Monitoring Water, Land, and People: The Historical Roots of Hybrid Seed Research in the Yaqui Valley (Yale Agrarian Studies)

Friday, January 24, 2020
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
230 Prospect Street, Room 101
Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University)

Gabriela Soto Laveaga is Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico at Harvard University. Her current research interests interrogate knowledge production and circulation between Mexico and India; medical professionals and social movements; and science and development projects in the twentieth century.

The Agrarian Studies Program presents a weekly colloquium organized around an annual theme. Invited specialists send papers in advance that are the focus of an organized discussion by the faculty and graduate students associated with the colloquium.

For more information, and to receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper, see https://agrarianstudies.macmillan.yale.edu/colloquium.