Colloquium Schedule for 2007-2008

Colloquium meetings are held on Fridays, 3:00 - 5:30 p.m. in Room 223 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley. See this calendar also in PDF.

September 21, 2007

To Come of Age in a Dry Place:  Infrastructures of Irrigated Agriculture in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands, Paper

Casey Walsh, Departamento de Ciencias Sociales y Políticas at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City

October 26, 2007

Yemen, Water and the Politics of Knowledge, Paper

Steve Caton, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

November 16, 2007

Enclosing Water: Nature, Revolution and the Making of Industrial Capitalism in a European Periphery (the Liri Valley, 1796-1861), Paper

Stefania Barca, Ciracy Wantrup fellow; Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; UC Berkeley

December 7, 2007

Mobilizing the State: The Erratic Partner in Brazil's Participatory Water Policy, Paper

Margaret Keck, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

February 1, 2008

Local Politics of Time and Space in Ghana, Paper

Christian Lund, Roskilde University, Denmark

March 21, 2008

Romancing Rural Europe: Nature/Culture Narratives of Conservation in the EU and Beyond, Paper

Rod Neumann, Department of International Relations, Florida International University

April 4, 2008

Toward a Political Ecology of the Emerging Global Ethanol Assemblage, paper

Gail Hollander, Department of International Relations, Florida International University

May 2 , 2008

The Practical Equivalent of War? Or, Using Rapid Massive Climate Change to Ease the Great Transition toward a New Sustainable Anthropocentrism, paper

Colin Duncan, McGill University