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April 2, 2020
Sunil Amrith, newly appointed as the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History, focuses his research on the trans-regional movement of people, ideas, and institutions across...
March 3, 2020
Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today’s richest people are using the natural environment to solve the...
January 13, 2020
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program is pleased to announce the Environmental Humanities Grant Program. This program seeks to encourage humanities projects that engage...
January 13, 2020
Gerald Torres, an acclaimed global scholar of environmental law, critical race theory, and federal Indian law, joins the faculty at the Yale School of Forestry &...
December 3, 2019
In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the...
November 15, 2019
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, with support from The Graciela Chichilnisky Environmental Fund in Honor of Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal, will host the...
November 13, 2019
Paper Abstract: Northern Iraq was the political and economic center of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 912 to 609 BCE)—the largest and most powerful empire of its time. After...
November 11, 2019
“Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous North American Art” is on view at the Yale University Art Gallery through June 21, 2020. Curated by Katherine...
November 7, 2019
This workshop, co-organized by Deborah Coen (history of science, Yale) and Adam Sobel (atmospheric physics, Columbia), looks at how major international scientific research...
Richard Hunt (Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw), Sea Monster Mask, 1999. Red cedar with pigment and metal. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, inv. no. YPM ANT.256928. © Richard Hunt. Courtesy Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
November 1, 2019
The Yale University Art Gallery will host its first exhibit dedicated to Indigenous North American art, entitled Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous...
October 15, 2019
Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, releases his latest book, American Cuisine and How It Got This Way, with Liveright Press. Freedman specializes in...
September 24, 2019
Yale Environmental Humanities is very happy to welcome Cajetan Iheka, who joins the Yale English Department this year as Associate Professor. Professor Iheka comes to Yale by...
September 6, 2019
Yale’s Fall 2019 undergraduate and graduate course offerings include more than 60 courses in the environmental humanities. Read more about the courses in the fall...
May 15, 2019
View or Download: “Energy and the Humanities,” 2018-2019 Report During the 2018-2019 academic year, Yale Environmental Humanities  hosted a yearlong conversation to explore...
Tomo Sugimoto
May 13, 2019
The Council on East Asian Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, in partnership with Yale Environmental Humanities, is...
May 2, 2019
The Yale Environmental Humanities Initiative is pleased to announce that its third Annual Graduate Symposium on the Environmental Humanities will be held at: Room 203, 34...
April 27, 2019
On April 27 and 28, Yale hosted an interdisciplinary conference exploring the ”aerial image,” broadly conceived. Drawing upon recent work in the environmental humanities, the...
Jonathan Kramnick and one of his four dogs.
April 24, 2019
“It was with the proverbial curiosity of a cat that Yale professor Jonathan Kramnick designed his cross-disciplinary undergraduate course “Animals in Literature and Theory,”...
April 24, 2019
The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC) announced that Mary Evelyn Tucker and John A. Grim have been selected as the 2019 recipients...
February 13, 2019
 Yale Environmental History is hosting a spring workshop series featuring works in progress in environmental history by Yale doctoral students. All workshops will be held in...