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Colloquium Series Fall 2004 September 10 Rebecca Solnit Author and Independent Scholar “Standing on Top of Golden Hours: Catastrophe, Revolution, Carnival, and the Suspension of Everyday Life” September 17 Nina Planck Local Foods, New York City “Beyond Farmers’ Markets: The Market for Local Foods” September 24 John Varty Environmental Studies, Queen’s University “First the Loaf: A Hybrid History of Wheat Improvement” October 1 Michael Mahoney History, Yale University “Jolling and Brawling: The Beer Party and Intra-Subaltern Conflict in Late Colonial Natal, South Africa, 1879–1906” October 8 Lei Guang Political Science, San Diego State University “Creating Rural-Urban Boundaries in China: Rural Workers in Cities and State Re-rustication Campaigns from the 1950s to the 1990s” October 15 John Grin Political Science, University of Amsterdam “Radical Agricultural Reform in the Netherlands as Reflexive Modernization” October 22 Edward Friedman Political Science, University of Wisconsin Mark Selden East Asia Program, Cornell University “Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China: A Quarter Century of Unlearning Certain Realities of Rural Life” October 29 Jonathan Fox Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz “Reframing Mexican Migration as a Multiethnic Process” November 5 Fred Kirschenmann Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University “The Current State of Agriculture: Does It Have a Future?” November 12 Rubie Watson Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology “The Lord’s Kitchen: Church, Community, and Family Farms in Rural Illinois” November 19 Kate Meagher Nuffield College, Oxford University “Social Capital or Analytical Liability?: Social Networks and African Informal Economies” December 3 Caroline Humphrey Social Anthropology, Cambridge University “Cosmopolitanism, Socialist Internationalism, and kozmopolitizm in Multiethnic Russia” Colloquium Series Spring 2005 January 14 Harriet Friedmann Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto “Modernity and the Hamburger: Cattle and Wheat in Ecological and Culinary Change” January 21 Wendy Wolford Geography, University of North Carolina “‘Every Monkey Has Its Own Head’: Rural Sugarcane Workers and the Politics of Becoming a Peasant in Northeastern Brazil” January 28 James L. Wescoat, Jr. Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Landscape Heritage: Conservation, Conflict, and Conciliation in Gujarat” February 4 Karl Zimmerer Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison “From Natural History to Environmental Science: Mapping Landscape and Nature in the Andes” February 11 Dorothy Hodgson Anthropology, Rutgers University “Being Maasai, Becoming ‘Indigenous’: Transnational Advocacy and the Politics of Representation, Recognition, Resources, and Rights” February 18 Kenneth Pomeranz History, University of California, Irvine “The Economics of Respectability: Gender Division of Labor and Rural Livelihoods in Late Imperial China” February 25 Laura Lovett History, University of Massachusetts/Amherst “‘Fitter Families for Future Firesides’: Popular Eugenics and the Construction of a Rural Family Ideal in the United States? March 4 Jose Bove Confederation Paysanne, France “Via campesina, or Building an International Farmers’ Movement against Neoliberal Policies and for the Right to Food Sovereignty” March 25 John Fraser Hart Geography, University of Minnesota “The Changing Scale of American Agriculture” April 1 Scott Guggenheim World Bank “Big Development in Little Communities: Reflections on Social Change in Transitional Indonesia” April 8 Lauren Leve Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Liberal Values, ‘Failed Development’, and Rural Revolution in Nepal: The Radical Politics of Women’s Empowerment” April 15 Jan-Bart Gewald African Studies Centre, Leiden University “Transformations in Transport in Zambia: Preliminary Ideas Regarding a Social History of the Motorcar in Zambia, 1890-1940” April 22 Maria Farland English and American Literature, Fordham University “Robert Frost, the ‘Degenerate’ Farmer, and the Elevations of Scientific Agriculture”