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Colloquium Schedule 2014-2015
“Hinterlands, Frontiers, Cities, and States: Transactions and Identities”
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
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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
The 'Home Market': Structural Change and Developmental Ideology in the Rural Northeast, 1815-1860
Drifting with the Current?: An In-Between Ethnicity at China's Southwestern Borderland
Spectacular Technology, Invisible Harms: Touring Guangzhou’s Waste Facilities