| September 12 |
Brett Walker
History and Philosophy, Montana State University
“Animals and the Intimacy of History” |
| September 19 |
Mukulika Banerjee
Anthropology, University College London
“Kinship, Cultivation, and Communism: Perceptions of Democracy in West Bengal, India” |
| September 26 |
Graeme Barker
Archaeology, University of Cambridge
“Footsteps, Clearings, and Fields: Transitions to Farming in Island Southeast Asia” |
| October 3 |
Mark Cioc
History, University of California/Santa Cruz
“Hunting, Agriculture, and the Quest for International Wildlife Conservation during the 20th Century” |
| October 10 |
Nancy Langston
Forest Ecology and Management, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin/Madison
“Modern Meat: Synthetic Hormones, Livestock, and Consumers in the Post-WWII Era” |
| October 17 |
Percy Schmeiser
Wheat farmer, Bruno Saskatchewan, Canada
“Ownership of Seed, Plants, and Food through Patents on Higher Life Forms” |
| October 24 |
Peter Perdue
History, Yale University
“Is Pu-er in Zomia?: Chinese Tea and the World”
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| October 31 |
Sara Gregg
History, Wilson Presidential Library
“Hill People: Appalachian Culture and the American State” |
| November 7 |
Steve J. Stern
History, University of Wisconsin
“Staging Dirty War Memory: Notes on Human Rights and Film in Post-Dictatorship Chile, 1990–2004” |
| November 14 |
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Hispanic Studies, Vassar College
“Caribbean Environmentalisms: Rediscovering Agrarian Cultures in Endangered Ecologies” |
| November 21 |
Rebecca Scott
Sociology, University of Missouri
“Coalfield Whiteness: White People, Black Coal” |
| December 5 |
Susanne Freidberg
Geography, Dartmouth College
“On the Longue Durée of Short Shelf Life” |