5pm, Friday, August 25, 2023 | LeConte 320
“Not all that Glitters: the International Gold Standard and Agricultural Depression during the 1920s”
Nathanael Mickelson, ABD, History,
University of Georgia
12:45pm, Friday, September 22, 2023 | Brooks 145
** Public Talk **
“Cash for Your Gold! Precious Metals, the Environment, & Early Modernity”
Kris Lane, France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University in New Orleans
5pm, Friday, September 22, 2023 | LeConte 320
“Pay Dirt, Live Rock: Sterile and Fecund Notions of the Mineral World”
Kris Lane, France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University in New Orleans
5pm, Friday, October 13, 2023 | LeConte 320
“Seeing like an Agronomist: Racial Capitalism and the Episteme of Agricultural Modernization in West Africa”
Jessie Luna, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University
5pm, Friday, November 10, 2023 | LeConte 320
“Cooperation, Collusion and the Chicken Cartels”
Dr. Ashton Merck, NC State University
5pm, Friday, December 1, 2023 | LeConte 320
“Agenda for the 1970s: A Genealogy of Organized Labor’s Environmental Activism in Ontario”
Chad Montrie, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
2022
“‘The Extra Hazardous Business of Being a Baby’: Infant Care and Feeding in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era”
Lara Vapnek, Professor, St. John’s College
September 30 2022 @ 3:30pm
“’Seedtime and Harvest’: Georgia’s Fertilizer Industry and the Making of the New South”
Andrew Craig, PhD student, UGA
October 14, 2022 @ 3:30pm
“Carceral Workscapes in the Variety Vacationland: Incarcerated Labor, Good Roads, and early 20th-Century Nature Tourism in North Carolina”
Elizabeth Hargret, PhD student, University of California -Berkeley
November 4, 2022 @ 3:30pm
“’They perceived us before we did them’: Pacific Whaling Grounds as Workscapes”
Shaw Bridges, PhD student, UGA
December 2, 2022 @ 3:30pm
“Saltwater Marronage: Blubbery Circuits of Freedom in the Age of Revolution”
Jeremy Zallen, Associate Professor, Lafayette College
January 27, 2023 @ 3:30pm
“Impulse and Consequence: The Commodity Credit Corporation and The Rise of Agribusiness in the Cotton South”
Robert Ferguson
February 17, 2023 @ 3:30pm
Book Talk — The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights (Yale University Press, 2022).
Jo Guldi, Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University
March 17, 2023 @ 3:30pm
“Fertilizing the Green De/Revolution: Japan, the US, and Cold War Asia”
Hiromi Mizuno
April 14, 2023@ 3:30pm
“The Conservative Reaction to Earth Day”
Adam Orford, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Georgia
January 28, 2022 @ 3:30pm
“The Flow of History: Environment, Industry, and Urbanization on a Mexican River”
Germán Vergara, Assistant Professor, School of History and Sociology, Georgia Tech
February 18, 2022 @ 3:30pm
“Rethinking the ‘Circle of Poison’: Chemical Geographies of Pesticides and Uneven Development”
Marion Werner, Associate Professor, Department of Geography. State University of New York at Buffalo
March 25, 2022@3:30pm
“The Great Government Giveaway: The Land Grant Era in the History of American Capitalism”
Ariel Ron, Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University
April 15, 2022 @ 3:30pm
2021
“Wageless Life on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, 1880-1915”
Emma Teitelman, History, University of Cambridge
January 15, 2021 @ 3:30pm
“Natural Risk: An Environmental History of West Texas Oil and The Rise of Sun Belt Texas”
Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, History, Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society, University of Colorado, Boulder
February 5, 2021 @ 3:30pm
“Coal-Fired Capitalism: Railroaders, Miners and the Long Red Summer In Appalachian Kentucky”
Matthew O‘Neal, History, University of Georgia
March 26, 2021 @ 3:30pm
“Somos Amantes Del Trabajo“: Mexican Braceros, Jim Crow, and the Transformation of Cotton Production in the Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas, 1948-1963
Devon Jerome, History, University of Georgia
April 16, 2021 @ 3:30pm
“Safer than Bread: Cannabis Eradication and the Agricultural Politics of Drug Diplomacy”
April Merleaux, Visiting Assistant Professor, Williams College
September 24, 2021 @ 4:30pm
“Claiming Resources, Claiming Concepts: Ethnic Formation and State Formation in Colombia’s Cauca Valley”
Amy Offner, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
October 22, 2021 @ 3:30pm
“Korea’s Place in a World of Scientific Agriculture”
Holly Stephens, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
November 19, 2021 @ 3:30pm
“Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World: Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics”
Gregory Thaler, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, University of Georgia
December 3, 2021 @ 3:30pm
2020
“Two Coffee Colonies: Environment, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery in St. Domingue, 1750-1790”
Rafael Marquese, History, Universidade de Sao Paulo
September 18, 2020 @ 3:30pm
“Rural Development and Its Discontents: Germany, China, and the Rockefeller Foundation in the Interwar Period”
Shellen Xiao Wu , History, Univ. of Tenn. – Knoxville
October 16, 2020 @ 3:30pm
“Building an Ideational and Institutional Architecture For Africa’s Agricultural Transformation”
Rachel Schurman, Soc. & Inst. for Global Studies, U. of Minn.
November 13, 2020 @ 3:30pm
“Lakes of Sacrifice: Brazilian Ethanol, Development, and Water Pollution”
Jennifer Eaglin, History/Sustainability, The Ohio State University
December 11, 2020 @ 3:30pm
“The Empire Strikes Back: Confronting Opposition to GMOs in Africa.”
Rachel Schurman, Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, University of Minnesota
April 3, 2020
“Two Coffee Colonies: Environment, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery in Suriname and St. Domingue, 1730-1800”
Rafael Marquese, Research Professor, Department of History, Universidade de São Paulo
March 20, 2020
“Stuck Pigs and Burned Canes: Crime after Emancipation in the British Empire”
Padraic Scanlan, Assistant Professor of Globalization, Labour, and Humanities, University of Toronto
February 21, 2020
“Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South”
Bryant Barnes, Doctoral Student, Department of History, University of Georgia
January 31, 2020
2019
“Democratic Deliberation in the Institutional Void: Possibilities for Social Change in Alabama’s Appalachian Plateau”
Loka Ashwood, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University
September 6, 2019 @ 3:30pm
“Unsettling the Steppe: The Limits of Agricultural Expansion in Inner Mongolia, 1890-1930”
Sakura Christmas, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College
November 8, 2019 @ 3:30pm
“Water and Society in the Roman and Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean (1-800 CE)”
Jordan Pickett, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Georgia
December 6, 2019 @ 3:30pm
April 12, 2019: Jason W. Moore (Sociology, Binghamton University), “Slaveship Earth: Climate Crisis, Planetary Justice, and the Rise of Capitalism”
March 22, 2019: Terrell Orr (Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of Georgia), “Growing Conflict: Phosphate, Labor, and Capital on a Southern Frontier”
March 1, 2019: Brent Shaw (Classics, Princeton University), “Social Status and Economic Behavior: A Hidden History of the Equites?”
February 15, 2019: Alma Igra (PhD. Candidate, History, Columbia University), “NEM vs. Calorie: Vienna’s Post WWI Humanitarian Aid Between British and American Nutritional Standards”
January 18, 2019: Jermaine Thibodeaux (Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of Texas), “A Terrible Transformation: Creating an Agro-Carceral Landscape in the Texas Sugar Bowl, 1843-1912”
2018
November 30, 2018: Alden Young (Africana Studies, Drexel University), “Making Sudan Count: The Economizing Logic of the State”
November 16, 2018: LaGuana Gray (History, University of Texas), “‘We Come This Far By Faith’: How Black Women Organized the Mississippi Catfish Processing Industry”
September 28, 2018: Mac Marquis (PhD Candidate, William & Mary), “Tick, Tick, Boom: Dynamite, Cattle Ticks, and the Southern Agrarian Bombing Campaign, 1906-1935”
August 24, 2018: Adriana Chira (Atlantic World History, Emory University), “‘Racial Confraternity’ Reconsidered: Becoming Free of Color in Cuba, 1803-1868”
April 6, 2018: James C. Scott (Yale University), “Agro-ecology of the Early State”
March 23, 2018: Katherine Stevens (Oglethorpe College), “Backwater: Making Space for Slavery in the Red River Valley”
March 2, 2018: James Wall (PhD Candidate, University of Georgia), “The Man Who Owns the Land Owns You”: New Communities, Incorporated and the End of the Rural War on Poverty.”
February 23, 2018: Rohit De (Yale University), “Who Moved My Beef! Economic Rights, Religious Rites and the Politics of Cows in Modern India”
January 26, 2018: Bill Winders (Georgia Tech), “Technology and World Hunger: A Comparison of the Role of Technology in Four Global Food Crises”
2017
December 1st, 2017: Gretchen Sneegas (Geography, University of Georgia), “Producing farmers, consuming expertise: Land grant colleges and shale gas commodification”
November 3, 2017: Scott Reynolds Nelson (History, University of Georgia), “Nitrates and ‘Hell’: The Apocalypse of 1866, Cheap American Wheat, and the End of European Hegemony”
October 13, 2017: Laurie Green (University of Texas at Austin), “Stirring Things Up All Over the South’: The Politics of Race, Gender and Hunger from a Comparative Perspective”
September 15, 2017, Marios Costambeys (Medieval History, University of Liverpool), “’Brother Bacchus’?: vineyards, landscapes and distinction in post-Roman Europe”
September 1, 2017: Brian Williams (Geography, University of Georgia), “‘That We May Live’: pesticides, white supremacism, and the agricultural racial state”
March 13, 2017: Gabriel Rosenberg (Duke), “The Trial of the Scrub Sire: Animal Gender and Eugenic Logics in the USDA’s ‘Better Sires-Better Stock’ Campaign, 1919-1940”
February 22, 2017: Marcia Chatelain (Georgetown), “From Fighting for the Franchise to Fighting for a Franchise: Civil Rights Heroes at the Drive-thru”
April 6, 2017: Ashley Roseberry (advanced PhD candidate at UGA), “The Color of Yerba Mate: Cultivation, Industrialization, and Nationalism in the Argentine Yerba Mate Industry, 1901-1940”
January 20, 2017: Tom Rogers (Emory), “How Brazil’s Biofuel Program Made a Meal of Rural Workers”
2016
December 2, 2016: Bryant Simon (Temple), “Race and Trauma: Tragic Endings to the Deadly Hamlet Fire, 1991 and Beyond”
November 18, 2016: Luke Manget (advanced PhD candidate at UGA), “‘Beasts in the Garden’: Class, Conservation, and Ginseng in post-Civil War Appalachia.”