Yale Bulletin and Calendar

May 5, 2000

Volume 28, Number 31

Agrarian Studies marks 10th year with conference

A uniquely cross-disciplinary approach to the study of rural life and society, the Program in Agrarian Studies is celebrating its 10th year by gathering Agrarian Studies Fellows past and present for a two-day conference on campus.

The conference will take place on Friday and Saturday, May 12 and 13, and will consist of discussion sessions in which scholars from around the world present papers on different themes. "States and Agrarian Change," "Movements and Settlements," "Subalternity, Violence and Resistance" and "Kinship, Property and Belonging in Historical Perspective" are among the themes of the individual sessions.

An indication of the breadth and international scope of the conference can be gleaned from any single session. For example, during an opening session on Friday morning on the theme "Money, Markets and Theories of Value," Pauline Peters of Harvard University will lead a discussion in which scholars from Australia, England, Switzerland and the United States present papers on related topics. Subjects in this session range from the politics of value in Jepara, Indonesia, through the money economy of the peasant to forms of money and frameworks of globalization.

The conference, which will feature two days of morning and afternoon sessions, as well as breaks for coffee and meals, is expected to have over 60 participants, and will feature the presentation of more than 40 papers. All sessions, which are free and open to the public, will be held in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. For more information, call Kay Mansfield at (203) 432-9833 or visit the conference website at www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies/as2000.

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