September 2018 News

Joseph Manning
September 28, 2018
A Yale-led project examining the link between volcanic eruptions and the annual Nile river summer flooding in antiquity has received an award from the National Science...
September 18, 2018
Stunning satellite images of one hundred cities show our urbanizing planet in a new light to reveal the fragile relationship between humanity and Earth   Seeing cities around...
"Wood Age in Asia" Conference Poster
September 12, 2018
This  conference will bring together scholars of South, Southeast, and East Asia for a discussion framed by the concept of a “wood age.” We will consider both the centrality...
Alan Mikhail
September 12, 2018
Yale history professor Alan Mikhail receives prestigious Anneliese Maier Research Award (250,000 euros) to collaborate with researchers in Germany and advance environmental...
“Energy and the Humanities: Interventions and Ambitions” Poster
September 7, 2018
Roundtable on studying energy from a humanities perspective. Speakers include: Isabel Lane (Slavic Languages and Literatures) Myles Lennon (Anthropology/F&ES) Katja...
September 7, 2018
How do poems and novels create a sense of mind? What does literary criticism say in conversation with other disciplines that addresses problems of consciousness? In Paper...
September 6, 2018
Yale is offering a range of Fall 2018 courses on Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice.  In Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan’s “Environmental Justice in South Asia”...
September 6, 2018
Yale will offer several Fall 2018 courses on the theme of Spaces and Places: Rural and Urban. For undergraduate students, Michael Schlab’s “Architectures of Urbanism:...