Meetings held in the Humanities Center Seminar Room E102 Melrose Hall (first floor) unless otherwise indicated.
Fall 2017
- Wednesday, Sept 6, 2017
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Christopher Magra, Associate Professor, History
"Building Warships and Making Chocolate: Food Production and Military Expansion in Early America" - Wednesday, September 27, 2017
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Stephen Collins-Elliott, Assistant Professor, Classics
"Roman Wine Production in the Middle Republic: Ritual Demand or Capitalist Investment?" - Wednesday, October 25, 2017
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Tom Gill, Assistant Professor, UT Institute of Agriculture
“Chickens and change: piloting small-scale broiler production with Rwandan households” - Wednesday, November 15, 2017
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Caela O'Connell, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
“Saving Cents Doesn’t Always Make Sense: Farmer nutrient management decision making in the US” - Wednesday, December 6, 2017
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Guest: Kathryn Sampeck, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Illinois State University
"Agricultural practices and productivity of cacao from late pre-Columbian practices to contemporary dynamics"
Spring 2018
- Wednesday, January 24, 2018
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Jerolyn Morrison - University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
“Can Animal/Fish Bones and Experimental Archaeology Help Us Better Understand Minoan Cooking Techniques?”
- Wednesday, February 14, 2018
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Tore Olsson, Assistant Professor, History
“The Global Hillbilly: How Country Music Traveled – and Transformed – the Twentieth Century World”
- Wednesday, March 7, 2018
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Kandace Hollenbach, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
“Of Flooding and Farming: The Late Archaic to Early Woodland Transition in East Tennessee”
- Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - Canceled
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Denise Phillips, Associate Professor, History
“The Enlightenment's Most Famous Peasant: Farmer Kleinjogg and Agricultural Improvement in the Eighteenth Century”
Spring 2016
- Friday, February 17
12-1 pm
Guest speaker - Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Assistant Professor of Food Studies, Syracuse University
"The New American Farmer: Race, Immigration, and the Struggle for Sustainability
- Friday, March 10
12-1 pm
Guest speaker - Gabe Rosenberg, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, Duke University
"The Trial of the Scrub Sire: Animal Gender and Eugenic Logics in the USDA's 'Better Sires-Better Stock' Campaign, 1919-1940"
- Friday, April 7
12-1 pm
Stephen Collins-Elliott, Assistant Professor of Classics
"Wine Consumption in Republican Rome: Commerce, Status, and Luxury in a Failing State"
- Friday, April 21
12-1 pm
Kandi Hollenbach, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
“How Cultivation Led to Changes in Land Use and Social Structure in Tuckaleechee Cove 3000 Years Ago”
- Friday, May 5
12-1 pm
Reflections on semester, planning for next year, group discussion of "the anthropocene"
Fall 2016
- Friday, Aug. 26
12-1 pm
Introductory meeting; discussion of Kolbert, "Stone Soup" - Friday, Sept. 23
12-1 pm
Tore Olsson, Assistant Professor of History
"Green Revolutionaries: The Techno-politics of Agriculture in the U.S. and Mexico" - Friday, Oct. 28
12-1 pm
Guest speaker - Dr. Thomas Rogers, Associate Professor of History, Emory University
"Agriculture's Energy: Development and Hunger during Brazil's Ethanol Boom" - Friday, Nov. 18
12-1 pm
Neal Eash, Professor of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science
"Agriculture and Climate Change" - Friday, Dec. 9
12-1 pm
Guest speaker - Dr. Stephen Carmody, Postdoctoral Fellow in Archeology, Sewanee University
"The Origins of Agriculture in the Prehistoric Southeastern U.S."