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Colloquium Series, Fall 2009–2010
| September 11 |
William T. Rowe
Chinese History, The Johns Hopkins University
“Bao Shichen: An Early Nineteenth-Century Chinese Agrarian Reformer” |
| September 18 |
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Editorial Board, The New York Times
“A Compilation of Pieces about Farming and Its Issues” |
| September 25 |
Courtney Jung
Political Science, University of Toronto
“Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the History of Mexican Indigenous Politics” |
| October 2 |
A.R. Vasavi
National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
“Suicides and the Making of India’s Agrarian Distress” |
| October 9 |
Jonathan Harwood
History of Science and Technology, University of Manchester “Why Have Green Revolutions So Often Neglected Peasant-Farmers?” |
| October 16 |
Felix Wemheuer
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
“The Politicization of Hunger: Food and peasant-state relation in China (1949-1962)” |
| October 23 |
Diana Mincyte
College of Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Milk, Machines, and Mobility: The Politics of Subsistence Economies in Europeanizing Lithuania Lithuania” |
| October 30 |
Saturnino (Jun) Borras
International Development Studies, St. Mary’s University, Halifax
“The Politics of Contemporary (Trans)national Commercial Land Deals: Competing Views, Strategies and Alternatives” |
| November 6 |
Kregg Hetherington
Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University
“Guerrilla Auditors and Duplicitous Documents: Information, Transparency and Land Struggles in Paraguay” |
| November 13 |
Erik Harms
Anthropology, Yale University
“Social Demolition: Creative Destruction and the Production of Value in Vietnamese Land Clearance” |
| November 20 |
Jake Kosek
Geography, University of California, Berkeley
“The Natures of the Beast: On the New Uses of the Honey Bee” |
| December 4 |
Michael Docter
The Food Bank Farm
“Food Bank Farm: A Twenty-Year Effort to Reduce Hunger and Localize Food Supply”
note: the PDF for this session consists of scanned clippings and articles. It is offered in two versions: (1) for uniform printing on letter size paper, and (2) for optimal screen viewing, where small print can be enlarged in your browser or PDF viewer for legibility.
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Colloquium Series, Spring 2009–2010
| January 15 |
Martin Jones
Archaeology, University of Cambridge
“The Ecology of Empire: Food, Community and Network in the Classical Roman Landscape”
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| January 22 |
Sarah Washbrook
St. Antony’s College, Oxford
“Modernizing the State or Re-enforcing Tradition? Indian Communities and Political Centralization in Rural Chiapas, 1876–1914” |
| January 29 |
Charles Postel
History, San Francisto State University
“The Populist Context: Texas Cotton Farmers and Religious Conflict, 1880–1900” |
| February 5 |
Alissa Hamilton
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
“Fabricated Fresh” |
| February 12 |
Karen Seto
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
“From Farms to Factories: Transformations of Landscapes and Livelihoods in Urbanizing Asia” |
| February 19 |
Kimberly Theidon
Anthropology, Harvard University
“Histories of Innocence: Post-War Stories in Peru”
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| February 26 |
Matthew Garcia
American Civilization, Ethnic Studies, and History, Brown University
“The Importance of Being Asian: Growers, the United Farm Workers, and the Rise of Colorblindness” |
| March 5 |
Henry Bernstein
Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
“Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change: Writing a ‘Little Book on a Big Idea’” |
| March 26 |
Annu Jalais
Arts and Humanities Research Council, Bengal Muslim Diaspora Project
“Bengali, but not Bhadralok” |
| April 2 |
Good Friday |
| April 9 |
Yuka Suzuki
Anthropology, Bard College
“The Leopard’s Black and White Spots: Nature, Metaphor, and Poetics” |
| April 16 |
Ponciano del Pino
History, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
“‘In the name of the government’: Community Politics, Violence and Memory in Modern Peru” |
| April 23 |
Anand Pandian
Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins University
“Ripening with the Earth: On Maturity and Modernity in South India” |
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