Fall 2022
September 16
Sarah Steele
University of Cambridge, Public Health
Selling liquid gold: a history and analysis of first-food commodification and industry influence on nutrition for children aged three and under
September 23
Justin Farrell
Yale University, Sociology & School of the Environment
Effects of land dispossession and forced migration on Indigenous peoples in North America
Participants are also encouraged to explore the website of the Native Land Research Initiative.
September 30
Hilary King
Emory University, Development Practice
Brighter Spots: Tracing the Roots of Resilient Pandemic Response in Atlanta’s Alternative Food Systems
October 7
Karen Rignall
University of Kentucky, Community & Leadership Development
Extraction as an agrarian question: Copper mining, solar energy, and collective land tenure in the Moroccan periphery
October 14
Giovanni Batz
University of California, Santa Barbara, Chicana & Chicano Studies
The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Megaprojects, and Ixil Maya Resistance in Guatemala
October 28
Mark Usher
University of Vermont, Geography & Classical Languages and Literature
Following Nature’s Lead: Ancient Ways of Living in a Dying World
November 4
Diana Montaño
Washington University in St. Louis, History
Missionaries of light and progress: Engineers & Technological Pilgrims in Crafting Mexico’s Necaxa, 1890s-1914
November 11
Sarah Hines
University of Oklahoma, History
Trouble with Indians, Trouble with Explorers: Conquering and Revering the Glaciers of Bolivia’s Cordillera Real in the Age of Mountaineering
December 2
Steve Hindle Washington University in St. Louis, History
Mediating Subsistence in Seventeenth-Century England: The Case of the Country Miller
December 9
Christopher Otter
Ohio State University, History
Socializing the Technosphere
Spring 2023
January 27
Mark Hauser
Northwestern University, Anthropology
Conscripts to Climate Change: Archaeological Comparison of Two Post-Agrarian Landscapes
February 3
Attilio Bernasconi
Yale University, Agrarian Studies
Building Territoriality in Aquatic Space: An Ethnography of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) in the Colombian Pacific
February 10
Diogo de Carvalho Cabral
Trinity College Dublin, History
At the Mercy of Ants: Landscape Change and Multispecies Nation-Building in Brazil, c. 1820-1950
February 17
Dolly Kikon
University of Melbourne, Anthropology & Development Studies
Guns to Grains: Food Sovereignty in Northeast India
February 24
Assan Sarr
Ohio University, History
A Sufianke’s Family Tradition: Agriculture, Spirituality, and Change, c. 1940s-1950s
March 3
Denise Ho
Yale University, History
Oysterman and Refugee: Hong Kong and China Between the Tides, 1949-1997
March 31
Tamara Fernando
Institute of Historical Research, University of London, History
The Indian Ocean’s Pearl Bearing Reefs and Territoriality at Sea, 1880-1920
April 7
Thomas Monaghan
Yale University, History
Amami and amami: Early Modern Colonialism in the Michinoshima Border Zone, 1609-1878
April 14
George Remisovsky
Yale University, History
Whither Hierarchy? Civil Dispute Resolution, State Policy, and Land Tenancy in Early Modern China and Japan
April 21
Courtney T. Wittekind
Yale University, Agrarian Studies
Demands for Development: Pro-Project Protest, Anti-China Sentiment, and Shadows of Subsistence in Peri-Urban Myanmar
April 28
Shozab Raza
Yale University, Agrarian Studies
Conjugated Universalism: From Rural Pakistan to “Worker-Peasant” Rule
May 5 (10:30am-6pm)
Agrarian Studies Graduate Student Colloquium