The upcoming Summer Institute on Contested Landscapes is hosting three public lectures in May:

May 14, 2013
What is Property and Does it Matter?
Stuart Banner, UCLA Law
4:00-5:30 PM: 423 ILR Conference Center

May 16, 2013
Global and Local Commons: Emergent Institutions with Residual Property Forms
Kathryn Milun, Sociology & Anthropology, University of Minnesota-Duluth
4:30-6:00 p.m.; 423 ILR Conf. Center

May 17, 2013
Messy Hectare: Questions about the Epistemology of Land Grabbing Data
Marc Edelman, Anthropology, Hunter College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
2:00-3:30 p.m. Guerlac Room, AD White House

Raymond Craib (History)
Liquidities: Oceans, Islands, and New Enclosures in the Wake of Decolonization

Charles Geisler (Development Sociology)
Military Agency and Land Grabs: Rethinking “Military Occupation”

Paul Nadasdy (Anthropology and American Indian Studies)
Anti-Sovereignty and Indigenous Land Claims: Territoriality, Citizenship, and Time in the Yukon

Sara Pritchard (Science & Technology Studies)
Fluid Empires: Hydraulic Regimes across the “French” Mediterranean

Steven Wolf (Natural Resources)
Critical Analysis of ‘Green Grabbing’

Wendy Wolford (Development Sociology)
Brasil Gigante: Bringing the Brazilian Miracle to African Soil