Agrarian Studies Archive File

AgrStds Home Archive Index

Colloquium Series Fall 2006–2007 September 8 Frieda Knobloch American Studies, University of Wyoming “Beautiful Wreck: A Red Desert View on Ruin in Wyoming” September 15 Jessica Allina-Pisano Political Science, Colgate University “Post-Socialist Potemkin Villages” September 22 Ravi Rajan Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz “Sustenance, Security, and Suffrage: An Essay on Environmental Justice” September 29 Elizabeth Dore Latin American Studies, University of Southampton “Memories of the Cuban Revolution” October 6 David Hughes Human Ecology, Rutgers University “The Craft of Belonging: Whites, Water, and Wilderness in Africa” October 13 Thomas Harttung Chairman, Aarstiderne (The Seasons) “21st-Century Sustainable Food Systems: Walking the Tight Rope between Deep Ecology and Corporate Ultra-Light Sustainability, or How to Square the Virtuous Circle without Becoming Square Yourself” October 20 Durland Fish School of Public Health, Yale University “Zoonotic Disease: Intimacy with the Natural World” Instead of a paper, Dr. Durland Fish will present a brief lecture on zoonotic diseases and the micro-biological history of the domestication of livestock and poultry. October 27 Jimmy McWilliams History, Texas State University- San Marcos “The Bug Wars: Early America’s Vexed Relationship with the Insect Empire” November 3 Virginia Anderson University of Colorado at Boulder “History in a Minor Key, or The Life of a Seventeenth-Century New England Farmer” November 10 Prakash Kumar History, Colorado State University “Science and the Improvement of Indigo Dye in Colonial India, 1897–1913” November 17 Gail Hershatter History, University of California, Santa Cruz “The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and Collectivization in 1950s China” December 1 Ignacio Chapela Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley “Science, Seeds, Sovereignty: Biotech Enters the Genetic Resource Commons” December 8 Ann Gold Religion, Syracuse University “Tasteless Profits and Vexed Moralities in Rural Rajasthan” Colloquium Series Spring 2006–2007 January 19 Conevery Bolton Valencius History of Science, Harvard University “Earthy Science of the Nineteenth-Century U.S.: Understanding the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811–12” January 26 Janisse Ray Author “The Bleeding Fields: Rural Exodus, Cultural Depauperization, and Right-Wing Uprise in the American South” February 2 Arvid Nelson School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale “German Forest and Farm Landscapes and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1949: Evidence from the Soviet Zone Countryside” February 9 Richard Schroeder Geography, Rutgers University “The Great Trek to Tanzania:  South African Capital, Race, and National Sovereignty in the Post-Apartheid Era” February 16 Valentine Cadieux Yale Sustainable Food Project “Beyond the Rural Idyll: Agrarian Problems and Promises in Exurban Sprawl” February 23 Thomas Barfield Anthropology, Boston University “Weapons of the not so Weak in Afghanistan: Pashtun Agrarian Structure and Tribal Organization for Times of War or Peace” March 2 Vaclav Smil Geography, University of Manitoba “The Next Fifty Years: Catastrophes and Trends” March 9 Finn Stepputat Danish Institute for International Studies “Democratarianism? Politics and Shifting Hegemonies in Rural Guatemala” March 30 John Varty History, McGill University “On Breathless Cows and Mad Science: The Anatomy of a 19th-Century Dispute” April 6 David Guterson Independent Author “The Kingdom of Apples: Picking the Fruit of Immortality in Washington’s Laden Orchards” April 13 Erika Olbricht English, Pepperdine University “Robin Hood's Complaint:  Tithes and Agrarian Theology in Early Modern England” April 20 Richard Kernaghan Anthropology, Columbia University “Asphalt Trenches: Peruvian Maoism, Mobile Checkpoints, and Other Questions of Historical Sedimentation”  April 27 Liza Grandia Clark University, Department of International Development, Community and Environment “‘The Tragedy of the Enclosures’:  Rethinking Primitive Accumulation from the Guatemalan Hinterland”