To address the need for interdisciplinary scholarship that can help illuminate the complex ways that nature and culture are intertwined, the Yale Environmental Humanities...
The Yale University Department of History invites applications for a Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship in United States environmental history. The fellow will...
The Yale Center for British Art is holding an exhibition, entitled Before the Deluge: Apocalyptic Floodscapes from John Martin to John Goto, 1789 to Now. The exhibition...
The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University seeks applications for the CEAS Postdoctoral Associate in the Environmental Humanities. The appointment period is from...
If sexology—the science of sex—came into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then how did statesmen, scientists, and everyday people make meaning out of sex before that...
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...
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...
Yale history professor Alan Mikhail receives prestigious Anneliese Maier Research Award (250,000 euros) to collaborate with researchers in Germany and advance environmental...
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...
Roundtable on studying energy from a humanities perspective.
Speakers include:
Isabel Lane (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Myles Lennon (Anthropology/F&ES)
Katja...
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...
Yale is offering a range of Fall 2018 courses on Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice. In Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan’s “Environmental Justice in South Asia”...
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:...
Climate and society is a growing area of emphasis in several Fall 2018 courses. Michael Dove’s “Climate and Society from Past to Present” explores historical and contemporary...
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...
