Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series “Hinterlands, Frontiers, Cities, and States: Transactions and Identity” Meetings are Fridays, 11am - 1pm ISPS seminar room, 77 Prospect Street (see map and directions) ---->PDF copy of each paper is available one week in advance of session by clicking on name of presenter

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Fall 2009–2010

SPRING

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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Spring 2009–2010

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January 15 Martin Jones Archaeology, University of Cambridge “The Ecology of Empire: Food, Community and Network in the Classical Roman Landscape” 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 Warfare, 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 “The City of God: Chronicles of a Sacred Militancy” February 26 Matthew Garcia American Civilization, Ethnic Studies, and History, Brown University “I Heard It through the Grapevine: Internationalizing the UFW Grape Boycott” 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 “From Vegetarian Tigers to Man-eating Hybrids: Food Politics in the Sundarbans” April 2 Good Friday April 9 Yuka Suzuki Anthropology, Bard College “The Leopard’s Black and White Spots: Reinventing Nature in Zimbabwe” April 16 Ponciano del Pino History, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos “The Ambivalent State: Memory, Politics, and Conflict in Indigenous Communities in Modern Peru” April 23 Anand Pandian Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins University “Landscapes of Affective Expression in South Indian Cinema”

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