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...
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...
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 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...
