Fernando Santos-Granero (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute), “Slavery as Structure, Process or Lived Experience, or Why Slave Societies Existed in Pre-contact Tropical America” (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)

The core of the Agrarian Studies Program’s activities is a weekly colloquium organized around an annual theme. The 2017-2018 theme is “Hinterlands, Frontiers, Cities, and States: Transactions and Identities.” 

Invited specialists send papers in advance that are the focus of an organized discussion by the faculty and graduate students associated with the colloquium.

For more information, visit the Agrarian Studies Colloquium webpage.