Events
Past Brown Bags
Over the past year some of the topics and presenters were the following:
Asli Calkivik, Department of Political Science
“Ambivalent Encounters: Religion, State, and Politics In contemporary Turkey”
Prof. Allen Isaacman, Department of History
“Displaced People, Displaced Energy, Displaced Memories: Social and
Ecological History of the Building of Cahora Bassa Dam: 1970-2000”
After the Strike…
A conversation with Prof. Lisa Disch (Political Science), Phyllis Walker (President
AFSCME 3800), and graduate students Isaac Kamola, Susan Kang, and Marion
Traub-Werner
Terence Mashingaidze, Department of History
“African Workers and Sexually Transmitted Disease in Early Colonial Zimbabwe's Mining Industry”
Libby Lunstrum, Department of Geography, York University
“State Making, State Unmaking, and Landscapes of Violence: Examining the
De-territorialization of Mozambique’s 'Civil War”
Stephanie Conduff, H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
“Reporting on Indians: What the Media Sees the Cherokee Nation Citizenship Crisis.”
Elizabeth Mumia, Conservation Biology.
“Participatory Approaches in Conservation outside Protected Areas: A case study of Laikipia District, Kenya”
Rehema Kilonzo, Sociology
“The Debate on Land, Development and Development Projects: A theoretical
Background”
Chizumba Shepande, Natural Resources
“Mapping Soil Resources and Land Suitability Evaluation for Specific Land Uses in Chongwe Farming Block in the Central Province of Zambia”
Olivia LeDee, Conservation Biology
Coastal Landscape Change
August Nimtz, Political Science
From Fidel to Raul--Notes from Four Months in the Field
Nadine Lehrer, Natural Resources Sciences
Writing the Next Farm Bill: "Hot button" Issue in US. Agriculture Policy
Elliot James, History
Geopolitics in Pre-Colonial Africa: Mapping the Great Fish River, 1630-1819
Jeremy Raths, Local Coffee Roaster
Breaking the Crust: A Conversation on Coffee Production and Trade
Drew Thompson, History
Listening to the Unheard: HIV/AIDS Advocacy and Therapy through Public Artberalization as production of new illegalities
Amy Damon, Applied Economics
Household Labor Allocation in Remittance-Receiving Households: The Case of El Salvador
Susan Mlangwa, Sociology
HIV/AIDS in Tanzania: Gender Based Structural Interventions
Lynne Baker, Conservation Biology
Inside Africa’s Crippled Giant: Research tales from the Niger Delta & Igboland
Bernard Kissui, Department of Ecology/Evolution
Human-lion conflicts in Tarangire-Manyara ecosystem, Northern Tazania
Govind Nayak: Department of Political Science
Hawala and the international politics of money
Jones Sichali, Department of History
We are now monkeys, and Monkeys have become human beings: Hunting, politics and everyday life in the Upper Shire, Southern Malawi, 1840s to present
Nadim Asrar, Department of Asian Languages/Literatures
(Hindu) Nation and Muslim ‘Others’: An Analysis of Mani Rathnam’s Roja
Jonneke Koomen, Department of Political Sciences
Developing women: The complicated local lives of global initiatives
Anant Maringanti, Department of Geography
ICGC Distinguished Lecture: Francis Wilson,
Department of Economics, University of Cape Town
Half way there: the long walk to freedom and economic justice in South Africa
Munya Bryn Munochiveyi, Department of History
“Who are they to pretend that they are the policemen of the world?” The War on Terror and southern Africa’s Political Discourse
05-06
Hadas Kushnir, Department of Conservation Biology
"Lion attacks in Southeastern Tanzania: A Summary of the Current Problem and Directions for Future Research"
Oswald Masebo, Department of History
"Infant Mortality and Social Change in Colonial Rungwe District, Tanzania 1920-1958".
Tade Okediji, Visiting Professor, Law School
"Ethnic Fagmentation and Economic Developement".
Jonneke Koomen, Department of Political Science
"Global Governance and Human Suffering: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda".
Michael Goldman, Professor, Department of Sociology
"Is it Ever Really Possible to NOT Work for the World Bank?: Pertinent questions to consider on power, knowledge and professionalization in an age of Bank/IMF/WTO hegemony"
Stuart Davis, Department of Cultural Studies
"Representation as a 'Nervous System': Brazilian Political Film after Cinema Novo".
Cecilia Aldorando, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature "Hearing Loss: Aural Recognition and Remembering in 'Knapp's Last Tape' and 'Swann's Way'".
Diana Fu, undergraduate in Political Science and Global Studies, 2006 winner of Rhodes Scholar Fellowship at Oxford University
"A Cage of Choices: Producing the Dagongmei in Modern China".
Sheryl Lightfoot, Department of Political Science
“Over-Compliant” Yet Underachieving: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Australia and New Zealand".
Rachel Schurman, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
“Colliding Lifeworlds: Social Activists, Biotechnology Corporations, and the Struggle over Genetically Modified Food”.