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January 26, 2023
Lav Kanoi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology and Yale School of the Environment. Previously, he was a researcher and teacher at Jadavpur and Ashoka...
January 25, 2023
Harvey Weiss, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Anthropology and the Environment, has published “Pyramid building and...
January 25, 2023
Call for Papers Spring 2023 | Yale Environmental Humanities Graduate Symposium   The Yale Environmental Humanities Program invites brief submissions of paper proposals from...
January 20, 2023
The Yale Feminist Science and Technology Collective is an undergraduate group that explores questions in the sciences and humanities.  Founders of the organization—Akio...
January 19, 2023
The Yale University Art Gallery recently installed “Natural Histories,” a special rotation in the American Paintings and Sculpture galleries. Developed in consultation with...
January 10, 2023
During the thirteenth century, the Persian naturalist and judge Zakariyyāʾ Qazwīnī authored what became one of the most influential works of natural history in the world:...
December 19, 2022
In October 2022, Professors Cajetan Iheka (English) and Jonathan Howard (English and African American Studies) convened a two-day interdisciplinary Black Environmentalisms...
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December 9, 2022
Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi—all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of...
December 8, 2022
George Papamatthaiakis is a graduate student in the Master of Environmental Design program at the Yale School of Architecture. He is a human geographer and architect who has...
December 1, 2022
Paul Burow is a PhD student in the sociocultural anthropology and environmental studies combined program.  His dissertation examines the cultural dynamics of environmental...
November 22, 2022
Edward S. Cooke, Jr.,  the Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts, has published Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History with Princeton University...
November 22, 2022
Tomonori Sugimoto, former Postdoctoral Associate in the Environmental Humanities of East Asia, has published “Claiming Space, Land and Ecology: Mapping Geographies of...
November 17, 2022
Kristy Ferraro is a PhD candidate working with the Bradford and Schmitz labs at the Yale School of the Environment. As a member of the environmental humanities program, she...
November 10, 2022
Maximilian Chauolideer graduated from Yale in 2021. He is currently an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Leading Edge Fellow with Project Equity, a non-profit...
November 3, 2022
Cheng Li graduated from Yale in 2022 with a doctorate in East Asian Languages and Literatures. He is presently an assistant professor of Chinese Studies at Carnegie Mellon...
October 31, 2022
What will happen to the legal rights of the more than 200 million people who are likely to become climate refugees by 2050? How can we ensure that natural climate solutions...
October 14, 2022
Alan Mikhail, the Chace Family Professor of History, has published an article in the Autumn 2022 issue of Critical Inquiry titled “What the World Says: The Ottoman Empire,...
October 7, 2022
The Yale University Art Gallery is presenting an exhibition of past and recent work by Fazal Sheikh, Exposure (2017–22) and Erasure (2010-15), from September 9th, 2022 to...
October 7, 2022
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library will be holding “The World in Maps” exhibit until January 8th, 2023. The collection—showcased in flat display cases on the...
October 7, 2022
On October 11th, professors and artists will engage in a conversation about Camilo José Vergara’s “The Pandemic Diary” at the Yale University Art Gallery’s Robert L. McNeil,...