December 2012

Yale Group for the Study of Native America

The Yale Group for the Study of Native America (YGSNA) began in 2003 as an interdisciplinary working group interested in topics relating to Native American peoples, past and present. It has become Yale’s overarching graduate student as well as scholarly working group dedicated to study of Native American and Indigenous peoples. Generally meeting twice a month during the academic year and usually for lunch, YGSNA showcases works in progress and is composed of graduate students, faculty, and staff from across campus.

Yale Early American Historians

Yale Early American Historians (YEAH) is an interdisciplinary group of graduate students and faculty who are dedicated to the study of early American history, defined broadly to range from colonial through antebellum America.  Students, faculty, and friends of all backgrounds are welcome at all our events.
 

Urban History

Urban history is the academic study of metropolitan space, as well as the interconnected places, structures, and human interactions that comprise them. Scholars within this field operate under the premise that the metropolis, as a nexus of human interaction, serves as a helpful lens into broader social dynamics. Collectively, the Urban History Working Group explores questions about physical space, urban geography, the built environment, and cities in general.
 

CHESS

The Center for Historical Enquiry and the Social Sciences workshop will meet regularly at 12 pm on Fridays during the term to discuss pre-circulated papers. The papers will represent the cutting edge of scholarship at the interface between historically inflected work between the humanities and the social sciences. Each workshop will begin with the response from an affiliated graduate student to be followed by lively and free ranging discussion. Sandwiches and refreshments will be served.

Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Reading Group

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Reading Group usually meets monthly on Friday nights during the term. The group meets to discuss works in progress in history and other related fields, usually dissertation chapters or drafts of articles. Members are graduate students and faculty in the Departments of History, Slavic Languages and Literature, Comparative Literature, Anthropology and Political Science, as well as in several other local universities and colleges.

Medieval Lunch Colloquium

The weekly Medieval Lunch Colloquium brings together medievalists from a variety of departments in the University for informal presentations and discussion.  At each meeting, a speaker presents recent or current work to an interdisciplinary audience of graduate students, faculty and staff working in medieval studies. Speakers include both Yale faculty and graduate students, with occasional out-of-town guests. The luncheon takes place in HQ 276 from 12:00–1:00 every Tuesday, with the talk beginning at 12:30. 

History of Economic Life & Institutions

Yale has great strength in the area of economic history – both in the History Department and in other departments, programs and schools around the campus.  Topics covered include most periods of history and parts of the world.  There are many regularly scheduled workshops and colloquia that foster a vibrant ongoing interdisciplinary conversation, as well as an annual conference.  Students interested in doing graduate work in economic history should apply in normal way to the Ph.D.

Greco-Roman Lunch Colloquium

The topic of the lunch is Greco-Roman civilizations from Homer to Islam.  Once a week during term, graduate students and faculty in several programs of the University, including Ancient Christianity, Ancient Judaism, Classical Archeology, Classics, History, History of Art, Medieval Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and New Testament meet for lunch and conversation and hear a brief, informal presentation by one of their number on work in progress.

Environmental History at Yale

Environmental History at Yale brings together a broad range of faculty and students studying the complex historical relationship between humans and the environment.  Participants specialize in aspects of African, Asian, European, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and United States environmental history.