This interdisciplinary conference explores the ”aerial image,” broadly conceived. Drawing upon recent work in the environmental humanities, the conference aims to open...
A talk by anthropologist Suzana Sawyer on indigenous rights and oil development in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and the years-long litigation against Chevron over oil pollution...
Event time:
Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 3:00pm
Location:
McClellan Hall 101 (Old Campus) see map New Haven, CT 06511
David Roberts, climate and energy reporter with Vox Media, will discuss recent political and policy developments.
4PM, Branford College Common Room
A two-day workshop at the Whitney Humanities Center to assess recent progress in the field of the “energy humanities,” and to explore new directions in research and teaching...
Jennifer Wenzel is jointly appointed in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at...
We are normally told that climate responsibility is diffuse. Particularly in the Global North it is “all of us” with our high carbon footprints and affluent lifestyles. In...
A workshop presentation with Yale history professor Jennifer Klein on her current research on the history of waste management, labor, and toxic petrochemicals in...
Sheena Wilson is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, co-founder & director of the international Petrocultures Research Group, and research lead on Just...
Hosted annually at Yale University, the Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology (GCRE) is a unique academic venue for graduate students and working professionals to share...
Cooking energy technologies of low-income families in the Global South have drawn the attention of development actors for decades. “Traditional” cookstoves are seen as smoke...
Cajetan Iheka’s research and teaching focus on African and Caribbean literatures and film, postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, ecomedia, and world literature. He is the...
Solar technology is not only an emerging source of industrialized energy; it is also a potent force of affective energy. Cultivating imaginaries and reorienting desires, it...
A roundtable featuring ongoing research by Yale graduate students on the intersection of energy and social inequalities and social justice.
Roundtable Participants:
Deepti...
Isabel Lane, a doctoral candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, discusses a chapter from her dissertation on Russian and American fiction in the nuclear age. This...
The future is electric. At least, it had better be if we are to survive as a species. We know that we must decarbonize societies the world over with all due haste in order to...
Omolade Adunbi is a political anthropologist and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS). His areas of research explore issues...
Roundtable on studying energy from a humanities perspective.
Speakers include:
Isabel Lane (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Myles Lennon (Anthropology/F&ES)
Katja...