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Program in Agrarian Studies Yale University April 17-18, 1998 Conference Schedule Opening Remarks Panel I Panel II Panel III Panel IV Panel V Reception and Dinner Conference Participants Conference Discussants Location Conference Schedule Friday, April 17, 1998 2:30 - 2:45    OPENING REMARKS James C. Scott, Director , Program in Agrarian Studies (Top) 2:45 - 4:45    PANEL I Bondage, Dependency, Civilizing Projects -- "Los Hijos del Azar: Culture, Class, and Parenthood in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Chile" Nara Milanich -- "The Effects of Ecological Hazards, Political Transformations, and Economic Change in the Senegambia during the Era of the Slave Trade" Adam Marchand -- "Finding Captivity among the Peasantry: The Malay/Indonesian World (1850-1925)" Eric Tagliacozzo -- "From Forest-dwelling Foragers to Indonesian Citizens: The Resettlement and Incorporation of the Forest Tobelo of Central Halmahera" Christopher Duncan Discussant: Pauline Peters Institute for International Development Harvard University (Program Fellow 1995-1996) Saturday, April 18, 1998 (Top) 8:30 - 10:30    PANEL II Marks on the Land: Space, Property Landscape, Identity -- "State Cartography and Fugitive Landscapes in Veracruz, Mexico" Raymond Craib -- "Are They Making Fun of Us? Exploring State-Society Relations through Narratives of Development, Politics, and Oral Traditions" Amity Doolittle -- "The Bangando, People of the Crocodile: Tracing Threads of Identity through Oral History" Stephanie Rupp -- "All That Is Solid Dissolves into Water: Nature, Locality, and Making of Ipixuna Miranda" Hugh Raffles Discussant: Eric Worby Department of Anthropology Yale University (Top) 10:45-12:45    PANEL III Managing Development: Development, Ecology, Justice -- "Power, Politics, and Position: the Christian commission for Development and the Structure of Power in Honduras" David Bronkema -- "Rethinking Gender, Bureaucracy, and International Development in the Makalu-Barun National Park and Conservation Area" Nina Bhatt -- "Safari Hunting in Central African Republic" Rebecca Hardin -- "Neo-liberalism and Agricultural Cooperatives in Honduras" David Sanders Discussant: Catherine LeGrand Department of History McGill University (Program Fellow 1993-1994) (Top) 12:45-2:00    LUNCH (Top) 2:00-4:00    PANEL IV Official Knowledge, Vernacular Practice -- "Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cooperation and Conflict between Obstetricians and Midwives in Post-Socialist Hungary" Orsolya Berty -- "Forest Fantasies: The Cultures of Ecology and Development in Rural Tanzania" Martin Benjamin -- "Ecology as Ideology: Western Science and State Environmentalism in Vietnam" Pamela McElwee Discussant: Parker Shipton African Studies Center Boston University (Program Fellow 1992-1993) (Top) 4:00-6:00    PANEL V Social Movements, States, Markets, and Violence -- "Documentation and Comparative Genocide Studies: Cambodia and Rwanda" Susan Cook -- "Marketplaces and Holy Spaces: Marabouts and the Morality of Free Markets in Rural Senegal" Donna Perry -- "Conflicts and Visions: Farm Protesters and Farm Experts in the 1980s" Mary Summers -- "The Dialogics of Imagining Nationhood in Zimbabwe: Ethnic Conflict and Political Violence during the 1980s" Yuka Suzuki Discussant: Jim Scott Program in Agrarian Studies Yale University (Director 1991-1998) (Top) 6:00-9:00    RECEPTION AND DINNER Luce Hall Common Room (Top) Conference Participants Martin Benjamin, Anthropology Orsolya Berty, Anthropology Nina Bhatt, Anthropology David Bronkema, Anthropology Susan Cook, Anthropology Raymond Craib, History Amity Doolittle, Forestry Christopher Duncan, Anthropology Rebecca Hardin, Anthropology Adam Marchand, History Nara Milanich, History Pamela McElwee, Forestry Donna Perry, Anthropology Hugh Raffles, Forestry Stephanie Rupp, Anthropology David Sanders, History Mary Summers, Political Science Yuka Suzuki, Anthropology Eric Tagliacozzo, History (Top) Discussants Catherine LeGrand Pauline Peters Parker Shipton Eric Worby Jim Scott (Top) Location All sessions will be held at 77 Prospect Street (the ISPS building). The reception and dinner on Saturday evening are in the Common Room of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. (See map for campus locations.)