The core of the Agrarian Studies Program’s activities is a weekly colloquium organized around an annual theme. Invited specialists send papers in advance that are the focus of an organized discussion by the faculty and graduate students associated with the colloquium.
This topic embraces, inter alia, the study of mutual perceptions between countryside and city, and patterns of cultural and material exchange, extraction, migration, credit, legal systems, and political order that link them.
It also includes an understanding of how different societies conceive of the spatial order they exhibit. What terms aremeaningful and how are they related?: e.g., frontier, wilderness, arable, countryside, city, town, agriculture, commerce, “hills,” lowlands, maritime districts, inland. How have these meanings changed historically and what symbolic and material weight do they bear?
Meetings are Fridays, 11am -1pm Eastern Time.
Meetings will be held in a hybrid format, both on Zoom and in-person at 230 Prospect Street, Room 101.
Please susbscribe to our mailing list here to receive the meeting information and the password to download the paper from the Agrarian Studies website. If you have any questions, contact agrarian.studies@yale.edu.
Fall 2024
September 13
Tulia Falleti
Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor od Political Science; Director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies; Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics; Tri-Chair of the Faculty Senate
University of Pennsylvania
“The timing of legal recognition: Indigenous communities in Argentina 1978-2023”
September 20
Pavithra Vasudevan
Assistant Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies and African & African Diaspora Studies
University of Texas at Austin
“In the Crucible: Metaphor and Materiality in Storytelling Capitalism”
September 27
Sarah Foss
Assistant Professor of History
Oklahoma State University
“Here I was born, and here I will die: The Politics of Precarity Amidst Ongoing Environmental Disaster in Guatemala”
October 4
Sarah Balakrishnan
Assistant Professor of History
Duke University
“Sacred Land and Spiritual Economy in the Gold Coast (Ghana): An Anticolonial Tradition”
October 11
Anthony Dest
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Lehman College, CUNY, New York
“Liberating Mother Earth: The Conditions and Contradictions of a Free Peasantry in Cauca, Colombia”
October 25
Ting Hui Lau
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
National University of Singapore
“Decolonial Endurance: Indigenous Worldmaking on the China-Myanmar Border”
November 1
Sarah Vogel
Advocate, Attorney, Author
“The Wild Ride: Keepseagle Class Action and the Decades-Long Fight of Native American Ranchers and Farmers”
November 8
Kimberly Marion Suiseeya
Associate Professor, Faculty Affiliate Center for Native American and Intigenous Research; Faculty Fellow Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Weinnberg College
Northwestern University
Title TBA
November 15
Lizzie Yarina
Incoming Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning
Northeastern University
“Maps that Leak: Living with Climate Adaptation in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta”
December 6
Lloyd Sy
Assistant Professor of English
Yale University
“Buffalo Bird Woman Makes a Garden: Memory and Native Horticulture”
Spring 2025
January 24
Yuan Gao
Postdoctoral Associate, Program in Agrarian Studies
Yale University
Title TBA
January 31
Dixita Deka
Postdoctoral Associate, Program in Agrarian Studies
Yale University
Title TBA
February 7
Matthew Ghazarian
Postdoctoral Associate, Program in Agrarian Studies
Yale University
Title TBA
February 14
Christian Espinosa Schatz
Graduate Affiliate Fellow, Program in Agrarian Studies (Anthropology)
Yale University
Title TBA
February 21
Mariana Diaz Chalela
Graduate Affiliate Fellow, Program in Agrarian Studies (History)
Yale University
Title TBA
February 28
Santiago Acosta
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Yale University
Title TBA
March 28
Sophie Chao
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow and Lecturer in Anthropology
University of Sydney
Title TBA
April 4
China Sajadian
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Vassar College
Title TBA
April 11
Aditya Ramesh
Assistant Professor of History
University of Washington- Seattle
Title TBA
April 18
Matthew Shutzer
Assistant Professor of Environmental History
University of California, Berkeley
Title TBA
April 25
Graduate Student Colloquium