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Colloquium Series Fall 1998 September 11 Alex Lichtenstein History, Florida International University “Peasants or Proletarians?: Sharecroppers and the Politics of Protest in the Rural South 1880-1940” September 18 Carlos A. Forment Politics and Sociology, Princeton University “Democracy in Spanish America: Civic Society and the Invention of Politics” September 25 Göran Djurfeldt Sociology, Lund University “Essentially Non-Peasant?: Some Critical Remarks on the Post-Modern on the Peasantry” October 2 Arun Agrawal Political Science, Yale University “The Production of Community-in-Conservation” October 9 Rebecca J. Scott History, University of Michigan “Reclaiming Gregoria’s Mule: Nationalist Insurgency and Local Assertion in the Postemancipation World of Cane (Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1884-1902)” October 16 S. Ravi Rajan Environmental Studies, University of California/Santa Cruz “Bhopal: Erasure, Vulnerability, and the Chronic Disaster” October 23 Jeya Kathirithamby-Wells Cambridge University “Forest Frontier and Hinterland in Peninsular Malaysia: The Twentieth-Century Convergence” October 30 Annie Proulx Writer, Centennial, WY “Dangerous Ground: Landscape in Contemporary American Fiction” Note change in venue: The October 30th session will be held in Room 202 of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. November 6 Nicholas Dawidoff Writer, New York, NY “In the Country of Country” November 13 Megan Haney and Dave Forman Mad Mares Farm, Bethany, CT “Mad Mares Farm: The Farmers in Your Neighborhood” November 20 Steve Striffler Anthropology, New School for School Research “Communists, Communists Everywhere!: Understanding Defeat and Betrayal in Ecuador’s Coast” December 4 Amitava Kumar English, University of Florida “Against Mandarin Modernity: The Case of Fiction from Small Town India” Colloquium Series Spring 1999 January 15 Tamara L. Whited Department of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania “Pastoralists and Geographers in Turn-of-the-Century France” January 22 Vincent J. Knapp Department of History, SUNY/Postdam “What Europeans Ate in Agricultural Times: Eighteenth-Century Levels of Food Consumption and Nutrition” January 29 Gloria Davis The World Bank “Social Development Update: Making Development More Inclusive and Effective“ February 5 Douglas R. Weiner Department of History, University of Arizona “‘Resistance’ Reconsidered: Do we Need a New Framework to Describe Responses to Violence?” February 12 Henry Bernstein Programme in Public Policy and Management, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London “The Rise and Fall of King Maize on the South African Highveld, or the Boys from Bothaville” February 19 Joan Martínez-Alier Department of Economics and Economic History, Autonomous University of Barcelona “Environmentalism of the Poor” February 26 Christopher Udry Department of Economics, Yale University “Learning and Innovation: The Adoption of Pineapple in Ghana” March 5 Jan Douwe van der Ploeg Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands “The Agrarian Question Reconsidered” March 26 James McCann African Studies Center, Boston University “Maize and Grace: Africa’s Green Revolution and Landscapes of Memory, 1500-1999” April 2 Jin Sato Advanced International and Social Studies, University of Tokyo “People in Between: Conservation and Conversion of Forest Land in Thailand” April 9 Kathy J. Cooke History, Quinnipiac College “Breeding for Character: The Frontier and the Development of Eugenics in Early Twentieth-Century America” April 16 Fredrik Barth Etnografisk Museum, University of Oslo, Department of Anthropology, Boston University “Power and Compliance in Bhutanese Rural Society” April 23 Tamara Giles-Vernick History, University of Virginia “Cutting the Vines of the Past: Environmental Histories of Loss in the Sangha River Basin”