Colloquium
Upcoming Colloquia Will Be Posted in January 2012
Past Colloquia
2011
January 20, 2011
Paul Freedman (Charles D. Tripp Professor and Acting Chair, Department of History, Yale), "American Dining and the Natural World, 19th and 20th Centuries"
February 17, 2011
Alan Mikhail (Assistant Professor, Yale), "Middle East Environmental History: The Fallow Between Two Fields"
April 7, 2011
Gene Tempest (Doctoral Student, Department of History, Yale), "Gas warfare and the horses of the Western Front, 1915-1918 "
April 28, 2011
Helen Curry (Doctoral Student, History of Science and Medicine, Yale), "Radiation and Species
Preservation: Saving the American Chestnut Tree in the Atomic Age"
September 28, 2011
Francesca Ammon (Doctoral Candidate, Yale University), "‘A Dirt-Moving War’: Bulldozers as Weapons and Heroes in World War II"
October 26, 2011
Charu Singh (Fox Fellow, MacMillan Center, Yale University), "Configuring the Monsoon: Rainfall and Famine in Nineteenth Century Western India"
November 15, 2011
Samuel White (Assistant Professor, Oberlin College), "A Cold Welcome?: The Little Ice Age and the First European Colonies in North America"
November 30, 2011
Cherie Woodworth (Post-doctoral Fellow, Yale University), "The 'Wild Field,' Pastoralism, and Anthropogenic Grasslands: the Eurasian Steppe from Antiquity to 1700"
2010
January 14, 2010
Paola Bertucci (Assistant Professor of History, Yale University), "Earthquakes and Enlightenment: Controlling the convulsing body of the Earth in the Age of Reform"
February 25, 2010
Philip Slavin (Post-doctoral Associate, Economic Growth Center, Yale University), "On Humans and Bovids: Two Plagues and a Famine in England, 1310-50"
March 25, 2010
Robin Scheffler (Doctoral Student in History of Science and Medicine, Yale University), "Places of Empire: Tropical Biology on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 1920-1940 "
April 8, 2010
Christine DeLucia (Doctoral Student in American Studies, Yale University), "The Memory Frontier: Making Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip's War"
May 13, 2010
Karen Hebert, (Assistant Professor of Environmental Anthropology, Yale), "Properties of Restructuring: Charting Fisheries Regulatory Change in Bristol Bay, Alaska"
October 7, 2010
Jacob Dlamini (Doctoral Student in History, Yale University) "Fire Control, Conservation, and Class in South Africa’s Kruger National Park"
October 21, 2010
Paul Erickson (Assistant Professor, Department of History and Environmental Studies & Science in Society Programs, Wesleyan University)
"When Humans Became Rabbits (And Rabbits, Humans): Ecology, the Idea of Population, and Histories of Disease"
November 18, 2010
Rachel Rothschild (Graduate Student, History of Science and Medicine, Yale University) "Environmental Consciousness in the Cold War: Radioecologists, Nuclear Technology, and the Atomic Age"
December 9, 2010
John Grim (Senior Lecturer, Divinity School and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University) "The Political Stakes of Embodied Knowledge in an Apsaalooka/Crow Ceremonial"
2009
March 31, 2009
Organizational meeting for Environmental History at Yale.
April 30, 2009
Paul Sabin (Assistant Professor of History, Yale University), “The Climate Crisis and Energy Transition: What role for history?”
May 28, 2009
Barry Muchnick (Doctoral Student in History and FES, Yale University), “'The Country is the Fresh Air Fund': The Moral Ecology of Citizenship in Turn-of-the-Century America”
June 25, 2009
Julie Bowring (Doctoral Student in History, Yale University), “For Private Profit or Public Good, or One Man's Quagmire is Another's Pleasant Pasture: Debates on drainage in eastern England, c1600-1660"
September 24, 2009
Peter Perdue (Professor of History, Yale University), "From the Hills to the White House: Chinese tea in global markets"
October 29, 2009
Sarah Cameron (Doctoral Student in History, Yale University), "How Socialism Tried to Conquer the Steppe: The Manufacture of a Crisis in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1929-1931"
December 10 , 2009
John Wargo (Professor of Environmental Risk Analysis and Policy, Professor of Political Science, Yale University), "Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health"
