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April 1, 2024
Santiago Acosta (San Francisco, Estados Unidos, 1983) es una de las voces más singulares de la poesía venezolana contemporánea. Ha publicado los libros Detrás de los erizos (...
March 16, 2024
Colton Klein, PhD Student in History of Art and Whitney Fellow in the Environmental Humanities, was awarded the 2024 Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation Prize for best paper(s)...
March 7, 2024
The Yale Environmental History group hosted its “New Perspectives in Energy History” Conference on March 2nd, inviting energy scholars from institutions across the northeast...
March 1, 2024
The role of nature in Latin America has been central to both elite and grassroots political perspectives since the colonial era. These debates and struggles have taken on...
March 1, 2024
In the 1970s, as Venezuela rode the wave of one of the greatest oil booms in its history, abstract kinetic art (also called “cinetismo”) rose to the status of official visual...
February 27, 2024
This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped with the historic distancing of scientific knowledge...
February 25, 2024
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program invites brief submissions of paper proposals from Yale graduate students or postdocs for its 2024 Spring research symposium. The...
February 1, 2024
There is a pressing need to discover forms of regulation that work in an era of widespread inequality, ecological catastrophe, and gridlocked government. The consensus,...
January 25, 2024
Never before in human history has Earth experienced a change in climate as rapid as the shift we’re living through today. Can history hold clues to an upheaval without...
January 22, 2024
Mosaics of carefully overlaid, glued feathers were a major art form of Mesoamerica, dating back at least to the 13th century, and especially prominent among the Nahua people...
January 18, 2024
Wednesday, January 24th, 3:30pm HQ 136 (320 York Street) Yale Environmental Humanities Spring ‘24 Welcome-Back Event Yale Environmental Humanities is delighted to host a...
January 16, 2024
Rob Nixon, the Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University, will deliver the 2024 Tanner Lectures on Human...
December 18, 2023
In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could...
December 12, 2023
Kate McNally is a sixth-year PhD candidate at the anthropology department. We spoke with her about her work studying the collapse of the northeast cod fisheries, post-...
December 6, 2023
Taylor Rose is a doctoral candidate in the history department focusing on resource extraction and the military-industrial complex in the American west.   What is your...
December 5, 2023
Lauren Killingsworth, MD/PhD student, has been awarded this year’s Nathan Reingold Prize from the History of Science Society for the best not-yet published article by a...
November 15, 2023
An award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female.     The idea that...
November 15, 2023
Kaggie Orrick is a sixth-year PhD student in the School of the Environment. Her dissertation studies the relationships between human and wildlife land use in the Makgadikgadi...
November 1, 2023
An ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency—and the role they played in US imperialism.   In Imperial Material, Alvita Akiboh reveals how US national identity has...
October 26, 2023
Nature and culture are perhaps the two most consistent moral categories in Western thought. And yet, despite their stability, what nature and culture represent within a given...