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November 1, 2024
On Nov. 4, Yale Peabody Museum, in partnership with Yale Schwarzman Center, will host an experimental opera that imagines Earth after human extinction…   An...
October 19, 2024
Twelve Ph.D. students from across the humanities joined Yale this fall as the fourth cohort of Whitney Humanities Center Graduate Fellows in the Environmental Humanities. The...
October 17, 2024
On September 6, 2024, twelve members of Yale Environmental Humanities—graduate students, postdoctoral associates, faculty, and administrators—embarked from Branford,...
October 8, 2024
A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years.   In this magisterial...
October 1, 2024
The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth.     On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a...
September 27, 2024
Geographic scholarship on landscape and colonialism has not substantially engaged with the specific logics of settler colonialism, propelling recent calls to “unlearn” and “...
September 24, 2024
One of Literary Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024   A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped...
September 12, 2024
Climate change law and policy have been influenced heavily by economic thinking. This article uses two manifestations of that thinking - the social cost of carbon and carbon...
September 8, 2024
Yale Environmental Humanities will host a welcome-back panel and reception on Friday, September 20th, at HQ 134. 4 p.m.: Opening Remarks and Panel Discussions (with Q&As...
September 6, 2024
Portuguese residents were terrified when the ground started shaking in the early hours of Monday morning last week. Environmental scientist Deborah R Coen explains why they...
August 8, 2024
Around 1900, at least 97 percent of homicide victims in Japan were newborn children. Official statistics obscured this fact by reporting only a handful of infanticides each...
August 1, 2024
Sociology operates with an impoverished understanding of conservatism and the natural environment. The discipline’s focus on antiregulatory and antiscience dimensions...
August 1, 2024
Kevin Yang and Fany Kuzmova’s 2023–24 Environmental Humanities grant project, “New Haven, Revisited,” received a write up in the New Haven Independent by Brian Slattery: Even...
August 1, 2024
Terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems regulate climate at local to global scales through exchanges of energy and matter with the atmosphere and assist with climate...
July 29, 2024
Read more at YaleNews James Scott (“Scotty”) ‘67 Ph.D., a revered scholar whose pathbreaking work crossed intellectual boundaries, died on July 19 at his home in Durham,...
June 18, 2024
Lav Kanoi was profiled by Fran Silverman for Yale School of the Environment’s Canopy Magazine. Lav was the Yale Environmental Humanities Graduate Student Coordinator as...
June 17, 2024
Tony Yeboah is a graduating PhD candidate studying the relationships between colonialism, urban planning, and community-making in West Africa. He previously studied and...
June 2, 2024
Pairing teenagers with Kodaks, the photo exhibit at the Ives Public Library invites its viewers to reimagine the city.   Visitors at the Ives Public Library found CT Transit...
May 28, 2024
Explore the fascinating history of America as told through the lens of food in this illustrated nonfiction middle grade book “sure to please history buffs and foodies alike...
Kevin Yang, with students Destiny White, Jeremy Thames and Deandre Watt. Lucy Gellman Photos.
May 21, 2024
Kevin Yang and Fany Kuzmova’s 2023–24 Environmental Humanities grant project, “New Haven, Revisited,” received a write up in the New Haven Arts Paper by journalist Lucy...