| 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, 18761914” |
| January 29 |
Charles Postel
History, San Francisto State University
“The Populist Context: Texas Cotton Farmers and Religious Warfare, 18801900” |
| 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” |