Meetings are Fridays, 11am – 1pm
Lunch to follow
230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Spring 2019
January 25
Jason W. Moore
Binghamton University, Department of Sociology
Climate Change and Civilizational Crisis, 376-2018: A Geohistorical Interpretation
February 1
Helen Curry
University of Cambridge, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Endangered Genes and the International Seed Bank: Conserving Crop Diversity after the Green Revolution
February 8
David Bello
Washington and Lee University, Department of History
A Trickle of Authority: The Arid Identity of Empire in 18th Century Xinjiang
February 15
Mark Frank
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Easy Asian Languages and Cultures
Assimilation Ecology: Ethnicity, Gender, and Lifeways in the Chinese Settlement of Eastern Tibet
February 22
Reinaldo Funes Monzote
University of Havana, Cuba, Department of History
Our Trip to the Moon: The Ideas about Transformation of Nature in Cuba During the Cold War
March 1
Mikael Wolfe
Stanford University, Department of History
‘A Revolution is a Force More Powerful than Nature’: The Impact of Hurricane Flora of 1963 on the Agrarian Character of the Cuban Revolution
March 29
Anna Tsing
University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Anthropology
Others without History: Organisms as Agility-shifting Actors in the Trajectory of Capital
April 5
Caterina Scaramelli
Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies
“Swamps into Wetlands: Crafting Moral Ecology in Turkey”
April 12
John Buchanan
Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies
Run to the Hills: Mainland Southeast Asia’s Integration into Global Opium Markets (1940-1998)
April 19
Tony Andersson
Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies
Population and Other Bombs: Erasing the Maya to Save the Maya Forest
April 26
Sakura Christmas
Bowdoin College, Department of History and Asian Studies Program
Between Steppe and Sown, Nation and Empire in Inner Mongolia, 1900-1930
Fall 2018
September 14
Ben Orlove
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
The End in Sight: Life near Shrinking Glaciers
September 21
Jo Guldi
Department of History, Southern Methodist University
States, Courts, Decentralized Movements, and Resisting Eviction Culture: The Land Valuer’s Tale (Dublin, 1881)
September 28
Sigrid Schmalzer
History Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Conserving Soil, Preserving Knowledge: Terracing Campaigns and Agricultural Heritage Studies in China, 1949 to Today
October 5
Robert Thorson
Center for Integrative Geosciences and Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut
America’s First Broad Environmental Assessment? Readings from The Boatman (Harvard, 2017)
October 12
Aidan Forth
Department of History, Loyola University Chicago
Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903
October 26
Benjamin Siegel
Department of History, Boston University
Markets of Pain: Poppy Politics and the Global Origins of the American Opioid Crisis
November 2
Lori Flores
Department of History, Stony Brook University (SUNY)
Dark Henhouses, Forests, Berries, and Water: Latino Labor Struggles in Maine, 1990 to the Present
November 9
Benjamin Madley
Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Other Argonauts: Native Hawaiians in the California Gold Rush
November 30
Julie Livingston
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and Department of History, New York University
Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa
December 7
Gregory Thaler
Department of International Affairs, University of Georgia
False Equivalencies of the Smallholder Slot: Cash Crop Development in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesian Borneo