Archive File
Colloquium Series, Fall 2005�2006
September 9
Alon Tal
Institute for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University
�To Make a Desert Bloom � Sustainability and the Israeli Agricultural Adventure�
September 16
Craig Koslofsky
History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
�Toward a History of the Night in Rural Early Modern Europe�
September 23
Katherine Verdery
Anthropology, University of Michigan
�Abusive Cadres in a Voracious Party-State Romanian Collectivization in the 1950s�
September 30
Alison G. Power
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
�Linking Ecological Sustainability and World Food Needs�
October 7
Cori Hayden
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
�What is the Collective (For)?: Bioscience, Exchange, and the Politics of Benefit Sharing�
October 14
Richard Turits
History, University of Michigan
�Race beyond the Plantation: Slavery and Freedom in Santo Domingo�
October 21
Timothy Mitchell
Politics, New York University
�The Work of Economics�
October 28
Anthony Harkins
History, Western Kentucky University
��Flyover Country� and the Evolution of the Idea of Two Americas�
November 4
K�ren Wigen
History, Stanford University
�Seeing Like a Pilgrim: The Alpine Imaginary of Early Modern Japanese Maps�
November 11
Emmanuel Kreike
History, Princeton University
�The Ovambo Paradox: Deforestation and Reforestation in Africa�
November 18
Georgi Derluguian
Sociology, Northwestern University
�Guns + Mountains = Tribal Democratization in the Early Modern Caucasus�
December 2
Arun Agrawal
School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
�Indigenous Knowledge/Power�
Colloquium Series, Fall 2005�2006
January 13
Angelique Haugerud
Anthropology, Rutgers University
�How about the Laughter?, the Music?, the Zest?: Emotions and the Study of Social Movements�
January 20
Joel Salatin
Polyface, Inc., Swopes, VA
�Holy Cows and Hog Heaven�
January 27
Patricia Limerick
History, University of Colorado, Boulder
�Ranchland Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem�
February 3
Radhika Singha
Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
�A �Proper� Passport for the Colony: Border Crossing in British India, c. 1882�1920�
February 10
Kevin O�Brien
Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
�From Mediated to Direct Protest: Tactical Escalation in the Chinese Countryside�
February 17
Daniel Posner
Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
�African Borders as a Source of Quasi Experiments�
February 24
Eric Freyfogle
College of Law, University of Illinois
�Agrarian Production and the Right to Exclude in Early America�
March 3
Holly High
Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
�The Politics of Poverty: State, citizens, and the non-provision of services in rural Laos�
March 24
Elizabeth Dunn
Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder
�Postsocialist Spores�*paper no longer available online
March 31
Keith Wrightson
History, Yale University
�The �Decline of Neighbourliness� Revisited�
April 7
Piper Gaubatz
Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
�Transforming a �Sea of Grass�: Urbanization, Nomadic Pastoralism, and Agricultural Colonization on the Sino-Mongolian Frontier, 1550�1930�
April 14
Jayeeta Sharma
History, Carnegie Mellon University
�Growing Tea: Lazy Natives and Colonialism�s Coolies�
April 21
Marco Armiero
Environmental History, Council for Scientific Research, Italy
�Elsewhere: Italians in the Frontier, 19th and 20th Centuries�
April 25
Stefania Barca
Economic and Social History of the Modern Age, Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples
�Health, Labor, and Social Justice. Environmental Costs of the Italian Economic Growth, 1958�2000�