October 2015

In conversation: historian John Demos on the ‘ubiquitous’ nature of witchcraft

Halloween — or All Hallows Eve — brings to mind images of ghosts, goblins, and, of course, witches.

The history of witches and witchcraft dates as far back as ancient Greece and Rome to the late middle ages and early modern times in Europe, according to John Putnam Demos, the Samuel Knight Professor Emeritus of History.

Demos has authored two award-winning books on witches, witchcraft, and witch-hunts, “The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World” and “Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England.”

Bill Rankin receives a Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching

Bill Rankin receives a Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching 2015. The Poorvu Family Award was established to recognize and enhance Yale’s strength in interdisciplinary teaching. According to the terms of the gift, the award is to be made to outstanding members of the junior faculty who have demonstrated excellence in teaching in interdisciplinary undergraduate programs.

Chitra Ramalingam talks the history of photography

YaleNews spoke with Chitra Ramalingam, a lecturer in the Department of History and the History of Science and Medicine Program; research associate at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA); and one of the editors of “William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography,” part of the “Studies in British Art” series published by the YCB

Workshop: Joshua Lewis, University of Montreal, Canary in a Coal Mine: Impact of Mid-20th Century Air Pollution on Infant Mortality and Property Values

Economic History Workshop

Workshop: Martha Howell, Columbia University, "Credit networks in a late medieval industrial giant: the case of Ypres"

Economic History Workshop

Workshop: Mark Stelzner, Connecticut College, "The New American Way: the Change in American Labor Law and the resulting Increase in Inequality"

Economic History Workshop

Workshop: Bill Summerhill, UCLA, "Economic Consequences of Educational Backwardness in 20th-Century Brazil" (with Samuel de Abreu Pessôa and Edmilson Varejão)

Economic History Workshop

Department of History

October 2015

In conversation: historian John Demos on the ‘ubiquitous’ nature of witchcraft

Bill Rankin receives a Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching

Chitra Ramalingam talks the history of photography

Workshop: Joshua Lewis, University of Montreal, Canary in a Coal Mine: Impact of Mid-20th Century Air Pollution on Infant Mortality and Property Values

Workshop: Martha Howell, Columbia University, "Credit networks in a late medieval industrial giant: the case of Ypres"

Workshop: Mark Stelzner, Connecticut College, "The New American Way: the Change in American Labor Law and the resulting Increase in Inequality"

Workshop: Nicolas Ziebarth, University of Iowa, “The Migration of Inventors in 19th Century America"

Workshop: Shameel Ahmad, Yale University, "Trade and Demography in British India, 1881-1931"

Workshop: Mohamed Saleh, Toulouse School of Economics, "The Cotton Boom and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Rural Egypt"

Workshop: Bill Summerhill, UCLA, "Economic Consequences of Educational Backwardness in 20th-Century Brazil" (with Samuel de Abreu Pessôa and Edmilson Varejão)