Yale Environmental Humanities will host a welcome-back panel and reception on Thursday, September 11th, at HQ 134.
Panel discussion with Q&A: 4:00pm-5:00pm
Panelists:
Moeko Fujii, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies. Fujii’s work explores the intersections of film theory, aesthetics, and race and gender studies, and focuses on 20th century American film, literature, and visual culture. Her current project, “The Asiatic Logic of Film Noir,” writes an alternative history of noir and personhood in which racial form shapes the central concerns and legacies of Hollywood noir.
David Gissen, Class of 1972 Professor of Architecture; Director of the PhD Program. Gissen is a historian of architecture and an author of works of architecture theory and criticism. His research examines physiological and environmental concepts embedded within modern and late-modern architecture and design.
Manoel Rendeiro Neto, Postdoctoral Associate in History. Rendeiro Neto’s research focuses on the role of environmental knowledge in empire-building, ethno-racial stratification, and autonomous territorialization in the emergence of an Afro-Indigenous Amazon. He will join Yale as an Assistant Professor of Latin American History starting in Fall 2026.
Reception: 5:00pm
The Welcome Back Panel and Reception is co-sponsored by the Program in Agrarian Studies.
Yale Environmental Humanities gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the 320 York Humanities Grant Program, the Yale School of the Environment, Yale School of Architecture, the Whitney Humanities Center, and The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund.