“Energy and the Humanities”– A Yearlong Conversation

During the 2018-2019 academic year, Yale Environmental Humanities will mount a yearlong conversation to explore the intersection of energy and the humanities. The program includes roundtables and workshops featuring Yale faculty and student work, six visiting speakers, and two international workshops in the spring. Two new courses, “American Energy History” and “Energy and Society” also will be offered in the spring semester.

These activities seek to bring together a diverse set of voices to explore the present and future of the energy humanities. Participation is invited from Yale faculty and students working on energy issues from fields as disparate as literature, philosophy, the arts, history, anthropology, gender studies, development studies, and film and media studies, as well as colleagues approaching energy studies from the social sciences, engineering, and natural sciences.