 1970s"
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Matthew Bender, Associate History Professor, College Of New Jersey, And Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow
"The Mountains Of Jagga! Encountering Eden In Africa, 1848-1890"
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Andrew Horowitz, Yale University
"How To Sink New Orleans: Floods, Levees, Oil, And States' Rights In Louisiana, 1927-1965"
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Cherie Woodworth, Independent Scholar, Yale Center For Comparative Research
"Seeing The Forest, Seeing The Trees: Reconsidering The Early Modern Fuel Crisis And Colonial Expansion"

2012

Monday, December 3, 2012
Gabriel Rosenberg, Assistant Professor, Duke University And Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow
"4-H And The Biopolitics Of Agricultural Reform In Early Twentieth-Century America"
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
William Rankin, Yale University
"Maps As Sources, Mapping As Method, And Cartography As Scholarship"
Monday, November 12, 2012
Matthew Klingle, Associate Professor, Bowdoin College
"Sweet Blood: Natives, Environment, And The Changing Nature Of Diabetes Mellitus Epidemiology"
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Stuart Schwartz, Yale University
"Storms In A Spanish Sea: Hurricanes And The Perception Of Providence And Nature In The Caribbean"
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Dana Graef, Yale University
"Negotiating Environmental Sovereignty In Costa Rica: Legacies Of Transnational Mining And Hydropower"
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Ling Zhang, Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow And Assistant Professor, Boston College
"Manipulating The Yellow River And The State Formation Of The Northern Song Dynasty (907-1127)"
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Shaila Seshia Galvin, Yale University
"Imagining Uttarakhand: Nature And Agriculture In The Indian Himalaya"

2011

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Cherie Woodworth, Yale University
"The 'Wild Field,' Pastoralism, And Anthropogenic Grasslands: The Eurasian Steppe From Antiquity To 1700"
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Samuel White, Assistant Professor, Oberlin College
"A Cold Welcome?: The Little Ice Age And The First European Colonies In North America"
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Charu Singh, Yale University
"Configuring The Monsoon: Rainfall And Famine In Nineteenth Century Western India"
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Francesca Ammon, Yale University
"A Dirt-Moving War': Bulldozers As Weapons And Heroes In World War Ii"
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Helen Curry, Yale University
"Radiation And Species Preservation: Saving The American Chestnut Tree In The Atomic Age"
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Gene Tempest, Yale University
"Gas Warfare And The Horses Of The Western Front, 1915-1918"
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Alan Mikhail, Yale University
"Middle East Environmental History: The Fallow Between Two Fields"
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Paul Freedman, Charles D. Tripp Professor, Yale University
"American Dining And The Natural World, 19Th And 20Th Centuries"

2010

Thursday, December 9, 2010
John Grim, Yale University
"The Political Stakes Of Embodied Knowledge In An Apsaalooka/Crow Ceremonial"
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Rachel Rothschild, Yale University
"Environmental Consciousness In The Cold War: Radioecologists, Nuclear Technology, And The Atomic Age"
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Paul Erickson, Wesleyan University
"When Humans Became Rabbits (And Rabbits, Humans): Ecology, The Idea Of Population, And Histories Of Disease"
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Jacob Dlamini, Yale University
"Fire Control, Conservation, And Class In South Africa's Kruger National Park"
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Karen Hebert, Yale University
"Properties Of Restructuring: Charting Fisheries Regulatory Change In Bristol Bay, Alaska"
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Christine Delucia, Yale University
"The Memory Frontier: Making Past And Place In The Northeast After King Philip's War"
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Robin Scheffler, Yale University
"Places Of Empire: Tropical Biology On Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 1920-1940"
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Philip Slavin, Yale University
"On Humans And Bovids: Two Plagues And A Famine In England, 1310-50"
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Paola Bertucci, Yale University
"Earthquakes And Enlightenment: Controlling The Convulsing Body Of The Earth In The Age Of Reform"

2009

Thursday, December 10, 2009
John Wargo, Yale University
"Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health"
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Sarah Cameron, Yale University
"How Socialism Tried To Conquer The Steppe: The Manufacture Of A Crisis In Soviet Kazakhstan, 1929-1931"
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Peter Perdue, Yale University
"From The Hills To The White House: Chinese Tea In Global Markets"
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Julie Bowring, Yale University
"For Private Profit Or Public Good, Or One Man's Quagmire Is Another's Pleasant Pasture: Debates On Drainage In Eastern England, C1600-1660"
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Barry Muchnick, Yale University
"The Country Is The Fresh Air Fund': The Moral Ecology Of Citizenship In Turn-Of-The-Century America"
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Paul Sabin, Yale University
"The Climate Crisis And Energy Transition: What Role For History?"