We're thrilled to be welcoming Dr. Julie Livingston (NYU, History & Social and Cultural Analysis) this Friday 11/30! Join us from 11am-1pm while we discuss her paper "Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told From Southern Africa."

We're excited for our final meeting of the semester tomorrow, when we will discuss Gregory Thaler's comparative study of smallholder development in Brazil and Borneo -- and what it tells us about the "cash crop solution" for diverse environmental and economic issues.

Announcing new 2019-2021 Yale Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Environmental Humanities of East Asia Yale University #envhum #envhist #humanities environmentalhumanities.yale.edu/postdoc Spread the word

Time to put the finishing touches on your proposal for our 2019-20 fellowship! Applications (simply a 2-page proposal and a 2-page CV) are due via Interfolio by 11:59pm EST on Friday 1/4. Visit our website (agrarianstudies.macmillan.yale.edu/fellowships) for more info!

We're very excited to kick off the new semester by welcoming Jason W. Moore (Dept. of Sociology, Binghamton U.) to campus this week. We'll be discussing his paper on "Climate Change and Civilizational Crisis, 376-2018: A Geohistorical Interpretation." See you Friday at 11am!

This week at Agrarian Studies we'll be welcoming Dr. Helen Curry from the University of Cambridge to discuss an excerpt from her book-in-progress, 'Endangered Maize: Indigenous Corn, Industrial Agriculture, and the Specter of Extinction." See you Friday 2/1 at 11am!

We're excited to discuss "the arid identity of empire in 18th century Xinjiang" this Friday 2/8 with environmental historian of East Asia, David Bello!

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We're looking forward to welcoming Mark Frank from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign this Friday 2/15! We'll be discussing a portion of his research on the environmental history of Chinese state-building on the Tibetan plateau. A session not to be missed!

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We’re very excited to host Dr. Mikael Wolfe (History, Stanford) tomorrow. We’ll be discussing his analysis of the impact of Hurricane Flora (1963) on the Cuban Revolution. Don’t miss out!

A big week! On Friday 4/5, one of our program fellows, anthropologist Dr. Caterina Scaramelli, will present material from her book project. On Thursday 4/4 we'll be workshopping papers by PhD candidate Jacob Rinck and MEsc candidate Nicholas Lo in our Grad Spring Series!

The Agrarian Studies Grad Spring Series kicks off TONIGHT at 6pm!

Today Dr. Caterina Scaramelli kicks off our three-week run of colloquia featuring our own Program Fellows! See you at 11am to discuss “Living with Buffaloes: Animal Practice and Environmental Change in a Turkish Delta”!

An Agrarian Triple Crown: Dr. John Buchanan & Grad Spring Series - mailchi.mp/499d05c5a265/a…

A stellar week ahead! On Thursday, Alyssa Paredes and @keriglambert will be workshopping chapters from their dissertations that look at bananas in Asia and rubber in Africa, respectively. On Friday, we'll read a chapter from program fellow Tony Andersson's book manuscript!

The Ultimate Week of Agrarian Studies! This will be our final week of programming this semester. We will discuss work by Dr. Sakura Christmas (Bowdoin College) on Friday, as well as papers by Deepti Chatti (F&ES) and Jared Naimark (F&ES) during our grad Spring Series workshop.

Yale's Agrarian Studies closes out a terrific year with a Friday paper by Sakura Christmas (Bowdoin) and the final grad Spring Series workshop session

Our Agrarian Studies season has drawn to a close, but if you're still hungry for more riveting discussion on related issues, check out the Yale Env Humanities Annual Symposium on the Environmental Humanities this Thursday 5/2 at Luce Hall (Room 203).