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March 7, 2024
The Yale Environmental History group hosted its “New Perspectives in Energy History” Conference on March 2nd, inviting energy scholars from institutions across the northeast...
February 25, 2024
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program invites brief submissions of paper proposals from Yale graduate students or postdocs for its 2024 Spring research symposium. The...
January 25, 2024
Never before in human history has Earth experienced a change in climate as rapid as the shift we’re living through today. Can history hold clues to an upheaval without...
January 18, 2024
Wednesday, January 24th, 3:30pm HQ 136 (320 York Street) Yale Environmental Humanities Spring ‘24 Welcome-Back Event Yale Environmental Humanities is delighted to host a...
January 16, 2024
Rob Nixon, the Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University, will deliver the 2024 Tanner Lectures on Human...
December 18, 2023
In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could...
December 12, 2023
Kate McNally is a sixth-year PhD candidate at the anthropology department. We spoke with her about her work studying the collapse of the northeast cod fisheries, post-...
December 6, 2023
Taylor Rose is a doctoral candidate in the history department focusing on resource extraction and the military-industrial complex in the American west.   What is your...
December 5, 2023
Lauren Killingsworth, MD/PhD student, has been awarded this year’s Nathan Reingold Prize from the History of Science Society for the best not-yet published article by a...
November 15, 2023
An award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female.     The idea that...
November 15, 2023
Kaggie Orrick is a sixth-year PhD student in the School of the Environment. Her dissertation studies the relationships between human and wildlife land use in the Makgadikgadi...
November 1, 2023
An ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency—and the role they played in US imperialism.   In Imperial Material, Alvita Akiboh reveals how US national identity has...
October 17, 2023
How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science.   In 1749, the celebrated French physicist...
October 17, 2023
How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science.   In 1749, the celebrated French physicist...
September 30, 2023
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program invites brief submissions of paper proposals from Yale graduate students or postdocs for its 2023 Fall research symposium. The...
September 23, 2023
An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance   “Historically rich and superbly written.”—David J...
September 15, 2023
Call for Papers:  “New Perspectives in Energy History”  Yale University Saturday, March 2, 2024  Abstract Submission Deadline: November 10, 2023   Yale University’s working...
rendering of the Living Village's glass-enclosed community kitchen
September 13, 2023
The Yale Divinity School seeks to put its eco-theology principles into practice when it breaks ground in October on its new Living Village project. The 2-year construction...
September 13, 2023
The Yale Center for Environmental Justice will host its fifth annual Global Environmental Justice conference, “Environmental Joy,” next month, October 27th. The two-day event...
August 21, 2023
AUGUST 2023, BOSTON, MA – Oliver Lucier, of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, has been awarded the 2023 AMS/Graduate Fellowship in the History of Science.    The fellowship is...