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August 29, 2022
Yale Environmental Humanities will welcome back students, faculty and other affiliates with a panel discussion and reception on Friday, September 9, 4:00pm, followed by an...
July 28, 2022
In addition to her research on food systems as a PhD candidate at the Yale School of the Environment, Samara Brock is the co-host (with Matthew Kessler) of Feed, a podcast...
July 15, 2022
In a Washington Post article, Deborah Coen, Professor and Chair of the History of Science & Medicine Program at Yale, observed that European nations found themselves at a...
July 14, 2022
Yale School of the Environment alums Sawyer Cresap ‘22 and Ben Stern ‘22 received support from the 2022 Environmental Humanities Grant Program for their co-directed...
June 23, 2022
From September 9, 2022 to January 8, 2023, the Yale University Art Gallery will present Fazal Sheikh: Exposures. Fazal Sheikh (born 1965) has spent his career photographing...
June 9, 2022
Yale historian and Environmental Humanities affiliate Sunil Amrith has been awarded the 2022 Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for History in recognition of his examination of the...
June 1, 2022
Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential ‘stateless’ space, where the government has little presence...
May 21, 2022
Yale Environmental Humanities grantee Taiga Christie presented the outdoor public performance of The Place is the Message at Yale’s West Campus in Spring 2022. Read...
May 16, 2022
Yale Environmental Humanities is delighted to announce the twelve 2022 recipients of the Graduate Certificate in the Environmental Humanities sponsored by the Yale Graduate...
May 9, 2022
2020 Environmental Humanities grantee Taiga Christie co-organized two outdoor performance pieces at Yale Schwarzman Center as part of her grant project: This Place is a...
May 6, 2022
Yale Environmental Humanities is pleased to announce the (Re)thinking Landscape Conference, to take place September 29–October 1, 2022. The conference is organized by...
May 3, 2022
Directed by Environmental Humanities grantees Sawyer Cresap and Ben Stern, A Climate of Anxiety investigates how climate change anxiety impacts the next generation of...
May 2, 2022
Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean Philip J. Morgan, John R. McNeill, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz Oxford University Press, 2022 Sea and Land ...
April 27, 2022
On Tuesday, May 3, graduate students from a diverse array of Yale programs and departments will share their research at the Spring 2022 Graduate Symposium in the...
April 25, 2022
Meredith Miller and MJ Millington received support from the 2021 Environmental Humanities Grant Program for their interdisciplinary art project, Dreaming Animals, currently...
April 21, 2022
Meredith Miller and MJ Millington, two of our 2021 Environmental Humanities Grant Recipients, were featured in a recent Yale News article titled “Dreaming animals: Beinecke...
April 13, 2022
Consciousness, the distinctive quality that allows humans to perceive the world, sometimes gets in the way of people trying to comprehend the ecosystems in which they live —...
April 8, 2022
Organized by the Desert Futures Collective, the upcoming “Desert Futures : Sahara” symposium will bring together artists and scholars to investigate the poetics and...
April 4, 2022
The Yale Environmental Law Association has organized a robust series of “Climate+” panels that bring together scholars, organizers, and advocates to deepen our understanding...
March 22, 2022
To reclaim a sense of hope for the future, German activists in the late twentieth century engaged ordinary citizens in innovative projects that resisted alienation and...