“Spring 2026 Environmental Humanities Graduate Symposium”

Event time: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Event description: 

Please join us for the Spring 2026 Environmental Humanities Graduate Symposium on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 15th, from 3:00–5:15 pm at HQ 136 (320 York Street). The Symposium will provide a forum for researchers across the university to share and discuss work related to the environmental humanities, and include a small reception.

Presentations with Q&As: 3:00pm–5:15pm
Reception: 5:15pm

Schedule:

3:00–4:00 PM
Opening Remarks
Panel 1: Energy and Affect
Alberto Martinez Garcia (School of Architecture): “Measurement, Experimentation, and the Laboratory: A Thermal Autobiography of Kelbaugh’s Household”
Carolina Marques de Mesquita (Political Science): “Disarming the Trident in Myself: Emotions and Prefigurative Non-Violence in the U.S. Disarmament Movement”
Estella Dieci (School of Architecture): “Lessons in Land Advocacy and Restoration: Learning from the Klamath River Dam Removals”

4:00–4:50 PM
Panel 2: Place and Cultural Production
Stefano Piantino (Italian Studies): “Islandic Chronologies: Problematizing Genre Theory through Italian (Insular) Novels”
Nuria Angélica Sánchez Matías (Spanish and Portuguese): “A Difficult Vegetable: Celery in Visual and Material Culture in the U.S.”
Rose FitzPatrick (Slavic and Eurasian Literatures and Cultures): “The Speculative Petropoetics of the Early Soviet Avant-Garde”
 
4:50–5:15 PM
Lightning Talks
Zhihan He (School of the Environment): “Beyond ‘Needs’: The Cosmological and Social Construction of Abalone Consumption in China”
Wenbin Gao (Italian Studies): “How to Map the Decameron: A Practical Guide”
Xinyue Zhang (History): “Weather Knowledge Between Science and Superstition Across the South China Sea”

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Yale Environmental Humanities gratefuly acknowledges the financial support of The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund and the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration.