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Colloquium Series Fall 2008–2009
| September 12 |
Brett Walker
History and Philosophy, Montana State University
“Animals and the Intimacy of History” |
| September 19 |
Mukulika Banerjee
Anthropology, University College London
“Kinship, Cultivation, and Communism: Perceptions of Democracy in West Bengal, India” |
| September 26 |
Graeme Barker
Archaeology, University of Cambridge
“Footsteps and Marks: Transitions to Farming in the Rainforests of Island Southeast Asia” |
| October 3 |
Mark Cioc
History, University of California/Santa Cruz
“Hunting, Agriculture, and the Quest for International Wildlife Conservation during the Early 20th Century” |
| October 10 |
Nancy Langston
Forest Ecology and Management, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin/Madison
“Modern Meat: Synthetic Hormones, Livestock, and Consumers in the Post-WWII Era” |
| October 17 |
Percy Schmeiser
Wheat farmer, Bruno Saskatchewan, Canada
“Ownership of Seed, Plants, and Food through Patents on Higher Life Forms” |
| October 24 |
Peter C. Perdue
History, Yale University
“Is Pu-er in Zomia?: Tea Cultivation and the State in China”
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| October 31 |
Sara Gregg
History, Wilson Presidential Library
“Hill People: Appalachian Culture and the American State” |
| November 7 |
Steve J. Stern
History, University of Wisconsin
“Staging Dirty War Memory: Notes on Human Rights and Film in Post-Dictatorship Chile, 1990–2004” |
| November 14 |
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Hispanic Studies, Vassar College
“Caribbean Environmentalisms: Rediscovering Agrarian Cultures in Endangered Ecologies” |
| November 21 |
Rebecca Scott
Sociology, University of Missouri
“Coalfield Whiteness: White People, Black Coal” |
| December 5 |
Susanne Freidberg
Geography, Dartmouth College
“On the Longue Durée of Short Shelf Life” |
Colloquium Series Spring 2008–2009
| January 16 |
Irus Braverman
Law School, State University of New York, Buffalo
“Planted Flags: Trees, Territory, and the Law in Israel/Palestine”
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| January 23 |
Eduardo Kohn
Anthropology, McGill University
“Form’s Effortless Efficacy: A Multispecies Amazonian Account” |
| January 30 |
David Ekbladh
History, Tufts University
“Liberalism’s Spine: ‘Modernisation’ to meet the Challenge of Totalitarianism, 1933–1944” |
| February 6 |
Mark Hineline
History, University of California, San Diego
“Extraordinary Tourists: The Transcontinental Excursion of 1912” |
| February 13 |
Roderick McIntosh
Anthropology, Yale University
“Middle Niger Niche Specialization: The Prehistorian’s Deep-time Dilemma” |
| February 20 |
Anne Meneley
Anthropology, Trent University
“A Tale of Two Itineraries: The Production, Consumption, and Global Circulation of Italian and Palestinian Olive Oil” |
| February 27 |
Kathleen Morrison
Center for International Studies, University of Chicago
“Dharmic Projects, Imperial Reservoirs, or New Temples in India? An Historical Perspective on Dams in India” |
| March 6 |
Piers Vitebsky
Geography, University of Cambridge
“Repeated Returns to the Field: From Mythic First Encounter to Continual Historical Change”
optional background reading: “Loving and Forgetting: Moments of Inarticulacy inTribal India”
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| March 27 |
Alessandro Monsutti
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
“Local Power and Transnational Resources: An Anthropological Perspective on Rural Rehabilitation in Afghanistan” |
| April 3 |
Nandini Sundar
Sociology, Delhi School of Economics
“Interning Insurgent Populations: The Buried Histories of Indian Democracy” |
| April 10 |
Keely Maxwell
Earth and Environment, Franklin & Marshall College
“Making Machu Picchu: Embedding History and Embodying Nature in the Peruvian Andes” |
| April 17 |
Laura Sayre
Independent Scholar
“Georgic Apocalypse: From Virgil to Silent Spring”
optional background reading: Excerpts from Virgil and Rachel Carson
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| April 24 |
Karen Hébert
Anthropology, University of Michigan
“In Pursuit of Singular Salmon: Paradoxes of Sustainability and the Quality Commodity” |
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