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December 19, 2022
In October 2022, Professors Cajetan Iheka (English) and Jonathan Howard (English and African American Studies) convened a two-day interdisciplinary Black Environmentalisms...
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December 9, 2022
Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi—all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of...
December 8, 2022
George Papamatthaiakis is a graduate student in the Master of Environmental Design program at the Yale School of Architecture. He is a human geographer and architect who has...
December 1, 2022
Paul Burow is a PhD student in the sociocultural anthropology and environmental studies combined program.  His dissertation examines the cultural dynamics of environmental...
November 22, 2022
Edward S. Cooke, Jr.,  the Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts, has published Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History with Princeton University...
November 22, 2022
Tomonori Sugimoto, former Postdoctoral Associate in the Environmental Humanities of East Asia, has published “Claiming Space, Land and Ecology: Mapping Geographies of...
November 17, 2022
Kristy Ferraro is a PhD candidate working with the Bradford and Schmitz labs at the Yale School of the Environment. As a member of the environmental humanities program, she...
November 10, 2022
Maximilian Chauolideer graduated from Yale in 2021. He is currently an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Leading Edge Fellow with Project Equity, a non-profit...
November 3, 2022
Cheng Li graduated from Yale in 2022 with a doctorate in East Asian Languages and Literatures. He is presently an assistant professor of Chinese Studies at Carnegie Mellon...
October 31, 2022
What will happen to the legal rights of the more than 200 million people who are likely to become climate refugees by 2050? How can we ensure that natural climate solutions...
October 14, 2022
Alan Mikhail, the Chace Family Professor of History, has published an article in the Autumn 2022 issue of Critical Inquiry titled “What the World Says: The Ottoman Empire,...
October 7, 2022
The Yale University Art Gallery is presenting an exhibition of past and recent work by Fazal Sheikh, Exposure (2017–22) and Erasure (2010-15), from September 9th, 2022 to...
October 7, 2022
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library will be holding “The World in Maps” exhibit until January 8th, 2023. The collection—showcased in flat display cases on the...
October 7, 2022
On October 11th, professors and artists will engage in a conversation about Camilo José Vergara’s “The Pandemic Diary” at the Yale University Art Gallery’s Robert L. McNeil,...
October 7, 2022
A study involving affiliates of the Yale Environmental Humanities Program assessed the consequences of land displacement and forced migration on present-day Native American...
October 6, 2022
The “(Re)thinking Landscape: Ways of knowing / Ways of being” symposium took place at Yale University from September 29 to October 1, 2022. This interdisciplinary, multi-day...
October 5, 2022
The Native Land Research Initiative is an interdisciplinary research group with members from the Yale School of Environment, the University of Michigan, and Colorado State...
October 4, 2022
Art history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art while relegating others to the category of craft. Global Objects points the...
October 4, 2022
Ivano Dal Prete’s new book, On the Edge of Eternity: The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2022), radically revises...
September 29, 2022
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program invites brief submissions of paper proposals from Yale graduate students for its 2022 Fall research symposium. The symposium,...