Extractions, an Environmental Humanities grant-funded project, brought climate and choreography together on Friday and Saturday evenings of April 5th and 6th in Pauli Murray’...
History major AJ Laird ’24 —this year’s Yale Library Senior Exhibit Fellow—has created and curated a 2024 exhibition titled “Whaling Logbooks: Records of a Maritime Industry...
In a world that favors data, what value do the arts and humanities hold?
This question animates Rob Nixon’s approach to environmental justice in his upcoming Tanner...
Santiago Acosta (San Francisco, Estados Unidos, 1983) es una de las voces más singulares de la poesía venezolana contemporánea. Ha publicado los libros Detrás de los erizos (...
Colton Klein, PhD Student in History of Art and Whitney Fellow in the Environmental Humanities, was awarded the 2024 Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation Prize for best paper(s)...
The Yale Environmental History group hosted its “New Perspectives in Energy History” Conference on March 2nd, inviting energy scholars from institutions across the northeast...
The role of nature in Latin America has been central to both elite and grassroots political perspectives since the colonial era. These debates and struggles have taken on...
In the 1970s, as Venezuela rode the wave of one of the greatest oil booms in its history, abstract kinetic art (also called “cinetismo”) rose to the status of official visual...
This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped with the historic distancing of scientific knowledge...
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program invites brief submissions of paper proposals from Yale graduate students or postdocs for its 2024 Spring research symposium. The...
There is a pressing need to discover forms of regulation that work in an era of widespread inequality, ecological catastrophe, and gridlocked government. The consensus,...
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...
Mosaics of carefully overlaid, glued feathers were a major art form of Mesoamerica, dating back at least to the 13th century, and especially prominent among the Nahua people...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
