Event time:
Friday, April 26, 2024 - 11:00am
Location:
To be confirmed
Event description:
Join the Graduate Agrarian Studies Colloquium organized by Yale Agrarian Studies Program featuring exciting new work by graduate researchers. Additional details (including time and location) forthcoming. If you have any questions, contact agrarian.studies@yale.edu.
Background:
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 aremeaningful 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?
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Admission:
Free but register in advance