Speakers for related programs

2006

March 23 — Ian Pool, University of Waikato, New Zealand
"Demographic Instability and Development" (Population Development Program and Polson Institute)

March 31 — Sally Shortall, Queens University, Belfast
"Economic Status and Gender Roles within the Farm Family Household: Negotiating Change"

2005

April 29 — Wendy Wolford, Yale University
"On Becoming a Peasant: The Landless Movement and the Cultural Politics of Rural Mobilization in Brazil" (Social Movements RWG)

March 11 — Annette Desmarais, University of Regina, Saskatchewan
"The Power of Peasants: Reflections on the Meanings of the Via Campesina" (SM RWG)

October 21 — Neil Brenner, New York University
"The Production of New State Spaces in Western Europe, 1960-2000" (Displacement RWG)

November 10 — Larry Busch, Michigan State University
"Performing the Economy, Performing Science: How Third Party Certification is Transforming the Food Sector"

2004

April 22 — Doug Harper, Duquesne University
"The Social Life of Italian Food: Seeing How We Live When We Eat" (Film New Media, Food Systems RWGs)

April 30 — Louis E. Swanson, Colorado State University
"Demand-Driven Agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges for Agricultural Research"

September 24 — Caleb Southworth, University of Oregon
"Rethinking Soft Budget Constraints in Russia: How the Locus of Paternalism Shifted from State to Workforce During the 1990s"

October 21 — Johan F. M. Swinnen, University of Leuven, Belgium
"European Integration and the Transformation of the Agri-Food System in Central and Eastern Europe"

November 5 — Katrina Schwartz, University of Florida
"Wild Horses in a European Wilderness: Imagining Sustainable Development in the Post-Soviet Countryside"

November 19 — Zsuzsa Gille, University of Illinois
"Wastelands in the New Europe: Catch UP or Clean UP"

2003

March 14 — Inder Jit Singh, Director, Census Operations, Punjab, India
"Son Preference and Gender Inequality Among Punjabis in Three National Contexts" (PDP and PI)

August 14 — Hugh Campbell, Otago University, New Zealand, and Bill Pritchard, University of Sydney, Australia
"New Directions in [Global] Food System Research: The Antipodean View" (FS RWG)

2002

May 20 — Cynthia Taeuber, University of Baltimore
"The American Community Survey: Challenges and Opportunities" (RNYI, PDP, PI)

2001

October 17 — Maurilio de Lima Galdino, MST International Liaison
"Brazil Rural Social Movements in the 1990s: A New Politics for the 21st Century" (SM RWG)

October 24 — David Ugolor, African Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
"The Challenges of Sept 11 to the Global Financial System: Tracking Terrorist Assets and the Case of Nigeria's Loot"

November 14 — Luke Anderson, author of Genetic Engineering, Food and Our Environment
"Colonizing the Seed: Genetic Engineering and the Patenting of Life"