Event time:
Friday, March 28, 2025 - 11:00am
Location:
Online via Zoom, and 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Event description:
Sophie Chao, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at University of Sydney, will present the next Agrarian Studies paper of the Spring 2025 semester. For these seminars, participants send papers in advance that are the focus of an organized discussion by the faculty and graduate students associated with the colloquium. Meetings are held in a hybrid format, both on Zoom and in-person at 230 Prospect Street, Room 101, on Fridays 11am–1pm Eastern. Please contact agrarian.studies@yale.edu to receive the meeting information and the password to download the paper from the Agrarian Studies website.
Sophie Chao is of Sino-French heritage and lives on unceded Gadigal lands in Australia. Her research investigates the intersections of Indigeneity, ecology, capitalism, health, and justice in the Pacific, with a particular ethnographic focus on the Indonesian-occupied region of West Papua. She is author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papuaand co-editor of The Promise of Multispecies Justice, both published by Duke University Press.Chao’s current research examines Indigenous experiences and theories of hunger in West Papua and wildlife-human entanglements in settler Australia. At the University of Sydney, Chao is co-lead of the Sydney Environment Institute’s Biocultural Diversities Research Theme and Executive Committee Member of the Sydney Southeast Asian Centre. She previously worked for the human rights organization Forest Peoples Programme in Indonesia, supporting the rights of forest-dwelling Indigenous peoples to their customary lands, resources, and livelihoods.
Admission:
Free but register in advance