The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring...
Environmental advocate, policy analyst, and entrepreneur Michel Gelobter has been appointed inaugural Executive Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Justice. ...
Plant Humanities Symposium
Saturday, April 8, 2023 (9am – 6pm)
Humanities Quad 134 (320 York Street)
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How can you incorporate environmental justice into land conservation efforts when the challenges of entrenched hierarchal structures, economic inequity, and unequal access to...
The Yale School of the Environment kicked off its 15th annual Environmental Film Festival last week.
The showing comprised a total of six panels and screenings that took...
The Yale Energy History Project has launched a new website, “Energy Basics,” to help teach the fundamentals of energy systems in humanities and social science classes and...
Sylvia Ryerson, a PhD student in American Studies and 2021 Environmental Humanities grantee, has received the Appalachian Studies Association’s 2022 Jack Spadaro Documentary...
Yale University professor Alan Mikhail, an acclaimed author and scholar in Middle Eastern and environmental history and chair of Yale’s Department of History, will...
Cajetan Iheka, Professor of English and Yale Environmental Humanities steering committee member, has been named the new director of the Whitney Humanities Center. Read more...
Maria Trumpler teaches Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale and is a Board member of the Dudley Museum. She is a recent Environmental Humanities grant recipient who...
Registration for the 7th Annual Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology (GCRE), held on March 3rd, 2023 at Yale Divinity School, is now open! The GCRE is an...
Today, we’re driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it—most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. This may seem...
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) recently launched the Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative, a project that seeks to foster dialogue and disseminate...
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...
Harvey Weiss, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Anthropology and the Environment, has published “Pyramid building and...
Call for Papers
Spring 2023 | Yale Environmental Humanities Graduate Symposium
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program invites brief submissions of paper proposals from...
The Yale Feminist Science and Technology Collective is an undergraduate group that explores questions in the sciences and humanities. Founders of the organization—Akio...
The Yale University Art Gallery recently installed “Natural Histories,” a special rotation in the American Paintings and Sculpture galleries. Developed in consultation with...
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:...
In October 2022, Professors Cajetan Iheka (English) and Jonathan Howard (English and African American Studies) convened a two-day interdisciplinary Black Environmentalisms...
