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Colloquium Series Fall 2005–2006
| September 9 |
Alon Tal
Institute for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University
“To Make a Desert Bloom — Sustainability and the Israeli Agricultural Adventure” |
| September 16 |
Craig Koslofsky
History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Toward a History of the Night in Rural Early Modern Europe” |
| September 23 |
Katherine Verdery
Anthropology, University of Michigan
“Abusive Cadres in a Voracious Party-State Romanian Collectivization in the 1950s” |
| September 30 |
Alison G. Power
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
“Linking Ecological Sustainability and World Food Needs” |
| October 7 |
Cori Hayden
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
“What is the Collective (For)?: Bioscience, Exchange, and the Politics of Benefit Sharing” |
| October 14 |
Richard Turits
History, University of Michigan
“Race beyond the Plantation: Slavery and Freedom in Santo Domingo” |
| October 21 |
Timothy Mitchell
Politics, New York University
“The Work of Economics” |
| October 28 |
Anthony Harkins
History, Western Kentucky University
“‘Flyover Country’ and the Evolution of the Idea of Two Americas” |
| November 4 |
Kären Wigen
History, Stanford University
“Seeing Like a Pilgrim: The Alpine Imaginary of Early Modern Japanese Maps” |
| November 11 |
Emmanuel Kreike
History, Princeton University
“The Ovambo Paradox: Deforestation and Reforestation in Africa” |
| November 18 |
Georgi Derluguian
Sociology, Northwestern University
“Guns + Mountains = Tribal Democratization in the Early Modern Caucasus” |
| December 2 |
Arun Agrawal
School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
“Indigenous Knowledge/Power” |
Colloquium Series Spring 2005–2006
| January 13 |
Angelique Haugerud
Anthropology, Rutgers University
“How about the Laughter?, the Music?, the Zest?: Emotions and the Study of Social Movements” |
| January 20 |
Joel Salatin
Polyface, Inc., Swopes, VA
“Holy Cows and Hog Heaven” |
| January 27 |
Patricia Limerick
History, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Ranchland Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem” |
| February 3 |
Radhika Singha
Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
“A ‘Proper’ Passport for the Colony: Border Crossing in British India, c. 1882–1920” |
| February 10 |
Kevin O’Brien
Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
“From Mediated to Direct Protest: Tactical Escalation in the Chinese Countryside” |
| February 17 |
Daniel Posner
Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
“African Borders as a Source of Quasi Experiments” |
| February 24 |
Eric Freyfogle
College of Law, University of Illinois
“Agrarian Production and the Right to Exclude in Early America” |
| March 3 |
Holly High
Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
“The Politics of Poverty: State, citizens, and the non-provision of services in rural Laos” |
| March 24 |
Elizabeth Dunn
Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Postsocialist Spores”
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| March 31 |
Keith Wrightson
History, Yale University
“The ‘Decline of Neighbourliness’ Revisited” |
| April 7 |
Piper Gaubatz
Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Transforming a ‘Sea of Grass’: Urbanization, Nomadic Pastoralism, and Agricultural Colonization on the Sino-Mongolian Frontier, 1550–1930” |
| April 14 |
Jayeeta Sharma
History, Carnegie Mellon University
“Growing Tea: Lazy Natives and Colonialism’s Coolies” |
| April 21 |
Marco Armiero
Environmental History, Council for Scientific Research, Italy
“Elsewhere: Italians in the Frontier, 19th and 20th Centuries” |
April 25
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Stefania Barca
Economic and Social History of the Modern Age, Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples
“Health, Labor, and Social Justice. Environmental Costs of the Italian Economic Growth, 1958–2000” |
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