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Colloquium Series Fall 2002 September 13 Peter Rosset Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy “Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba” September 20 Hugh Brody Author “The Other Side of Eden” September 27 Amita Baviskar Sociology, University of Delhi “The Dream Machine: Following the Course of a Watershed Program in India” October 4 Charles Post Social Science, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY “Plantation Slavery and Economic Development in the Southern United States: World Market and Social Property Relations in Comparative Perspective” October 11 Tania Li Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University “Government Through Community in the Age of Neoliberalism” October 18 Peder Anker Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo “Imperial Ecology: Planning a New Human Ecology” October 25 Enrique Mayer Anthropology, Yale University “Ugly Stories from the Peruvian Agrarian Reform” November 1 Courtney Jung Political Science, New School University “The Decline of the Peasant, the Rise of the Indian: Neoliberal Democratic Transition and the Implications for Political Opposition in Mexico” November 8 Julie Guthman Geography, University of California/Berkeley “Back to the Land: Linking Organic Food Production and Consumption Through the Concept of Rent” November 15 Dara Culhane Anthropology, Simon Fraser University “Plus ça Change, the More They Stay the Same: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State in 2002” November 22 William Boyd Law School, Stanford University “Contracting, Risk, and Liability: The Political Economy of Logging in the Post-New Deal American South” December 6 Alex Kerr Author “Demons and Dogs” Colloquium Series Spring 2003 January 17 Karl Jacoby History, Brown University “Between North and South: The Alternative Borderlands of William H. Ellis and the African-American Colony of 1895” January 24 Harriet Ritvo History, MIT “Manchester's Rural Colony: The Fight for Thirlmere and the Victorian Environment” January 31 John Higginson History, University of Massachusetts/Amherst “Making Short Work of Traditions: State Terror and Collective Violence in Marico, Rustenburg and Bophutatswana Through the Testimony of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission” February 7 Carol Shennan Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, UC/Santa Cruz “Bridging Disciplines and the Theory/Practice Divide: The Challenges and Successes of the UC/Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems” February 14 Uradyn Bulag Anthropology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York “Metropolitan Orphans and Grassland Mothers: The Moral Economy of National Unity in the Northern Frontier of China” February 21 Donna Perry Anthropology, Western Oregon University PROGRAM FELLOW “Smuggler-Spies, Farmers, and the State: Senegalese Black Markets in the Age of Neoliberalism” February 28 Achim von Oppen Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin “Village Territories: The Delimitation of Locality in Twentieth-Century Central Africa” March 7 Desmond McNeill Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo “CANDID: The Creation, Adoption, Negation, and Distortion of Ideas in Development” March 28 Daniel Rothenberg Session CANCELLED Anthropology, University of Michigan PROGRAM FELLOW “Claiming Genocide: Making Sense of State Terror in Guatemala” April 4 Ajantha Subramanian Anthropology, Harvard University PROGRAM FELLOW “Church, Class, and Community: Minority Citizenship on the South Indian Coast” April 11 Guadalupe Rodriguez-Gomez Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, eacute;xico PROGRAM FELLOW “Labeling Tradition and the Making of Appellations d'Origine Contrôlée in Mexico: Tequila and Other Agaves Drinks as Novel Forms of Empowerment for Third World Farmers in a Globalized Market” April 18 Alexander Nikulin Sociology, The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences PROGRAM FELLOW “Russian Rural Communities: Compass Patterns and Compassionate Paternalism” April 25 Teferi Abate Adem Sociology and Social Anthropology, Addis Ababa University PROGRAM FELLOW “Praising to Blame: Administrative Decentralization and Household Livelihood Strategies in Ethiopia”