Giovanni Batz (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Historical land displacements and resistance in Cotzal, Guatemala” (Agrarian Studies Colloquium)

Event time: 
Friday, October 14, 2022 - 11:00am
Location: 
Room 101 See map
230 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 
The core of the Agrarian Studies Program’s activities is a weekly colloquium organized around an annual theme. Invited specialists send papers in advance that are the focus of an organized discussion by the faculty and graduate students associated with the colloquium.
 
This topic embraces, inter alia, the study of mutual perceptions between countryside and city, and patterns of cultural and material exchange, extraction, migration, credit, legal systems, and political order that link them.
 
It also includes an understanding of how different societies conceive of the spatial order they exhibit. What terms are meaningful and how are they related?: e.g., frontier, wilderness, arable, countryside, city, town, agriculture, commerce, “hills,” lowlands, maritime districts, inland. How have these meanings changed historically and what symbolic and material weight do they bear?
 
Meetings are Fridays, 11am -1pm Eastern Time, unless otherwise noted.
 
Meetings will be held in a hybrid format, both on Zoom and in-person at 230 Prospect Street, Room 101.
 
Please contact agrarian.studies@yale.edu to receive the meeting information and the password to download the paper from the Agrarian Studies website.
Admission: 
Free but register in advance
Open to: 
Yale Community Only