Yale offers dozens of undergraduate and graduate courses in the environmental humanities. An extensive list of Fall 2018 offerings can be reviewed online.
Sample courses...
The Program in Agrarian Studies has posted its fall colloquium schedule. The program includes ten visiting presenters from anthropology, political science, history, and other...
Among the many environmental hazards that challenged European efforts to colonize the early modern Caribbean were insect infestations of one kind or another....
Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth’s climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular...
This article by Yale doctoral student Yuan J. Chen examines the creation, preservation, and destruction of the defensive forest that the Northern Song built in Hebei...
Yale Environmental Humanities is pleased to announce the “Second Annual Symposium on the Environmental Humanities.” Please join us at the Whitney Humanities Center for a...
Landscape art in the early 19th century was guided by two rival concepts: the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures and visual delight, and the sublime, an...
Biophilia is the theory that people possess an inherent affinity for nature, which developed during the long course of human evolution. In recent years, studies have revealed...
An interdisciplinary group of students from history, anthropology, literature, history of art, film studies and American Studies designed and helped teach a new Spring 2018...
In April 2018, the Yale Nile Initiative Lecture Series will host a four-part lecture series, “Paleoclimate, Environment, History.”
The speaker line-up includes:
April 9:...
Yale Environmental Humanities is delighted to announce:
“Landscape and Memory”
Yale Environmental Humanities Spring Lecture Series
January 24: Laura Barraclough, Elihu Rubin...
On Wednesday, January 24, Yale Environmental Humanities will host a panel on “Keywords in the Environmental Humanities.” Yale scholars Laura Barraclough, Elihu Rubin, and Ila...
How can the environmental humanities help illuminate Asian histories and cultures? This roundtable will draw on perspectives from literature, history, and anthropology to...
Joseph G. Manning, Francis Ludlow, Alexander R. Stine, William R. Boos, Michael Sigl, & Jennifer R. Marlon, “Volcanic suppression of Nile summer flooding triggers revolt...
Bill McKibben will give a talk on October 10, 4:30pm in Woolsey Hall entitled “Simply Too Hot: The Desperate Science and Politics of Climate.” McKibben is currently the...
Megadrought and Collapse is the first book to treat in one volume the current paleoclimatic and archaeological evidence of megadrought events coincident with major...
Yale Environmental History will host a one-day conference on Saturday, April 14, 2018 to showcase new research in environmental history. The conference, “New Perspectives in...
Yale Environmental Humanities Initiative kicked off the semester with an interdisciplinary panel on “Teaching the Environmental Humanities at Yale.” Professor James Scott (...
The Whitney Humanities Center has announced the speakers for its Fall 2017 Schulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities series, which this year is titled “Reports from...
This exhibition, hosted at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, will run from now to March 6.
As a child with crayon in hand, Al Gilbert enjoyed drawing lions, tigers,...
An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative
Why did humans...
Yale Environmental Humanities hosted a one-day conference showcasing student work from across the university. Seventeen Yale graduate students from eleven programs shared...
A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed “the taste for the beautiful”—create the extraordinary range of...
Yale Environmental History hosted its sixth annual “New Perspectives in Environmental History” conference on Saturday, April 22, 2017. The conference included three...
The Yale Divinity School’s environmental student interest groups, in collaboration with the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale, and the Yale Graduate & Professional...
During the spring 2017 semester, Mary Evelyn Tucker (FES, YDS), Doug Kysar (YLS), and John Grim (FES, YDS) collaborated on a visiting lecture series bringing together...
The Environmental Film Festival at Yale (EFFY), sponsored by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, is one of America’s premier student-...
Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman’s empire grew, it, too...
For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In...
After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of...
Twentieth century environmental protection delivered significant improvements in America’s air and water quality and led companies to manage their waste, use of toxic...
As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are...
A range of speakers will be come together to speak about on digital networks, public participation, and transnational migration.
We live in a warming world. Human activity has increased the carbon in the atmosphere, depleted the Earth’s capacity to adapt to change, and temperatures are rapidly rising....
The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance...
Even to an untrained eye, Iran’s environmental landscape appears bleak. Drying or dried up lakes, polluted rivers and brooks, thirsty cities with polluted air, sandstorms...
This two-day conference at Yale University in October of 2016 seeks to interrogate the role of experts and expertise during the Cold War in Latin America. Throughout the...
In Los Angeles, local environmentalists have long advocated for the city to embrace distributed green infrastructure installations to manage stormwater flows and recharge...
In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be...
From Delmonico’s to Sylvia’s to Chez Panisse, a daring and original history of dining out in America as told through ten legendary restaurants.
Combining a historian’s...
As part of its sesquicentennial celebration, the Yale Peabody Museum announces the opening of PEABODY2, a satellite gallery located at 1 Broadway in New Haven. The objective...
For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they...
Yale historian Paul Freedman, author of Food: The History of Taste, co-hosted the inaugural MAD Institute at Yale to work with chefs and others to develop a new generation of...
The rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis has a chequered and little-understood social history underlying its status as one of the world’s most useful plants. Anthropological...
The concept of sustainability went mainstream some time ago, and it has drawn some interesting and rather diverse bedfellows together in the name of its articulation. As the...
Landscape and urban designers are increasingly drawing on ecological understanding to inform the sustainability and resilience aspects of their projects. The design...
This volume explores the Christian responses to the Universe Story and its implications for the contemporary environmental crisis. Beginning with excerpts from recent...
Throughout most of the nineteenth century, steamships were the main tool of British informal imperialism in what is now southern Iraq. Despite that centrality, steam shipping...
Professor Alan Mikhail recently received the Leopold-Hidy Prize, awarded by the American Society for Environmental History for the Best Article in published in the journal ...
This article explores the dynamics of bicentennial planning and celebration in the Mountain West. Amid the charged political climate of the 1960s and 1970s, the Bicentennial...
Horse-keeping in L.A. County has a long history of racially restrictive zoning.
This article offers an analysis of the emergence, use, and current popularity of the concept of the Anthropocene. It argues that much of the idea’s success derives from...
Sabin’s essay examines how President Jimmy Carter and his policy advisors sought to balance regulation to protect health and the environment with regulatory reform that would...
Fledgling public interest environmental law firms achieved landmark victories in the 1970s that helped define the early successes of the modern environmental movement. They...
Russia is among the world’s leading oil producers, sitting atop the planet’s eighth largest reserves. Like other oil-producing nations, it has been profoundly...
Frederic Church (1826–1900), the most celebrated painter in the United States during the mid-19th century, created monumental landscapes of North and South America, the...
In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we...
M. Sigl, M. Winstrup, J. R. McConnell, K. C. Welten, G. Plunkett, F. Ludlow, U. Büntgen, M. Caffee, N. Chellman, D. Dahl-Jensen, H. Fischer, S. Kipfstuhl, C. Kostick, O. J....
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet also seemingly intractable. This book offers novel insights on this contemporary challenge, drawing...
