Friday, January 31, 2014
Owning/Controlling the Underground
David Kay, CARDI, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University
3-4:30 PM; reception follows from 4:30-5:30 pm.
423 ILR Conference Center
This event is cosponsored by the Department of Development Sociology.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Historicizing the Land Grab: The Unfolding, and Unraveling, of the Global Food Regime
Philip McMichael, International professor and Chair, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University
4:45 PM, Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Friday, February 7, 2014
Water and Land Panel
3-5 PM; 225 ILR Conference Center
Hydroimperialism and Hydrocapitalism: Irrigation Technologies in Algeria and Beyond. Sara Pritchard, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Any Distant Archipelago: Oceans, Islands, Havens. Raymond Craib, History, Cornell University
Friday, February 14, 2014
Wild Blue: The Undersea World as Frontier in the 1950s and 1960s
Helen Rozwadowski, History, University of Connecticut
3-4:30 PM; 225 ILR Conference Center
Friday, February 28, 2014
Land to Those Who Work It: Rural Social Movements in Brazil and Bolivia(Panel and Reception)
Miguel Carter, Political Science, American University with representatives from theBrazilian Rural Landless Workers’ Movement
Nicole Fabricant, Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, Towson University
Panel 3-5PM & reception 5-6 PM; 423 ILR Conference Center
Friday, March 7, 2014
Food, Farm and Fuel — Panel Discussion from 3-5 PM led by Phil McMichael(Development Sociology)
Nick Cullather, History, Indiana University-Bloomington
Susanne Freidberg, Geography, Dartmouth College
Following the panel reception, there will be a reception from 5-6 PM.
423 ILR Conference Center
Friday, March 14, 2014
Gender Workshop
Panel 3-5 PM & reception from 5-6 PM: 423 ILR Conference Center
This event is cosponsored by Advancing Women in Agriculture through Research and Education
Friday, March 21, 2014
The Plantation and the Mine: Nouveau-Colonization of Land in Indonesia
Nancy Peluso, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
3-4:30 PM; 225 ILR Conference Center
Friday, March 28, 2014
Land and Land Use Rights in China
Calum Turvey, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
3-4:30 PM: 423 ILR Conference Center
Friday, April 11, 2014
Deepening the History of Private Conservation and Patrimony in Patagonia
Emily Wakild, History, Boise State University
3-4:30 PM; 225 ILR Conference Center
Friday, April 18, 2014
What Are the Implications of Mozambique’s Natural Gas Boom for the Rural Economy?
Steven Kyle, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
3-4:30 PM; 225 ILR Conference Center
Sunday, May 18-Friday, May 23, 2014
Knowledge and Politics of Land
2014 Summer Institute on Contested Landscapes
Cornell University