Program in Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series Film Screening: “In A Field Of His Own: The Life and Career of James C. Scott”

Event time: 
Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 4:30pm
Location: 
Luce Hall, Auditorium (Room 101) See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Program in Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series presents a film screening and discussion with Todd Holmes and Professor James C. Scott, Sterling Professor, Political Science; Acting Director, Agrarian Studies; Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Anthropology and Institute for Social and Policy Studies: 

In A Field Of His Own:  The Life and Career of James C. Scott.”

Professor Scott’s publications include Domination and the Arts of Resistance, Yale Press, 1985, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Yale Press 1980, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, Yale Press, 1998; The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, Yale Press, 2008; Two Cheers for Anarchism, Princeton Press, 2013; Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest Agrarian States, Yale Press, 2017.
 

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public