Agrarian Change Webinars | Spring 2023
The Journal of Agrarian Change and SOAS Department of Development Studies have been organizing an annual Agrarian Change Seminar Series since 2008. Like the last two years, this year too the series is organized as webinars, although some sessions will be hybrid. These webinars are open to the public across the world.
Please note: registration links for each webinar will be made available here a week before the date of the event.
12 January, 5.15 – 7 pm (UK time)
Face-to-face seminar at SOAS and webinar
Threatening Dystopias: Development, Agrarian Change, and Adaptation in Bangladesh
Kasia Paprocki (London School of Economics)
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/development-agrarian-change-and-adaptation-in-bangladesh-tickets-503933718317
Seminar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyB3CIq2Wk0
26 January, 5.15 – 7 pm (UK time)
Webinar
Farmers, Plants, and Poison: Ambivalences over Pesticide Use in Argentina
Pablo Lapegna (University of Georgia, Athens Georgia) and Johana Kunin (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires)
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/farmers-plants-and-poison-ambivalences-over-pesticide-use-in-argentina-tickets-518717436817
8 February, 5.15 – 7 pm (UK time)
Webinar
Food and Agrarian Changes: What drives change to food and diets? New agendas for agrarian studies
Sergio Schneider (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre)
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-and-agrarian-changes-what-drives-change-to-food-and-diets-tickets-528367179457
Seminar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ5C60i__8M
23 February, 5.15 – 7 pm (UK time)
Webinar
Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt
Jayaseelan Raj (University of Göttingen)
Please note: This webinar has been rescheduled to a later date.
9 March, 5.15 – 7 pm (UK time)
Face-to-face seminar at SOAS and webinar
Caste from Field to Factory: 100 years of accumulation, exploitation and caste oppression in rural Uttar Pradesh, India
Jens Lerche (SOAS)
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/accumulation-exploitation-and-caste-oppression-in-rural-uttar-pradesh-tickets-564180849107
Seminar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1rrZ-V4mFk
23 March, 5.15 – 7 pm (UK time)
Face-to-face seminar at SOAS and webinar
Syrian Refugees as Agricultural Laborers in Turkey: Reflections on Refugee-Host Relations from a Labour Perspective
Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy (International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague)
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reflections-on-refugee-host-relations-from-a-labour-perspective-tickets-583499862797
