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 2008–2009

SPRING

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 Perdue History, Yale University “Is Pu-er in Zomia?: Tea Cultivation and the State in China” 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”

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Spring 2008–2009

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January 16 Irus Braverman Law School, State University of New York, Buffalo “Planted Flags: Trees, Territory, and the Law in Israel/Palestine” 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” 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 April 24 Karen Hébert Anthropology, University of Michigan “In Pursuit of Singular Salmon: Paradoxes of Sustainability and the Quality Commodity”

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