October 26, 2026 |
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6:00pm |
Elleza Kelley (Yale University), "Flight Lines: A Poetics of Black Space" (Yale Architecture Forum) |
October 27, 2026 |
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5:30pm |
Jordan Miller (Cornell University), "Light Reading: Towards a Phenomenology of Hieroglyphic Writing" (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) |
October 28, 2026 |
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5:00pm |
"Shadows in Nature: Renowned Painter Sean Scully on the Enduring Legacy of John Constable" (Yale Center for British Art) |
October 29, 2026 |
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9:30am |
"World Ecologies in Formation" (Yale School of Architecture) |
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12:00pm |
Stephan Sveshnikov (Yale University), “Russian Redwood, Arctic River: The Extension of the European Timber Frontier and its Effects on the Riverine Ecologies and Communities of Russia's White Sea Basin (1790-1914)” (Yale Environmental History) |
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4:00pm |
Ling Hon Lam (University of California, Berkeley), "The Emperor’s Object Lesson: In-formation and Energetic Ruptures in Early to High Qing Media-Sensorial Production" (East Asian Languages and Literatures) |
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4:00pm |
Tony Yeboah (Tulane University), "'Coomassie Is a Heap of Ashes': Demolition and the Architecture of Symbols in a West African Imperial City, 1874–1910" (History) |
October 30, 2026 |
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11:00am |
Basma Fahoum (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), "Tobacco’s Enemy Number One: Palestinian Fellahin Managing Blue Mold Under Military Government” (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
November 3, 2026 |
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12:00pm |
De-nin Lee (Emerson College), “A Planetary Perspective for Art History” (ARCHAIA) |
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12:00pm |
"Art, Architecture, and Climate Change in the Premodern World Workshop Series" (ARCHAIA) |
November 4, 2026 |
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12:00pm |
Arang Keshavarzian (New York University), "The Persian Gulf as a Waterway and Region: A History of the Current War" (Council on Middle East Studies) |
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12:30pm |
Diana Martinez (UC Berkeley), "The Master Material & The Master Plan: Architecture, Urbanism and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines" (Council on Southeast Asia Studies) |
November 5, 2026 |
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5:30pm |
Edward J. Sullivan (New York University), "Landscapes of Desire: The Caribbean" (Yale University Art Gallery) |
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6:00pm |
Martin Finio (IN STUDIO), "Practicing Impracticality" (Yale School of Architecture) |
November 6, 2026 |
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11:00am |
Meghan Morris (Temple University), “The Salmon, the Cow, and the Spotted Owl: Endangerment and Federal Power in the American West” (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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12:00pm |
Christopher Schliephake (Augsburg University), "Storied Matter: Plutarch's Naphtha and the Ancient Beginnings of Oil Literature" (Classics) |
November 9, 2026 |
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6:00pm |
Ziad Jamaleddine (Columbia University), "On Translation and Contemporary Islamic Architectural Practice" (Yale Architecture Forum) |
November 10, 2026 |
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12:45pm |
Alessandra Giannini (NYU), "Environmental Agency in the Sahel: Making Sense of Change across Scales, Cultures, and Disciplines" (Yale Environmental Humanities) |
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3:30pm |
"Island Militarism" (Island Studies Working Group) |
November 12, 2026 |
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12:00pm |
Anya Nyman (Yale University), “Uncontrollable Commerce: Industrial Modernization and Urban Planning in Nkrumahist Tema/Manhean (1951-1966)" (Yale Environmental History) |
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3:00pm |
"Fall 2026 Environmental Humanities Graduate Symposium" |
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7:00pm |
"Film Screening: The Cordillera of Dreams (2019)" (Whitney Humanities Center) |
November 13, 2026 |
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11:00am |
Christian Lund (University of Copenhagen), “Foothold. Popular Land Control at the Urban Frontier in Indonesia” (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
November 17, 2026 |
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12:00pm |
"Art, Architecture, and Climate Change in the Premodern World Workshop Series" (ARCHAIA) |
November 19, 2026 |
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4:30pm |
Michael Como (Columbia University), "Putting the Gods in Their Place: Roads, Writing and the Mobile Pantheon of Ancient Japan" (Council on East Asian Studies) |
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6:30pm |
"Film Screening: Ulysses' Homecomings" (European Studies Council) |
November 25, 2026 |
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12:30pm |
Jessica Thompson (Yale University), "Archaeological Looking in Southeastern Africa" (Yale University Art Gallery) |
December 1, 2026 |
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12:00pm |
Anand Vaidya (Reed College), "Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India" (South Asian Studies Council) |
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3:30pm |
"Island Media" (Island Studies Working Group) |
December 2, 2026 |
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4:30pm |
John Durham Peters (Yale University), "Talk Title TBA" (Franke Program in Science and the Humanities) |
December 3, 2026 |
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12:00pm |
Thomas Anderson (Yale University), "Toxic Empire: Environmental control, marronage, and poisons in the francophone Greater Caribbean, 1760–1830" (Yale Environmental History) |
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5:30pm |
Patty Gerstenblith (DePaul University), "Preserving Archaeological Heritage: Law, Ethics, and Museums" (Yale University Art Gallery) |
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6:00pm |
"Closing conversation for the exhibition 'Practicing Pluralism'" (Yale School of Architecture) |
December 4, 2026 |
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9:00am |
"Thinking about the Impossible" (Yale University) |
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11:00am |
Nora Barakat (Stanford University), “Civil Law and Agrarian Capitalism(?) in Late Ottoman Gaza: Old Questions, New Sources” (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
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4:00pm |
Carlo Ratti (MIT), "Senseable Cities" (Franke Program in Science and the Humanities |
December 11, 2026 |
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11:00am |
Yayi Zheng (Yale University), “Too Many Bulls: More-Than-Human Kinship in Borana, Ethiopia” (Agrarian Studies Colloquium) |
December 13, 2026 |
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2:00pm |
"Film Screening: The Store (1983)" (Film at Yale) |
January 23, 2027 |
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7:00pm |
"Fire, Dust, and the Resurrective Commons: Toward a Ceremony for an Unsettled Earth" (Institute of Sacred Music) |
February 4, 2027 |
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9:00am |
"Romantic Literature and Ecotheology: Enlarging the Circle of Ecological Compassion" (Institute of Sacred Music) |
March 1, 2027 |
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4:00pm |
Stephanie Leitzel (Yale University), “Capital and Cochineal: American Commodities and Global Markets" (History) |