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Colloquium Series Fall 2003
| September 12 |
Alice Waters
Chez Panisse, San Francisco, California
“Slow Food, Slow Schools: Teaching Sustainability the Education of the Senses” |
| September 19 |
Steve Striffler
Anthropology, University of Arkansas
“We’re All Mexican Here: Poultry Processing, Latino Migration, and the Transformation of Class in the U.S. South” |
| September 26 |
Devon Pena
Anthropology and Chicano Studies, University of Washington
“Sin agua no hay vida: The Acequia Watershed Commonwealth” |
| October 3 |
Brian Donahue
American Studies, Brandeis University
“The Great Meadow: Sustainable Farming in Colonial Concord” |
| October 10 |
Dolores Koenig
Anthropology, American University
“The Politics of Production on the Cotton Frontier of Kita, Mali” |
| October 17 |
Peter Pels
Research Centre for Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam
“Localizing Rural Society: Tanganyika Anthropology as Public and Secret Service, 1925–1961” |
| October 24 |
Joseph Hodge
History, Skidmore College
“From Empty Lands to Empty Hands: Debates on Population, Resources and British Colonial Land Use, 1815–1950” |
| October 31 |
David Kline
Author and Amish Farmer, Fredricksburg, Ohio
“Living Sustainably in an Agrarian Community” |
| November 7 |
Colin Duncan
History, McGill University
“Adam Smith’s Labouring Cattle: The Role of Nature in History and Political Economy” |
| November 14 |
Joanna Swabe
Scientific Centre for Animals and Society, Utrecht University
“Domestication, Dependency and Disease: Exploring the Human-Animal Relationship from a Long-term Sociological Perspective” |
| November 21 |
Mauricio Bellon
CIMMYT, Mexico
“Exploring the Potential Impacts of Transgenic Varieties on Maize Diversity in Mexican Traditional Agricultural Systems” [Julien Berthaud, coauthor] |
| December 5 |
Kelly Brownell
Psychology, Yale University
“The Food Industry and America’s Obesity Crisis: Trustworthy Ally or Troubling Adversary?” |
Colloquium Series Spring 2004
| January 16 |
Fernando Coronil
History, University of Michigan
“The Nation's Wounded Bodies: Blood, Oil, and the Coup Against Hugo Chavez” |
| January 23 |
Michael Woolcock
The World Bank and Harvard University
“Understanding Local-Level Conflict Pathways in Indonesia: Participatory Development Projects as Problem and (Possible) Solution” |
| January 30 |
Esther Duflo
Economics, MIT
“Understanding Technology Adoption in Agriculture: Evidence from Randomized Trials on Fertilizer in Kenya” |
| February 6 |
Mary Zurbuchen
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA
“Bali after the Bombing: Land, Livelihoods, and Legacies of Violence” |
| February 13 |
Marcy Norton
History, The George Washington University
“Frontiers and Cultural Exchange: Europeans, Indians, and Tobacco in the Caribbean” |
| February 20 |
Paul Freedman
History, Yale University
“Medieval Globalization: The European Desire for Spices before 1500” |
| February 27 |
Hugh Raffles
Anthropology, University of California/Santa Cruz
“The Illustrated Insectopedia: J is for Jews” |
| March 5 |
Leander Schneider
Political Science, Columbia University
“Developmentality: State Paternalism in Postcolonial Tanzania” |
| March 26 |
Peter Lindner
Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
“The Kolkhoz Archipelago: Localizing Privatization, Disconnecting Locales” |
| April 2 |
Ralph Thaxton
Politics Department, Brandeis University
“Corruption, Coercion, and the Loss of Core Entitlements under the People's Commune: Revisiting the Causality of Deprivation, Starvation, and Death in Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine” |
| April 9 |
Dilip Menon
History, University of Delhi
“Things Fall Apart: Nostalgia and the Cinematic Rendering of the Agrarian Landscape in South India” |
| April 16 |
Nancy Jacobs
Africana Studies and History, Brown University
“Flocking Together: Africans, Europeans, and Birds in the Twentieth Century” |
| April 23 |
Susan O’Donovan
History, Harvard University
“Trunk Lines, Land Lines, and Local Exchanges: Operationalizing the Grapevine Telegraph” |
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