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Colloquium Schedule 2014-2015

“Hinterlands, Frontiers, Cities, and States: Transactions and Identities”

Fall 2014

September 5
Neil Maher
Federated History Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University at Newark
Shooting (from) the Moon: NASA, Nature, and the New Left during the Vietnam War

September 12
Carolyn Rouse
Anthropology, Princeton University
Don't Let the Lion Tell the Giraffe's Story: Law, Violence, and Ontological Insecurities in Ghana

September 19
Matt and David Howe
Practicing Farmers, Lewistown, Illinois
Generations: 131 Years on One Family Farm

September 26
Francesca Ammon
The University of Pennsylvania School of Design
"The Intricate Blending of Brains and Brawn": Engineers, Bulldozers, and the Making of the Interstate Highways

October 3
Daniel Rood
History, The University of Georgia
A Republic of Blueprints: Creolizing the Industrial Revolution in the Cuban Sugar-Mill, 1800-1860

October 10
Mark Tauger
History, West Virginia University
Pavel Luk'ianenko and the Soviet Green Revolution

October 17
Jennifer Clapp
Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo
Responsibility to the Rescue? Governing Private Financial Investment in Global Agriculture

October 31
Adam Tooze
History, Yale University
A Small Village in the Age of Extremes: Agrarian Modernity in Wuerttemberg from the Weimar Republic to the Cold War World

November 7
Jennifer Derr
History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Nile Articulations: Imagining, Representing, and Constructing the Nile River in Colonial Egypt

November 14
Samer Alatout
Community & Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Border Effects: Water, Palestine, and the Colonial Encounter

December 5
Michael Levien
Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
Dispossession without Development? Real Estate Speculation and Agrarian Change in a Rajasthani Village
CANCELLED

 

Spring 2015
January 16
Sarah Besky, 
Anthropology, The University of Michigan
January 23
Ian Miller,
History, Harvard University
Tokyo in the Age of Electricity: Energy and the Great Convergence

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January 30
Daniel Tubb,
Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow
February 6
Matt Turner,
Geography, The University of Wisconsin
February 13
Raymond Craib,
History, Cornell University
February 20
Louisa Lombard,
Anthropology, Yale University
February 27
Steven Stoll,
History, Fordham University
Ramp Hollow: Losing Land and Livelihood in Appalachia
March 6
Walter Johnson,
History, Harvard University
April 3
Guntra Aistara,
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Cacophonous Harmonies: Struggles for Organic Sovereignty in Latvia and Costa Rica
April 10
Julie Gibbings,
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Possessing Sentiments and Ideas of Progress: Land Privatization and Citizenship in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, 1877-1886
April 17
Jennifer Johnson, Post-Doctoral Fellow

 

Spring Series Colloquia

Agrarian Studies is delighted to announce the lineup for our annual "Spring Series" colloquia. This is an opportunity for advanced Ph.D. students and postdocs to share their work with the Agrarian Studies community in a relaxed format similar to our Friday meetings. We will provide pizza and beverages for two gatherings:

Wednesday, April 29

Aniket Aga – Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
Merchants of Knowledge: Retailers, Private Sector Extension Agents, and Vegetable Cultivation in Western India

Alba Diaz – Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Contemporary History
“When milk began to be worth”: Economic, Social and Cultural Changes in Rural Galiza, 1959-1986

Alder Keleman – Ph.D. Candidate, Forestry and Environmental Studies
The Bitter Taste of the Anthropocene: Cooking Native and Traditional Crops in the Bolivian Andes

 
Thursday, May 7
 
Ariel Ron – Postdoctoral Fellow, American History
The 'Home Market': Structural Change and Developmental Ideology in the Rural Northeast, 1815-1860
 
Yu Luo – Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
Drifting with the Current?: An In-Between Ethnicity at China's Southwestern Borderland
 
Amy Zhang – Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
Spectacular Technology, Invisible Harms: Touring Guangzhou’s Waste Facilities