Colloquium Series, Fall 2001�2002
September 14
Charles Geisler
Rural Sociology, Cornell University
�Parks as Place-Making in Africa: Another Side of Nature�
September 21
Mark Ritchie
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, MN
�Agrarian Contributions to the Debate over Global Governance: A Look Back on Seattle and Forward to a New Global System�
September 28
Sheila Jasanoff
Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Harvard University
�Heaven and Earth: Images and Models of Environmental Change�
October 5
Hugh Raffles
Anthropology, University of California/Santa Cruz
�Fluvial Intimacies�
October 12
Luise White
History, University of Florida
�Race, Regiment, and Counter-insurgency: An Exploration in Military History and Ideas about Nationality in Rhodesia�
October 19
Jack Temple Kirby
History, Miami University of Ohio
�Memorializing Peasants: A Search for Repute�
October 26
Linda-Anne Rebhun
Anthropology, Yale University
�Women, Men, (and Dogs) in Northeast Brazil�
November 2
Michael Ross
Political Science, UCLA
�Oil, Drugs, and Diamonds: How Resource Wealth is Linked to Civil War�
November 9
Mamadou Diawara
Center for Research on Local Knowledge, Bamako, Mali
�Places of Development: Colonial Experts Come to Grips With the Peasants of the Office du Niger in the Last Century�
November 16
K. Sivaramakrishnan
Anthropology, University of Washington
�Circular Migration and Rural Cosmopolitanism in India�
(Vinay Gidwani, coauthor)
November 30
Laurent Dubois
History, Michigan State University
�Prophetic Rumor and the Politics of Slave Revolt in the Americas�
December 7
Erika Weinthal
Political Science, Tel Aviv University
�Globalizing the Central Asian Environment: International Organizations, Nongovernmental Organizations, and the State�
Colloquium Series, Fall 2001�2002
January 18
Arturo Escobar
Anthropology, University of North Carolina
�Reassessing Development and Modernity: Rainforest Futures�
January 25
John Ikerd
Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri
�Rethinking the Role of Agriculture in the Future of Rural Communities�
February 1
David Auerbach
Slow Food Movement
�Slow Food Nation�
February 8
Christopher Hann
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Halle
�The Idiocy of Decollectivization�
February 15
Harry West
Anthropology, New School School for Social Research
�Lions and Sorcery and Metaphors, Oh My!�
February 22
Vupenyu Dzingirai
Development and Research Consultant, Zimbabwe
��There are Bucks and All Sort of Things in Those Forests�: The New Scramble for the African Countryside�
March 1
Rachel Schurman
Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
�Sense and Sensibilities: The Motives and Meanings Behind Anti-GMO Activism�
March 8
Christopher Dyer
Medieval and Modern History, University of Birmingham
�How Oppressed Were Peasants in the Middle Ages?: Assessing Lords’ Impact on the Peasant Economy�
March 29
Michael Goldman
Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
�East of Eden, South of Wall Street: The Roots/Routes of World Bank Power�
April 5
Guillaume Boccara
Anthropology, �cole des Hautes �tudes in Sciences Sociales, Paris
�Frontiers, Ethnogenesis, and Ethnification in the Americas (Colonial Period)�
April 12
Donna Haraway
History of Consciousness, University of California/Santa Cruz
�Cloning Mutts, Saving Tigers: Ethical Emergents in Technocultural Dog Worlds�
April 19
Subir Sinha
Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
�Configurations of �Community� in the Agendas of Nehruvian Socialism and its �Opponents��
April 26
Elizabeth Oglesby
Geography, University of California/Berkeley
�Agrarian Questions and the Geographics of Work: The Politics of Agro-Industry in Postwar Central America�