Agrarian Studies Archive File

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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” 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 11:30 am 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”