Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series

“Hinterlands, Frontiers, Cities, and States:
Transactions and Identities”

NEW: View and download a PDF of the Spring 2012 Colloquium Poster

Meetings are Fridays, 11am - 1pm
ISPS, seminar room, 77 Prospect Street
(see map and directions)
---->PDF copy of each paper is available one week in advance of session
by clicking on name of presenter [PDFs open in new window]

FALL 2011–2012

September 9	Frederick Opie History and Society Division, Babson College “Juke Joints, Rum Shops, and Honky-Tonks: The Politics of Leisure in Agrarian Societies”
September 16	Michael McGovern Anthropology, Yale University “Life During Wartime: Aspirational Kinship and the Management of Insecurity”
September 23	Robert Marks History, Whittier College “Ecological Degradation and Environmental Crisis in China, 1800–1950”
September 30	Jocelyn Alexander International Development, University of Oxford “Nationalism and Self-Government in Rhodesian Detention: Gonakudzingwa, 1964–1974”
October 7	Martha Lampland Sociology and Science Studies, UC/San Diego “The Problem with Money”
October 14	Jeremy Campbell Anthropology and Sociology, Roger Williams University “The Secret of Speculative Accumulation: Capital, Land Fraud, and Environmental Governance in Amazonia”
October 21	Eben Kirksey CUNY Graduate Center “Interspecies Love in an Age of Excess: Being and Becoming With a Common Ant, Ectatomma ruidum (Roger)” (This week’s paper is 22MB. Also available: a smaller version, which may not be compatible with all readers, plus 3 separate illustrations.)
Monday October 24 at 5 pm Note date, time, and venue	Special time and location: Monday, October 24, at 5 pm in Rm. 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. René Redzepi Chef, NOMA (2010, 2011 Best Restaurant in the World by Restaurant Magazine) “Love Stories” — read the press release about this special presentation —
November 4	Shane Hamilton History, University of Georgia “From Bodega to Supermercado: Nelson A. Rockefeller’s Agro-Industrial Counterrevolution in Venezuela, 1947–1969”
November 11	Elisabeth Wood Political Science, Yale University “Rape during War Is Not Inevitable: Variation in Wartime Sexual Violence”
November 18	Jane Smith History, Northwestern University “Potatoes, Plums, and Prickly Pears: Luther Burbank and the Search for Game-Changing Plants”
December 2	Ian Scoones Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex “Zimbabwe’s Land Reform: Challenging the Myths”
December 9	Morten Pedersen Anthropology, University of Copenhagen “Spirits in Transition: Shamanic Souls and Political Bodies in Northern Mongolia after State Socialism”

SPRING 2011–2012

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January 13	Carolyn de la Peña American Studies, UC/Davis “Tomato Thinking: Innovation, Affiliation, and White Masculinity in the Mechanization of California’s Tomato Harvest”
January 20	Neeladri Bhattacharya Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University “Promise of Modernity, Antinomies of Development”
January 27	Brian Peterson History, Union College “Conversion to Islam Reconsidered: Multigenerational Religious Drift in Rural French Sudan”
February 3	Pamela McElwee Human Ecology, Rutgers University “From Red Peasants to REDD Presence: Forest Politics in Vietnam in an Age of Global Carbon Markets”
February 10	Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley History, San Diego State University “From 'Nourish the People' to 'Sacrifice for the Nation': Changing Responses to Disaster in Late Imperial and Modern China”
February 17	Sara Shneiderman Anthropology, Yale University “Transcendent Territory and Portable Deities: Mobility and the Problem of Indigeneity between Nepal and India”
February 24	Mark Rowlands Philosophy, University of Miami “Can Animals be Moral?”
March 2	Dario Gaggio Agrarian Studies Fellow “Vineyards, Sheep, and Bandits: Debating the Sardinian Shepherds’ Migration to Rural Tuscany (1960-1990)”
March 23	Ling Zhang Agrarian Studies Fellow “The Power of Water: A Political History of the Yellow River from Antiquity to the Twelfth Century”
March 30	Alpa Shah Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London “The Intimacy of Insurgency: Encounters with India’s Maoist Revolution”
April 13	Arupjyoti Saikia Agrarian Studies Fellow “Dancing Like Nataraj: Earthquakes and Environmental History of the Brahmaputra River Valley”
April 20	Roseann Cohen Agrarian Studies Fellow “Farming at the City’s Edge: Agrarian Dreams and the Politics Dispossession in Cartagena, Colombia”

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