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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...
March 18, 2022
Call for Papers: Spring 2022 Yale Environmental Humanities Graduate Symposium Application Deadline: Friday, April 15, 2022   We are delighted to announce that the Spring 2022...
March 18, 2022
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program is excited to announce the recipients of its 2022 Environmental Public Humanities Grants. The grant program supports projects...
March 18, 2022
2022 Environmental Humanities grantees Elaina Foley and Akio Ho used their award money to organize fSTS@Yale, an undergraduate-led collective that produces programming around...
March 11, 2022
A group of four students and faculty affiliated with the Environmental Humanities program have published an article on the global bushmeat trade in relation to public health...
March 10, 2022
On January 26, 2022, three grantees from the Environmental Humanities Grant Program shared their work in an online public program. We are excited to share a recording of this...
March 3, 2022
EFFY 2022 will take place over three days from March 31st to April 2nd. Screenings will be live and in-person at multiple venues across New Haven, but links to watch the...
March 1, 2022
2022 Environmental Humanities grantee Miguel Gaydosh is organizing a symposium titled What is graphic design made of? on Saturday March, 12. Supported by the School of Art...
February 25, 2022
Co-hosted by Yale Divinity School and the Yale School of the Environment, this year’s Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology addressed the theme of “New Seeds,...
February 23, 2022
This book asks an age-old question about the relationship between human consciousness and the environment: How do we think about our own thoughts and actions? How can we...
February 23, 2022
Taylor Rose, “The ‘Opening of the Clackamas’: Log Trucks, Access Roads, and Multiple-Use Infrastructure in Oregon’s National Forests,” Western Historical Quarterly. Driving...
February 7, 2022
Kristy M. Ferraro, a PhD candidate at Yale School of the environment and graduate student in the Environmental Humanities Certificate Program, has co-authored two recent...
February 3, 2022
This spring, the Yale Center for Environmental Justice (YCEJ) and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) will co-present an Energy Justice Speaker Series on...
February 1, 2022
As Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc on loftily laid university plans, we seek to imagine new futures where life is possible no matter the circumstances. Here at Yale Slavic...
January 30, 2022
The Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School has opened applications for its student grant program. The grants support student-led projects that advance...
Humanities in Action Poster
January 23, 2022
On Wednesday, January 26, Yale Environmental Humanities will host a ”Humanities in Action” project showcase to feature speakers discussing three recent environmental...
January 13, 2022
Read the interview at Yale News Yale anthropologist Lisa Messeri paid close attention last fall when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shared his plans to invest billions into...
December 18, 2021
Knar Abrahamyan is a Yale doctoral student in Music Theory, where she studies opera as a colonial technology of rule in Soviet Armenia and Kazakhstan. Abrahamyan’s research...